Biography
Fernando Diaz is a researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal. His research focuses on the design of information access systems, including search engines, music recommendation services and crisis response platforms is particularly interested in understanding and addressing the societal implications of artificial intelligence more generally. Fernando received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Political Science, both from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fernando’s work has received awards at SIGIR, WSDM, ISCRAM, and ECIR. He is the recipient of the 2017 British Computer Society Karen Spärck Jones Award.