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Alba Morales Tirado

Alba Morales Tirado

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Dr Alba Morales is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Protecting Women Online. She joined the Centre working within the Responsible AI stream for designing AI-driven solutions that promote accountability & fairness, minimise anti-social behaviours & enhance online safety. Her research activities are linked to advancing socio-technical approaches to fairness, with a specific focus on addressing bias and discrimination in AI-driven learning analytics systems, ontology engineering and knowledge extraction in particular understanding and contextualising online harms integrating different academic and technological perspectives.

Alba's previous experience includes working in public and private sectors as an Information Security Specialist for several years, specialised in auditing Industrial Control Systems.  Alba brings a wealth of knowledge in AI development and privacy. She will meticulously handle the technical, social, and policy aspects of addressing bias and fairness.

 

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Growing up online: Young voices, digital futures

Growing up online: Young voices, digital futures

22 Oct 2026

Last Friday, KMi hosted an event at The Open University as part of Milton Keynes Tech Week 2026, bringing together…

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Celebrating the success of SEMANTiCS 2026

Celebrating the success of SEMANTiCS 2026

21 Sep 2026

Last week, from 15 to 17 September, the 22nd edition of the International Conference on Semantics Systems (commonly known as…

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Shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs: KMi at ISWC 2025

Shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs: KMi…

12 Nov 2025

Last week, many researchers from around the globe gathered in Nara (Japan) for the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC).…

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  • Ekuban, A., Dimes, R. and Motta, E., 2026, ‘SABRINA: The Stakeholder Advocate’, in 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2026), 29 Sep - 01 Oct 2026, Turin, Italy., https://oro.open.ac.uk/112369/.
  • Buran, L., Dhir, A., Pavón Pérez, n., Jurasz, O., Capdevila, R., Fernandez, M., Guy, H., Duddin, K., Morales Tirado, A. and Bandara, A., 2026, ‘Centre for Protecting Women Online response to Department for Science Innovation and Technology: Growing up in the online world: a national consultation’, Centre for Protecting Women Online; Ofcom., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110413/.
  • Buran, L., Dhir, A., Jurasz, O., Pavón Pérez, n. and Morales Tirado, A., 2026, ‘Centre for Protecting Women Online response to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’s Call for comments - Draft general recommendation on gender stereotypes’, Centre for Protecting Women Online / United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110415/.
  • Buran, L., Dhir, A., Jurasz, O., Pavón Pérez, n., Morales Tirado, A. and Fernandez, M., 2026, ‘Centre for Protecting Women Online's response to Home Office consultation: Consultation on a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies’, Centre for Protecting Women Online / Home Office., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110416/.
  • Fernandez, M., Morales Tirado, A. C., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O., 2025, ‘Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’, in ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, 02-06 Nov 2025, Nara, Japan., https://oro.open.ac.uk/105569/.
  • Daga, E., Carvalho, J. and Morales Tirado, A., 2024, ‘Extracting licence information from web resources with a Large Language Model’, in 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data, 26-27 May 2024, Heraklion, Greece., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97612/.
  • Morales Tirado, A., Carvalho, J., Ratta, M., Uwasomba, C., Mulholland, P., Barlow, H., Herbert, T. and Daga, E., 2024, ‘Musical Meetups Knowledge Graph (MMKG): a collection of evidence for historical social network analysis’, in ESWC 2024: The 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference, 26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece., https://oro.open.ac.uk/96738/.
  • Morales Tirado, A., Carvalho, J., Mulholland, P. and Daga, E., 2023, ‘Musical Meetups: a Knowledge Graph approach for Historical Social Network Analysis’, in ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials. Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES), 28-29 May 2023, Hersonissos, Greece., https://oro.open.ac.uk/88720/.
  • Morales Tirado, A. C., 2023, ‘Health Condition Evolution for Effective Use of Electronic Records: Knowledge Representation, Acquisition, and Reasoning’, [Thesis], https://oro.open.ac.uk/87042/.
  • Morales Tirado, A. C., Daga, E. and Motta, E., 2022, ‘Towards a Knowledge Graph of Health Evolution’, in 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 26-29 Sep 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy., https://oro.open.ac.uk/84675/.
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