Dr. Milagros Miceli
Mila is a sociologist and computer scientist who investigates how ground-truth data for machine learning is produced. The focus of her research is power dynamics in data generation and labeling. Her work comprises ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participatory engagements with data annotators, collectors, and scientists at several sites around the world. Mila leads the newly funded research group “Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics” at Weizenbaum-Institut. She also works as a researcher at DAIR Institute where she is thinking through ways of engaging communities of data workers in AI research. She is a mom, an immigrant, and a first-generation academic; pronouns are she/ella.