Claudia is the CSO at Libre AI and a Lead Research Engineer at University College Dublin (UCD). At Libre AI, Claudia uses AI and ML to develop tools that help users make the most of the data available on the web. At UCD, Claudia's current work focuses on developing a recommender system with personalization, privacy, and explainability at its core. Claudia's PhD thesis leveraged the power of machine learning, NLP, social network analysis, and opinion mining to unveil patterns of engagement, attention and influence on the digital news era. In 2016, she joined the MIT Media Lab for the summer and worked at the MIT Center for Civic Media where she conducted research with the MediaCloud team on identifying influential American news outlets. Before joining UCD, Claudia completed her M.Sc. at the L3S Research Center in the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, where she worked on several European research projects involving crowdsourcing, multimedia and sentiment analysis for tasks such as video ranking and presidential popularity prediction. Claudia hold a B.Sc. degree from the University of El Salvador (UES).

Erika is a PostDoctoral researcher in University College Dublin working on next generation recommender systems. Her current focus is on novel privacy-aware machine learning approaches. She holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree for her work on efficient implementation of graph traversal and structure finding problems. Erika’s research experience includes collaboration with research groups from Nokia Bell Labs and University of California Santa Barbara.