Pedro Saleiro
Co-Founder Chief AI Officer at Opnova
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Saleiro is a seasoned AI executive and founder focused on building safe, fair, transparent, and privacy-preserving AI systems. As Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of Opnova since 2024, he leads research-to-product efforts across Silicon Valley and Portugal, shaping next-gen enterprise AI. He previously led AI Research at Feedzai, overseeing the FATE and AI groups and delivering 26 patent applications, seven innovations transferred to product (including Bias Audits, FairGBM, TimeSHAP, and governance-related tooling), 21 conference papers, and several international awards while advancing Responsible AI. An active open-source contributor, he co-developed the Aequitas bias auditing toolkit and contributed to FairGBM and TimeSHAP, with ongoing enhancements to bias auditing tooling. He serves on the Scientific Board of the Center for Responsible AI and advises Faber, reflecting a sustained commitment to ethical AI governance. Pedro holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval from FEUP, with early research roles at Microsoft Research and the University of Chicago, and has taught NLP and Information Extraction at FEUP, illustrating a strong blend of research excellence and practical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc + MSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSc + MSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoPostDoc, Fair Machine Learning, PostDoc, Fair Machine Learning at University of Chicago
Github Skills (4)
python10
lib10
documentations8
documentation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dssg/aequitas
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
Bias Auditing & Fair ML Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 561 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Pedro's primary contributions appear to revolve around modifying and extending the core functionality of the Aequitas library. They implemented initial code differences. The commits include changes to the `bias.py` and `README.rst` files, as well as the addition of a new python file for a new visualization module. This indicates the user is actively working on the project and adding to its features.
auditsecuritymachine-biasbiasfairness-testing
feedzai/bank-account-fraud
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 7 months
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