Miriam Redi
Senior Research Manager at Wikimedia Foundation
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMiriam Redi is a senior research leader with eight years of experience specializing in intelligent multimedia understanding, currently shaping research strategy at the Wikimedia Foundation. Her career blends deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science from EURECOM—with hands-on research roles at Yahoo Research, Bell Labs, and long-standing contributions within Wikimedia from research scientist to senior manager. Miriam focuses on making multimedia content and signals more intelligible at scale, translating complex vision and multimodal methods into product-facing insights for open knowledge platforms. She is adept at bridging rigorous research and operational impact, shepherding projects from hypothesis through deployment and community adoption. Based in the UK, she brings a rare combination of telecom/media engineering background and applied vision research experience that informs pragmatic, large-scale multimedia solutions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at EURECOMMaster Media Engineering, Master Media Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
French, English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (8)
biodiversity9
ecology8
scientific-publications8
wikipedia8
taxonomy8
citation5
machine-learning3
data-export2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mirrys/uncited-statement-detection
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
mirrys/citation-needed-paper
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Repository of data and code to use the models described in the paper "Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability"
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 3 months
citationbiodiversitywikipediaalgorithmicecology
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