Pedro Saleiro
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at Faber
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Saleiro is a Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer with a decade-plus career building Responsible AI systems that prioritize safety, fairness, transparency, privacy, and security. He led AI research teams at Feedzai, driving 26 patent applications, multiple award-winning products, and open-source tools (including FairGBM, TimeSHAP and contributions to the widely used Aequitas bias-auditing toolkit). Combining academic rigor—postdoc work in Responsible AI at the University of Chicago and a PhD in AI—with hands-on productization, he has repeatedly translated research into deployed ML features and governance practices for financial crime detection. Now leading Opnova and serving on the Scientific Board of the Center for Responsible AI, he blends founder-level strategy with deep technical expertise in bias auditing and model governance. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of supervising top-rated MSc theses and seeding innovations that became productized risk-management capabilities. Based in Portugal, he advises startups while continuing to publish and contribute to open-source Responsible AI tooling.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoPostDoc, Responsible AI, PostDoc, Responsible AI at University of Chicago
Github Skills (3)
python10
lib10
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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