Dr Miri Zilka

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Machine Learning Group at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

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Senior Research Associate and Leverhulme Research Fellow, Machine Learning Group, University of Cambridge
Miri Zilka is a Senior Research Associate and a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge, a College Research Associate at King’s College Cambridge, and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Dr Zilka works on Responsible AI, focusing on application areas such as criminal justice and social care where (i) decisions can be life-changing, (ii) individuals cannot opt out, (iii) protective legislation (e.g, GDPR) does not apply, and (iv) wrong predictions can cause significant harm.


Before Cambridge, Dr Zilka was a Research Fellow in Machine Learning at the University of Sussex, focusing on fairness, equality, and access. Dr Zilka obtained a PhD in Analytical Science (Physics) from the University of Warwick, holds an M.Sc. in Physics, and a dual B.Sc. in Physics and Biology from Tel Aviv University.