Mariana Almeida is a Senior Data Scientist at Feedzai Research, developing machine learning techniques to stop transactional fraud. She obtained a PhD degree in the Electrical Engineering Department from IST in 2010, for her work on image processing. Before joining Feedzai, Mariana did a Postdoc on image processing and worked for 4 years on natural language processing at Priberam Labs. She received the Vidigal award 2004/2005 and an honorable mention at the 2010 Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize. She is a co-organizer of the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS).
Mariana Almeida is a Senior Data Scientist at Feedzai Research, developing machine learning techniques to stop transactional fraud. She obtained a PhD degree in the Electrical Engineering Department from IST in 2010, for her work on image processing. Before joining Feedzai, Mariana did a Postdoc on image processing and worked for 4 years on natural language processing at Priberam Labs. She received the Vidigal award 2004/2005 and an honorable mention at the 2010 Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize. She is a co-organizer of the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS).
Palestra: Fraud prevention with Deep Learning models
Machine learning for fraud prevention: from tree based models with feature engineering to deep learning, passing through AutoML.