Adriana Bora

Project Lead AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery), Mila

Adriana Bora is the Project Lead of Project AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery) at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, AI for Humanity. She has recently finished her PhD in Applied AI, as part of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology.  Adriana’s main area of expertise is in using technology against modern slavery. Her research focuses on applying machine learning in analysing and benchmarking the businesses’ reports published following the Modern Slavery Acts from the UK and Australia. Adriana is listed as one of the 20 Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2022 and won the UNESCO International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI)’s AI Award 2021 for her efforts to develop AI solutions to combat modern slavery, contributing to SDG 8, Target 8.7. Adriana holds a Master’s Degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). She has also studied at the University of Hong Kong and holds a diploma in International Relations and Advanced Quantitative Methods from the University of Essex in the UK.