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Paula Branco has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa since January 2020. She previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. Branco holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Porto in Portugal, where she specialized in Mathematics. Her research interests revolve around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with a specific focus on utility-based learning and challenges posed by imbalanced domains. Branco is an external researcher affiliated with the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) at INESC TEC and has authored several papers on utility-based learning and imbalanced domains. Her work includes developing R packages tailored to address these issues. She is particularly interested in applying her findings to the fields of cybersecurity, fraud detection, and healthcare.
Dalhousie University • Halifax, Canada
Conducted research in the Faculty of Computer Science, focusing on utility-based learning and imbalanced domains.
University of Ottawa • Ottawa, Canada
Teaching and researching in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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