Sofia is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Her research focuses on algorithmic fairness, machine learning, and interactive data visualisation. Sofia’s research on algorithmic fairness has been published in academic journals and conference proceedings, including AI & Society and ACM FAccT.
Sofia holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Public Policy from the University of Glasgow and a master’s in Social Data Science from the OII. She has held multiple research positions, including as a visiting scholar in Computer Science at the American University, as an intern at the Urban Big Data Centre, and as a research assistant for the Synthetic Society Lab.
Algorithmic Fairness, Machine Learning, Interactive Data Visualisation, Recommendation Systems
20 June 2025
OII researchers are set to attend the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2025.
9 June 2025
The Oxford Internet Institute’s Franziska Sofia Hafner explores whether language models are perpetuating gender stereotypes.
21 May 2025
Oxford researchers reveal how AI language models encode a flawed and binary understanding of gender, posing significant risks for transgender, nonbinary, and even cisgender individuals.
6 December 2024
Several researchers and DPhil students from the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, will head to Vancouver for the Thirty-Eighth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) from 10-15 December 2024.
