Mariana Macedo is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Collective Learning and Natural Intelligence Institute (ANITI) led by Dr. César Hidalgo. She received her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Exeter in 2022, and the B.Sc. and M.Sc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pernambuco in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

Her research is divided into Human Behaviour and Explainable & Applied AI. In Human Behaviour, she creates platforms, collects and analyses data, and identifies patterns. In Explanaible and Applied AI, she develops new algorithms, studies and applies them to real-world problems and classifies them based on performance and patterns.

She is interested in Human Dynamics, Gender, Race & Socioeconomic Inequalities, Data-Driven applications, Complex Systems, Urban Systems, Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation and Multi-many objective frameworks.