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Dr. Adrienne Gorra-Heinrich, the head of Aboitiz Data Innovation’s AI Center of Excellence in the Philippines, is at the forefront of a team whose research project on mitigating gender disparities within the banking sector has earned recognition in the 2022 Global Top 100 AI Project List. “Blind data does not necessarily result in fairness. In fact, the reverse may happen,” said Gorra-Heinrich, whose Filipino heritage is from her mother, Fe Gorra-Heinrich, originally from Cagayan de Oro City.
Gorra-Heinrich and her team’s AI-based efforts to reduce gender discrimination in finance has also been recognized in Canada. Another paper by her team, “Removing Demographic Data Can Make AI Discrimination Worse,” was recently published in the Harvard Business Review. Gorra-Heinrich’s team is also working on a project on the use of voice technology, including speech recognition and conversational AI, to streamline banking services.