Micha has worked as a machine learning researcher and engineer for The Markup and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). She co-founded the applied machine learning company Fast Forward Labs, and authored the book “High Performance Python”. She has worked as the lead researcher on a variety of cutting-edge research projects on topics ranging from neural networks for text summarization, probabilistic programming for understanding housing prices, and various machine learning approaches for journalism.

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At Digital Witness Lab, she leads both our platform development and data pipelines as well as our academic research around differential privacy and semantic search.

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