Francisca Hoyer

Francisca co-leads the Natural Language Understanding Initiative at AI Sweden, the Swedish national center for applied AI. Originally a trained historian, Francisca moved into the field of AI to leverage her experiences for responsible innovation and social good. She holds a PhD from Uppsala University. Her research interests include global and gender history and span questions such as power relations and representation in historical archives. She is passionate about pulling together innovation projects that engage stakeholders who have traditionally not been involved in developing new technologies and diversifying the AI pipeline with domain experts from the humanities.