Dr Ioana Baldini is a Senior Research Scientist in the IBM Research AI organization. As a result of recent collaborations with non-profit organizations on projects under the IBM Science for Social Good Initiative, Ioana has focused her research efforts on natural language processing applied to domains that have potential for social impact. Her current work focuses on different aspects of fairness in natural language processing systems. Her collaboration with Reboot Rx led to the creation and release of public datasets containing information on investigational COVID-19 treatments on cancer outcomes (independent of COVID-19 infection). Previously at IBM Research, Ioana was part of the core research team who developed OpenWhisk, an open source serverless platform, which is now offered as IBM Cloud Functions. In this role, Ioana contributed several components to the OpenWhisk system and helped deploy it as the official IBM serverless platform. Ioana holds a Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto. She received the NSERC (NSF-equivalent in Canada) Canada Graduate Scholarship, the IBM PhD Fellowship, the Canada Google Anita Borg Scholarship, and the IBM Research Division Award (contributions to OpenWhisk).