Bias, Discrimination, and Fairness
The MD4SG Bias, Discrimination, and Fairness working group examines the various social ramifications of technological systems that are deployed in real-world settings. We are especially concerned with the perpetuation and normalization of socially unjust practices that occur when seemingly objective tools embed and operate from biased understandings of the world. Drawing on a variety of academic disciplines, we turn our focus inward to assess how various technical approaches can and cannot be more thoughtfully designed and implemented so to prevent the further marginalization of our most vulnerable communities.
Our group consists of bi-weekly seminar-style talks of recent work, project proposals, and subarea overviews. Below are some examples from Spring 2020:
Recent seminar talks
- The benefits of diversity in information diffusion(Ana-Andreea Stoica)
- Fair ML and the Domain Adaptation Problem (Alexander Ritchie)
- Advertising for a demographically representative cohort (Lodewijk Gelauff)
- Privacy Legislation Amendments to PIPEDA (Canadian Privacy Law) to accommodate impacts of AI (Abhishek Gupta)
- Fairness via Separation of Powers (Ethan Cowan)
- How Do We Define "Fair" Responsibly? (Manuel Sabin)
- Fairness questions in data elicitation and aggregation (Jessie Finocchiaro)
- Paradoxes in Fair Machine Learning (Anson Kahng)
- Homophily and Monopoly-Monopsony Power in Data and Job Markets (Sara C. Kingsley)
- Ethics companion to textbook: Why? What? Can you join us? (Augustin Chaintreau)
- Overview of bias, discrimination and fairness in ML and online labor markets (Faidra Monachou, Manish Raghavan)
Ongoing projects
- Fairness and Discrimination in Machine Learning and Mechanism Design. Appeared at AI4SG workshop at HCRCS July 2020 (link).
- Problems of scale in content moderation
- Exploring the space of long-term fairness in homophily-driven systems
Working Group Organizers
| Faidra Monachou | Ph.D. Student in Management Science & Engineering | Stanford University |
| Jessica Finocchiaro | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | University of Colorado - Boulder |
| Duncan McElfresh | PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics | University of Maryland - College Park |
Working Group Members
| Grace Abuhamad | Advisor | Element AI |
| Ayesha Bhimdiwala | Ph.D. Student | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Augustin Chaintreau | Associate Professor of Computer Science | Columbia University |
| Lyantoniette Chua | Undergraduate Student | University of the Philippines Diliman |
| Ethan Cowan | Masters Student | Harvard University |
| Camila Duitama | Masters Student in Life Science Informatics | University of Bonn |
| Joshua P. Gardner | Ph.D. Student | University of Washington |
| Nikhil Garg | Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering | Stanford University |
| Paul Gölz | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Abhishek Gupta | Founder, Machine Learning Engineer | Montreal AI Ethics Institute and Microsoft |
| Amit Haim | Masters Student in Law | Stanford University |
| Melissa Hall | Engineer | |
| Melanie Herrmann | Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology and Human Computer Interaction | University of Cambridge |
| Hanke Heun-Johnson | Research Associate | University of Southern California |
| Shlomi Hod | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Boston University |
| Marc Juarez | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Southern California |
| Anson Kahng | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Sonia Katyal | Law Professor | UC Berkeley |
| Keziah Naggita | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | TTIC |
| Moran Koren | Postdoctoral Scholar | Stanford University |
| Aleksandra Korolova | Assistant professor of Computer Science | University of Southern California |
| Michaela Lee | Tech and human rights researcher | Business for Social Responsibility and Berkman Klein Center |
| Xiaofeng Liao | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Amsterdam |
| Roland Maio | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Columbia University |
| Piotr Mardziel | Research Scientist | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Raymond Onuoha | Ph.D. Student | University of Cape Town |
| Panagiotis Papadakos | Postdoctoral Scholar | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas |
| Gourab K Patro | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| Milo Phillips-Brown | Postdoctoral Scholar | MIT |
| Manish Raghavan | PhD Student in Computer Science | Cornell University |
| Alexander Ritchie | Ph.D. Student in Eletrical Engineering and Computer Science | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
| Manuel Sabin | Ph.D. Student | UC Berkeley |
| Jakob Schoeffer | Ph.D. Student in Applied A.I. | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Preethi Seshadri | Data Scientist | UnifyID |
| Ana-Andreea Stoica | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Columbia University |
| Stratis Tsirtsis | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Max Planck Institute for Software Systems |
| AnnMargaret Tutu | Freelance Engineer/Researcher | |
| Briana Vecchione | Ph.D. Student in Information Science | Cornell University |
| Meike Zehlike | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Max Planck Institute for Software Systems |