Program
The full program of the workshop will take place on August 17-19, 2020, on Gather.town and Zoom. Please register at this link to attend the talks and other events. Note that ET stands for current "New York, USA" time.
Sunday, August 16
| Time | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00-12:00 ET | Networking Session (regional meetups) | Familiarize yourself with the gather.town platform with regional meetups including participants from around the world. |
Monday, August 17
| Time | Event | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:15 ET | Opening Remarks | Program Chairs: Faidra Monachou and Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío |
| 10:15-11:00 ET | Keynote: Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money | Nicole Immorlica, discussants: Illenin Kondo, Sera Linardi |
| 11:00-11:45 ET | Session 1: Education Policy and Diversity | Session Chair: Bryan Wilder |
| 11:00-11:15 ET | Top Percent Policies and the Return to Postsecondary Selectivity | Zachary Bleemer |
| 11:15-11:25 ET | Unequal Assignment to Public Schools and the Limits of School Choice | Mariana Laverde |
| 11:25-11:35 ET | Who Gets Placed Where and Why? An Empirical Framework for Foster Care Placement | Alejandro Robinson Cortes |
| 11:35-11:45 ET | Explainability in Matching Mechanisms with Diversity Goals: A Case Study of Ethiopian Universities | Basiliyos Betru, Meareg Hailemariam and Rediet Abebe |
| 11:45-12:15 ET | Break | |
| 12:15-13:00 ET | Keynote: How to fight white supremacist extremism while protecting civil liberties: a multidisciplinary approach using technology, research, and policy | Anjana Rajan, disscussant: Roya Pakzad |
| 13:10-14:00 ET | Session 2: Technology, Law and Policy | Session Chair: Ana-Andreea Stoica |
| 13:10-13:30 ET | Feminicide & Machine Learning: Detecting Gender-based Violence to Strengthen Civil Sector Activism | Catherine D'Ignazio, Helena Suarez Val, Silvana Fumega, Harini Suresh, Isadora Cruxen, Wonyoung So, Maria De Los Angeles Martinez and Mariel Garcia-Montes |
| 13:30-13:40 ET | The Gender Panopticon: AI, Gender, and Design Justice | Sonia Katyal |
| 13:40-13:50 ET | Privacy as Privilege | Rebecca Wexler |
| 13:50-14:00 ET | "Computer says no!": Unpacking the Human in the Loop Requirement in the Context of Welfare Fraud | Doaa Abu Elyounes |
| 13:30-14:30 ET | Long Break | |
| 14:30-15:30 ET | Session 3: Labor Markets | Session Chair: Manish Raghavan |
| 14:30-14:45 ET | The Role of Referrals in Inequality, Immobility, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets | Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica and Matthew Jackson |
| 14:45-15:00 ET | All Things Equal? Social Networks as a Mechanism for Discrimination | Chika Okafor |
| 15:00-15:10 ET | Outside Options, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks | Sydnee Caldwell and Nikolaj Harmon |
| 15:10-15:20 ET | The Geography of Unemployment | Adrien Bilal |
| 15:20-15:30 ET | Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam | Milena Almagro and Tomas Dominguez-Iino |
| 15:30-16:15 ET | Poster Session | Vote now for your favorite poster. |
| 16:15-17:00 ET | Networking Session and WGs tables: | Chinasa T. Okolo (Developing Nations WG), Wanyi Li & Lily Xu (Environment WG), Anson Kahng (Civic Participation WG), Richard Phillips (Inequality & Education WG), Jessie Finocchiaro (Bias/Fairness WG), Sera Linardi (Bridging research & practice) |
Tuesday, August 18
| Time | Event | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:45 ET | Keynote: Tech in Support of Caregiving: Innovation Opportunities and Ecosystem Challenges | Deborah Estrin, discussant: Jon Kleinberg |
| 10:45-11:20 ET | Session 4: Environment, Agriculture and Food Consumption | Session Chair: Lily Xu |
| 10:45-11:00 ET | Improving Farmers' Income on Online Agri-platforms: Theory and Field Implementation of a Two-stage Auction | Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi and Yanchong Zheng |
| 11:00-11:10 ET | Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low-Income Populations | Elisabeth Paulson, Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis |
| 11:10-11:20 ET | Simple and Approximately Optimal Contracts for Payment for Ecosystem Services | Wanyi Li, Irene Lo and Itai Ashlagi |
| 11:20-12:00 ET | Long Break | |
| 12:00-12:45 ET | Keynote | Natalia Aríza Ramirez, discussant: Juan Felipe Penagos |
| 12:45-13:25 ET | Session 5: Education in Practice | Session Chair: Rediet Abebe |
| 12:45-13:00 ET | School Choice in Chile | Natalie Epstein, Jose Correa, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo Quintana, Andrés Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre |
| 13:00-13:15 ET | Competition under Social Interactions and the Design of Education Policies | Claudia Allende |
| 13:15-13:25 ET | From Pipeline to Pipelines: How Multiple Definitions of CS Education Distort CS Enrollment Data | Stephanie Tena-Meza, Aj Alvero and Miroslav Suzara |
| 13:25-14:00 ET | Long Break | |
| 14:00-15:00 ET | Panel Discussion (in Spanish, with live captioning) | Natalia Aríza Ramirez, José R. Correa, Rafael Obregón |
| 15:00-16:00 ET | Session 6: Healthcare | Session Chair: Matt Weinberg |
| 15:00-15:15 ET | Large-scale clinical trial of an AI-augmented intervention for HIV prevention in youth experiencing homelessness | Bryan Wilder, Laura Onasch-Vera, Graham Diguiseppi, Robin Petering, Chyna Hill, Amulya Yadav, Eric Rice and Milind Tambe |
| 15:15-15:30 ET | Heterogeneous Donor Circles for Fair Liver Transplant Allocation | Shubham Akshat, Sommer Gentry and S. Raghavan |
| 15:30-15:40 ET | Predicting no-show appointments in a pediatric hospital in Chile using machine learning | Hector Ramirez, Fabian Villena Rodriguez, Jocelyn Dunstan, Victor Riquelme, Juan Pablo Hoyos, Javier Madariaga and Juan Peypouquet |
| 15:40-15:50 ET | Socioeconomic Network Heterogeneity and Pandemic Policy Response | Mohammad Akbarpour, Cody Cook, Aude Marzuoli, Simon Mongey, Abhishek Nagaraj, Matteo Saccarola, Pietro Tebaldi, Shoshana Vasserman and Hanbin Yang |
| 15:50-16:00 ET | The Consequences of Medicare Pricing: An Explanation of Treatment Choice | Elena Falcettoni |
| 16:00-17:00 ET | Networking Session | Michelle González Amador (Desigualdad, en español), Marc Juarez & Lily Hu (Sesgo algorítmico, en español), Roya Pakzad (Human rights), Tejúmádé Àfòjá (Developing Nations), Wanyi Li & Lily Xu (Environment WG), Paul Gölz (Civic participation WG), Sam Taggart (Inequality WG), Duncan McElfresh (Bias/Fairness WG), Sara Kingsley & George R. Obaido (Data Economies WG) |
Wednesday, August 19
| Time | Event | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15-11:00 ET | Keynote: Community, Craft, and the Vernacular in Artificial Intelligence | Stephanie Dinkins, discussant: Manuel Sabin |
| 11:00-11:45 ET | Session 7: Fairness and Inequality | Session Chair: Jessica Finocchiaro |
| 11:00-11:15 ET | Measuring Non-Expert Comprehension of Machine Learning Fairness Metrics | Debjani Saha, Candice Schumann, Duncan C. McElfresh, John P. Dickerson, Michelle L. Mazurek and Michael Carl Tschantz |
| 11:15-11:25 ET | Pipeline Interventions | Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran, Sampath Kannan, Aaron Roth and Juba Ziani |
| 11:25-11:35 ET | Pricing with Fairness | Maxime Cohen, Adam Elmachtoub and Xiao Lei |
| 11:35-11:45 ET | Public Transit Access and Income Segregation | Prottoy Akbar |
| 11:45-12:45 ET | Poster Session | Vote now for your favorite poster. |
| 12:45-13:30 ET | Session 8: Algorithms for Policy and Governance | Session Chair: Kira Goldner |
| 12:45-13:00 ET | Modeling Assumptions Clash with the Real World: Configuring Student Assignment Algorithms to Serve Community Needs | Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen and Niloufar Salehi |
| 13:00-13:10 ET | The AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies | Stephan Zheng, Alex Trott, Sunil Srinivasa, Nikhil Naik, Melvin Gruesbeck, David Parkes and Richard Socher |
| 13:10-13:20 ET | (Machine) Learning what Governments Value | Daniel Bjorkegren, Joshua Blumenstock and Samsun Knight |
| 13:20-13:30 ET | Economic Method, Digital Platform: When Mechanism Design Moves Online | Salome Viljoen, Jake Goldenfein and Lee McGuigan |
| 13:30 - 14:15 ET | Session 9: Online Platforms and Civic Participation | Session Chair: Daniel Freund |
| 13:30-13:45 ET | Advertising for Demographically Fair Outcomes | Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel, Kamesh Munagala and Sravya Yandamuri |
| 13:45-13:55 ET | Neutralizing Self-Selection Bias in Sampling for Sortition | Bailey Flanigan, Paul Gölz, Anupam Gupta and Ariel Procaccia |
| 13:55-14:05 ET | Auditing Digital Platforms for Discrimination in Economic Opportunity Advertising | Sara Kingsley, Clara Wang, Alexandra Mikhalenko, Proteeti Sinha and Chinmay Kulkarni |
| 14:05-14:15 ET | Online Policies for Efficient Volunteer Crowdsourcing | Vahideh Manshadi and Scott Rodilitz |
| 14:15-14:45 ET | Long Break | |
| 14:45-15:25 ET | Session 10: Information | Session Chair: Sam Taggart |
| 14:45-14:55 ET | Information Design for Congested Social Services: Optimal Need-Based Persuasion | Jerry Anunrojwong, Krishnamurthy Iyer and Vahideh Manshadi |
| 14:55-15:05 ET | How to get-toilet-paper.com? Provision of Information as a Public Good | Robizon Khubulashvili, Mallory Avery, Kristi Bushman, Alexandros Labrinidis, Sera Linardi and Konstantinos Pelechrinis |
| 15:05-15:15 ET | Responsible Sourcing: The First Step Is the Hardest | Pia Ramchandrani, Hamsa Bastani and Ken Moon |
| 15:15-15:25 ET | Anticipation and Consumption | Neil Thakral and Linh To |
| 15:25-15:40 ET | Closing Remarks & Award Announcements | Faidra Monachou and Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío |
| 15:40-17:00 ET | Closing Reception (Lobby @ Gather.town) | |