Launching TOC4Fairness
I am excited to launch the Simons Foundation’s Collaboration on the Theory of Algorithmic Fairness, funded by the Simons Foundation. This is a large-scale multi-institutional effort to accelerate the (already …
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FORC 2021 is coming up!
The Second annual Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) will be held virtually (on Gather.town) June 9-11, 2021. Registration is free, but required, by June 7. Instructions for …
Fair Clustering with Probabilistic Group Membership
This post briefly summarizes a NeurIPS-20 paper, Probabilistic Fair Clustering, which I coauthored with Brian Brubach, Leonidas Tsepenekas, and John P. Dickerson. Clustering is possibly the most fundamental problem of …
Self-fulfilling and self-negating predictions: a short tale of performativity in machine learning
This post is based on results and discussions from a series of joint works with Moritz Hardt, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, John Miller, and Juan C. Perdomo. In 1998, Michel Callon wrote …
Ensuring equity in high-stakes online advertising
In this blog post, I outline how existing advertising platforms do not prevent high-stakes ads from reaching different demographics at different rates. The post then describes how pushing this responsibility …
Videos Up
With a bit of a delay, we are starting to upload the videos of our seminar’s talks. The Inaugural Meeting of our seminar was devoted to a wonderful talk by …