Events / 1st Annual W.E.B Du Bois-Ida B. Wells Conference on Philosophy of Socially Aware Data Science and Ethical Issues in Modeling

1st Annual W.E.B Du Bois-Ida B. Wells Conference on Philosophy of Socially Aware Data Science and Ethical Issues in Modeling

June 7, 2022
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Cohen Hall 402

Come to this one-day conference organized by Alexander Williams Tolbert. Speaker lineup for the day:

  1. Shahin Jabbari-“The Disagreement Problem in Explainable Machine Learning: A Practitioner’s Perspective”
  2. Anita Allen-Dismantling the “Black Opticon”: Privacy, Race Equity, and Online Data-Protection Reform
  3. Konrad Kording-“Recommender systems: what does it mean to get good “recommendations?
  4. Aaron Roth-“Robust and Equitable Uncertainty Estimation”
  5. Hanming Fang -“Toward an economic theory of dysfunctional identity”
  6. Richard Berk-“Improving Fairness in Criminal Justice Algorithmic Risk Assessments Using Optimal Transport and Conformal Prediction Sets”
  7. Deborah Mayo”Statistical Significance and its Critics: Practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?”
  8. Michael Kearns “An Algorithmic Framework for Bias Bounties”
  9. Konstanin Genin “Causal Discovery, Randomization and Individualized Treatment”

Please register in advance.