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Distinguished Lecture Series

Fairness and Bias in Algorithmic Decision-Making

 

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 11:00am - 12:30pm
 

Speaker: Professor Jon Kleinberg

Bio

Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the interaction of algorithms and networks, the roles they play in large-scale social and information systems, and their broader societal implications. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of MacArthur, Packard, Simons, Sloan, and Vannevar Bush research fellowships, as well awards including the Harvey Prize, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM Prize in Computing.

Location : Via Zoom

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Event Type: Distinguished Lecture Series

Abstract: As algorithms trained via machine learning are increasingly used as a component of screening decisions in areas such as hiring, lending, and education, discussion in the public sphere has turned to the question of what it means for algorithmic classification to be fair to different groups. We consider several of the key fairness conditions that lie at the heart of these debates, and discuss recent research on trade-offs and interventions through the lens of these conditions. We also explore how the complexity of a classification rule interacts with its fairness properties, showing how natural ways of approximating a classifier via a simpler rule can lead to unintended biases in the outcome.The talk will be based on joint work with Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, Manish Raghavan, and Cass Sunstein.

Organization: 

School of Arts and Sciences

Contact  Faculty Host: Jie Gao

zoom link:

https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98883971312?pwd=YkliUTFKWmc0d0llVHluc3FGNUx6dz09