{"id":12167,"date":"2018-11-28T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=12167"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:22:13","slug":"algorithmic-bias-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2018\/11\/28\/algorithmic-bias-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers from BU and MIT Work to Overcome Algorithmic Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science Professors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/profiles\/adam-smith\/\">Adam Smith<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/profiles\/ran-canetti\/\">Ran Canetti<\/a>, alongside their CS PhD student Sarah Scheffler (GRS&#8217;21),\u00a0<span>are working with MIT PhD students Aloni Cohen, Nishanth Dikkala, and Govind Ramnarayan to\u00a0figure out\u00a0what, if anything, can be done to understand and minimize bias from decision-making systems that depend on computer programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1810.02003\">Their work<\/a><span>\u00a0was recently accepted for publication at the upcoming 2019 Association for Computing Machinery conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, nicknamed \u201cACM FAT*.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The full text of the article, featured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/\">BU Research<\/a> magazine, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/articles\/algorithmic-fairness\/\">here<\/a>. Congratulations Adam, Ran, and Sarah!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12170\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cs\/files\/2018\/11\/ALGORITHMIC-01-banner-461x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2018\/11\/ALGORITHMIC-01-banner-461x636.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/files\/2018\/11\/ALGORITHMIC-01-banner.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Adam Smith, Sarah Scheffler, and Ran Canetti. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science Professors Adam Smith and Ran Canetti, alongside their CS PhD student Sarah Scheffler (GRS&#8217;21),\u00a0are working with MIT PhD students Aloni Cohen, Nishanth Dikkala, and Govind Ramnarayan to\u00a0figure out\u00a0what, if anything, can be done to understand and minimize bias from decision-making systems that depend on computer programs. Their work\u00a0was recently accepted for publication at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions\/12172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}