<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif">    Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, November 7th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Where:</b> </font><font face="verdana, sans-serif">    Speaker will be virtual</font></font></font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> (</font><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pz3sg3lqTtqF4Wkhrga6-Q" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">)</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">  </span></div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(80,0,80);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where:      Virtual</font><font color="#0000ff"> </font><font color="#000000">t</font></b><b><font color="#000000">alk can be viewed at </font></b></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000">TTIC, </font></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">                   6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">                   </font><b><font color="#0000ff">5th Floor, Room 530 </font></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">    </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050">   </font></font></font></font></font>Elisa Celis, Yale University</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:normal"><font color="#000000">Title:</font></b><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);letter-spacing:normal">         </b><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><font color="#000000">Mitigating Bias in Data Science</font></span><font color="#3c4043"><br></font></font></p><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Abstract:</font></b><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Social systems are fueled by machine learning algorithms that facilitate and control connections and information. Simultaneously, computational systems are fueled by people and their data. Consequently, there is a pressing need to design new algorithms that are socially responsible in how they learn, gather, and propagate information. In this talk, we will discuss the emergence of bias in data and algorithmic decision-making and present some steps toward mitigating potential harms. This work leads to new algorithms that have the ability to alleviate bias and increase diversity while often simultaneously maintaining their theoretical or empirical performance with respect to the original metrics.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Bio: </b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Elisa Celis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. Previously, she worked as a Research Scientist at Xerox Research where she was the worldwide head of the Crowdsourcing and Human Computation research thrust, and as a Senior Research Scientist at EPFL in Switzerland where she helped design a fair committee selection process for an election in Switzerland. She received a B.Sci. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on studying social and economic questions that arise in the context of the Internet and her work spans multiple areas including fairness in AI/ML, social computing, online learning, network science, and mechanism design.</span></font></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><h2 style="color:rgb(82,123,189);margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.3em;padding-bottom:0.2em;line-height:1;padding-top:0.8em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">Host: <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></font></b></h2><div><br></div></b></div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">colloquium</span><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></p></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 2:20 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif">    Monday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">, November 7th</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"> at</font><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">11:30 am CT</font></span></b></font></font></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Where:</b> </font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">    Speaker will be virtual</font></font></font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> (</font><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pz3sg3lqTtqF4Wkhrga6-Q" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">)</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">  </span></div><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where:      Virtual</font><font color="#0000ff"> </font><font color="#000000">t</font></b><b><font color="#000000">alk can be viewed<font> </font><font>at </font></font></b></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000">TTIC, </font></b></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">                   6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">                   </font><b><font color="#0000ff">5th Floor, Room 530 </font></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">    </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050">   </font></font></font></font></font>Elisa Celis, Yale University</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);letter-spacing:normal"><font color="#000000">Title:</font></b><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255);letter-spacing:normal">         </b><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><font color="#000000">Mitigating Bias in Data Science</font></span><font color="#3c4043"><br></font></font></p><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Abstract:</font></b><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Social systems are fueled by machine learning algorithms that facilitate and control connections and information. Simultaneously, computational systems are fueled by people and their data. Consequently, there is a pressing need to design new algorithms that are socially responsible in how they learn, gather, and propagate information. In this talk, we will discuss the emergence of bias in data and algorithmic decision-making and present some steps toward mitigating potential harms. This work leads to new algorithms that have the ability to alleviate bias and increase diversity while often simultaneously maintaining their theoretical or empirical performance with respect to the original metrics.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Bio: </b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Elisa Celis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. Previously, she worked as a Research Scientist at Xerox Research where she was the worldwide head of the Crowdsourcing and Human Computation research thrust, and as a Senior Research Scientist at EPFL in Switzerland where she helped design a fair committee selection process for an election in Switzerland. She received a B.Sci. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on studying social and economic questions that arise in the context of the Internet and her work spans multiple areas including fairness in AI/ML, social computing, online learning, network science, and mechanism design.</span></font></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><h2 style="color:rgb(82,123,189);margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.3em;padding-bottom:0.2em;line-height:1;padding-top:0.8em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">Host: <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></font></b></h2><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></b></div><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">For more information on the </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">colloquium</span><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" style="letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br></p></div></div></div><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>