BARC Talk: An introduction to algorithmic fairness

On 18 March 2022, Thore Husfeldt, Associate Professor at ITU and a part of the leadership team in BARC, will give an open talk on algorithmic fairness. No registration is required.

Abstract

Thore gives a brief introduction to algorithmic fairness. He introduces and compares several different definitions of fairness that can be used to evaluate outcomes of algorithmic decision procedures and highlight their relationship. Of particular interest are the tensions between notions of individual and group fairness, and between various notions of group fairness. The motivation and main takeaways from the presentation are aimed at a general academic audience, but he includes mathematically precise terms.

Bio

Thore Husfeldt is a Professor of Computer Science at Lund University and IT University of Copenhagen. He is a core researcher at the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen Centre (BARC) and the current chair of Vetenskapsrådets expert panel for Computer Science. His research is in algebraic graph algorithms.

Thore presented at the 2020 GAIA Conference, held online from Svenska Mässan, on the 27th of November, 2020.