Workshop Schedule
N.B.: Preliminary schedule, still subject to changes.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
12.30-13.00
Arrival & registration
13.00-13.30
Opening remarks
13.30-14.30
Lightning round 1
A multidomain approach to institutional AI research and adoption
Vincent Straub, Deborah Morgan, Youmna Hashem, John Francis, Saba Esnaashari and Jonathan Bright
Addressing Automation Bias through Verifiability
Lukas Hondrich and Hannah Ruschemeier
How Differential Robustness Creates Disparate Impact: A European Case Study
Charles Wan, Leid Zejnilović and Susana Lavado
Improving fairness and cybersecurity in the Artificial Intelligence Act
Gabriele Carovano and Alexander Meinke
Pagerank Fairness in Networks
Evaggelia Pitoura
Closing the Loop: Feedback Loops and Biases in Automated Decision-Making
Nicolò Pagan, Joachim Baumann, Ezzat Elokda, Giulia De Pasquale, Saverio Bolognani and Anikó Hannák
Through the sands of time: a reliabilistic account of justified credence in the trustworthiness of AI systems
Andrea Ferrario
A Causal Analysis of Harm
Sander Beckers, Hana Chockler and Joseph Y. Halpern
Affinity Clustering Framework for Data Debiasing using Pairwise Distribution Discrepancy
Siamak Ghodsi and Eirini Ntoutsi
14.30-14.45
Break
14.45-15.45
Lightning round 2
Formally Verified Algorithmic Fairness using Information-Flow Tools
Samuel Teuber and Bernhard Beckert
Model-Agnostic Auditing: A Lost Cause?
Sakina Hansen and Joshua Loftus
A Search Engine for Algorithmic Fairness Datasets
Alessandro Fabris, Fabio Giachelle, Alberto Piva, Gianmaria Silvello and Gian Antonio Susto
An Open-Source Toolkit to Generate Biased Datasets
Joachim Baumann, Alessandro Castelnovo, Riccardo Crupi, Nicole Inverardi and Daniele Regoli
Qualification and quantification of fairness for sustainable mobility policies
Camilla Quaresmini, Eugenia Villa, Valentina Breschi, Viola Schiaffonati and Mara Tanelli
From digital nudging to users' self-determination: explainability as a framework for the effective implementation of the transparency requirements for recommender systems set by the Digital Services Act of the European Union
Matteo Fabbri
Compatibility of Fairness Metrics with EU Non-Discrimination Law: A legal and technical case study
Yasaman Yousefi, Lisa Koutsoviti-Koumeri, Magali Legast, Christoph Schommer, Koen Vanhoof and Axel Legay
The BIAS project: Mitigating diversity biases of AI in the labor market
Carlotta Rigotti, Alexandre Puttick, Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Mascha Kurpicz-Briki
Is a fairness metric score enough to assess discrimination biases in machine learning?
Jourdan Fanny, Ronan Pons, Nicholas Asher, Jean-Michel Loubes and Laurent Risser
The Case for Correctability in Fair Machine Learning
Mattia Cerrato, Alesia Vallenas Coronel and Marius Köppel
15.45-16.15
Break
16.15-17.15
Keynote: Arvind Narayanan (online)
17.15-17.30
Break
17.30-18.20
Lightning round 3
A 'Little Ethics' for Algorithmic Decision-Making
Teresa Scantamburlo and Giovanni Grandi
FairnessLab: A Consequence-Sensitive Bias Audit and Mitigation Toolkit
Corinna Hertweck, Joachim Baumann, Michele Loi and Christoph Heitz
It's about time: counterfactual fairness and temporal depth
Joshua Loftus
Social influence for societal interest: a pro-ethical framework for improving human decision making through multi-stakeholder recommender systems
Matteo Fabbri
Living with Opaque Technologies: Insights for AI from Digital Simulation Models
Eugenia Cacciatori, Enzo Fenoglio and Emre Kazim
AI in Higher Education: Ethical Concerns for Students with Disabilities
Oriane Pierrès, Alireza Darvishy and Markus Christen
Approximate Inference for the Bayesian Fairness Framework
Andreas Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, Amanda Belfrage, David Berg Marklund and Christos Dimitrakakis
Provable Fairness for Neural Network Models using Formal Verification
Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc, Xingzhi Guo, Stanley Bak and Steven Skiena
Thursday, June 8, 2023
09.00-10.00
Lightning round 4
How optimal transport can help to tackle gender biases in NLP based job recommendation systems?
Fanny Jourdan, Titon Tshiongo, Nicholas Asher, Jean-Michel Loubes and Laurent Risser
What If? Using Multiverse Analysis to Evaluate the Influence of Model Design Decisions on Algorithmic Fairness
Jan Simson, Florian Pfisterer and Christoph Kern
Algorithmic Bias in the Context of European Union Anti-Discrimination Directives
Ahmet Bilal Aytekin
Fair Machine Learning Through Post-processing: The Case of Predictive Parity
Joachim Baumann, Anikó Hannák and Christoph Heitz
Body Measurement Prediction Fairness
Alex Loosley, Amrollah Seifoddini, Alessandro Canopoli and Meike Zehlike
Careful Explanations: A Feminist Perspective on XAI
Laura State and Miriam Fahimi
Fairness in Machine Learning as 'Algorithmic Positive Action'
Jan-Laurin Müller
Using Fairness Metrics as Decision-Making Procedures: Algorithmic Fairness and The Problem of Action-Guidance
Otto Sahlgren
Complex Equality and Algorithmic Fairness: A Social Goods Approach to Make Statistical Fairness Metrics Less Abstract
Bauke Wielinga
Explainability methods to detect and measure discrimination in machine learning models
Sofie Goethals, David Martens and Toon Calders
10.00-10.20
Break
10.20-11.30
In-depth session 1
Track A (room TS O1.19)
How data quality determines AI fairness: The case of automated interviewing
Lou Therese Brandner, Frauke Rostalski, Philipp Mahlow, Anna Wilken, Annika Wölke, Hazar Harmouch and Simon David Hirsbrunner
Towards a framework for the global assessment of sensitive attribute bias within binary classification algorithms
Adrian Byrne, Ivan Caffrey and Quan Le
Track B (room TN O1.46)
Assessing the legality of using the category of race and ethnicity in clinical algorithms - the EU anti-discrimination law perspective
Malwina Anna Wojcik
Ethnic Classifications in Algorithmic Decision-Making Processes
Sofia Jaime and Christoph Kern
11.30-12.00
Break
12.00-13.00
Keynote: Meike Zehlike
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.00
Governing AI – the European edition: Values, legitimacy, and practical implementation
Panel discussion moderated by Angela Müller
Panelists: Diana Vlad-Calcic, European Commission; Sergey Lagodinsky, MEP Greens (participating online); Agathe Balayn, Delft University of Technology
15.00-15.30
Break
15.30-16.40
In-depth session 2
Track A (room TS O1.19)
Unification, Extension, and Interpretation of Group Fairness Metrics for ML-Based Decision-Making
Joachim Baumann, Corinna Hertweck, Michele Loi and Christoph Heitz
Augmenting Fairness with Welfare: A Framework for Algorithmic Justice
Sílvia Casacuberta, Isaac Robinson and Connor Wagaman
Track B (room TN O1.46)
The Fallacy of Algorithms in Reading Humans: European Views from Within the Struggles for a Fairer AI
Philip Di Salvo
The Explanation Dialogues: Understanding how legal experts reason about XAI methods
Laura State, Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo, Andrea Beretta, Salvatore Ruggieri, Franco Turini and Stephanie Law
16.40-16.50
Break
16.50-18.00
In-depth session 3
Track A (room TS O1.19)
When Small Decisions Have Big Impact: Fairness Implications of Algorithmic Profiling Schemes
Christoph Kern, Ruben Bach, Hannah Mautner and Frauke Kreuter
Fairness by Intervention: Towards a theory of substantial fairness for machine learning
Sebastian Zezulka
Track B (room TN O1.46)
Certification Labels for Trustworthy AI
Nicolas Scharowski, Michaela Benk, Swen Kühne, Léane Wettstein and Florian Brühlmann
Arbitrary Decisions are a Hidden Cost of Differentially-Private Training
Bogdan Kulynych, Hsiang Hsu, Carmela Troncoso and Flavio Calmon
Friday, June 9, 2023
09.00-10.00
Keynote: Gianclaudio Malgieri
10.00-10.30
Break
10.30-11.40
In-depth session 4
Track A (room TS O1.19)
Classification Parity, Causal Equal Protection and Algorithmic Fairness
Marcello Di Bello, Michele Loi and Nicolo Cangiotti
Algorithmic Unfairness through the Lens of EU Non-Discrimination Law. Or Why the Law is not a Decision Tree
Hilde Weerts, Raphaële Xenidis, Henrik Palmer Olsen, Fabien Tarissan and Mykola Pechenizkiy
Track B (room TN O1.46)
Fairness and Diversity in Information Access Systems
Lorenzo Porcaro, Carlos Castillo, Emilia Gomez and João Vinagre
A Reflection on How Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Ethics of Facial Analysis AI Can Inform EU Policymaking
Chiara Ullstein, Severin Engelmann, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos and Jens Grossklags
11.40-11.55
Break
11.55-12.55
Interactive sessions
Track A (room TS O1.19)
Data Access for Researchers in the context of the Digital Services Act: technical and scientific considerations
João Vinagre, Lorenzo Porcaro, Emilia Gómez
Track B (room TN O1.46)
Lost in translation? How computer science and philosophy reflect local morals and societal peculiarities.
Michele Loi
12.55-13.15
Closing remarks