After Cansus's presentation last week, I think many of you have grown interest in AI and Fairness. Here is a lecture from an MIT PhD student coming up on Friday morning that may help you get more insight into this.

Best Regards, Ishtiaque

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Marzyeh Ghassemi marzyeh@cs.toronto.edu Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:40 AM Subject: ML/Fairness/Health Talk of Interest To: newprofs@cs.toronto.edu Cc: Anna Goldenberg anna.goldenberg@vectorinstitute.ai, Frank Rudzicz < frank@vectorinstitute.ai>, Quaid Morris quaid@vectorinstitute.ai, Bo Wang bowang@vectorinstitute.ai

Hi all!

I wanted to advertise a guest lecture for my Thursday class to new faculty!

This Thursday (Jan 31, 2019), Irene Chen will give a guest lecture in CSC2541 https://cs2541-ml4h2019.github.io on Machine Learning with Fairness, Ethics, and Healthcare. The lecture will be at 10 AM - 11 AM in room MS 4279, followed by student talks on recent work in machine learning on fairness and health. Her paper Why is My Classifier Discriminatory? https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12002 was accepted to NeurIPS 2018 in Montreal as a Spotlight Presentation.

Irene Chen http://irenechen.net/ is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL https://www.csail.mit.edu/, advised by Professor David Sontag http://people.csail.mit.edu/dsontag/ in the Clinical Machine Learning http://clinicalml.org/ group. Her research focuses on machine learning and its applications to solving important real-world problems including *healthcare* and *fairness*. Prior to MIT, Irene worked at Dropbox http://irenechen.net/www.dropbox.com as Data Scientist, Chief of Staff, and Machine Learning Engineer. She graduated from Harvard https://www.seas.harvard.edu/ with a joint AB/SM in Applied Math and Computational Engineering where she researched with Michael Luca http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=602417 and Ben Edelman http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=417579. -- Thanks, Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi, MIT CSAIL University of Toronto, Faculty of Computer Science and Medicine Canadian CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute