BARC talk by Thore Husfeldt

Friday, 18 March 2022, BARC core researcher Professor Thore Husfeldt from ITU, will give a talk on algoritmic fairness.

Title:
An introduction to algorithmic fairness

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.