My blogpost on our recent work on university admissions is up on HUMAINT’s website.
Link: Affirmative action policies for university admissions | JRC Science Hub Communities
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Research visit to JRC Seville
Last week, I visited the EU Commission’s JRC Seville, where Carlos Castillo and I presented our ongoing work on algorithmic fairness.
A preliminary version of our work is posted on arXiv:
Affirmative Action Policies for Top-k Candidates Selection, With an Application to the Design of Policies for University Admissions, by M. Mathioudakis, C. Castillo, G. Barnabo, S. Celis https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09947.
Examiner to PhD defenses
I acted as examiner to 6 PhD defenses at the University of Pisa. Thanks to Prof. Paolo Ferragina for the hospitality!
‘Echo chambers’ work covered on LeMonde
Kiran, Gianmarco, Aris and I attended the Web Conference in Lyon last week, where we presented our tutorial (link) on polarization on social media, as well as our recent, large-scale study on echo chamber on Twitter (link).
The tutorial was a particularly good opportunity to present a large number of works from the related literature of various disciplines and discuss with the audience. Part of the discussion was reported on Lemonde by William Audureau, who covered the conference for the newspaper.
Link to the Le Monde article: here (in French).
Link to tutorial material: here.
Link to Aalto press release: here.
Link to University of Helsinki‘s post: here.
Paper accepted at WWW 2018
Our paper ‘Political Discourse on Social Media: ‘Echo Chambers, Gatekeepers, and the Price of Bipartisanship’, with Kiran, Gianmarco and Aris, will be presented at the Web Conference (WWW2018) in Lyon this spring.
Paper accepted at SDM 2018
Our paper ‘Efficient Markov-Chain Monitoring’ with Harshal Chaudhari and Evimaria Terzi will appear at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2018.
Tutorial accepted at WWW
Our tutorial on ‘Polarization on Social Media’ with Kiran, Gianmarco, and Aris will be hosted at the Web Conference (WWW2018) next year, in Lyon, France.
Talk at Covve in Athens
Last week, Stavros and I from Helvia visited the offices of Covve in Kifisia, Athens.
During the visit, I gave a presentation on machine learning, which included basic concepts, software, and a hands-on session with scikit-learn and tensorflow. You can find the material of the session on github.
Link: https://github.com/mmathioudakis/mlcovve
Invited Talk at MLLN, Anchorage, Alaska
I just gave a talk on ‘Measuring polarization on social media’ at the MLLN Workshop in Anchorage, Alaska, collocated with IJCNN. Many thanks to Izabela Moise and Nino Antulov-Fantulin for the invitation.
The slides are here.
Visit to LIRIS, Lyon
Just had a short visit to Lyon, where I had the chance to talk with the researchers of LIRIS.
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