IndoML 2021 is hosting 'Datathon' consisting of 4 real world ML problems on #Kaggle kaggle.com/datathon2021 . To participate, please register at indoml.in . Cash prizes up to 3.5 lacs sponsored by ACM India and Microsoft Research India

GLUECoS-NLI-Knowledge is a Conversational Code-switched NLI dataset in English and Hindi. Given a premise-hypothesis pair infer whether entailment label requires external knowledge. Task is posed by Microsoft kaggle.com/datathon2021 Please register at indoml.in

Check out the contributions of the #PadmaAwards2021 recipients. People who have worked at the grassroot levels, touching so many lives. Truly inspiring. padmaawards.gov.in/AwardeeTickets…

Paper accepted in The Web Conference 2022 (www2022.thewebconf.org): Title - Scheduling Virtual Conferences Fairly: Achieving Equitable Participant and Speaker Satisfaction Authors - Gourab Kumar Patro , Prithwish Jana, Abhijnan Chakraborty "Abhi" , Krishna Gummadi , N Ganguly

Second Issue of the “NoBIAS ITN Project Newsletter - #2” is out - To start February with (hopefully) some new knowledge 🤓getrevue.co/profile/NoBIAS…

I am a #KashmiriPandit who migrated from the valley in Feb 1990 (7th exodus). I am married into a Kashmiri pandit family who migrated in 18th century. Each of us is #KashmirFiles, a collective memory of what happened over the last 700 years. Thankyou Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri Anupam Kher

Brilliantly written by Yana Mir why the perpetrators and Genocide-deniers in Delhi are rattled. OPINION: The Kashmir Files Has Exposed a Hidden Nerve of Kashmiri Muslim Society news18.com/news/opinion/o…

Truly happy to have been part of this working group of the @MD4SG initiative. An enriching experience with a lot of great discussions around Fairness & Rankings. Check out the pre-print ->"Fair ranking: a critical review, challenges, and future directions" arxiv.org/abs/2201.12662

Paper accepted in ACM FAccT 2022 (facctconference.org/2022/index.html): Title - Fair ranking: a critical review, challenges, and future directions Authors - Gourab Kumar Patro, Lorenzo Porcaro, Laura Mitchell, Qiuyue Zhang, Meike Zehlike, Nikhil Garg Congrats to the authors!🎉 #FACCT2022

Scheduling Virtual Conferences Fairly: Achieving Equitable Participant and Speaker Satisfaction deepai.org/publication/sc… by Gourab Kumar Patro et al. #ArtificialIntelligence #Human-ComputerInteraction

I will be presenting our work on fair virtual conference scheduling at 3PM CEST The Web Conference in the fairness and equity session. If you want to know about #fairness and efficiency concerns in virtual conferences, please attend. Link to the paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

We are pleased to announce that we have signed a MoU between the אוניברסיטת חיפה, Leibniz Uni Hannover, MHH and L3S, for further collaboration and exchange of researchers between our institutions.

Research on the harms of social media — mental health, disinformation, radicalization, echo chambers… — has gone astray by asking the wrong question: "has social media worsened the problem?" It's a tempting but meaningless question that leads to dangerously wrong policy advice.

Excited to tell you about my paper with Amanda and Yunfeng Zhang on measuring model performance disparities (aka “bias”). mini-🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2205.05770

Great collaborative work between Carlos Mougan Jose M. Alvarez Gourab Kumar Patro Salvatore Ruggieri @ststaab featured in the Montreal AI ethics institute Montreal AI Ethics Institute!! "Fairness implications of encoding protected categorical attributes"

More than full house at the tutorial on what is a proxy ACM FAccT. Thank you Margarita Boyarskaya, Solon Barocas, Hanna Wallach (@hannawallach.bsky.social), and Michael Carl Tschantz for a great tutorial.

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The new Parliament is an expression of a New India. It makes the working of our democracy more efficient. It reflects our culture and heritage and it radiates our confidence and energy. Every Indian should take pride at its inauguration tomorrow. #MyParliamentMyPride

Really?? The truth is that, in large part, our poverty was a result of decades of colonial rule which systematically plundered the wealth of an entire subcontinent. Yet the most valuable possession we were robbed of was not the Kohinoor Diamond but our pride & belief in our own