January 20, 2023: RAISE hosted a talk with Dr. Mike H.M. Teodorescu, presenting the talk: “Determining systematic differences in human graders for machine learning-based automated hiring”

November 10, 2022: RAISE hosted a talk with Dr. Sepideh Mahabadi, Microsoft Research: “Sampling a Near Neighbor in High Dimensions–Who is the fairest of them all?. 

May 27, 2022: RAISE hosted Student Research Highlights, with talks by Bin Han, Trischa Schramm, Yiwei Yang, and Sahil Verma. See flyer. 

May 25, 2022: The UW Data Science Seminar host RAISE affiliate Leilani Battle, Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering at the UW, presenting the talk, “Behavior-Driven Optimization for Interactive Data Exploration,” at 4:30pm PT.  See event description here. 

May 20, 2022: RAISE hosted Saleema Amershi, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research, presenting the talk, “Challenges in Creating Responsible and Human-Centered AI.” See flyer.

May 13, 2022: RAISE hosted John Dickerson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and Chief Scientist at ArthurAI, presenting the talk: “Designing Efficient, Fair, & Robust Platform Markets: Case Studies in Worldwide Blood Donation and Organ Exchange.” See flyer.

May 6, 2022: RAISE hosted Olfa Nasraoui, Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Endowed Chair of E-commerce and the founding director of the Knowledge Discovery & Web Mining Lab at University of Louisville, presenting the talk: “Explainability by Design.” See flyer.  

April 29, 2022: RAISE hosted Hamed Zamani, Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Associate Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, presenting the talk: “Towards Mixed-Initiative Conversational Information Seeking.” See flyer.

April 22, 2022: RAISE hosted Anjalie Field, a PhD candidate at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a visiting student at the University of Washington, presenting the talk: “Race and Racism in NLP.” See flyer.

April 15, 2022: RAISE hosted Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, presenting the talk: “AI Limits, Fixability and Refusal.” See flyer.

April 8, 2022. RAISE hosted Subho Majumdar, a Senior Applied Scientist at Splunk, presenting the talk: “An Applied Research Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness.” See flyer.

April 1, 2022: RAISE hosted Ece Kamar, a Partner Research Area Manager at Microsoft Research Redmond, presenting the talk: “In the Pursuit of Responsible AI: Developing AI Systems for People with People.” See flyer.

March 11, 2022: RAISE hosted Zeerak Talat, a post doctoral fellow at the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University, who presented the talk: “Paving the Road to Hell with Machine Learning: On Ethics, Bias, and Machine Learning.” See flyer.

March 4, 2022: Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor at the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology. See flyer.

February 25 2022: RAISE hosted Casey Fiesler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. See flyer.

February 18, 2022: RAISE held a Faculty Highlights event with Emily M. Bender, Afra Mashhadi, Yulia Tsvetkov, Leilani Battle, and Dingwen Tao discussing their work and research. Learn about the speakers here. See flyer.

February 17, 2022: RAISE co-sponsored a UW Data Science Seminar talk by Eric Masanet, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies at UC Santa Barbara. The talk, “Data center energy use: Knowns, unknowns, and how estimates are made” was held in collaboration with the Environmental Impacts of Data Science Special Interest Group at the eScience Institute.

February 11, 2022: RAISE hosted a showcase of student work, with presentations by Shruti Phadke, Bingbing Wen and Bernease Herman. See flyer.

February 4, 2022: RAISE hosted a showcase of student work, with presentations by Anjali Bhavan, Ruoxi Shang and Sahil Verma. See flyer.

January 28, 2022: RAISE hosted Dr. Ramya Srinivasan, an AI researcher in Fujitsu Research of America, who presented: “Biases in Generative Art.” See flyer.

January 21, 2022: RAISE hosted Sandhya Saisubramanian, Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Oregon State University, for the talk: “AI in the Open World: Leveraging Human Guidance to Mitigate Undesirable Effects of Incomplete Specification.” See flyer.

January 14, 2022: RAISE hosted Batya Friedman and David Hendry for the talk: “Value Sensitive Design, in Brief”. See flyer and Value Sensitive Design Lab website: https://vsdesign.org.

January 6, 2022:  Chirag Shah, Associate Professor at the Information School at the University of Washington and Founding Co-Director of RAISE, presented: “Can Large Scale Information Access Systems Be Made Fair, Unbiased, and Transparent?” for the UW Data Science Seminar.

December 3. 2021: The RAISE group hosted Kush R. Varshney, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager at IBM Research, and a member of the AI Fairness 360 research team. See flyer.

November 19, 2021: The RAISE group hosted Yunhe Feng, UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow. See flyer.

November 12, 2021: The RAISE group hosted Mona Diab, Research Scientist at Facebook AI; Professor of Computer Science at the George Washington University. See flyer.

November 5, 2021: The RAISE group held a group discussion about responsible AI with Microsoft Research. See flyer.

October 29, 2021: The RAISE group hosted Keegan Hines, Vice President of ML at ArthurAI. See flyer.

October 22, 2021: The RAISE group hosted Liz O’ Sullivan, CEO of the newly formed Responsible AI startup Parity. See flyer.

October 15, 2021: Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics, and Chirag Shah, Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington will share ideas on search engines and language models.

October 11, 2021: Afra Mashhadi gave the presentation, “Analyzing biases that impact visit estimation of urban parks & green spaces” at the UW iSchool Research Symposium.

October 8, 2021: Sahil Verma, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering at UW, presented an overview of Responsible AI / Trustworthy ML to the RAISE group. Slides available here.

August 25, 2021: Emily M. Bender gave the distinguished lecture, “Meaning Making with Artificial Interlocutors and Risks of Language Technology,” at an event by UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in NLP.

August 2, 2021: Emily M. Bender was interviewed for the podcast, Me Myself and AI, on The Vocal Fries.

July 21, 2021: Bill Howe was the keynote speaker at the Workshop on Provenance and Visualization (ProvViz), where he presented the talk, “Viziometrics: Comprehending Visualization Use in the Scientific Literature.”

July 8, 2021: Emily M. Bender gave a talk, On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? 🦜 with panelists Dr Anjali Mazumder, Dr Zachary Kenton and Professor Ann Copestake, The Alan Turing Institute.

May 21, 2021 (9-10am PST): The RAISE spring seminar hosted Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Research Professor at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University and a member of the DATA Lab at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. More information here.

May 18, 2021 (4-5pm PST): Chirag Shah and Tanu Mitra, iSchool Spring Lecture: Algorithmic Bias and Governance.

May 10, 2021: Exploring Bias & Technology: A Tri-Campus Discussion. Panelists included Tanu Mitra, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, and Coded Bias film director Shalini Kantayya.

May 7, 2021: Emily M. Bender presented the paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜at the Workshop on Enormous Language Models: Perspectives and Benchmarks (International Conference on Learning Representations).

April 14, 2021: The RAISE group and the Data Ethics Club at the University of Washington co-hosted the event, Encoded Values: Data Representation in AI Systems.

April 1, 2021: Yunhe Feng presented the paper, “Towards Fairness-Aware Ranking by Defining Latent Groups Using Inferred Features,” at the Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2021).

March 25, 2021: Emily M. Bender discussed the paper she co-authored, Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜, for the TWiML AI Podcast, with Margaret Mitchell.

February 19, 2021: Associate Professor Bill Howe presented EquiTensors: Learning Fair Integrations of Urban Mobility Data at the Applications of Data Science and AI to Equity, Race, and Inclusion in Mobility and Transportation seminar series at the University of California-Berkeley.

February 1, 2021: Chirag Shah presented the talk, “Fair is the New Smart for Intelligent Systems,” at Apple.

November 25, 2020: Emily M. Bender gave a talk, Natural Language Processing with Language in Focus, with Abralin ao Vivo.

September 29, 2020: Chirag Shah presented the talk, “Addressing Zero-Query and Zero-Intent Cases of Recommendations Toward Building Intelligent Agents,” at Allen Institute of AI (AI2).

July 2020: Emily M. Bender was featured in The Radical AI Podcast Episode 16: “The Power of Linguistics: Unpacking Natural Language Processing Ethics with Emily Bender.”

April 14, 2020: Chirag Shah presented the keynote address, “Investigating Bias and Instigating Fairness in Search and Recommendation,” at the International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2020), Lisbon, Portugal.

March 27, 2020: Chirag Shah presented the keynote address, “Addressing Bias in Search and Fairness in Machine Learning,” at the International Conference on Industrial Application Engineering (ICIAE) 2020, Matsue, Japan.