Interview with Virginie Do – #AAAI2022 outstanding paper award winner

Virginie Do, Sam Corbett-Davies, Jamal Atif and Nicolas Usunier won the AAAI 2022 outstanding paper award for their work Online certification of preference-based fairness for personalized recommender systems. The award was presented at this year's virtual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Here, Virginie Do tells us more about the implications of this research, the methodology, and their main findings. Our paper is about fairness in recommender systems, and more precisely about certifying that recommender systems treat their users fairly. We conducted this research in a context of increased interest in auditing for the fairness of recommender systems.