PhD Candidate for Fairness and Non-discrimination in Machine Learning for Information Retrieval and Recommendation

Are you fascinated by the possibilities of machine learning systems and is it important to you that these technologies are used fairly? As a PhD Candidate, your research aims to answer the question how information retrieval systems based on machine learning can be used in a non-discriminatory and fair way. Information retrieval and recommender systems based on machine learning can be used to make decisions about people. Government agencies can use such systems to detect welfare fraud, insurers can use them to predict risks and to set insurance premiums, and companies can use them to select the best people from a list job applicants. Such systems can lead to more efficiency, and could improve our society in many ways.