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Aparna Balagopalan

@aparnabee.bsky.social

PhD student @MIT. Previously: @Uoft/@VectorInst, @winterlightlabs, and @IITGuwahati

Aparna Balagopalan @aparnabee.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Excited to share our work on the impact of reporting delays on disparity audits in healthcare 😄 Project started at the Stanford RegLab Summer Institute last year, and continued with an amazing group of collaborators! @jennahgosciak.bsky.social will present this at FAccT -- do drop by if attending!

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Asia Biega @asiabiega.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Our new -- open access -- #WWW2025 #TheWebConference2025 paper on algorithmic fairness in ranking, led by @aparnabee.bsky.social : Until now, our fair ranking notions and interventions implicitly assumed that all exposure in the results to all queries is uniformly desirable.

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What's in a Query: Polarity-Aware Distribution-Based Fair Ranking | Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

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Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Championing a Vision of Safe Cities that Centers Women and Trans-Queer Experiences -- our project featured on @mitdusp.bsky.social -- dusp.mit.edu/news/champio...

“A woman’s place is in a safe city: Designing feminist cities through Nirbhaya Funds” by Radhika Radhakrishnan in association with the MIT Data+Feminism Lab. In the backdrop, a train runs between Mumbai and Kolkata, with protesters holding up placards demanding justice and safety for cis-women, trans, and queer persons in both cities.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We are excited to launch "A Woman's Place is in a Safe City," a data story on the use of #NirbhayaFunds for digital surveillance in India, in collaboration with @mitdusp.bsky.social Data+Feminism Lab, POV Mumbai @thesafecityapp.bsky.social & 3 anonymised Kolkata-based NGOs. bit.ly/3EvqV3R 🧵Read on:

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