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CREATE SE4AI hosted a webinar by Sumon Biswas, PhD Candidate at Iowa State University on "Understanding and Reasoning Fairness of Machine Learning Pipeline".

Link to presentation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjCS6a_K301Ocg9z5Qd1GWA/videos

About the Speaker

sumonSumon Biswas is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University (ISU) and a Research Assistant in Laboratory for Software Design at ISU under the supervision of Professor Hridesh Rajan. His research interests are in the intersection of Software Engineering, Programming Languages, and Artificial Intelligence. He has worked on Machine Learning (ML) software repository mining and analysis in large-scale using the Boa framework. He worked on building Python language support for Boa to analyze ML programs and Jupyter Notebooks. Currently, he is working in the D4 (Dependable Data-Driven Discovery) initiative at ISU towards increasing the dependability of data-driven software. Specifically, he is conducting research on understanding the societal bias in ML models and reasoning about fairness property and its mitigation in ML pipelines. His research results appeared in reputed software engineering venues including ICSE and ESEC/FSE.

Homepage: https://sumonbis.github.io

Discover how Indigenous communities are shaping and transforming research practices, and why intentional, relationship-based engagement is essential to impactful research. Through a grounded framework and guided reflection, participants gained concrete tools and best practices for working with Indigenous stakeholders in ethical and meaningful ways.

This was a 2-hour, in-person workshop at Concordia’s SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation (LB-145). Participation partially fulfilled the requirements of CREATE SE4AI Professional Development module E.

During the training, participants:

  • Learned about the effects of colonization on relationships with Indigenous communities and in research collaboration
  • Discovered Indigenous collaboration principles and,
  • Practiced self-reflection

Helpful resources for researchers were introduced, such as the Decolonial Toolbox for podcasts, videos and short texts on Indigenous realities and the Dewemaagannag My Relations Guide on collaboration principles.