Social and Responsible Computing

[es] Un proyecto de investigación europeo, liderado por la UPF, alerta de una discriminación invisible en los procesos de selección de personal: la provocada por los sesgos tecnológicos y algorítmicos de muchas plataformas digitales de búsqueda de empleo: upf.edu/web/focus/w/ca…

Mykola Trokhymovych (@trokhymovych) a PhD student in the Social and Responsible Computing research group, won a Google PhD Fellowship. Congratulations! upf.edu/web/recomputin…

Congratulations to Paula Mateos -- a graduate from the mathematical engineering degree on data science @enginyeria_upf -- for winning the award for the best honors thesis on gender issues. upf.edu/web/recomputin…

TFG by Paula Mateos, a student of the mathematical engineering degree on data science supervised by @chatox, has won the award for the best honors thesis on gender issues at UPF in 2025. Congratulations!| upf.edu/web/recomputin…

We are looking for a research assistant to help us understand the prospects, in terms of recidivism, of people receiving alternatives to prison such as community services Deadline: 25 June 2025. Starts: July 2025. Part-time, 20h to 30h/week. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/351671

Is pop music becoming more sexist? Research with Laura Casanovas and Priscila Alvarez on the lyrics of popular songs shows a steady increase in controlling/possessive speech, objectification, and hyper-sexualization, particularly over the last decade - doi.org/10.1080/233119…

📢Ya están abiertas las inscripciones para el próximo #PolicyDialogues 🤖"Inteligencia Artificial: Ética, Políticas y Cambio Social" 🗣️Con Adrián Almazán, @ChaToX, @SaraSuarezG y Cristina Astier Murillo 🗓️23/10- 17:30 CEST 👉Inscríbete: bit.ly/4dFCu43

[ES] "Un algoritmo define el futuro de los presos en Cataluña: ahora sabemos cómo funciona" -- sobre la investigación encabezada por Marzieh Karimi-Haghighi y Manuel Portela del @WSSC_UPF acerca de RisCanvi -- elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/202…

🧮 Com es poden desenvolupar algorismes que respectin drets fonamentals de la ciutadania? 👀 Avui ho descobrirem en nou webinar del cicle #2024AmbUllsUPF amb l'investigador Manuel Portela (@manuchis) i l'#alumniUPF @paulaboet. 🕕 18.00 h - 19.30 h 👉 bit.ly/JusticiaAlgori…

Seminari: "Efecto de la libertad condicional en la reincidencia violenta y la reincidencia genera" 👤 Carlos Castillo @ChaToX (Professor d'Investigació ICREA, UPF) 🗓️ 11/04/24 🕒12:30 - 14:00 h 🏢Aula 40.043 (Ed. Roger de Llúria) Grup de Recerca en Criminologia i Sistema Penal

Atenció! Es busquen #CVs! 🔍📃 Des de la @UPFBarcelona s'està portant a terme una anàlisi de currículums amb l'objectiu de combatre la #discriminació de les persones en cerca de feina per raons de sexe, gènere, origen, religió... 💪🏼 Participa-hi! ⬇️ findhr.eu/data-donation-…

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Support the development of tools to detect and avoid injustices in job application processes by donating your CV. @HorizonFINDHR project - Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation. Coordinated by @WSSC_UPF @ChaToX twitter.com/algorithmwatch…

Lorenzo Porcaro presenting joint work w/@emiliagogu @ChaToX @jnvinagre on Fairness and Diversity at #EWAF2023 ⚖️👥🗣️

Project FINDHR (@HorizonFINDHR) has an open call for experts on discrimination in algorithmic hiring -- we are looking for three research projects, each one funded with € 20,000. The deadline for applications is June 7th euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/funding/c…

📢@HorizonEU project FINDHR (Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation) @HorizonFINDHR launches free training program on discrimination in algorithmic hiring #ArtificialIntelligence Would you like to participate? See details 👇 tinyurl.com/ycka69pu

Davant els riscos, Carlos Castillo @ChaToX, professor a la @UPFBarcelona, ens parla de com detectar biaixos a través d'estadístiques. 💬 "Poques vegades es troba codi que discrimini directament, però per com s'entrena la IA el més natural és trobar biaixos". #IADretsDemocràcia

tomorrow! looking forward to kick off more #GDPR data access #SAR activities & discussions this time with @UPFBarcelona @ChaToX & @CIMethods @NoortjeMarres students in the context of our @EutopiaUni learning community! eutopia-university.eu/english-versio…

To all the PhD students and researchers working on fairness, accountability and transparency (or related topics) in relation to socio-technical systems: ACM FAccT 2023 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications is out: facctconference.org/2023/callfordc… The deadline is February 24, 2023 AoE