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On July 17th, following a successful Master’s defense, Parisa presented her research entitled: Bias and Fairness in Transfer Learning to an AI comunity group based in Birmingham, UK; BrumAI.
Parisa presented virtually to over 90 participants, receiving great feedback from the attendees. Parisa’s talk has been made publicly available here.
First, a huge congratulations to the now Parisa Salmani MSc for successfully defending their thesis entitled Bias and Fairness in Transfer Learning.
Parisa’s research demonstrated, for the first time, that the use of transfer learning (a common technique used in all sorts of applications of machine learning) can lead to the introduction of new demographic bias and hence introduce discrimination against particular sub-populations. Parisa demonstrated this across two domains when comparing models that were trained from scratch to perform the same task.
On June 3rd, Aditya Ravi and Nicholas Lee joined the Trustworthy AI Lab as developers on the socially self-aware multi-robot system project. Aditya and Nicholas will be working together to explore the themes raised in prior research, to develop socially self-aware robots with TurtleBot 4s.
On May 27th and 28th, Zahra Ahmadi and Joelma Peixoto had the incredible opportunity to attend the Accessible Canada - Accessible World / Un Canada accessible - Un monde accessible Conference. This groundbreaking event was an instructive experience for advancing accessibility and inclusive design across various sectors.
We’re excited to announce that two new graduate students are joining the Trustworthy AI Lab.
First, an official welcome to PhD student Andrew Putman. Andrew joined the lab earlier this year while completing their master’s degree from the Faculty of Health Sciences, here at Ontario Tech. Andrew’s primary research interests center around equity in healthcare decision-making, both human and algorithmic.
Zahra Ahmadi has been featured in the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) recorded discussion to honour #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay (GAAD) in a meeting with almost 150 participants! Akriti Pandey, of CNIB, and Zahra Ahmadi had an insightful discussion on the importance of inclusive and accessible AI technologies, existing gaps and limitations associated with AI-based assistive technologies.
Trustworthy AI Lab Director and Canada Research Chair Dr. Peter Lewis was featured as an invited panellist at a recent public event on ‘AI and the Future of Education’, with a focus on post-secondary education, hosted by the Enoch Tuner Schoolhouse Foundation.
Huge congratulations to Nathan Lloyd, now Nathan Lloyd, ABD, for passing his PhD candidacy exam – with flying colours. Some excellent feedback, too.
A huge thank you to Dr. Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Dr. Tanya Karam-Zanders, Dr. Isabel Pederson, and Dr. Alvaro Quevedo for their time and feedback. We really appreciate your efforts and expertise in shaping Nathan’s research journey.
