Inequality
The EAAMO-Bridges inequality working group studies how optimization, incentive design, and machine learning can mitigate or magnify social and economic inequality. We are especially focused on provision and targeting of social programs: when and how should resources be directed specifically to the most vunlerable members of the population? How should these individuals be selected? Beyond these core questions, our research interests are wide-ranging, including both the philosophical underpinnings of economic design and the practical realities of studying institutions that serve vulnerable populations.
Representative Projects #
- Mashiat, Tasfia, Alex DiChristofano, Patrick J. Fowler, and Sanmay Das. “Beyond Eviction Prediction: Leveraging Local Spatiotemporal Public Records to Inform Action.” In The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, pp. 1383-1394. 2024.
- Zhou, Angela. “Optimal and fair encouragement policy evaluation and learning.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (2024).
- Rediet Abebe, Christian Ikeokwu, and Sam Taggart. “Robust Welfare Guarantees for Decentralized Credit Organizations.” Workshop on Fair AI in Finance (NeurIPS ‘20), Workshop on AI for Social Good (IJCAI ‘21).
Previous Iterations #
Working Group Organizers #
| Name | Position | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Taggart | Assistant Professor in Computer Science | Oberlin College |
Working Group Members #
| Name | Position | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Zoë Bell | Doctoral Student in Computer Science | University of California, Berkeley |
| Sanmay Das | Professor of Computer Science | George Mason University |
| Alex DiChristofano | Doctoral Student in Computational & Data Sciences | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Simon Finster | Postdoctoral Fellow | CREST-ENSAE (Paris) |
| Jennah Gosciak | Doctoral Student in Information Science | Cornell University |
| Christian Ikeokwu | Doctoral Student in Computer Science | University of California, Berkeley |
| Sean Jaffe | Doctoral Student in Computer Science | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Serafina Kamp | Doctoral Student in Computer Science | University of Michigan |
| Michael Lewis | Professor of Social Work | Hunter College |
| Sera Linardi | Associate Professor of Economics | University of Pittsburgh |
| Joel Miller | Doctoral Student in Computer Science | University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Nicolas Pastrian | PhD Candidate in Economics | University of Pittsburgh |
| Gaurab Pokharel | Doctoral Student in Computer Science | George Mason University |
| Emmanouil Pountourakis | Assistant Professor of Computer Science | Drexel University |
| Amita Shukla | Project Manager | Analytic Partners |
| Ana-Andreea Stoica | Research Group Leader in Intelligent Systems | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen |
| Akshaya Suresh | Doctoral Student in Operations | Yale School of Management |
| Angela Zhou | Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations | University of Southern California Marshall School of Business |
| Juba Ziani | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering | Georgia Institute of Technology |