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Change Seminar 1/30: Devansh Saxena - Rethinking AI Innovation in the Public Sector through the Lens of Repair Work
by Ananditha Raghunath 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hope to see you all tomorrow! On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 8:14 AM Ananditha Raghunath < araghu(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > This week at Change, we're grateful to have Dr. Devansh Saxena (he/him) > give a talk on *Rethinking AI Innovation in the Public Sector through the > Lens of Repair Work.* > > *Description*: Emerging evidence from research on algorithmic > decision-making in the public sector suggests that AI systems are leading > to outcome-oriented harms that disproportionately impact low-income and > minority communities. Here, the interplay between the legal and systemic > mechanics and AI systems can adversely impact the fairness of the > decision-making process itself. I unpack process-oriented harms in child > welfare that adversely affect the nature of professional practice, and > administration at the agency, and lead to unreliable decisions at the > street level. Caseworkers are compelled to undertake additional labor in > the form of repair work to restore disrupted administrative workflow and > decision-making processes, all while facing organizational pressures and > time and resource constraints. > > *Bio*: Devansh Saxena is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie > Mellon University and will be joining the Information School at the > University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. He > studies sociotechnical practices of decision-making in high-stakes domains > and the social impacts of introducing AI in such domains. His work examines > how human-AI interaction plays out in practice where decisions are mediated > by organizational constraints, nuances of professional practice, and > algorithmic decision-making. He is interested in developing new methods and > tools that support AI innovation at the earliest stages of ideation, > problem formulation, and project selection. > > *Resources*: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3616473, > https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544548.3581308 > > We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu > > Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates > Center) or on Zoom: Https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408 > <https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408> > Best, > UW Change Organizers > _______________________________________________ > Researchers mailing list > Researchers(a)cs.washington.edu > https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/researchers >

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Invitation: UW CSE CHANGE Seminar - Dr. Devansh Saxena @ Tue Jan 30, 2024 12pm - 1pm (PST) (change@change.washington.edu)
by Ananditha Raghunath 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

UW CSE CHANGE Seminar - Dr. Devansh Saxena Tuesday Jan 30, 2024 ⋅ 12pm – 1pm Pacific Time - Los Angeles This week at Change, we're grateful to have Dr. Devansh Saxena (he/him) give a talk on Rethinking AI Innovation in the Public Sector through the Lens of Repair Work.Description: Emerging evidence from research on algorithmic decision-making in the public sector suggests that AI systems are leading to outcome-oriented harms that disproportionately impact low-income and minority communities. Here, the interplay between the legal and systemic mechanics and AI systems can adversely impact the fairness of the decision-making process itself. I unpack process-oriented harms in child welfare that adversely affect the nature of professional practice, and administration at the agency, and lead to unreliable decisions at the street level. Caseworkers are compelled to undertake additional labor in the form of repair work to restore disrupted administrative workflow and decision-making processes, all while facing organizational pressures and time and resource constraints.Bio: Devansh Saxena is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and will be joining the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. He studies sociotechnical practices of decision-making in high-stakes domains and the social impacts of introducing AI in such domains. His work examines how human-AI interaction plays out in practice where decisions are mediated by organizational constraints, nuances of professional practice, and algorithmic decision-making. He is interested in developing new methods and tools that support AI innovation at the earliest stages of ideation, problem formulation, and project selection.Resources: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3616473, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544548.3581308We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.eduLocation: Tuesdays from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on Zoom: Https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408 Organizer Ananditha Raghunath araghu(a)cs.washington.edu Guests Ananditha Raghunath - organizer change(a)change.washington.edu devanshsaxena(a)cmu.edu Innocent Obi Lisa Orii View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NXY2bGVzYjlmM21v… Reply for change(a)change.washington.edu and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NXY2bGVzYjlmM21v… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Change Seminar 1/24: Devansh Saxena - Rethinking AI Innovation in the Public Sector through the Lens of Repair Work
by Ananditha Raghunath 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Hi everyone, This week at Change, we're grateful to have Dr. Devansh Saxena (he/him) give a talk on *Rethinking AI Innovation in the Public Sector through the Lens of Repair Work.* *Description*: Emerging evidence from research on algorithmic decision-making in the public sector suggests that AI systems are leading to outcome-oriented harms that disproportionately impact low-income and minority communities. Here, the interplay between the legal and systemic mechanics and AI systems can adversely impact the fairness of the decision-making process itself. I unpack process-oriented harms in child welfare that adversely affect the nature of professional practice, and administration at the agency, and lead to unreliable decisions at the street level. Caseworkers are compelled to undertake additional labor in the form of repair work to restore disrupted administrative workflow and decision-making processes, all while facing organizational pressures and time and resource constraints. *Bio*: Devansh Saxena is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and will be joining the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. He studies sociotechnical practices of decision-making in high-stakes domains and the social impacts of introducing AI in such domains. His work examines how human-AI interaction plays out in practice where decisions are mediated by organizational constraints, nuances of professional practice, and algorithmic decision-making. He is interested in developing new methods and tools that support AI innovation at the earliest stages of ideation, problem formulation, and project selection. *Resources*: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3616473, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544548.3581308 We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu Best, UW Change Organizers

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Change Seminar Cancelled on 1/23
by Ananditha Raghunath 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

Hi all, Due to some unforeseen challenges on the speaker's end, we are cancelling Change Seminar this Tuesday. See you all next week! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu Best, UW Change Organizers

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Change Seminar 1/16: Aaron Lyon - Human-Centered Implementation Science and Implementation-Centered HCI
by Ananditha Raghunath 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Hi everyone, This week at Change, we're grateful to have Dr. Aaron Lyon (he/him) give a talk on *Human-Centered Implementation Science and Implementation-Centered HCI*. Description: Implementation science (IS) is the scientific study of methods and strategies that facilitate the uptake of research and evidence-based practices into regular use by practitioners and policymakers. The field of IS is increasingly incorporating approaches from HCD/HCI to achieve its objectives, but less work has been focused on leveraging implementation science to advance HCD/HCI. This talk will review work at the intersection of implementation science and HCD/HCI, including work conducted at the UW ALACRITY Center. Speaker Bio: Aaron Lyon, PhD, (he/him) is a Professor in the University of Washington's (UW) Department of Psychiatry where he serves as Co-Director of the UW ALACRITY Center (https://www.uwalacrity.org/) and the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center ( https://smartcenter.uw.edu/) both of which leverage methods from human-centered design to support effective implementation of evidence-based practices in mental and behavioral health. He is also the Director of the Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE) and Associate Editor for the journal Implementation Research and Practice. Dr. Lyon's research focuses generally on increasing the accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of interventions for children, adolescents, and families. Links to reading: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3544549.3574132 https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-88219-004.html Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on Zoom: Https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408 <https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408> We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu Best, UW Change Organizers

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Change Seminar 1/9: Jason Young - Anticolonial, Participatory, and Speculative Futures for ICTD: A Research Agenda
by Ananditha Raghunath 07 Jan '24

07 Jan '24

Hi everyone, We hope you're having a great start to the new year! We are back with the Winter Change seminar series. This week, we're grateful to have Jason Young (he/him) be our speaker, giving a talk on Anticolonial, Participatory, and Speculative Futures for ICTD: A Research Agenda Description: The field of Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) has much to celebrate, in that the reach of digital networks and associated technologies has expanded dramatically with many positive impacts for sustainable development. And yet, in recent years the field has been dominated by discussions and questions about its future as a distinct field of academic inquiry. Drawing on diverse ICTD projects from around the world, this talk argues that increased engagement with theories and methods related to anticolonial, participatory, and speculative design can spur exciting new research directions to reinvigorate the field. Speaker bio: Jason Young is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Washington Information School, where he also directs the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA). His research explores the politics that shape what forms of knowledge come to matter within different socio-cultural contexts, with an emphasis on the role of technological practice in shaping these epistemic politics. His research asks, for example, how the use of information & communication technologies (ICTs) are re-shaping colonial hierarchies between Indigenous and Western knowledge systems, and how socio-cultural and emotional dynamics produce vulnerabilities and attachments to misinformation. His projects strongly emphasize community-based, participatory approaches with applied goals, but are also inspired by and draw from a broad range of postcolonial, feminist, and critical theories. He received his PhD from the University of Washington Department of Geography in 2017. Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on Zoom: Https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408 We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu Best, UW Change Organizers ______

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Fwd: [dub] RSVP Now for DUB / Change Seminar on Jan 10: Joyojeet Pal
by Kurtis Heimerl 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: James Fogarty <jfogarty(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 8:01 AM Subject: [dub] RSVP Now for DUB / Change Seminar on Jan 10: Joyojeet Pal To: dub <dub(a)dub.washington.edu> Happy New Year! We're excited for next week's DUB / Change Seminar with Joyojeet Pal: https://dub.washington.edu/seminars/2024-01-10.html In order to provide food and manage in-person capacity constraints, we need an RSVP now: https://forms.gle/PZfT6jAesinythWy9 RSVP is needed by this Thursday Jan 4. RSVP may also close sooner if our in-person capacity limit is reached. The seminar will take place in the top-floor event space of the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/cse2 The seminar schedule is: 11:45am - 12:15pm: Food and community socializing. 12:15pm - 1:15: Presentation with Q&A. Available hybrid via Zoom. 1:15pm - 2:00pm: Student meeting and discussion with speaker. The student meeting is open to all DUB students, as an opportunity for more discussion with the speaker. James -- James Fogarty https://www.mypronouns.org/he-him Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/ <http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/> I am not a UW mandatory reporter and therefore not legally required to report misconduct or crime, unless it involves somebody under the age of 18. If you share a problem with me, I will work with you to determine next steps. _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu https://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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Fwd: UCSD Designing Just Futures Faculty Search
by Kurtis Heimerl 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ryan Kastner <kastner(a)ucsd.edu> Date: Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 9:49 AM Subject: UCSD Designing Just Futures Faculty Search To: <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> Cc: Nataly Herrera <nherrera(a)ucsd.edu> Dear Prof. Heimerl, Elizabeth Belding told me that you might be able to help publicize this faculty search. I want to make you aware of a unique Professor position at UCSD focusing on “Designing Just Futures.” Faculty hired under this Initiative will join the UC San Diego campus, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the UC San Diego Design Lab <https://designlab.ucsd.edu/>, and the Indigenous Futures Institute <https://ifi.ucsd.edu/> to forge a new paradigm of engagement and collaboration that draws on the geographic, academic, institutional, and cultural strengths of our tri-national region across Southern California, Baja California, and the Kumeyaay region. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sustainable Computing (e.g., battery-free, self-powered, biodegradable, low carbon and net-zero carbon). - Technology to Increase Access (e.g., rural/remote broadband/ad-hoc networks; novel education techniques; disability/accessibility technologies, research and pedagogy focused on serving indigenous populations). - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Community Empowerment and Global Developmen (e.g., civic technology, community information platforms, resident-driven data science, systems, and implementation-oriented ICT work). - Ethical Computing (e.g., systems to interface law, policy, and technology; disinformation comprehension/mitigation; structural BPC/STEM work; infrastructure/implementations to decolonize technology). - Computing for social justice (e.g., helping to enable core values of equal rights and equal opportunity through science and technology) - Measuring, understanding, and mitigating biases in computer systems and algorithms; designing computer systems with less bias. - Designing more accessible and inclusive health technology (e.g., mHealth; health literacy interventions; medication adherence/support). - Mixed Physical-digital Interactions and Cyber-physical Systems (eg. VR, AR, XR). We have openings at the Assistant and Associate levels and could also consider other levels. Assistant Professor: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03822 Associate Professor: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03827 If you know any potential candidates, please share this opportunity with them! I would be happy to talk to anyone about this opportunity. Please have them reach out to me to learn more. -- Ryan Kastner Computer Science and Engineering UC San Diego http://kastner.ucsd.edu

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Dec 5th Change Seminar details
by Innocent Obi 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Hi everyone! We had a cancellation from our scheduled speaker for next week. To close out the quarter, we will instead meet to discuss this quarter's speakers and ideas. We will have lunch available. Best, UW Change Organizers

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Change Seminar TODAY: Neil Gaikwad - Public Interest Computing: Pluralistic Design of Ethically Responsible AI and Policy
by Lisa Orii 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

Hi everyone, For today's Change talk, we will be hearing from *Neil** Gaikwad* (he/him) from MIT. His talk is titled *Public Interest Computing: Pluralistic Design of Ethically Responsible AI and Policy*. *Description* AI-enabled systems profoundly shape our daily lives, influencing our interactions with the world. Despite their vast impact, advanced AI technologies, like large language models (LLMs), often elude billions grappling with poverty and global climate challenges. This inequity underscores the urgent need for policy-oriented AI research focused on driving social change and sustainable development. This talk centers on real-world field research dedicated to designing AI-driven decision-making systems in resource-scarce environments. Emphasizing distributive justice, I illuminate sociotechnical challenges faced by mainstream AI designs rooted in evolving norms, algorithmic biases, shifting data distributions, and enduring colonial legacies. The talk delves into innovative Responsible AI designs to augment climate change mitigation policies and addressing market failures that have led to over 300,000 farmer suicides. I introduce Public Interest Computing as a framework proposing the integration of social and ethical values into Human-AI decision systems from their inception, ensuring foundational guidance for equitable AI design, implementation, and governance. By prioritizing historically marginalized communities and local partners, this framework harnesses AI-enabled insights to scientifically inform high-stakes policy decisions and improve the well-being of invisible millions. Throughout the talk, I emphasize the crucial need for conscientious progress in public sector AI, highlighting its significance not just as a focal point but as a pathway to equitably distribute the benefits of digital technologies across society. *Seminar Details* Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95254816636 *Presenter Bio* Neil Gaikwad is a PhD candidate at MIT where he is also a Scholar of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing and a fellow at the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. His research in Responsible AI and Policy brings a novel computational lens to high-stakes societal decision-making, specifically focusing on addressing issues of equity, ethics, and access within algorithmic systems. This research has been published in top conferences in artificial intelligence (AAAI) and human-computer interaction (CHI, CSCW, UIST). It has also been featured in The New York Times, New Scientist, Bloomberg, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. The impact of Neil's research and teaching has received widespread recognition, including a Facebook PhD Fellowship, an MIT Human Rights & Technology Fellowship, a Rising Star in Data Science by the University of Chicago, a nomination for Schmidt Science Fellows, and an MIT GSC Graduate Teaching Award. For his contributions to advancing DEI values, he was honored with MIT's highest student award, the Karl Taylor Compton Prize. Neil holds a master’s degree from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. For further information about his research and artistic pursuits, please visit: webpage <http://www.media.mit.edu/~gaikwad>, X neilsgaikwad <https://twitter.com/neilsgaikwad>, arts on Instagram neilgaikwad_creations <https://www.instagram.com/p/BXLiMCshYo8/> Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu! Best, UW Change Organizers

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