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Publications (19)

cs.CY2024

Market or Markets? Investigating Google Search's Market Shares Under Horizontal and Vertical Segmentation

Desheng Hu, Muhammad Abu Bakar Aziz, Jeffrey Gleason +4

Is Google Search a monopoly with gatekeeping power? Regulators from the US, UK, and Europe have argued that it is based on the assumption that Google Search dominates the market fo…

cs.LG2023

When Fair Classification Meets Noisy Protected Attributes

Avijit Ghosh, Pablo Kvitca, Christo Wilson

The operationalization of algorithmic fairness comes with several practical challenges, not the least of which is the availability or reliability of protected attributes in dataset…

cs.SI2012

Multi-scale Dynamics in a Massive Online Social Network

Xiaohan Zhao, Alessandra Sala, Christo Wilson +4

Data confidentiality policies at major social network providers have severely limited researchers' access to large-scale datasets. The biggest impact has been on the study of netwo…

cs.HC2025

"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services

Shira Michel, Sufi Kaur, Sarah Elizabeth Gillespie +3

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) speech generation and voice cloning technologies have produced naturalistic speech and accurate voice replication, yet their influen…

cs.CY2023

The Effectiveness of Embedded Values Analysis Modules in Computer Science Education: An Empirical Study

Matthew Kopec, Meica Magnani, Vance Ricks +10

Embedding ethics modules within computer science courses has become a popular response to the growing recognition that CS programs need to better equip their students to navigate t…

cs.LG2023

FairCanary: Rapid Continuous Explainable Fairness

Avijit Ghosh, Aalok Shanbhag, Christo Wilson

Systems that offer continuous model monitoring have emerged in response to (1) well-documented failures of deployed Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models an…