Our paper “Fairness Evaluation with Item Response Theory” was accepted at WWW 2025. Congrats Ziqi!

Swati Swati, Arjun Roy, and Prof. Eirini Ntoutsi took part in the 5th Plenary Meeting of the MAMMOth project in Vienna, 04-05 November 2024.

As we conclude 2024, we take pride in the achievements of our research group. This year, we presented more than 10 papers at various international conferences, including ECMLPKDD, EWAF, PAKDD, CIRP ICME and ICAIF.

Our Ph.D. student, Manolis Panagiotou, attended the ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF24) in Brooklyn, New York, and delivered an oral presentation of our paper titled "TABCF: Counterfactual Explanations for Tabular Data Using a Transformer-Based VAE", co-authored by Prof. Ntoutsi.

Dr. Vivek Kumar from AIML team, gave a talk Titled “Unlocking LLMs: Forgiving errors, risks & ethical responsibility” at the second edition of Data Makers Fest in Porto Portugal from September 24-25, 2024.

Prof. Ntoutsi, and Ph.Ds Emmanouil Panagiotou, Chethan Krishnamurthy Ramanaik, Arjun Roy, und Siamak Ghodsi attended the ECML PKDD 2024 in Vilnius, Lithuania, from September 09-13, 2024. The conference is considered Europe's leading event for machine learning and data analytics and looks back on a history of over two decades.

Our Postdoctoral researcher, Swati Swati, attended EWAF’24 and delivered an oral presentation of our paper titled "Exploring Fusion Techniques in Multimodal AI-Based Recruitment: Insights from FairCVdb".

The team from the University of Bundeswehr Munich (UniBwM), comprising Swati Swati and Arjun Roy, recently participated in the 4th plenary meeting of the MAMMOth project, held in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Athens. Taking place from April 17th to 18th, this meeting marked the halfway point of the project's timeline, blending productive discussions with the vibrant summer vibes of Athens.

Our paper was presented by our external Ph.D. Siamak Ghodsi at the PAKDD 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Prof. Ntoutsi took part in the "AI vs Human" panel at the versusfestival in the Silvretta Alps, Austria alongside  Dr Niya Stoimenova, with  Prof. Dr. Maximilian Lude moderating the discussion.

Prof. Ntoutsi delivered a position talk on bias in AI systems, titled “Machines like us? How AI challenges education, economy, and society”

Ph.D. Swati Swati, Ph.D. Arjun Roy and Prof. Eirini Ntoutsi (virtually) participated in the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the EU Horizon project MAMMOth in Bologna, Italy, from 07 to 08 November 2023. During the event, they presented our research on multi-dimensional fairness and engaged in discussions with other consortium members regarding the fairness of AI systems in scenarios involving multiple forms of discrimination and across various data modalities, including tabular data, graphs, and images.

Tobias Callies has joined our group in Munich. Tobias holds a Master of Mathematics in Data Science from TUM Munich, and a Bachelor in Business Mathematics from LMU Munich. Welcome on board Tobias!

Prof. Ntoutsi, Ph.D. Emmanouil Panagiotou and the external Ph.Ds. Simone Fabbrizzi and Vasilis Gkolemis attended the ECML PKDD 2023 in Turin, Italy, from September 18-22, 2023. The conference is considered Europe's leading event for machine learning and data analytics and looks back on a history of over two decades.

Abheek Dhingra has joined our group in Munich. Abheek holds a Master of Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and a Bachelor from VIT University, India. Welcome on board Abheek!

Prof. Eirini Ntoutsi will be a Research Track co-chair for ECML PKDD 2024, the leading European conference on machine learning and data analytics, which will take place in Vilnius from September 9-13.

06-08.09.2023 | 19th EAWE PhD seminar in Hannover.

Our paper “Studying Bias in Visual Features through the Lens of Optimal Transport” was accepted in the Journal Track der ECMLPKDD 2023

27.09.2022 | The kick-off for the project "STELLAR - Spatio-TEmporal Linked data tools for the AgRi-food data space" took place in Athens.

01.09.2022 | Our paper "A survey on bias in visual datasets" (arXiv version) has been accepted in the journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding. Congratulations, Simone!

23.09.2022 | This week Arjun, Eirini and Tai attended the ECMLPKDD 2022 in Grenoble, France, and presented their work!