Aparna Balagopalan's Avatar

Aparna Balagopalan

@aparnabee.bsky.social

PhD student @MIT. Previously: @Uoft/@VectorInst, @winterlightlabs, and @IITGuwahati

82 Followers  |  70 Following  |  1 Posts  |  Joined: 08.11.2024  |  1.3201

Latest posts by aparnabee.bsky.social on Bluesky


Excited to share our work on the impact of reporting delays on disparity audits in healthcare ๐Ÿ˜„ Project started at the Stanford RegLab Summer Institute last year, and continued with an amazing group of collaborators! @jennahgosciak.bsky.social will present this at FAccT -- do drop by if attending!

24.06.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
What's in a Query: Polarity-Aware Distribution-Based Fair Ranking | Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

Our new -- open access -- #WWW2025 #TheWebConference2025 paper on algorithmic fairness in ranking, led by @aparnabee.bsky.social :

Until now, our fair ranking notions and interventions implicitly assumed that all exposure in the results to all queries is uniformly desirable.

30.04.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.

17.02.2025 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
โ€œA womanโ€™s place is in a safe city: Designing feminist cities through Nirbhaya Fundsโ€ by Radhika Radhakrishnan in association with the MIT Data+Feminism Lab. In the backdrop, a train runs between Mumbai and Kolkata, with protesters holding up placards demanding justice and safety for cis-women, trans, and queer persons in both cities.

โ€œA womanโ€™s place is in a safe city: Designing feminist cities through Nirbhaya Fundsโ€ by Radhika Radhakrishnan in association with the MIT Data+Feminism Lab. In the backdrop, a train runs between Mumbai and Kolkata, with protesters holding up placards demanding justice and safety for cis-women, trans, and queer persons in both cities.

Championing a Vision of Safe Cities that Centers Women and Trans-Queer Experiences -- our project featured on @mitdusp.bsky.social -- dusp.mit.edu/news/champio...

16.02.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A womanโ€™s place is in a safe city: Designing feminist cities through Nirbhaya Fundsโ€ by Radhika Radhakrishnan in association with the MIT Data+Feminism Lab. In the backdrop, a train runs between Mumbai and Kolkata, with protesters holding up placards demanding justice and safety for cis-women, trans, and queer persons in both cities.

A womanโ€™s place is in a safe city: Designing feminist cities through Nirbhaya Fundsโ€ by Radhika Radhakrishnan in association with the MIT Data+Feminism Lab. In the backdrop, a train runs between Mumbai and Kolkata, with protesters holding up placards demanding justice and safety for cis-women, trans, and queer persons in both cities.

We are excited to launch "A Woman's Place is in a Safe City," a data story on the use of #NirbhayaFunds for digital surveillance in India, in collaboration with @mitdusp.bsky.social Data+Feminism Lab, POV Mumbai @thesafecityapp.bsky.social & 3 anonymised Kolkata-based NGOs. bit.ly/3EvqV3R ๐ŸงตRead on:

14.02.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

@aparnabee is following 20 prominent accounts