During the opening of our 4th Workshop on Recommender Systems for Human Resources, Mesut Kaya announced our Research Topic (~ Special Issue) on Recommender Systems for Human Resources at the Frontiers in Big Data Journal. Authors at the workshop, past and present, are particularly invited to (re-)submit their extended paper to this Journal issue. The… Continue reading Special Issue on RecSys in HR at Frontiers in Big Data
Talk on Responsible AI at UWV’s IT Conference
On Tuesday, October 8 I will be giving a talk at a conference organized by the UWV (the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency), my talk is titled Challenge Accepted: Responsible Algorithms in the World of Work and News, and will be about designing fair algorithms, drawing from my own experiences building recommender systems at FD Mediagroep… Continue reading Talk on Responsible AI at UWV’s IT Conference
RecSys in HR program and panel announced
With a mere 2 weeks until our 4th Recommender Systems for Human Resources Workshop will be held in Bari, Italy, we have shared the final program and panel of our workshop. Papers We were able to accept a total of 10 high quality submissions in the workshop’s proceedings! They are: For the full program, please… Continue reading RecSys in HR program and panel announced
Talk at CHI Nederland’s Experience & Beyond 2024
I’m looking forward to giving a talk to the CHI Nederland‘s event: Experience & Beyond 2024, themed “Breaking Barriers: How AI is Being Infused into Our Daily Life.” Here I will be sharing with the HCI/UX crowd on how we can design AI systems responsibly and consciously to do good things (e.g., enable more diverse… Continue reading Talk at CHI Nederland’s Experience & Beyond 2024
“Fairness and Bias in Algorithmic Hiring” Survey Paper published in ACM TIST
The aforementioned survey paper on fairness and bias in algorithmic hiring, in which I contributed a section on bias measurement and mitigation in practice, has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)! The paper is published open access, and is currently to be found in the “Just accepted” section… Continue reading “Fairness and Bias in Algorithmic Hiring” Survey Paper published in ACM TIST
joined AIQUITY’s advisory board
Happy to announce I’ve joined the advisory board of AIQUITY, “At AIQUITY we are convinced that the active use of inclusive algorithms and AI in systems, processes and institutions will accelerate the building and establishment of an equal and fair society.” Read more about AIQUITY here.
Featured in “ING Sector” on Artificial Intelligence
I was interviewed for the ING Sector; a quarterly magazine for corporate Netherlands, on (generative) AI. In it, I express my cautious skepticism around enterprise generative AI applications, with the quote: we have not yet seen the big killer application of generative AI My 2 cts: While startups, cloud providers, and consultants have been tumbling… Continue reading Featured in “ING Sector” on Artificial Intelligence
Invited talk on “algorithms; who is behind the wheel?” at inspiration day for vocational teachers
I gave an invited talk at the Inspiration Day for ICT and Creative Industry teachers, organized by the MBO Raad, the council for Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the Netherlands. In my talk I answered the question: “Algorithms, who is behind the wheel?” TL;DR: my answer? All of us 💪. The program further included… Continue reading Invited talk on “algorithms; who is behind the wheel?” at inspiration day for vocational teachers
RecSys in HR 2024 CFP published
We have published the call for papers for our Fourth Workshop on Recommender Systems for Human Resources (RecSys in HR 2024), to be held at the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems in October in Bari 🇮🇹! Do you work in AI, HR, and/or RecSys? Please consider submitting your work to our workshop! We accept… Continue reading RecSys in HR 2024 CFP published
“Fairness and Bias in Algorithmic Hiring: a Multidisciplinary Survey” preprint available
Together with some of the researchers in FINDHR we have authored and submitted an extensive survey on algorithmic hiring. The preprint is available here: In this multidisciplinary work we bring together different perspectives from computer science, law, and practitioners to extensively survey literature and classify so-called “bias conducive factors,” i.e., factors that contribute to bias… Continue reading “Fairness and Bias in Algorithmic Hiring: a Multidisciplinary Survey” preprint available
The 4th Workshop for RecSys in HR at RecSys2024!
We received notification that our workshop for recommender systems in human resources (RecSys in HR) will be included in the workshop program of the ACM RecSys 2024 Conference which will be held in Bari, Italy 🇮🇹! This will be the fourth consecutive edition of our workshop at the RecSys conference, following Amsterdam in 2021, Seattle… Continue reading The 4th Workshop for RecSys in HR at RecSys2024!
Talk on RecSys, NLP, and bias in hiring at the NLP4HR Workshop at EACL2024
I was honored to give the opening talk at the NLP4HR workshop in ☀️ sunny St. Julians, Malta! (bit bummed out I got to do it remotely from 🌧️ overcast and rainy Diemen, The Netherlands 🥸). I gave a talk on recommender systems, bias, and bias mitigation in hiring with a focus on NLP challenges and solutions, where… Continue reading Talk on RecSys, NLP, and bias in hiring at the NLP4HR Workshop at EACL2024
Participating in the AIMMES 2024 Workshop
On March 20 I am participating in the first Workshop on AI bias: Measurements, Mitigation, Explanation Strategies Amsterdam, as part of the AI Fairness Cluster Inaugural Conference (FINDHR is part of the AI Fairness Cluster). I am looking forward to this workshop with a strong program, where I have also contributed to the following two… Continue reading Participating in the AIMMES 2024 Workshop
“Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Open-Ended HR Survey Responses” accepted at NLP4HR workshop at EACL2024
Lois Rink, our former MSc data science intern at Randstad Groep Nederland, has published her thesis at the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Human Resources (NLP4HR), to be held at EACL 2024. Lois’ thesis is titled Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Open-Ended HR Survey Responses, and was written under supervision of Job Meijdam and… Continue reading “Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Open-Ended HR Survey Responses” accepted at NLP4HR workshop at EACL2024
guest speaker at NLP4HR workshop
Looking forward to giving an invited talk at the first NLP4HR workshop, to be held at EACL 2024 in St. Julians, Malta!