Organizing Committee
Dr. Akrati Saxena
Akrati Saxena is an assistant professor at the computer science and AI department of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Her research interests include Social Network Analysis, Complex Networks, Computational Social Science, Data Science, and Fairness. She is interested in designing machine learning and deep learning-based methods for complex network data. Her current research is focused on understanding inequalities in complex networks and algorithmic fairness in network and data science.
Prof. Dr. Fariba Karimi
Fariba Karimi leads the research team on Algorithmic Fairness at the Complexity Science Hub and is a professor of Social Data Science at Graz University of Technology. Fariba’s research focuses on computational social science, emerging biases and inequality in networks and algorithms, and modelling human behaviour. Her recent research revolves around the topics of visibility of minorities in social networks, the impact of network structure on ranking and recommender algorithms, and disparities in academia and its impact on under-represented groups. She combines statistical analyses of large datasets of online interactions with computational models, agent-based modeling, and network analysis.
