Sorelle Alaina Friedler | |
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Alma mater |
Swarthmore College University of Maryland, College Park |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Haverford College Alphabet Inc |
Thesis | Geometric algorithms for objects in motion (2011) |
Sorelle Alaina Friedler is an American computer scientist who is an Associate Professor at Haverford College. She is the co-founder Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Her research seeks to prevent discrimination in machine learning.
Friedler earned her bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College. [1] She moved to the University of Maryland, College Park for her graduate studies, where she studied geometric algorithms. [2]
Friedler joined Alphabet Inc. as a software engineer, [1] [3] where she worked with X on the development of weather balloons that can provide internet access to remote communities. [1]
Friedler has advocated for the careful use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. [4] In particular, she has spoken about how biased data and algorithms reinforce social inequality. [4] In 2015 she was made a Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute.[ citation needed]
Friedler has worked with Josh Schrier and Alexander Norquist on the application of data mining to accelerate materials discovery. [5] [6] They created a computer algorithm capable of predicting whether a set of reagents will create a crystalline materials when mixed in a solvent and heated. [7] To create the tool, they compiled a database of almost 4,000 chemical reactions, wrote an algorithm that could mine for patterns in data and provide insight about why some experiments fail while others succeed. [8] The algorithm was correct 89% of the time, whilst researchers (human) predictions only had a 78% success rate. [8] Friedler and her co-workers published the database online ( darkreactions.haverford.edu/) to encourage other researchers to share their data. [8]
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Sorelle Alaina Friedler | |
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Alma mater |
Swarthmore College University of Maryland, College Park |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Haverford College Alphabet Inc |
Thesis | Geometric algorithms for objects in motion (2011) |
Sorelle Alaina Friedler is an American computer scientist who is an Associate Professor at Haverford College. She is the co-founder Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Her research seeks to prevent discrimination in machine learning.
Friedler earned her bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College. [1] She moved to the University of Maryland, College Park for her graduate studies, where she studied geometric algorithms. [2]
Friedler joined Alphabet Inc. as a software engineer, [1] [3] where she worked with X on the development of weather balloons that can provide internet access to remote communities. [1]
Friedler has advocated for the careful use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. [4] In particular, she has spoken about how biased data and algorithms reinforce social inequality. [4] In 2015 she was made a Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute.[ citation needed]
Friedler has worked with Josh Schrier and Alexander Norquist on the application of data mining to accelerate materials discovery. [5] [6] They created a computer algorithm capable of predicting whether a set of reagents will create a crystalline materials when mixed in a solvent and heated. [7] To create the tool, they compiled a database of almost 4,000 chemical reactions, wrote an algorithm that could mine for patterns in data and provide insight about why some experiments fail while others succeed. [8] The algorithm was correct 89% of the time, whilst researchers (human) predictions only had a 78% success rate. [8] Friedler and her co-workers published the database online ( darkreactions.haverford.edu/) to encourage other researchers to share their data. [8]
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