@ Mila x Vector Institute

DEFirst - Diversity, Explainability, Fairness in information retrieval, recommendation, and search systems

MEETING TIMES: 10-11AM Eastern Time on ZOOM

PAST TALKS: Check out our Youtube Page

CONTACT: email us at [email protected] or join our brand new dedicated Slack channel 🙂

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About

Together with fellow researchers at Mila - Québec AI Institute and the Vector Institute, we have the pleasure of inviting you to join the DEFirst Reading Group. Our reading group gathers every week on Thursday at 10:00-11:00am Eastern Time on Zoom.

Our topics of interest cover:

• Information retrieval
• Search, Recommendation, Learning-to-rank
• Fairness, Diversity, Bias
• Explainability
• IR for social good
• Trustworthy AI
• 🙌 … and more (we are waiting for you :]) !

Mission

Our purpose is to build an interdisciplinary forum of researchers, students and professors alike, across both industry and academia, who work at the intersection of IR, Search, Fairness, and Trustworthy AI. During each meeting, an invited speaker presents a research paper of their choice for around 45 minutes, leaving 15 minutes for questions and discussion. The mission of the reading group is to :

• Provide a space for ****people interested in IR, Fairness, and Trustworthy AI to share their research, build collaborations, and meet peer students.
• Create an environment in which members can share research ideas and brainstorm with others.
• Offer a welcoming gateway for researchers who are not actively working on Fairness + IR topics, but want to learn more about the research being done in this area.

Logistics & Housekeeping

👥 To get notifications for upcoming meetings, please consider joining our Google Group.

📡 We will use Zoom for our online meetings. Here is the link we’ll use every week.

🎥 Please check our Youtube Channel to find recordings of our past meetings… and don’t forget to subscribe :)

🙏 Finally, if you would like to contribute and give a talk about your own research, feel free to contact us at: [email protected]

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