Fairness in e-Commerce Search

When we search for products in e-commerce stores, we do not care what goes on under the hood to generate the results. However, there may be an intentional algorithmic effort to gravitate us toward a particular product. On the show, today, Abhisek Dash and Saptarshi Ghosh discuss their research on fairness in the search result of Amazon smart speakers.

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Abhisek Dash: "Abhisek Dash is currently a PhD student with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. His research interests lie in investigating unfairness, bias related concerns in information retrieval algorithms deployed in online socio-technical systems, specifically, e-commerce marketplaces such as Amazon. "

Saptarshi Ghosh: Saptarshi Ghosh is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and the head of a Max Planck Partner Group at IIT Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2013. He was a Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrucken, Germany. His research interests include Social network analysis, Legal analytics, and Algorithmic bias and fairness.