Agathe Balayn

Agathe is a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction at the Web Information Systems group (WIS) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, at Delft University of Technology, as well as at the Technology, Policy, and Management faculty of the same university. Her research is focused on uncovering, understanding, and mitigating some of the harms that the deployment of machine learning systems into society can raise. The harms that she study are related to issues of biases in the outputs of the systems, potentially resulting in safety hazards or discrimination and unfairness. While she is interested in any kind of machine learning systems, her research primarily focuses on the ones using image data –machine learning based computer vision– (or sometimes tabular data) to perform classification or regression tasks.