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FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
Discrimination, fairness and prediction in policing : fare evasion in New York City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Predictive policing has quickly become widespread in the United States. Practitioners claim it can greatly increase police efficiency and base decisions on objective statistics. Critics say that these algorithms reproduce ...
Transfer learning for predictive models in MOOCs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are crucial in enabling the personalization of student experiences in Massive Open Online Courses. For successful real-time interventions, these models must be transferable - that is, they must perform ...
Assessing socio-economic risks in the supply chain of materials required for vehicle electrification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Modern automobiles are composed of more than 2000 different compounds comprising at least 76 different elements. Identifying supply risks across this range of materials is important to ensure a smooth transition to ...
Capacity value of variable renewable energy and energy storage
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Variable renewable energy (VRE) resources account for approximately half of new capacity additions in independent system operator (ISO) markets in the United States in the last five years. When designing and implementing ...
Building policy-aware research test beds : lessons from laboratory development for optical neuroimaging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Despite the prevalence of applications for compelling technologies, communication between scientists and policy makers is often obfuscated by conflicting philosophies concerning the role of science and technology in ...
Learning from supply shocks in the energy market : evidence from local and global impacts of the shale revolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In this thesis, we carry out three studies of the local and global impacts of supply shocks in energy markets, and also analyze certain properties of these markets. First, the relationship between US power plants and local ...
Optimal sizing of solar and battery assets in decentralized micro-grids with demand-side management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Solar-based community micro-grids and individual home systems have been recognized as key enablers of electricity provision to the over one billion people living without energy access to-date. Despite significant cost ...
Networked interactions, graphical models and econometrics perspectives in data analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis is composed of two independent parts. In Part I, we study higher-order interactions in both graphical models and networks, i.e., interactions between more than two nodes. In the graphical model setting, we do ...
Privacy-preserving identity transactions online : the use case of brokered identity federations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Disinformation campaigns, created by fake accounts on online community platforms, have grown into one of the biggest threats against democracy, freedom and user perception of the truth. This thesis argues that mitigating ...