PhD Opportunities in Crisis Informatics and Algorithmic Discrimination (UPF/Barcelona/2018)

The Web Science and Social Computing Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, which I lead, is inviting applications for PhD students interested in crisis informatics and algorithmic discrimination, and in general on social computing applications that address issues of social significance.

The crisis informatics student will seek to deepen our understanding of how community-generated content in social platforms can be used to improve emergency/disaster response, and to improve the resilience of societies. A student willing to pursuit this topic must have an orientation to practical problems, excellent programming skills, and be motivated to create new applications to use time-sensitive, sometimes life-saving data.

The algorithmic discrimination student will seek to deepen our understanding of how algorithms can embody and sometimes exacerbate biases against less advantaged groups in society. A student willing to pursuit this topic must have an excellent background on statistics, data mining, or machine learning, good data management skills, and be motivated to work in applications for education, justice, medicine, and other areas in which algorithms are used in the public sector.

Both positions are funded through DTIC fellowships.

For more information, visit Web Science and Social Computing » PhD Opportunities.