Jun 7, 2021
by Dr. Lu Tang and Dr. Theodora Chaspari
Bio
Dr. Lu Tang is an Associate Professor of Health Communication at the Department of Communication, Texas A&M University. She received her doctorate in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She taught at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Alabama before joining TAMU in 2017.
Dr. Theodora Chaspari is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. She has received her Bachelor of Science (2010) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and her Master of Science (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Between 2010 and 2017 she worked as a Research Assistant at the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory at USC. She has also been a Lab Associate Intern at Disney Research (summer 2015).
Abstract
Dr. Lu Tang and Dr. Theodora Chaspari hosted a health equity & data panel in which participants joined to learn more about the relationship among social media, algorithms, misinformation, fairness, and health disparities. This workshop/panel helped us apply the notions of AI fairness and ethics to a specific topical context of health. It drew a slightly different audience and membership based on topical expertise rather than only on data analysis expertise. It also demonstrated practical and applied ways in which data justice works.