On February 15th, 2022 Prof. Sihem Amer-Yahia, CNRS – University Grenoble Alpes (France), will hold a seminar on “Fairness on Online Labor Markets” in DEIB Conference Room at 2.00 pm.

Online labor markets are increasingly becoming a destination for work. These marketplaces include freelancing platforms such as Qapa and MisterTemp’ in France, and TaskRabbit and Fiverr in the USA. On those platforms, workers can find temporary jobs in the physical world such as moving furniture, or in the form of virtual micro-gigs such as helping with designing a website. I will present the results of a study of fairness on those platforms, and discuss the design of a model to study discrimination and fairness in the Future of Work.

Sihem Amer-Yahia is a Silver Medal CNRS Research Director and Deputy Director of the Lab of Informatics of Grenoble. She works on exploratory data analysis and fairness in job marketplaces. Before joining CNRS, she was Principal Scientist at QCRI, Senior Scientist at Yahoo! Research and Member of Technical Staff at at&t Labs. Sihem is PC chair for ACM SIGMOD 2023. She currently leads the Diversity&Inclusion initiative for the data management community.

Sihem received her Ph.D. in CS from Paris-Orsay and INRIA in 1999, and her Diplôme d’Ingénieur from INI, Algeria.

The event will be held online by Webex