Prof. Sihem AMER-YAHIA, Professor

Organization:  CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes
Email: sihem.amer-yahia@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Title: Fairness in Online Labor Markets 

Abstract

Online labor markets are increasingly becoming a destination to hire people to perform some tasks. 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 discuss algorithmic fairness on those platforms and open questions related to that.This is joint work with Shady Elbassuoni from the American Unibversity in Beirut.

Bio

Sihem is a CNRS Research Director. Her interests are at the intersection of large-scale data management and social data exploration. Sihem held positions at QCRI, Yahoo! Research and at&t Labs. She served on the SIGMOD Executive Board and the VLDB Endowment. She is Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal and associate editor of TDS. She served as PC chair for PVLDB 2018, WWW 2019 Workshops and ICDE 2019 Tutorials.