Invited speakers

Veronika Bogina is a PhD candidate at the Information Systems Department at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests include temporal aspects in user modeling and recommender systems. Prior to her PhD she was a software engineer at IBM Haifa Labs. She participated in the Horizon European project - CyCAT - dedicated to Algorithmic Transparency and raising awareness about algorithmic biases.
Avital Shulner-Tal is a Ph.D. student at the Information Systems Department at the University of Haifa, Israel. Avital's main research interests and expertise are concentrated in Algorithmic Transparency and Fairness. Together with Veronika Bogina, she participated in the Horizon European project - CyCAT - dedicated to Algorithmic Transparency and raising awareness about algorithmic biases.
Ezekiel Dixon is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice, Director of the M.S. in Social Policy Program, and Chair of the Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate Program at the University of Pennsylvania. His work is interdisciplinary, and "he is particularly interested in how power and difference are reproduced, especially in bodily capacities, and the ways in which sociotechnical systems of quantification are working on, with, and in the body to produce racialized demarcations of which bodily capacities to regenerate and which to debilitate." His book Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education engages with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and won the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.