Judging facts, judging norms: Training machine learning models to judge humans requires a modified approach to labeling data

Aparna Balagopalan

Aparna Balagopalan is a fifth year PhD student in EECS at MIT. Her research broadly focuses on developing fair and robust models by re-evaluating and surfacing assumptions in machine learning-based measurements in socially-relevant contexts like healthcare. Prior to this, she received a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto and a BTech degree from IIT Guwahati. She currently holds an Amazon Doctoral Fellowship from MIT’s Science Hub.