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Hello! I am an activist-researcher based in Barcelona, Catalunya. My work derives from algorithmic fairness and theories of participation to make socio-technical systems equitable. My research has won the Best Paper Award 🏆 at FAccT, and been published in {A*, A} conferences including AIES, Hypertext, ICTD, INTERACT + more. I am currently pursuing my MSc. at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and building the next-gen recommender systems for travel experiences at Headout. I am also a part of the Web Science and Social Computing Research Group, working under the supervision of Dr. Carlos Castillo towards my MSc. thesis, in collaboration with Departament de Justícia i Qualitat Democràtica, Generalitat de Catalunya. Email / CV / Google Scholar / Twitter / Github |
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Ashwin S, Organizers of QueerInAI ACM FAccT, 2023 | 📍 Chicago, USA Paper / Slides 🏆 Best Paper Award Critically examining how participatory design and intersectional tenets started and shaped QueerInAI's programs during the last five years, this work outlines lessons, opportunities and challenges for practitioners and theorists of participatory methods. |
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N Dennler, A Ovalle, Ashwin S, L Soldaini, A Subramonian, H Tu, W Agnew, A Ghosh, K Yee, IF Peradejordi, Z Talat, M Russo, JDJDP Pinhal ACM/AAAI AIES, 2023 | 📍 Montreal, Canada Paper / Coverage in the AI Ethics Brief Emerging from a participatory workshop (CRAFT Session) at FAccT 2022, this work covers positions and desires of the queer community on bias bounties, specifically questioning their ownership, incentives, accessibility and efficacy. |
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Ashwin S, A Arun, P Malhotra, P Desur, A Jain, D H Chau, P Kumaraguru ACM Hypertext, 2022 | 📍 Barcelona, Spain Paper / Data / Poster / Slides / Coverage in the AI Ethics Brief We uncover how install-incentivizing fraud on Google Play is facilitated via dark patterns and lockstep behaviors, possible due to the exploited labor of users and crowdworkers. |
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Ashwin S, Organizers of QueerInAI Led participatory design with QueerInAI's community to develop a new demographic survey for queer AI researchers and practitioners worldwide. Through an intersectional lens, the survey facilitates understanding of issues and barriers covering several themes, including outness, social and legal climates, harassment, discrimination, and academic conferences. |
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Ashwin S, M Subramanian, A Agarwal, P Priyadarshi, S Gupta, K Garimella, P Kumaraguru, S Kumar, R Kumar, L Garg, E Arya ICTD, 2022 | 📍 Seattle, USA Paper Our work in collaboration with Digital Green diagnoses their ICT for disparities in adoption rates of farming practices, identifies potential sources of inequalities and provides implications for alleviating adoption rates of nearly a million farmers in India. |
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Ashwin S, Grace Eden IFIP INTERACT, 2021 | 📍 Bari, Italy Paper / Slides Dean's Special Award for significant achievements in BTech thesis (<2%) Understanding how the shift from in-person to online computer-mediated social interaction presented opportunities and challenges for college students in India, generating implications for facilitating social serendipity, negotiating intimacy, mutual understanding and more. |
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I belong to a marginalized caste-group (Bahujan) in India and identify as queer. Thus, my advocacy is focused around the regulation of AI systems that harm individuals at the intersection of caste, gender and sexuality.
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