Please note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office. Creating a research network to foster woman's partcipation in technoscience. Topic: We Should All Be Feminists in Software Engineering Practical Information The workshop is arranged in a hybrid format on June 4, 2025: - 13.00 - 14.00: Hybrid […]
Emil Häglund defends his doctoral thesis, Contextual Intelligence: Leveraging AI for Targeted Marketing, at Umeå University. Click here for a link to the event page at Umeå University Abstract As privacy concerns increase and regulation against tracking-based advertising tightens, contextual advertising, which targets ads based on webpage content rather than personal data, offers a compelling alternative. The […]
Newly minted PhD students from the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Humanity and Society Graduate School discuss their insights into the implications and entanglements of AI for society and humanity. Program Empathy and Manipulation VerificationAndreas Brännström, Umeå University Democratic Subjects and Datafied WelfarePetter Falk, Karlstad University Sensemaking and Transparency of Medical AICharlotte […]
Katarzyna Söderlund defends her doctoral thesis, “AI Transparency in Trustworthy AI: From Metaphor to Governance Tool in EU Technology Regulation,” at Lund University (LTH). Abstract Transparency has emerged as a fundamental component of ethical AI guidelines around the world. In the European Union (EU), it is recognised as one of the core principles for fostering […]
Registration is closed. About the Event Join us for the Joint Summer School on Resilience and Regulation, arranged by the WASP Research Arenas Robotics, Public Safety, Media & Language, and Operational Data, as well as WASP-HS. This year’s theme—Resilience and Regulation—centers on building safe and robust AI-driven systems while addressing the legal and regulatory frameworks […]
Please note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office. Synthetic data promises to address three key concerns for data-driven technologies: sparsity, privacy, and bias or lack of diversity. This workshop will interrogate the promise of creating better, more diverse, more representative datasets, by critically examining how […]
Zhicheng He defends his doctoral thesis, “Health Data Governance in the Age of Digital Health: Legal Approaches of the EU and China" at Stockholm University. See event page. Abstract This dissertation explores how legal frameworks in the EU and China respond to the growing tension between the use of health data and the protection of […]
Welcome to an engaging seminar featuring Patrick Hynes, Senior Manager of Research Communities at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). Patrick will present an overview of HAI’s mission and vision, and explore in detail its activities across research, education, and policy. The discussion will offer examples of funded research projects, showcase some of HAI’s policy briefings, and […]
Denitsa Saynova defends her doctoral thesis, “Fact and Ideology in the Machine: Modelling Knowledge and Belief in Neural Models from Text” on September 17 at Chalmers University of Technology. See event page. Abstract This thesis explores questions of knowledge, language, and neural network models. Motivated by an increasing need for insight into complex political and […]
Silvia A. Carretta defends her doctoral thesis, “Online Content Moderation: The Regulatory Continuum from EU Regulation to Platform Self-Regulation” on September 26 at Uppsala University. See event page. Abstract In today's digital landscape, users generate a staggering amount of content every minute. Some of this content poses serious legal challenges, including terrorist propaganda, copyright-infringing works, […]
