Stress Response Modeling at IceLab guest researcher Ana Jaramillo will give a talk titled 'Why do the most diverse groups of computer scientists write the less cited papers?' on February 3rd at 13.30, in Galaxen (Sirius) and in Zoom (zoom link provided to those who register).
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Computer Science is one of the fields with the lowest representation of women and concentrates geographically in a few countries. There is evidence about how the lack of diversity in the teams of computer scientists creating technologies increases the biases and misconceptions towards underrepresented communities. Hence, it has been proposed to diversify the groups of researchers to increase fairness in Computer Science through promoting incentives such as reaching broader audiences and being more innovative.
However, is the field of Computer Science prepared to expand its horizons and consume research produced by researchers from non-conventional backgrounds (e.g. women, low and middle-income countries, and non-English languages)? We address this question by studying the demographic diversity of the authors of papers written in communities of different segregation levels in the co-authorship network of Computer Science and understanding the characteristics of the most cited papers. To our knowledge, this is the first work on analysing the relationship of segregation and diversity with the citation patterns of papers. This work paves the way to understanding why more diverse groups are less cited. Here, open questions appear as the impact of the first mover advantage or the homophily patterns in the production and consumption of research.
Ana María Jaramillo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, working on bias mitigation in AI and networked inequality. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Exeter, where she studied how segregation and diversity affect scientific impact in co-authorship networks. Her research applies complex systems and network science to the science of science, education, and public health to inform data-driven understanding of social behaviours and knowledge production.
Ana Jaramillo will be visiting IceLab February 3-6. If you would like to meet with her, please get in touch with Martin Rosvall.
Ana Maria Jaramillo, Postdoctoral researcher at Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria