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Abstract: As machine learning methods become embedded in society, it has become clear that the data used, objectives selected, and questions we ask are all critical. My work looks at data and machine learning from a public health and equity lens. First, this motivates the design and development of data mining and machine learning methods to address challenges related to data and goals of public health, such as generating better hyper-local features to represent environmental attributes addressing challenges of sparsity, irregularity and representativeness of data. Second, principles of community and equity inspire innovations in machine learning. In this realm my work has leveraged causal models and machine learning to address realistic challenges of data collection and model use across environments, such as domain adaptation that improves prediction in under-represented populati
Earlier this month, New Jerseyâs Department of Education launched a citizen engagement process asking students, teachers and parents to vote on ideas for changes that officials should consider as the state reopens its schools after the pandemic closed classrooms for a year.
The project, managed by The Governance Lab at New York Universityâs Tandon School of Engineering, is part of a monthlong nationwide effort using an online survey tool called All Our Ideas to help state education officials prioritize policymaking based on ideas solicited from those who are directly affected by the policies.
Among the thousands of votes cast for various ideas nationwide, teachers and parents backed changes that would teach more problem-solving skills to kids. But students backed a different idea as the most important: making sure that kids have social and emotional skills, as well as âself-awareness and empathy.â
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