Description
Craig Froehle, Ph.D.
Professor of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems
UC Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati
“Adding Fairness to Algorithms: Exploration of Theory and a Case Study from Healthcare”
Society increasingly relies on algorithms for decision-making, especially allocation decisions, where resources, rewards, and burdens are distributed among recipients. While fairness is a basic element of human decision-making, fairness is absent from many, if not most, allocation algorithms. We explore the trade-offs and implications of modeling choices, including parameter values and the objective's functional forms, and how they collectively affect organizational outcomes and the allocations received by workers. This research also considers a case study from healthcare, where physicians' clinical shifts are assigned to various hospitals, to understand the real-world effects of embedding fairness in allocation algorithms.
Biography
Craig Froehle is a Professor of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems at the University of Cincinnati. He also holds a faculty appointment in the UC Department of Emergency Medicine. His award-winning research and teaching focus on operations management in the contexts of healthcare delivery and technology-enabled services, and Craig also studies the fairness in the context of automated and algorithm based decision-making. He serves in editorial positions at several top Operations and Business journals. Craig holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Operations Management from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in Business (Operations Management) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Adding Fairness to Algorithms: Exploration of Theory and a Case Study from Healthcare
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BB 1.01.20D
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