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DESS at GOR'26
At GOR'26 we enjoyed an opportunity to present our research and engage with the online research community.
Network Fairness Workshop in Vienna
We joined a workshop hosted at the Complexity Science Hub to explore fairness in a network context.
DESS goes to IC2S2 2025
Our chair was represented at this year's IC2S2 in Norrköping with a total of 6 posters and presentations.
Indira Sen wins GOR'25 Thesis Award
Indira Sen was awarded this year's GOR Thesis Award for her doctoral dissertation “Identifying, Characterizing, and Mitigating Errors in the Automated Measurement of Social Constructs from Text Data.”
Georg Ahnert: GOR'24 Thesis Award
Georg Ahnert has been awarded the GOR'24 Thesis Award in the bachelor's/master's thesis category for his master's thesis on Fairness-Aware Ranking Recovery From Pairwise Comparisons.
Press Release: Language-based AIs have hidden morals and values
Just like humans, large language models based on artificial intelligence (AI) also have characteristics such as morals and values. However, these are not always transparent. Max Pellert et al. have investigated how the characteristics of language models can be made visible and what consequences this ...
Emma Fraxanet from 7.11. – 10.11.2023
Emma Fraxanet is doing a PhD in Computational Social Sciences with Vicenç Gómez at UPF. She is also part of the Computational Social Science Lab (Universität Konstanz, TU Graz, CSH Vienna) with David Garcia as a co-supervisor. She interested in polarization in social media, online human interaction ...