{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"AI at the Margins: Data, Decisions, and Inclusive Social Impact","authors":[{"name":"Bryan Wilder","slug":"bryan-wilder","given":"Bryan","family":"Wilder","affiliation":"School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Harvard University"}],"abstract":"Artificial intelligence holds tremendous promise to improve human well-being. However, AI techniques are typically developed for the benefit of those with access to technological and financial resources. A critical but understudied question is how AI can benefit marginalized communities who lack such resources. Governments and communities worldwide use a range of interventions to tackle social problems such as homelessness and disease, improving access to opportunity for underserved populations. My research develops machine learning and optimization methods to empower such interventions, which are almost always deployed with limited resources and limited information. Maximizing impact in this context requires algorithmic approaches which span the full pipeline from data to decisions. My dissertation presents a set of both technical and application-oriented contributions towards this goal.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2019/926","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/926","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0926.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/926.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/bibtex/926","volume":{"slug":"2019","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2019","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/","year":2019,"location":"Macao","dates":"10-16 August 2019","editors":"Sarit Kraus","isbn":"978-0-9992411-4-1","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2019"},"section":"Doctoral Consortium","track":"Doctoral Consortium","number":926,"pages":{"first":6474,"last":6475},"keywords":["Machine Learning: Structured Prediction","Heuristic Search and Game Playing: Combinatorial Search and Optimisation"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Killian et al., 2019] Jackson A Killian, Bryan Wilder, Amit Sharma, Vinod Choudhary, Bistra Dilkina, and Milind Tambe. Learning to prescribe interventions for tubercu- losis patients using digital adherence data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01506, 2019.","title":"Learning to prescribe interventions for tuberculosis patients using digital adherence data","authors":"Bryan Jackson A Killian, Amit Wilder, Vinod Sharma, Bistra Choudhary, Milind Dilkina, Tambe","year":"2019","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":2,"raw":"[Staib et al., 2019] Matthew Staib, Bryan Wilder, and Ste- fanie Jegelka. Distributionally robust submodular maxi- mization. In AISTATS, 2019.","title":"Distributionally robust submodular maximization","authors":"Matthew Staib, Bryan Wilder, Stefanie Jegelka","year":"2019","venue":"AISTATS","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":3,"raw":"[Wilder et al., 2018a] Bryan Wilder, Nicole Immorlica, Eric Rice, and Milind Tambe. Maximizing influence in an un- known social network. 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Preventing infectious disease in dynamic populations under uncertainty. In AAAI, 2018.","title":"Preventing infectious disease in dynamic populations under uncertainty","authors":"Wilder","year":"2018","venue":"AAAI","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":7,"raw":"[Wilder et al., 2019] Bryan Wilder, Bistra Dilkina, and Milind Tambe. Melding the data-decisions pipeline: Decision-focused learning for combinatorial optimization. In AAAI, 2019.","title":"Melding the data-decisions pipeline: Decision-focused learning for combinatorial optimization","authors":"Bryan Wilder, Bistra Dilkina, Milind Tambe","year":"2019","venue":"AAAI","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":8,"raw":"[Wilder, 2018a] Bryan Wilder. Equilibrium computation and robust optimization in zero sum games with submodular structure. 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In AAMAS, 2017.","title":"Influence maximization in the field: The arduous journey from emerging to deployed application","authors":"Amulya Yadav, Bryan Wilder, Eric Rice, Robin Petering, Jaih Craddock, Amanda Yoshioka-Maxwell, Mary Hemler, Laura Onasch-Vera, Milind Tambe, Darlene Woo","year":"2017","venue":"AAMAS","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null}],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}