About Me

Ph.D candidate, ai ethics, feminist philosophy of science, science and technology studies. I am co-advised by Dr. Dana Calacci and Dr. Fred Fonseca

Affiliations

Critical Technocultures Lab - visiting scholar
CSRAI - student affiliate
THiCC Lab - Liberatory Tech Scholar
LOGIC(S) - Fact Checker

Publication

• Tianqi Kou. 2024. From Model Performance to Claim: How a Change of Focus in Machine Learning Replicability Can Help Bridge the Responsibility Gap. The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’24). (acceptance rate 24%) link

News

2024/8/23 defended my dissertation proposal and officially a candidate!
2024/4/29 received ACM FAccT’24 Travel Award
2024/3/29 solo-authored paper accepted to ACM FAccT’24, first submission and publication!
2024/3/12 received Dean’s Travel Award from Penn State College of IST
2024/1/05 selected as a Liberatory Tech Scholar to work as a Tech Explainer and Fact Checker at Logic(s) Magazine
2023/10/02 poster on contradictions between ML replicability and feminist epistemic values admitted to ICDS 2022 Symposium
2023/05/08 paper abstract accepted by PhilML2023: Philosophy of Science Meets Machine Learning Conference 2023
2023/04/01 served as a panelist at the Queer and Trans Graduate Students in STEM Panel
2022/10/12 poster on Replicability in Machine Learning Research admitted to ICDS 2022 Symposium
2022/06 marched in pride parade at State College :D
2022/05 nominated internally by the College of IST for 2022 Microsoft Ph.D Fellowship
2021/11 passed Qualifying Exam
2020/08 joined Penn State IST!

Contact

tfk5237@psu.edu, @koutianqi1
or find me through my friends:
Heidi Biggs
Cong Ma
Boya Wang