Equity and Access in Algorithms,
Mechanisms, and Optimization
our mission statement
EAAMO is a multi-institutional initiative bringing together researchers and practitioners from over 130 institutions in 50 countries. We take an interdisciplinary approach—using insights from computer science, social sciences, and humanistic studies as well as collaborations and partnerships with domain experts and impacted communities—to help improve access to opportunity. We focus on a range of domains from inequality to climate and energy to data economies and civic participation.
The initiative is a community of nearly 2000 participants and involves activities including working groups, colloquium series, and workshops and tutorials. The initiative is primarily led by junior members and focused on the mission of bringing together a range of expertise to tackle problems impacting marginalized groups around the world.
History
In 2016, Rediet Abebe and Kira Goldner started a small reading group to discuss social applications of mechanism design—a mathematical research field that analyzes how to design systems for participants who have private information and may act strategically in their self-interest. Popular examples of mechanism design include designing the rules of auctions and designing how students get matched to schools. Rediet and Kira called their group Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG). Irene Lo and Ana-Andreea Stoica joined the organizing team and the group expanded quickly: by 2018, MD4SG included five more reading groups on a range of topics including healthcare, environment and climate, and online labor markets,
MD4SG hosted their first workshop in 2017 in conjunction with the Economics and Computation conference (EC). The workshop included papers and invited talks that use mechanism design in a range of applications, including affordable housing, education, and health insurance. MD4SG held three more workshops in conjunction with EC and also ran tutorials in conjunction with the conferences COMPASS, FAccT, and WINE.
The workshops evolved into the ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms and Optimization (EAAMO), the first of which was held online in 2021. The EAAMO conference provided a venue to publish the type of multidisciplinary research that often emerged from the MD4SG working groups. The first in-person EAAMO conference was held in 2022 at George Mason University, just outside Washington D.C.
In 2024, the activities of MD4SG and the EAAMO conference were combined under the EAAMO banner. By this time, the scope of MD4SG had grown far beyond the initial reading group and the name EAAMO was a more accurate reflection of the community's activities. To recognise the core role that the MD4SG working groups played to bridge research and practice, the working groups became EAAMO Bridges.
Organizers
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Sera Linardi
Executive Director
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Charles Cui
Organizer
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Francisco J. Marmolejo Cossio
Organizer
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George Obaido
Organizer
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Matthew Olckers
Organizer
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Sandro Radovanović
Organizer
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Ana-Andreea Stoica
Organizer
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Lily Xu
Organizer
Working Group Organizers
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Kathleen Cachel
Working Groups Lead
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Shubham Singh
Working Groups Lead
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Joachim Baumann
Algorithms, Law, and Policy
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Xudong Shen
Algorithms, Law, and Policy
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Mackenzie Jorgensen
Conversations with Practitioners
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Kristen Scott
Conversations with Practitioners
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Wendy Xu
Conversations with Practitioners
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Samuel Taggart
Inequality
Team
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Jessica Finocchiaro
Community Engagement - Lead
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Sakina Hansen
Community Engagement - Regional Europe
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Corinna Hertweck
Community Engagement - Regional Europe
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Sara C. Kingsley
Community Engagement - Accessibility
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Ofentse Rice
Community Engagement - Regional Africa
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Roozbeh Yousefzadeh
Community Engagement - Regional MENA
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Renzhe Yu
Community Engagment - Mentorship
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Rhea Tibrewala
Social Media - Lead
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Mir Masood Ali
Social Media - Twitter Manager
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Nikhil Garg
Faculty Network
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Faidra Monachou
Faculty Network
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Eric Sodomka
Development
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Yaren Bilge Kaya
Development
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Chinasa T. Okolo
Development
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Alex DiChristofano
Incorporation
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Juba Ziani
Doctoral Consortium
past leadership
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Rediet Abebe, Co-founder, 2016-2022
Kira Goldner, Co-founder, 2016-2018
Wanyi Li, 2020-2022
Irene Lo, 2018-2021
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Doaa Abu-Elyounes, Algorithms, Law, and Policy
Tejumade Afonja, Development
Abeba Birhane, Data Economies
Ali Alkatib, Data Economies and Data Governance
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Development
Cristina Crespo Montañés, Environment
Fernando Delgado, Algorithms, Law, and Policy
Samuel Galler, Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision-making
Michelle González Amador, Latin America and Caribbean
Theia Henderson, Civic Participation
Zoë Hitzig, Inequality
Lily Hu, Fairness
Anson Kahng, Civic Participation
Richard Lanas Phillips, Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision-making
Duncan McElfresh, Fairness | Algorithms, Law, and Policy
Faidra Monachou, Fairness
Keziah Naggita, Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision-making
Moses Namara, Development
Chika Okafor, Inequality
Chinasa T. Okolo, Development
Tilsa Oré Mónago, Latin America and Caribbean
Roya Pakzad, Data Economies
Juan Felipe Penagos, Latin America and Caribbean
Lucy Qin, Data Economies
Manish Raghavan, Fairness | Online Labor Markets
Christian Ramirez Romero, Conversations with Practitioners
Mariajose Silva Vargas, Latin America and Caribbean
Daniel Waldinger, Housing
Steven Yin, Environment
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Logan Stapleton, Community Engagement
Bhushan Suwal, Working Groups
Bryan Wilder, Working Groups
Sritej Attaluri, Website
Kehinde Aruleba, Membership
Gustavo Dias, Membership
Jude Imuede, Membership
Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey, Membership
Ifeoma Okoh, Membership