Our Goals

Build Community: To build a community with diverse perspectives around technical systems  — interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experiences — to identify and tackle under-resourced areas and inaccessibility.

How do we do this? EAAMO Bridges (formerly MD4SG Working Groups) are semester-long, guided biweekly meetings to structure newly formed networks and develop shared interests into new research, implementation, and advocacy projects. The built-in community of EAAMO Bridges makes our annual ACM EAAMO Conference unique in its pre-conference outreach and post-conference impact. 

Bridge Research and Practice: To harness mathematical and computational tools towards improving equity and access in the real-world. 

How do we do this?  Since 2017, we have organized tutorials at leading conferences (FAccT, EC, WINE, and more) on deployment-research connection, developing interdisciplinary research, and on integrating the perspective of marginalized groups in computational and mathematical fields. 

Prioritize Outreach: To nurture inclusive spaces where historically marginalized communities are empowered to become partners in these conversations.

How do we do this? Our Summer of Science program pairs indigenous students in Mexico with EAAMO researchers to prepare research proposals aimed at using STEM to improve their local communities. The students then present their research as posters in the annual EAAMO conferences and further develop them in our working groups. Our undergraduate outreach through Harvard ReCompute resulted in an EAAMO reading club and EAAMO Communications internships for undergraduates.   

Innovate Infrastructure: To identify systemic gaps between research and deployment of algorithmic policies such as the differences in incentives, funding model, and human capital; and explore creative ways to bridge the gap. 

How do we do this? Our Faculty Network programming focuses on helping junior faculty start, sustain, and be fairly evaluated for interdisciplinary and community-engaged collaborations.  Similarly, our Doctoral Consortium helps guide computational and mathematical PhD students towards engaged, ethical work in non-academic pathways as well as traditional academic tracks. EAAMO Conference Proceedings (in the ACM Digital Library) provide publication opportunities for work that advances our mission that may not otherwise fit in other publication venues.