Doris Allhutter

Doris Allhutter holds a PhD in Political Science and is a senior scientist at the ITA. Her research focuses on how social inequality and ideologies of human difference co-emerge with sociotechnical systems. She studies the implicit normativity of computing practices in machine learning and AI under the lens of how these practices are entrenched in power relations. Recent publications include Algorithmic Profiling of Job Seekers in Austria: How Austerity Politics Are Made Effective in Frontiers in Big Data, and Of ‘Working Ontologists’ and ‘High-quality Human Components’. The Politics of Semantic Infrastructures in DigitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies.

Martijn Wijnhoven and Maurice Guiaux

Martijn Wijnhoven and Maurice Guiaux are senior researchers at the Research and Development Department at UWV. They are involved in the development of the Work Profiler (Werkverkenner) which is a questionnaire based on predictive factors for calculating the probability of finding employment within 12 months.

Pieter Delobelle

Pieter Delobelle obtained a Master’s in Engineering Technology from KU Leuven in 2018 at the Ghent Technology Campus, Belgium. Subsequently, he obtained an Advanced Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven, and he stayed on for a Ph.D. in Computer Science under Professor Bettina Berendt and Professor Luc De Raedt, which he started in 2019. His current research focuses on bias and fairness in large language models, which he applies in a use-case with VDAB, the Flemish unemployment office. 

Dianne Schwartz

Dianne Schwartz is a registered clinical counsellor in the province of British Columbia specializing in Career and Employment Counselling, with extensive experience providing career and employment counselling in both the private and public sectors, including universities, colleges, government agencies and through private practice both locally and internationally.

Nina Spurny

Nina Spurny studied Media Management and, after a few years in academic Public Relations, joined epicenter.works, where she helps give the association’s important digital justice concerns the stage they deserve. Epicenter.works is an Austrian civil rights organisation that sets its core research foci on data protection, surveillance, net neutrality and internet politics.

Basanta Thapa

Basanta Thapa is social scientists focussing on the nexus between public administration and digitalization and a PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam. He works at ÖFIT, a think tank for public IT at Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Anne Kaun

Anne Kaun is a professor in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interests include media theory, mediated temporalities, algorithmic culture, automation and artificial intelligence from a humanistic social science perspective. She is currently studying the automation of welfare in the Baltic Sea region from a comparative perspective. Additionally, she is working on a book on Prison Media under contract with MIT Press.