Jennifer Wang

Observing Context Improves Disparity Estimation when Race is Unobserved

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In many domains, it is difficult to obtain the race data that is required to estimate racial disparity. To address this problem, practitioners have adopted the use of proxy methods which predict race using non-protected …

Enabling End Users to Program Robots Using Reinforcement Learning

2025

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful learning technique in robotics, where people can specify rewards that robots learn how to maximize through a process of trialanderror. Despite the numerous advantages of RL to robot programming, …