A team of computer scientists at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is working with researchers from the Brown School and the School of Law to develop a framework for algorithms that can make decisions with fair outcomes. The game theory-based framework, to be called FairGame, will include an auditor that can determine potential fairness violations.
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, associate professor of computer science and engineering, is principal investigator on the project, which received a three-year $444,145 grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more on the engineering site.