Dr. Jahna Otterbacher
MRG Leader
Jahna Otterbacher received her doctorate from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA), School of Information. She is currently Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), and Vice Dean of the School of Pure and Applied Sciences. Jahna coordinates the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the OUC, funded by the H2020 Widespread Twinning program. In addition to her post at the OUC, Jahna holds a concurrent appointment as team leader of the Transparency in Algorithms Group at CYENS, a new center of excellence and innovation in Nicosia, Cyprus, in collaboration with two international Advanced Partners, UCL and MPI.
Featured Publications
- Orphanou, K., Otterbacher, J., Kleanthous, S., Batsuren, K., Giunchiglia, F., Bogina, V., Shulner-Tal, A, Hartman, A.. & Kuflik, T. (2021). Mitigating Bias in Algorithmic Systems: A Fish-Eye View of Problems and Solutions Across Domains. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.16953. Accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.
- Otterbacher, J., Bates, J., & Clough, P. (2017, May). Competent men and warm women: Gender stereotypes and backlash in image search results. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 6620-6631).
- Otterbacher, J., Checco, A., Demartini, G., & Clough, P. (2018, June). Investigating user perception of gender bias in image search: the role of sexism. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 933-936).