Team

Research

Team

Jahna Otterbacher, Coordinator

Open University of Cyprus

Information Retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence

Jahna Otterbacher holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA is an Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences. Jahna also coordinates the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the OUC. In addition, Jahna holds a concurrent appointment as team leader of the Transparency in Algorithms Group at RISE… Read More

Paper by Jahna:

Competent Men and Warm Women: Gender Stereotypes and Backlash in Image Search Results

Styliani Kleanthous, Senior Research Associate

Open University of Cyprus

Human Computer Interaction

Styliani Kleanthous holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, UK. She is a senior research Associate and collaborator at CyCAT and she is co-leading the fAIre – Fairness and Ethics in Human – AI Interaction group at CYENS CoE. Styliani’s main research interests and expertise are concentrated in the area of Human Centered AI. She specializes in exploiting psychological and social… Read More

Paper by Styliani:

Perception of fairness in algorithmic decisions: Future developers’ perspective

Kalia Orphanou, Post-Doc

Open University of Cyprus

Machine Learning

Kalia Orphanou holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cyprus. She is a postdoctoral researcher at CyCAT. After she finished her Ph.D., she has been awarded an ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme, where she was hosted by the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), in the Netherlands, for one year (May 2017 – April 2018). Kalia’s main research interests and expertise are… Read More

Paper by Kalia:

Learning bayesian network structures with GOMEA.

Maria Kasinidou, PhD Candidate

Open University of Cyprus

Human Computer Interaction

Maria received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus in 2018, and her M.Sc. degree in Human-Computer from the University of Bath in 2019. She is currently a researcher at the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the Open University of Cyprus. Her main research interests include User Experience (UX) and Usability. Maria is currently… Read More

Paper by Maria:

I agree with the decision, but they didn’t deserve this: Future Developers’ Perception of Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions

Kyriakos Kyriakou, PhD Candidate

Open University of Cyprus, CYENS CoE

Human-Computer Interaction, Human Agency and Oversight

Kyriakos Kyriakou (BSc & MSc, Computer Science) is a Research Associate at the Fairness and Ethics in AI – Human Interaction Multidisciplinary Research Group (fAIre) (formerly known as Transparency in Algorithms – TAG) of the CYENS Centre of Excellence (formerly known as RISE) in Cyprus. He studied Computer Science at the University of Cyprus, with a specialization in Software… Read More

Paper by Kyriakos:

Fairness in Proprietary Image Tagging Algorithms: A Cross-Platform Audit on People Images