Falaah is a Data Science PhD student working with Prof Julia Stoyanovich on the ‘fairness’ and ’stability’ of algorithmic systems. An engineer by training and an artist by nature, Falaah also creates scientific comic books to bridge together scholarship from different disciplines, and to disseminate the nuances of her research in a way that is more accessible to the general public. Falaah holds an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, with a minor in Mathematics from Shiv Nadar University, India, and has industry experience in building machine learning models for access management and security at Dell EMC.
Selected publications
Responsible Model Selection with Virny and VirnyView
Denys Herasymuk, Falaah Arif Khan, and Julia Stoyanovich
In Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD/PODS, Santiago, Chile 2024
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/HerasymukKS24,author={Herasymuk, Denys and Khan, Falaah Arif and Stoyanovich, Julia},editor={Barcel{\'{o}}, Pablo and Pi, Nayat S{\'{a}}nchez and Meliou, Alexandra and Sudarshan, S.},title={Responsible Model Selection with Virny and VirnyView},booktitle={Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data,
{SIGMOD/PODS}, Santiago, Chile},pages={488--491},publisher={{ACM}},year={2024},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3626246.3654738},doi={10.1145/3626246.3654738},keywords={data,conference,demo,RAIforUkraine},author+an={1=self;2=self;3=self}}
Subset Modelling: A Domain Partitioning Strategy for Data-efficient Machine-Learning
Vı́tor Ribeiro, Eduardo H. M. Pena, Raphael Freitas Saldanha, Reza Akbarinia, Patrick Valduriez, Falaah Arif Khan, Julia Stoyanovich, and Fábio Porto
In Proceedings of the 38th Brazilian Symposium on Databases, SBBD 2023, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, September 25-29, 2023 2023
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sbbd/RibeiroPSAVKS023,author={Ribeiro, V{\'{\i}}tor and Pena, Eduardo H. M. and de Freitas Saldanha, Raphael and Akbarinia, Reza and Valduriez, Patrick and {Arif Khan}, Falaah and Stoyanovich, Julia and Porto, F{\'{a}}bio},title={Subset Modelling: {A} Domain Partitioning Strategy for Data-efficient
Machine-Learning},booktitle={Proceedings of the 38th Brazilian Symposium on Databases, {SBBD} 2023,
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, September 25-29, 2023},pages={318--323},publisher={{SBC}},year={2023},timestamp={Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:14:33 +0200},biburl={https://dblp.org/rec/conf/sbbd/RibeiroPSAVKS023.bib},bibsource={dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},keywords={conference,data},}
Automated Data Cleaning Can Hurt Fairness in Machine Learning-based Decision Making
Shubha Guha, Falaah Arif Khan, Julia Stoyanovich, and Sebastian Schelter
In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2023
@inproceedings{guha_23,author={Guha, Shubha and Khan, Falaah Arif and Stoyanovich, Julia and Schelter, Sebastian},year={2023},title={Automated Data Cleaning Can Hurt Fairness in Machine Learning-based Decision Making},keywords={conference,data,fair},booktitle={Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Data Engineering, {ICDE}},}
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Privilege: Revisiting Bias-Variance Trade-Offs in the Context of Fair Prediction
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2302-08704,author={Khan, Falaah Arif and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={The Unbearable Weight of Massive Privilege: Revisiting Bias-Variance
Trade-Offs in the Context of Fair Prediction},journal={CoRR},volume={abs/2302.08704},year={2023},doi={10.48550/arXiv.2302.08704},eprinttype={arXiv},eprint={2302.08704},keywords={working,fairness,stability},}
An Interactive Introduction to Causal Inference
Lucius E.J. Bynum, Falaah Arif Khan, Oleksandra Konopatska, Joshua R. Loftus, and Julia Stoyanovich
VISxAI: Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability 2022
@article{bynum2022interactive,author={Bynum, Lucius E.J. and Khan, Falaah Arif and Konopatska, Oleksandra and Loftus, Joshua R. and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={An Interactive Introduction to Causal Inference},journal={VISxAI: Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability},year={2022},site={https://r-ai.co/ci-playground},publisher={IEEE},keywords={workshop,education,playground,RAIforUkraine},}
Translational Tutorial: Fairness and Friends
Falaah Arif Khan, Eleni Manis, and Julia Stoyanovich
In 4th Annual Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM FAccT 2021
All Aboard! Making AI Education Accessible
Falaah Arif Khan, Lucius Bynum, Amy Hurst, Lucas Rosenblatt, Meghana Shanbhogue, Mona Sloane, and Julia Stoyanovich
Center for Responsible AI, New York University 2023
@article{AllAboard,author={{Arif Khan}, Falaah and Bynum, Lucius and Hurst, Amy and Rosenblatt, Lucas and Shanbhogue, Meghana and Sloane, Mona and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={{All Aboard! Making AI Education Accessible}},journal={Center for Responsible AI, New York University},keywords={panel,education,weareai},year={2023},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol1,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={What is AI?},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={1},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,english},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol1_sp,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={What is AI? (Spanish Edition)},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={1},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,spanish},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol1_gr,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={What is AI? (Greek Edition)},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={1},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,other},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol2,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={Learning from data},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={2},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,english},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol2_sp,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={Learning from data (Spanish Edition)},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={2},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,spanish},}
Who lives, who dies, who decides?
Julia Stoyanovich, Mona Sloane, and Falaah Arif Khan
@article{weareaicomic_vol3,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Sloane, Mona and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={Who lives, who dies, who decides?},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={3},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,english},}
Who lives, who dies, who decides? (Spanish Edition)
Julia Stoyanovich, Mona Sloane, and Falaah Arif Khan
@article{weareaicomic_vol3_sp,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Sloane, Mona and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={Who lives, who dies, who decides? (Spanish Edition)},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={3},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,spanish},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol4,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={All about that bias},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={4},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,english}}
@article{weareaicomic_vol4_sp,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={All about that bias (Spanish Edition},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={4},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,spanish}}
@article{weareaicomic_vol5,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={We are AI},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={5},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,english},}
@article{weareaicomic_vol5_sp,author={Stoyanovich, Julia and Khan, Falaah Arif},title={We are AI},journal={We are AI Comic Series},volume={5},year={2021},keywords={public,education,comics,english},}
@article{rdscomic_vol1,author={Khan, Falaah Arif and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={Mirror, Mirror},journal={Data, Responsibly Comic Series},volume={1},year={2020},keywords={public,edu,comics,english},}
@article{rdscomic_Vol2,author={Khan, Falaah Arif and Manis, Eleni and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={Fairness and Friends},journal={Data, Responsibly Comic Series},volume={2},year={2021},keywords={public,edu,comics,english},}
Towards Substantive Conceptions of Algorithmic Fairness: Normative Guidance from Equal Opportunity Doctrines
Falaah Arif Khan, Eleni Manis, and Julia Stoyanovich
In Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, EAAMO 2022, Arlington, VA, USA, October 6-9, 2022 2022
@article{hiringaudit_journal,author={Rhea, Alene K. and Markey, Kelsey and D'Arinzo, Lauren and Schellmann, Hilke and Sloane, Mona and Squires, Paul and {Arif Khan}, Falaah and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={An External Stability Audit Framework to Test the Validity of Personality Prediction in AI Hiring},year={2022},journal={Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Special Issue on Bias and Fairness in AI},keywords={journal,stab,audit,hiring},}
Towards Substantive Conceptions of Algorithmic Fairness: Normative Guidance from Equal Opportunity Doctrines
Falaah Arif Khan, Eleni Manis, and Julia Stoyanovich
In Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, EAAMO 2022, Arlington, VA, USA, October 6-9, 2022 2022
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/eaamo/ArifKhanMS22,author={{Arif Khan}, Falaah and Manis, Eleni and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={Towards Substantive Conceptions of Algorithmic Fairness: Normative
Guidance from Equal Opportunity Doctrines},booktitle={Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, {EAAMO}
2022, Arlington, VA, USA, October 6-9, 2022},pages={18:1--18:10},publisher={{ACM}},year={2022},url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3551624.3555303},doi={10.1145/3551624.3555303},keywords={conference, fairness},}
On Fairness and Stability: Is Estimator Variance a Friend or a Foe?
Falaah Arif Khan, Denys Herasymuk, and Julia Stoyanovich
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2302-04525,author={Khan, Falaah Arif and Herasymuk, Denys and Stoyanovich, Julia},title={On Fairness and Stability: Is Estimator Variance a Friend or a Foe?},journal={CoRR},volume={abs/2302.04525},year={2023},doi={10.48550/arXiv.2302.04525},eprinttype={arXiv},eprint={2302.04525},keywords={working,fairness,stability,RAIforUkraine},}