Amanda Coston
@AmandaCoston
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Assistant professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Statistics
Joined November 2013
Excited to have joined @BerkeleyDataSci and @UCBStatistics as an Assistant Professor!
UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) appointed two new chairs and welcomed seven new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computer sciences, and computational precision health to its community this fall! 🔗
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RT @UCBStatistics: Assistant Professor @JacobSteinhardt and incoming Assistant Professor @AmandaCoston have been named Schmidt Sciences’…
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Thank you Schmidt Sciences for the support! Such an honor to be in this incredible cohort of researchers. Excited to work towards ensuring AI functions as intended in real-world settings. @UCBStatistics @BerkeleyDataSci
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RT @bbiinnyyuu: My co-author @rlbarter and I are thrilled to announce the online release of our MIT Press book "Veridical Data Science: The…
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Huge congrats to lead author @lukeguerdan and team on FAccT best paper award for our work on measurement error & counterfactuals. Our counterfactual prediction method addresses measurement error, treatment effects, and selection bias. @d19fe8 @zstevenwu
“Counterfactual Prediction Under Outcome Measurement Error” by Luke Guerdan, Amanda Coston, Kenneth Holstein and Zhiwei Steven Wu
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RT @anna_kawakami: Thanks for celebrating this work in the SaTML community! Congrats to the amazing @AmandaCoston who led this research & t…
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Excited to present my poster on validity as a lens for evaluating justifiability of decision making algorithms at EAAMO! #eaamo2022
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Excited for @mmeyer717’s talk at #FAccT2022 on flipping the script on criminal risk assessments!
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Excited to propose my PhD thesis on Principled ML for high-stakes decisions tomorrow! Come check it out!
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Credit to my incredibly supportive and brilliant advisors @edwardhkennedy and @achould for their invaluable mentorship & encouragement!
Huge congrats to @AmandaCoston on her @Meta PhD research fellowship! Amanda's a joint student @mldcmu & @HeinzCollege @CarnegieMellon doing amazing work on fairness in ML, causal inference & more Check out her papers & more here:
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Grateful to be awarded the @MetaAI Research PhD fellowship! Thanks Meta Research for supporting my work on Causal Inference + Fairness + ML!
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WSJ article covered our research on demographic bias in mobility data used for COVID-19 policy-making:
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Check out my blog post on making counterfactual predictions under runtime confounding with @edwardhkennedy and @achould!
Can we make counterfactual predictions using only a subset of the confounding factors that affect both decisions and outcomes? Check out this new post by @AmandaCoston for a provably efficient method for doing so! Post: Paper:
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RT @mlcmublog: Can we make counterfactual predictions using only a subset of the confounding factors that affect both decisions and outcome…
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It is outrageous that peaceful transition is even a question. And even more outrageous that the response of the President of the USA is to "get rid of the ballots" so "there won't be a transfer frankly--there will be a continuation". #getridoftheballots #GetRidOfTrump
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RT @anjalie_f: Dear advisors, please send your students a giant box of snacks, because my advisor did this and it’s the best thing ever htt…
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