Personal website for Clara Belitz, PhD student in Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Here you can find links to my past and ongoing research projects, as well as PDFs of published work.
Constructing categories: Moving beyond protected classes in algorithmic fairness C. Belitz, J. Ocumpaugh, S. Ritter, R. S. Baker, S. E. Fancsali, N. Bosch. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(6), 663-668 DOI
Hierarchical dependencies in classroom settings influence algorithmic bias metrics C. Belitz, H. Lee, N. Nasiar, S. E. Fancsali, S. Ritter, H. Almoubayyed, R. S. Baker, J. Ocumpaugh, N. Bosch Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK ‘24), pp 210–218. DOI
Synthetic dataset generation for fairer unfairness research L. Jiang, C. Belitz, N. Bosch Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK ‘24), pp 200–209. DOI
Bridging Informational Divides: A Community-Centered Analysis of “Public Safety” Surveillance Technology G. Balasubramaniam*, C. Belitz*, A.S. Chan (*indicates equal contributions) Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘24), Article No.: 550. DOI
Automating procedurally fair feature selection in machine learning C. Belitz, L. Jiang, N. Bosch. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ‘21), pp. 379-389. DOI
Resisting data colonialism and digital surveillance in a midwestern classroom: Exploring community-driven alternatives to Automated License Plate Readers. C. Yang, G. Balasubramaniam, C. Belitz, and A.S. Chan. In Resisting Data Colonialism: A Practical Intervention. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 81–86.