Nil-Jana Akpinar I am a Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) working on Responsible AI. My research interests lie broadly in machine learning in socially consequential domains with a particular focus on algorithmic fairness. My recent research takes a data and problem-centered perspective to study the impact of noise, proxies and dynamics on fairness in machine learning.

Before joining AWS, I received a PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning (2023) from Carnegie Mellon University where I was advised by Alexandra Chouldechova and Zachary Lipton. Prior to that, I graduated with a Master of Science in Mathematics from the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2018. Before that, I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics (2017) and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2015) from the University of Freiburg.



Last updated: January 2024