Anna-Lena Theus

My PhD research focuses on societal implications of emerging technologies with an emphasis on ethical system and technology design. I have experience working on topics related to algorithmic harm, smart city technologies, and digital twins. The overarching goal of my work is to bring the social sciences and computer science closer together. Most recently, I’ve analyzed the potential of algorithmic culture scholarship to prevent instances of algorithmically induced harm. This work resulted in a peer-reviewed paper publication at the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning Systems (FAccT). The paper introduces a compendium of theoretical and practical measures for more equitable and just algorithmic system design. Link to paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593013.3594022