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Harvard Senior Tackles Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare

1/25/2025

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Audrey Chang, a Harvard senior, is making waves with her co-founding of the Responsible Computing Collective (ReCompute), a group dedicated to examining technology's effects on society. Her thesis tackles the challenge of overconfidence in machine learning predictions in healthcare, aiming to reduce algorithmic bias and socioeconomic disparities through innovative, collaborative research.

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Audrey Chang, a Harvard senior, is making waves with her co-founding of the Responsible Computing Collective (ReCompute), a group dedicated to examining technology's effects on society. Her thesis tackles the challenge of overconfidence in machine learning predictions in healthcare, aiming to reduce algorithmic bias and socioeconomic disparities through innovative, collaborative research.