Accepted Papers

ACM EAAMO'26 received a large number of submissions, of which 70 were accepted for presentation at the conference. Congratulations to all authors!

Oral Presentations #

Actionable Insights from Observational Data: The Case of Advanced Classes in K-12 Education #

Nabit Bajwa, Sanmay Das, Seth B Hunter

Admission Policies with Exam Retakes: Efficiency–Equity Trade-offs in Multidimensional Scoring #

Ignacio Rios, Rahul Sharma

AI Use in Graduate Applications is Common but Penalized #

Calvin Isley, Johann Demetrio Gaebler, Sharad Goel

Balancing welfare and distributional goals in school choice #

Irene Lo, Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov, Justin Hadad

Batch-Adaptive Causal Annotations: A Case Study for Street Outreach in Homelessness Services #

Angela Zhou, Ezinne Nwankwo, Lauri Goldkind

Bridging Offline and online Spaces: A Participatory Framework for Detecting Sexual Exploitation #

Anjali Mazumder, Harry Bowles, Yesim Kakalic, Jat Singh, Sarada Mahesh

Causal Feature Learning in the Social Sciences #

Alexander Tolbert, Jingzhou Huang, Jiuyao Lu

Data Exports Unpacked: A User Study on Visualizing Exports under Article 20 GDPR #

Emmanuel Syrmoudis, Jannis Bittlmayer, Jens Grossklags, Maximilian Josef Frank

Educational Sycophancy in Multi-Turn Student Interactions with Large Language Models #

Aleksandra Korolova, Grace Liu

Equity vs. Efficiency in Service Systems with Differentiated Demand #

Hamid Arzani, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi

Escaping the Nash Trap: Structural Estimation and Alignment of Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models #

Jane Yi Jiang, Jiannan Xu, Jiding Zhang, Yongkang Duan

Fair Allocations Under Laminar Matroid Constraints #

Benjamin Cookson, Nisarg Shah

Fairness by Design: Machine Learning and Interpretable Mortgage Lending #

Ali Kakhbod, Sebastian Bell, Abdolreza Nazemi, Nancy E. Wallace

Frugal Medical AI as an Equity Imperative: Rethinking Algorithm Design for Resource-Constrained Healthcare #

Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Mohsin Mahmud Topu

How to Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole: Mapping the Ecosystem of Technologies Facilitating AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images #

Harini Suresh, Michelle L. Ding, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Human Resource Management and AI: Building A Collaborative Contextual Transparency Database #

Ellen Simpson, Mona Sloane, Ryan Ermovick

L2-Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for Measuring LLM Capabilities in Second Language Education #

Ben Knight, Danielle Carvalho, Isaac J Pattis, James Edgell, Martin Ku, Wm. Matthew Kennedy

Measuring the Impact of Urban Cycling Infrastructure with Large Scale E-Bike GPS Data #

Emma Pierson, Gabriel Agostini, Nikhil Garg

Minority Collective Action for User-Side Fairness #

Alexandru Tifrea, Amartya Sanyal, Omri Ben-Dov, Samira Samadi

Mitigating Label Bias with Interpretable Rubric Embeddings #

Calvin Isley, Johann Demetrio Gaebler, Sharad Goel

Navigating Divides: The Effects of Segregation and Inequality on Door-to-Door Tenant Outreach #

Alex DiChristofano, Patrick J. Fowler, Sanmay Das

Pareto-Efficient Multi-Buyer Mechanisms: Characterization, Fairness and Welfare #

Yiding Feng, Zhaohua Chen, Sijin Chen

Remediation Algorithms for Input Error in Deferred Acceptance School Matchings #

Cory Margarucci, Amélie Marian

Scaling EV Access Through Responsible Enforcement in Asset-Backed Lending #

Leann Thayaparan, Neha Sharma, Vikas Deep

Screening for Usage #

Justin Hadad

Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care #

Ludwig Dierks, M. Utku Unver, Sven Seuken, Nils Olberg, Vincent W. Slaugh

Stochastic wage suppression on gig platforms and how to organize against it #

Ana-Andreea Stoica, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Moritz Hardt

Two-Sided Prioritized Ranking: A Coherency-Preserving Design for Marketplace Experiments #

Mahyar Habibi, Negar Ziaeian Ghasemzadeh, Zahra Khanalizadeh

Verifying Alignment Constraints Under Finite-Sample Uncertainty with Inferred Data #

Blossom Metevier, Bohdan Turbal, Max Springer

When Family Incentives Meet Caseworker Scarcity: Improving Adoption Outcomes for Children with Disabilities #

Ludwig Dierks, M. Utku Unver, Vincent Slaugh

When Redrawing Lines Isn’t Enough: Algorithmic Redistricting and Emergent Segregation in an Urban School-Choice Network #

Zixuan Zhou

Who Gets Heeded? An Obligation-Level Audit of Responsiveness in EPA Rulemaking #

Jianing Fan, Yue Yao

Why Students Reject AI for Human Counselors in College Applications: A Field Experiment #

Faidra Monachou, Hemanshu Das, Sofoklis Goulas

With a Little Help From My Friends: Collective Manipulation in Risk-Controlling Recommender Systems #

Bruno Lepri, Cristian Consonni, Emilia Gomez, Erasmo Purificato, Giovanni De Toni

Poster Presentations #

AISPA: System Prompt Auditing for Large Language Model Applications #

Alex Pentland, Baolong Bi, Chengxuan Qian, Dazza Greenwood, Dingcheng Wang, Erik Brynjolfsson, Haoqian Zhang, Jiaxin Liu, Jiaxin Pei, Juncheng Wu, Rishi Bommasani, Robert Mahari, Samuele Marro, Shenzhe Zhu, Shu Yang, Sophia Kazinnik, Tianwei Wang, Tobin South, Xiangning Lin, Yipeng Zhao, Yuan Si, Zexue He, Zhenlong Yuan, Zhenyu Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Andreas Haupt

An Accounting Identity for Algorithmic Fairness #

Hadi Elzayn, Jacob Goldin

Audited Auctions: Reducing Harms in Advertising #

Francisco Javier Marmolejo-Cossío, Marshall Van Alstyne, Tejovan Janaka Russell Parker, Gabriel McDonnell Maayan

Building Equitable Research Ecosystems with Indigenous Communities in the Global South: Lessons from the Summer of Science Program #

Francisco Javier Marmolejo-Cossío, Michelle González Amador, Ruben Martinez-Cardenas, Tilsa Ore Monago, Rosalba Medina Rivera

Can Price Discrimination be Progressive? #

Max Biggs, Michael L Hamilton, Titing Cui, Enfeng Xing

Decision-Time Administrative Reason-Giving for U.S. Municipal AI: The Urban Reasonableness Layer #

Rashid Mushkani

Designing AI from the Margins: The TAIME Framework for Advancing Meaningful Engagement in Participatory AI with Affected Communities #

Anjali Mazumder, Emma Marlene Kallina, Yesim Kakalic, Zoe Kahn, Jat Singh

Detecting Decision and Reasoning Shifts in LLM Policy Judgments via Activation Steering #

Sandra Zelen, Viveka Saraiya

Distinguishing Biases from Personal Preferences: An Honest Machine Learning Approach #

Mahyar Habibi, Negar Ziaeian Ghasemzadeh, Zahra Khanalizadeh

Do Fair Models Reason Fairly? Counterfactual Explanation Consistency for Procedural Fairness in Credit Decisions #

John Sheppard

Due Process on Hold: A Queueing Framework for Improving Access in SNAP #

Andrew Daw, Angela Zhou, Chloe Pache

Fair Allocation with Initial Utilities #

Luca Kreisel, Niclas Boehmer

Fairness Beyond Populations: Subgroup-Specific Causal Diagnosis for Algorithmic Decision Auditing #

Klaus Mueller, Yanming Zhang

Fairness Detectability: Evaluating Explanations on the Recovery of Fairness-Relevant Causal Effects #

Anna-Alina Bondarets, Joshua R. Loftus, Kateryna Koval, Sakina Hansen

Fairness Is Not Universal: Towards Contextualized and Autonomous Fairness in Federated Learning #

Naman Goel

Fairness vs Performance: Characterizing the Pareto Frontier of Algorithmic Decision Systems #

Christoph Heitz, Mieke Wilms

Fixed Points and Stochastic Meritocracies: A Long-Term Perspective #

Diptangshu Sen, Gaurab Pokharel, Juba Ziani, Sanmay Das

From Findability to Accountability: Metadataveillance and the Case for Justice-Informed Data Catalogues #

Anjali Mazumder, Harry Bowles, Jat Singh

How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement and Accountability Attribution in AI Hiring Applications #

Gauri Sharma, Maryam Molamohammadi

Informal and Privatized Transit: Incentives, Efficiency and Coordination #

Devansh Jalota, Matthew Tsao

Learning About (Widely) Influential Technologies #

Jamil Civitarese

Learning Optimal Suggested Donation Menus with (Misspecified) Linear Bandits #

MUZHI MA, Scott Rodilitz

Multi-Representation Ensemble Outlier Detection for Computational Redistricting #

Neil Dixit

Multimodal Poverty Mapping and Geographic Transfer Allocation #

Andrew H. Kim, Arunesh Sinha, Krittika Garg, Saeed Ghadimi, Tawfiq Ammari, Vatsal Shah, Woojin Jung, Quentin Stoeffler

Optimizing for Fairness in Generalized Kidney Exchange: Theory and Computations #

Arin Khare, Claire S. Chang, David Shmoys

Quantifying Diversity of Educational Evaluation Using Relative Student Performance #

Brian Brubach, Karen Xiao

Reassessing the Role of Standardized Tests in University Admissions #

Calvin Isley, Johann Demetrio Gaebler, Sharad Goel, Christopher Avery

Strategic Opacity as Regulatory Evasion: Accountability under Manipulable Observability #

Brittany I. Davidson, Florian A.D. Burnat

Synthetic Speech Should Not Count as ASR Fairness Evidence Without Worst-Group Validation #

Jay L. Cunningham, Shreyas Sridhar Vasisht

The Costs of Pretending That There Are Data-Generating Probability Distributions in the Social World #

Benedikt Höltgen, Robert Williamson

The Forest from the Trees: Lessons on Public-Sector Deployment from an Academic Collaboration with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation #

Erica Chiang, Gabriel Agostini, Nikhil Garg, Zhi Liu, Katelyn Liu, Anum Ahmad

Tools and Methods for the Inclusive Co-Design of AI Technologies: A Systematic Scoping Review #

Courtney Ford, Emma Marlene Kallina, Kevin Doherty, Marie E. Ward, Rob Brennan, Sajjad Karimian

Toward Permanence: Sustainability Contract Design for Smallholder Agriculture #

Yanchong Karen Zheng, Yuan Shi, Joann de Zegher

“Verifemmication”: An evaluative framework for gender-sensitive risk assessment under the AI Act standardisation process #

Anastasia Karagianni, Carlos Sáez

WeDesign+: Deliberative Visual AI for Public Space Planning #

Hugo Berard, Shin Koseki, Rashid Mushkani

“Whose Voice Is It, Anyway?” Towards a Feminist Critical Disability Studies Approach to ‘Making People Up’ with GenAI #

Aisha Sobey