A Slow Algorithm Improves Users’ Assessments of the Algorithm’s Accuracy
Park, J.S., Barber, R., Kirlik, A., Karahalios, K. 2019. A Slow Algorithm Improves Users' Assessments of the Algorithm’s Accuracy. J. ACM 37, 4, Article 111 (August 2019).
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Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2011
- M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2014
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2018-
Work experience
Visiting Director, UIUC Engineering City Scholars Program, Summer 2018
Cofounder and venture partner, Refactor Capital, 2015-present
Data scientist, Chief of Staff, Nuna Health, 2013-2015
Data scientist intern, Andreessen Horowitz, Summer 2013
Data scientist intern, Groupon, Summer 2012
Publications
When the Platform User Fights Back (with Software)
Barber, R., Sundaram, H. (2019, May). When the Platform User Fights Back (with Software). In The Ethical Machine, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School.
Using narratives as a source to automatically learn phenotype models
Agarwal, V., Lependu, P., Podchiyska, T., Barber, R., Boland, M., Hripcsak, G., & Shah, N. (2014). Using narratives as a source to automatically learn phenotype models. In Workshop on Data Mining for Medical Informatics.
Arnold: Declarative Crowd-Machine Data Integration
Jeffery, S. R., Sun, L., DeLand, M., Pendar, N., Barber, R., & Galdi, A. (2013). Arnold: Declarative Crowd-Machine Data Integration. In CIDR.
Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web
Fumarola, F., Weninger, T., Barber, R., Malerba, D., & Han, J. (2011, March). Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web (pp. 35-36). ACM.
Growing parallel paths for entity-page discovery
Weninger, T., Fumarola, F., Lin, C. X., Barber, R., Han, J., & Malerba, D. (2011, March). Growing parallel paths for entity-page discovery. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web (pp. 145-146). ACM.
Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web
Fumarola, F., Weninger, T., Barber, R., Malerba, D., & Han, J. (2011, March). Hylien: A hybrid approach to general list extraction on the web. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web (pp. 35-36). ACM.
Co-author relationship prediction in heterogeneous bibliographic networks
Sun, Y., Barber, R., Gupta, M., Aggarwal, C. C., & Han, J. (2011, July). Co-author relationship prediction in heterogeneous bibliographic networks. In Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2011 International Conference on (pp. 121-128). IEEE.