Prof. Dr. Christoph Kern
Office address:
Ludwigstr. 33
80539 Munich
Short Description
Christoph Kern is Junior Professor of Social Data Science and Statistical Learning at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and Project Director at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He received his PhD in social science (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2016. Before joining LMU Munich, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Professorship for Statistics and Methodology at the University of Mannheim and Research Assistant Professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland. His work focuses on the reliable use of machine learning methods and new data sources in social science, survey research, and algorithmic fairness.
Projects
- Annotated Data Quality
- CAIUS: Consequences of AI for Urban Societies
- Fair Machine Learning and Data Analysis: A Foundational Framework
- FairADM: Fairness and Discrimination in Automated Decision-Making Processes
- Fairness Aspects of Machine Learning in Official Statistics
- Improving Inference from Non-Random Data for Social Science Research
- Machine Learning Approaches to Latent Variable Modeling
- Machine Learning and Causal Inference for Reliable Decision-Making in High-Stakes Settings
- Prediction-Based Adaptive Designs for Panel Surveys
- Re-Evaluating the Machine Learning Pipeline to Improve Fairness and Reliability
- TAPP: The Transatlantic Privacy Perceptions Panel