Dr. Merrick Osborne

Racial Equity Postdoctoral Scholar, Berkeley Haas

More about Merrick Osborne’s Research

Merrick Osborne is the Inaugural Racial Equity Postdoctoral Scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research advances our understanding of how inequality is unintentionally perpetuated in organizations and develops prescriptions for how to create a more equitable workplace.

He received his PhD from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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  • April 27 - Saturday


  • 1:45 pm
    Machine learning models have become ubiquitous tools that are central to our everyday life. Their importance cannot be understated: they both inform our decision-making and hint at how those around us think. Yet, these seemingly objective “machines” are more human than they may seem. Their output is frequently impacted by consequential baked-in biases, leading them to produce output that fuels discrimination and inequality by disproportionately favoring some populations over others. In this talk, Dr. Osborne considers how organizations – and the people in them – can unintentionally input bias into these models. He then uses insights from psychology to discuss how they can prevent this from occurring.

    Élida M. Bautista, PhD, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at Berkeley Haas, will introduce this session and share reflections on how Haas has, and continues to, advance its' commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    This session will be recorded. 📹
    Where
    N100, Level 1, Chou Hall




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