The American court system is plagued with persistent problems in the pretrial scheduling process. One of her five defendants does not appear, costing justice enormously and harming defendants. People facing financial insecurity, caregiving responsibilities and transportation restrictions are particularly at risk.
William Yeo, associate professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University’s McElvey Institute of Technology in St. Louis, and collaborators at New York’s Syracuse University, are working with the National Science Institute to make the pretrial schedule fairer and fairer. Received a grant of $600,000 from the foundation. Fairer with the help of artificial intelligence.
By integrating machine learning and optimization techniques, the team aims to increase fairness and provide meaningful explanations for scheduling decisions, thereby mitigating the negative effects of current systems.
