Fair Federated AI (FIFAI) Summer School 2024

We are excited to announce the successful conclusion of the “Fair Federated AI” (FIFAI) 2024 Summer School, organized by the RISE MICCAI and coordinated by Dr Charles Delahunt from Global Health Labs. We also thank Charles and Dr Andrea Lara from the University of Galileo for chairing the first two days of FIFAI. The Summer School attracted more than 110 global attendees from #Nepal to #Chile!

Special thanks go to Prof Andrew King for delivering an insightful lecture on “AI and Fairness,” and to Dr Esther Puyol Antón for chairing and co-organizing the event. We also extend our appreciation to Tiarna Lee, Marouène SAIDI, and all the lab leads for their significant contributions to the summer school. If you’re a FIFAI volunteer or lab lead, feel free to acknowledge your efforts with a star (⭐) below—you’ve certainly earned it! ❤️

Big kudos to Michael Alummoottil for organizing the FIFAI Kaggle competition. In this first edition of FIFAI, eight teams competed in a binary classification challenge using federated learning to classify chest X-ray images with imbalanced label distribution. The competition highlighted the important issue of fairness in AI within decentralized data environments.

Congratulations to our 🏆top three winners🏆: 1st place Rahmat Izwan Herozafor, 2nd place Jaeyoung Cho, and 3rd place Prabin Bohara. Their winning solutions are now available on the FIFAI GitHub: https://github.com/RISE-MICCAI/FIFAI-Summer-School-2024 

We would like to thank all the speakers, lab leads, and participants whose efforts made this event a success. As #RISE continues its mission to empower researchers in low- and middle-income countries and beyond, we look forward to advancing the development of fairer AI together.