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Peer review is the backbone of scholarly research. It is however faced with a number of challenges (or “demons”) such as subjectivity, bias\/mis-calibration, noise, and strategic behavior, which cause unfairness in the process. This talk will present principled and practical approaches to battle these demons in peer review:<\/p>\n

(1) Subjectivity: How to ensure that all papers are judged by the same yardstick?<\/p>\n

(2) Mis-calibration: How to use ratings in presence of arbitrary or adversarial mis-calibration?<\/p>\n

(3) Noise: How to assign reviewers to papers to simultaneously ensure fair and accurate evaluations in the presence of review noise?<\/p>\n

(4) Strategic behavior: How to insulate peer review from strategic behavior of author-reviewers?<\/p>\n

(5) Bias: How to rigorously test for existence of (gender\/fame\/race\/…) biases in single-blind peer review?<\/p>\n

The work uses tools from statistics and learning theory, social choice theory, information theory, game theory and decision theory. No prior knowledge on these topics will be assumed.<\/p>\n

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