Yannis Tevissen

Advocacy

Disability inclusion and accessibility in tech are personal to me, and this page collects the talks, writing, and projects that come out of that. Technical notes, press coverage, and general talks are on Blog & Press.

Talks & panels

Where disability, bias, and representation are the subject rather than a passing mention.

  • OECD — AI and disability

    · Panel on recommendations for inclusive AI development, at the Association APHPP colloquium hosted by the OECD · Video

  • TEDx — Handicap, Société et IA, une histoire de biais

    · TEDxTélécom SudParis · Video

  • Déclics Numérique — Diversidays

    · Workshop on digital inclusion and diversity in tech

  • Témoignage sur mon parcours en école d'ingénieurs

    · Télécom SudParis · Page handicap

Writing

  • Graduate School Decoded: How to Navigate the Ph.D. with a Physical Disability

    · The Ability Toolbox · Article

Projects & datasets

  • DiverseSpectrum

    · Open image dataset addressing the representation gap for minorities in popular AI training data

  • AI for Disability

    Curated Hugging Face collection of datasets, models, spaces, and papers using AI for disability-related tasks

    Hugging Face collection

  • Board member — Universal Wings Mobility

    – present · AVI conversational agent for accessible travel planning

More open data and code, including the SMA research collection, is on the Artifacts section.

Research overlap

The same subject is also a research line. The paper on disability representation in image generation is listed with the publications:

  • Disability Representations: Finding Biases in Automatic Image Generation

    Yannis Tevissen · CVPR 2024 Workshop AVA

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