People

Deborah D. Kanubala

​Saarland Informatics Campus
Building E1.1, Room 2.21

My personal website
doka00004@stud.uni-saarland.de

About me

Hello, I am Deborah D. Kanubala, a Ph.D. student focused on Developing Fair Machine Learning Models under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabel Valera. My research interests includes fairness, causality, and interpretability.

I am a co-organizer of WiMLDS Accra-Ghana and also contribute to the organisation of the Deep Learning Indaba.

For more details, visit my website: https://kanubalad.github.io/

Publications

2025

Majumdar, Ayan; Kanubala, Deborah Dormah; Gupta, Kavya; Valera, Isabel

A Causal Framework to Measure and Mitigate Non-binary Treatment Discrimination Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2503.22454, 2025.

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Azime, Israel Abebe; Kanubala, Deborah Dormah; Afonja, Tejumade; Fritz, Mario; Valera, Isabel; Klakow, Dietrich; Slusallek, Philipp

Accept or Deny? Evaluating LLM Fairness and Performance in Loan Approval across Table-to-Text Serialization Approaches Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2508.21512, 2025.

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Kanubala, Deborah Dormah; Valera, Isabel

On the Misalignment Between Legal Notions and Statistical Metrics of Intersectional Fairness Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2025.

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2024

Kanubala, Deborah Dormah; Valera, Isabel; Gupta, Kavya

Fairness Beyond Binary Decisions: a Case Study on German Credit Proceedings Article

In: Cerrato, Mattia; Coronel, Alesia Vallenas; Ahrweiler, Petra; Loi, Michele; Pechenizkiy, Mykola; Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia (Ed.): Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, Mainz, Germany, July 1st to 3rd, 2024, CEUR-WS.org, 2024.

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2023

Gadosey, Pius; Kanubala, Deborah; Sonna, Belona

AI Ethics Education for Future African Leaders Book Chapter

In: pp. 87-101, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-031-23034-9.

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2021

Amegadzie, Julius; Kanubala, Deborah; Cobbina, K. A.; Acquaye, Christabel

State and Future Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Ghana Proceedings Article

In: pp. 1-10, 2021.

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