Toon Calders is professor at the computer science department of the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He is an active researcher in the area of data mining and machine learning.

He is editor of the data mining journal, and has been program chair of a number of data mining and machine learning conferences, including ECML/PKDD 2014 and Discovery Science 2016.

Toon Calders was one of the first researchers to study how to measure and avoid algorithmic bias in machine learning and is one of the editors of the book “Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society – Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases”, published by Springer in 2013.

He is currently leading a group of 6 researchers studying theoretical aspects of fairness in machine learning, as well as looking into practical use cases in collaboration with Flemish tax authorities, public welfare organizations, and an insurance company.