Benedikt Höltgen
PhD Student (Secondary location)

Benedikt Höltgen is an ELLIS PhD student supervised by Bob Williamson in Tübingen and Nuria Oliver in Alicante. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy as well as a Master’s degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from LMU Munich. He also completed a Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Oxford and then continued to work there with the OATML group as an external collaborator. Ben is broadly interested in topics at the intersection of Machine Learning, Mathematics, and Philosophy. As a starting point for his PhD, he wants to explore foundational questions about Algorithmic Fairness.
Link to ORCID profile:
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0882-9821

Publications in association with ELLIS Alicante
2025
07/17
Vancouver, CA
Vancouver, CA
Doh, M.,
Höltgen, B.,
Riccio, P.,
&
Oliver, N.
(2025).
Position: The Categorization of Race in ML is a Flawed Premise.
ICML'25: International Conference on Machine Learning.
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