intersynth Lab
Publications

Selected publications.

Papers, chapters, and preprints from members of the lab.

2026

2026
chapter

Zero-Shot Generation of Synthetic Historical Data with LLMs

Vera Danilova, Julia Reed, Andrew Burchell, Gijs Aangenendt, Ylva Söderfeldt

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?: Potentials for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Transcript Verlag

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2026
conference

StreamFair: Online Fair Adaptation Under Temporal Intersectional Drift

Md Fahim Sikder, Ericka Johnson, Fredrik Heintz

AITC 2026

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2026
thesis

Life and AI at NASA: An Ethnography of How Scientists and Engineers Make Tools to Explore Other Worlds

Alicja Ostrowska

Chalmers University of Technology

DOI 10.63959/chalmers.dt/5814 .bib

2025

2025
workshop

The Qualities of Quantities: Making Situated Chains of Representation

Francis Lee, Ericka Johnson

Workshop on Synthetic Data: Representation and/vs Representativeness, Aarhus 2025

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2025
conference

Promoting Intersectional Fairness Through Knowledge Distillation

Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz

ECAI 2025

DOI 10.3233/FAIA251214 .bib
2025
journal

TransFusion: Generating Long, High Fidelity Time Series using Diffusion Models with Transformers

Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Fredrik Heintz

Machine Learning with Applications

DOI 10.1016/j.mlwa.2025.100652 .bib
2025
journal

"This ground truth is muddy anyway": Ground truth data assemblages for medical AI development

Charlotte Högberg

Sociologisk Forskning

DOI 10.37062/sf.62.27826 .bib
2025
conference

Synthetic Data: Representation and/vs Representativeness

H Devinney, Katherine Harrison, Vagrant Gautam, Irina Alex Shklovski

Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis

DOI 10.1145/3737609.3747095 .bib
2025
journal

The ontological politics of synthetic data: Normalities, outliers, and intersectional hallucinations

Francis Lee, Saghi Hajisharif, Ericka Johnson

Big Data & Society

DOI 10.1177/20539517251318289 .bib
2025
thesis

Making Sense of Medical AI: AI Transparency and the Configuration of Expertise

Charlotte Högberg

Lund University

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2025
thesis

Data Made School: Unpacking How Digital Data Flows Shape Schooling

Svea Kiesewetter

University of Gothenburg

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2024

2024
journal

Bt-GAN: Generating Fair Synthetic Healthdata via Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks

Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, David Bergström, Fredrik Heintz

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

DOI 10.1613/jair.1.15317 .bib
2024
preprint

Fair4Free: Generating High-fidelity Fair Synthetic Samples using Data Free Distillation

Md Fahim Sikder, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz

arXiv

arXiv 2410.01423 .bib
2024
preprint

Generating Synthetic Fair Syntax-agnostic Data by Learning and Distilling Fair Representation

Md Fahim Sikder, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Daniel de Leng, Fredrik Heintz

arXiv

arXiv 2408.10755 .bib
2024
journal

The Problems of LLM-generated Data in Social Science Research

Luca Rossi, Katherine Harrison, Irina Alex Shklovski

Sociologica – International Journal for Sociological Debate

DOI 10.6092/issn.1971-8853/19576 .bib

2023

2023
conference

Fair Latent Deep Generative Models (FLDGMs) for Syntax-Agnostic and Fair Synthetic Data Generation

Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, Fredrik Heintz

ECAI 2023

DOI 10.3233/FAIA230484 .bib