- FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019
MIT SDSCon, Statistics and Data Science Conference
8:00am – Registration and Breakfast
8:45am – Introductory Remarks
Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Dean of the MIT School of Engineering, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
9:00am – Plenary Talk
Leveraging Data science, Experiments, and Informal Social Networks for the Common Good: The Example of Immunization
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT
10:00am – Break
10:15am – Interfaces and Transitions
- Luck and the Law: Quantifying Chance in Fantasy Sports and Other Contests: Peko Hosoi, Associate Dean of Engineering & Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
- Dynamic Pricing and Matching for Ride-Hailing: Dawn Woodard, Director of Data Science – Maps, UBER & Adjunct Professor, Cornell University
- Improving Subseasonal Forecasting in the Western U.S. with Machine Learning: Lester Mackey, Statistical Machine Learning Researcher, Microsoft Research & Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
11:45am – Poster Session and Lunch
1:00pm – Plenary Talk
Reinforcement Learning
John Tsitsiklis, Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director of Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), MIT
2:00 pm – Break
2:15pm – Social Sciences Session
- Data-driven Policy Analysis for the 21st Century: Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics & Associate Director of IDSS
- The Ethical Algorithm: Aaron Roth, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
- Markets and Mechanisms for Public Decision Making: Ashish Goel, Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, (by courtesy) of Computer Science, Stanford University
3:45pm – Break
4:00pm – MIT Session
- Capacity Lower Bound for the Ising perceptron: Nike Sun, Associate Professor, MIT
- From Profiles to Causal Mechanisms: Design for Inference in biology: Aviv Regev, Professor of Biology, MIT & Core Member, Broad Institute
5:00 pm – Closing Remarks
Devavrat Shah, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director of Statistics and Data Science Center, MIT
5:05pm – Conference ends
