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Stanford Data Science Initiative Fall 2018 Retreat

Event Details:

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Location

Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University

Emerging Topics in Data Science for Business and Society

The Stanford Data Science Initiative (SDSI) 2018 Fall Retreat explores emerging topics in data science for business and Society. As the state of the art and practice of data science continues to advance at a rapid pace, today’s agenda presents a wide array of innovative technologies such as advanced analytics, security, understanding and preventing bias, and their application to fields ranging from healthcare to how people communicate. Stanford’s talented researchers work at the forefront of data intensive methodologies with a strong interdisciplinary nature. Stanford’s strong presence in many domains encourages the development of new approaches in a number of fields that benefit both academia and industry.

 

Agenda

8:00 am Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am Welcome and Introductions
9:05 am

Vision for Data Science

Headshot of Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec
Associate Professor of Computer Science
SDSI Affiliates Program Co-Director

9:15 am

Consumer Choice in Longitudinal Data: New Methods and Applications

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Susan Athey
The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

9:45 am

Uncovering Security Weaknesses through Internet-Wide Scanning

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Zakir Durumeric
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

10:15 am

Understanding Deep Learning

Tengyu Ma

Tengyu Ma
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

10:45 am Break
11:15 am

Finding and Reducing Human Biases in AI

James Zou
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

11:45 am

Using Past Technologies to Predict Future Communication

Elaine Treharne
Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities

12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Welcome back
1:20 pm

Data Science for Humans and Populations

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Euan Ashley
Professor of Medicine

1:30 pm

Hardware Architectures for Software 2.0

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Kunle Olukotun
Cadence Design Systems Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

2:00 pm

The Artful Design of Technology

Ge Wang

Ge Wang
Associate Professor of Music

2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm

Almond: An Open User-Programmable Virtual Assistant

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Monica Lam
Professor of Computer Science

3:30 pm

Mostly Exploration-Free Algorithms in Personalized Decision-Making

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Mohsen Bayati
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

4:00 pm

The Good, the Bad, and the Challenging of Machine Learning for Networked Systems

Keith Winstein

Keith Winstein
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

4:30 pm Poster Preview Presentations
4:50 pm Closing Comments
4:55 pm Poster Viewing and reception
6:30 pm Adjourn

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