Stanford Data Science Initiative Spring 2017 Workshops
Event Details:
Disruptive Technologies for Finance and Insurance
9:00 am Welcome and introduction, Steve Eglash, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives, Computer Science
9:10 am Keynote: Fintech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Rise of Shadow Bank, Amit Seru, Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business
9:30 am Applied Machine Learning with Domain Knowledge, Stefano Ermon, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
9:50 am From Sensing to Visual Intelligence - Trends and Applications, Silvio Savarese, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research
10:10 am Secure Confidential Transactions on the Blockchain, Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of Stanford Cyber Initiative
10:50 am Digital Health, Euan Ashley, Associate Professor of Medicine, Genetics, and Biomedical Data Science and Director of Stanford Data Science Initiative
11:10 am Panel Discussion: Industry Use Cases, Peter Gunder, Chief Business Development Officer at American Family Insurance David Pinski, Chief Strategist and Head of the Financial Innovation Laboratory at Hitachi Ahmad Wani, CEO and Co-Founder at One Concern
Smart Customer Interactions
1:40 pm Welcome and introduction, Steve Eglash, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives, Computer Science
1:50 pm Interacting via Natural Language Dialog, Dan Jurafsky, Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science
2:10 pm Learning from Natural Language Interactions, Percy Liang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Lead Scientist at Semantic Machines
3:00 pm People-focused Reinforcement Learning, Emma Brunskill, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
3:20 pm Mining Massive and Diverse Datasets for Understanding and Forecasting Customer Needs and Preferences, Jure Leskovec, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Chief Scientist at Pinterest
3:40 pm MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data, Peter Bailis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
4:00 pm Panel Discussion: Industry Use Cases Jeff Hancock, Professor of Communication and Director of Center for Computational Social Science Frank Meerkamp, Managing Director for Artificial Intelligence at Accenture Mike Schulman, Engineering Director and Lead of Customer Engagement at Google