Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics Seminar Series

The Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics hosts four research seminar series each academic year: Department Colloquium, Technology, Operations Management, and Statistics. The current schedule of seminars planned for the academic year is listed below.
 

2022-2023 Academic Year

 

Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars

Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
To be announced 

 
For more information on Colloquium seminars, contact: 
Chelsea Germanese
cgermane@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0484

 

Technology

Spring 2023
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Catherine Tucker (MIT)

February 1, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90 Data Deserts and Black Boxes: The Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Consumer Profiling
John Horton (MIT)

February 15, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90 Advertising as Coordination: Experimental Evidence on Adding Advertising to a Market
Leman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon University)

March 1, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud Detection

Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)

March 29, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90 Communication, Learning, and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis
Alessandro Acquist (Carnegie Mellon University)

April 19, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90 Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation
Hermant Bhargava (UC Davis)

April 26, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90 If It's Enraging, it is Engaging: Infinite Scrolling in Information Platforms
Jason Chan (University of Minnesota)

May 3, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90 TBA

 
For more information on Tech seminars, contact: 
Olivia Harry
okh226@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0810
 

 

Operations Management

Spring 2023
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room

Presentation Title

Jeff Hong (Fudan University)

February 1, 2023

10-11 AM

KMC 3-120

The (Surprising) Rate Optimality of Greedy Algorithms for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection

Yale Herer (Technion)

February 8, 2023

10-11 AM

KMC 2-80

An Asymptotic Perspective on Risk Pooling:
Limitations and Relationship to Transshipments

Jing Dong (Columbia University)

February 15, 2023

10-11 AM

KMC 2-80

Optimal routing under demand surge: the value of future arrival rate information

Bora Keskin (Duke University)

March 1, 2023

10-11 AM

KMC 2-80

Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters

Dennis Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis)

March 22, 2023

10-11 AM

KMC 2-80 Deep Learning Based Causal Inference for Large-Scale Combinatorial Experiments: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Xin Chen (Georgia Tech)

March 29, 2023

10-11 AM

KMC 2-80 Assortment Optimization Under the Multivariate MNL Model & Choice Modeling and Assortment Optimization in the Presence of Context Effects


For more information on OM seminars, contact: 
Emma Philip
ep1976@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0441


 

Statistics

Spring 2023
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Cun-Hui Zhang (Rutgers)

March 24, 2023

11:30 AM–12:45 PM

KMC 4-80 Optimality of Cp in the scaled Lasso path
Markus Pelger (Stanford)

April 28, 2023

11:30 AM–12:45 PM

KMC 4-60 Deep Learning Statistical Arbitrage
Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

May 5, 2023

11:30 AM–12:45 PM

KMC 4-60 Singularity-aware Reinforcement Learning

   
For more information on Stat seminars, contact: 
Johanna Fortescue
jf4559@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0802


For previous seminars, please see the archive pages at left for Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium, Technology, Operations Management, and Statistics.