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.
 

2024-2025 Academic Year

 

Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars

Spring 2025
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Jon Kleinberg
(Cornell University)

February 11

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 2-70Language Generation in the Limit
Milind Tambe
(Harvard University)

February 24

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90AI for Social Impact: Deployed Resource Optimization and Future Acceleration with Foundation Models
Elynn Chen
(TOPS Internal)

February 14

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90TBA
Daniel Guetta
(Columbia)

February 22

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 3-90TBA
João Sedoc
(TOPS Internal)

February 28

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90TBA

Coordinators: Jackie Baek, Yaqi Duan, & Junpei Komiyama

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

 

Technology

Spring 2025
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Dokyun Lee
(Boston University)		February 21st
12:30pm		KMC 3-90Take Caution in Using LLMs as Human Surrogates: Scylla Ex Machina
Yash Kanoria
(Columbia University)		February 26th
12:30pm		KMC 4-90Design and Impact of Recommendation Systems
Gordon Burtch
(Boston University)		March 5th
12:30pm		KMC 4-90Gender Bias and Property Taxes
Yannai A. Gonczarowski
(Harvard University)		March 12th 
12:30pm		KMC 4-90Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Jessica Clark
(University of Maryland)		March 19th
12:30pm		KMC 4-90Labeling in their shoes: Improving Text Annotation with Empathy Priming
Danielle Li
(MIT)		April 30th
12:30pm		KMC 4-90TBA

Coordinators: João Sedoc & Junpei Komiyama

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

 

Operations Management

Spring 2025
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Galit Yom-Tov
(Technion)		February 12th, 1:15 PMKMC 4-90Operationalizing Emotional Load: The Human Side of Queueing Systems
Beril Toktay
(Georgia Tech)		February 19th, 1:15 PMKMC 4-90Circular Economy Strategies
Ashwin Venkataraman
(University of Texas)		March 19th, 1:15 PMKMC 3-80Leveraging Assortment Similarities for Data-driven Demand Prediction
Kimon Drakopoulos
(USC Marshall)		 April 2nd, 1:15 PMKMC 4-90Blockchain Mediated Persuasion
Serguei Netessine
(University of Pennsylvania)		April 23rd, 1:15 PMKMC 4-90TBA
Auyon Siddiq
(UCLA)		April 30th, 1:15 PMKMC 3-80TBA

Coordinator: Divya Singhvi

For more information on OM seminars, contact: 
Emily DeVito
efd7170@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0441


 

Statistics

Spring 2025
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation Title
Dacheng Xiu
(Chicago Booth)		February 28
11:00 AM–12:15 PM		KMC 3-80Can Machines Learn Weak Signals?
Zhiliang Ying
(Columbia)		March 7
11:30 AM–12:45 PM		KMC 3-80Recent developments in IRT and related latent variable models: from classical theory to modern applications
Edsel Peña
(U. of South Carolina)		March 14
11:30 AM–12:45 PM		KMC 3-80Joint Dynamic Models of Competing Recurrent Events, Longitudinal Marker, and Performance Status
Jinchi Lv
(USC Marshall)		March 21
11:30 AM–12:45 PM		KMC 3-80HNCI: High-Dimensional Network Causal Inference
Tianyi Lin
(Columbia IEOR)		April 4
11:30 AM–12:45 PM		KMC 3-80Statistical and Computational Guarantee for Optimal Transport
Budhi Surya
(VUW)		April 25
11:30 AM–12:45 PM		KMC 3-80TBA
Harrison Zhou
(Yale)		May 9
11:30 AM–12:45 PM		TBATBA

Coordinators: Elynn Chen & Yaqi Duan

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.