Tech, Ops, & Stats Colloquium Archive
2024–2025 Academic Year
| Spring 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University) | February 11 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 2-70 | Language Generation in the Limit |
| Milind Tambe (Harvard University) | February 24 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | AI for Social Impact: Deployed Resource Optimization and Future Acceleration with Foundation Models |
| Elynn Chen (TOPS Internal) | February 14 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Daniel Guetta (Columbia) | February 22 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 3-90 | TBA |
| João Sedoc (TOPS Internal) | February 28 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
2022-2023 Academic Year
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Peng Shi (USC) | September 14, 10-11 AM | Zoom | Optimal Matchmaking Strategy in Two-Side Marketplaces |
| Yoni Gur (Stanford) | September 21, 10-11 AM | KMC 3-80 | Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards |
| Tauhid Zaman (Yale) | September 28, 10-11 AM | KMC 2-80 | Detecting, Assessing, and Countering Bots in Social Networks |
| Amy Ward (UChicago) | October 6, 10-11 AM | KMC 3-130 | Learning the Scheduling Policy in Time-Varying Multiclass Many Server Queues with Abandonment |
| Andrew Wu (Michigan) | October 12, 10-11 AM | KMC 2-80 | Text-Based Measures of Supply Chain Risk Exposure |
| Jing Wu (CUHK) | October 14, 10-11 AM | KMC 3-70 | Keeping Your Friends Closer: Supply Chain Near-shoring in Response to Local Content Requirements |
| Nicholas Bambos (Stanford) | October 27, 10-11 AM | KMC 2-90 | |
| Hyoduk Shin (UCSD) | November 2, 10-11 AM | KMC 3-130 | |
| Jeff Hong (Fudan) | February 1, 10-11 AM | KMC 3-120 | The (Surprising) Rate Optimality of Greedy Algorithms for Large-Scale Ranking and Selection |
| Yale Herer (Technion) | February 8, 10-11 AM | KMC 2-80 | An Asymptotic Perspective on Risk Pooling: Limitations and Relationship to Transshipments |
| Jing Dong (Columbia) | February 15, 10-11 AM | KMC 2-80 | Optimal routing under demand surge: the value of future arrival rate information |
| Bora Keskin (Duke) | March 1, 10-11 Am | KMC 2-80 | Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters |
| Dennis Zhang (WUSTL) | March 22, 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, 10-11 AM | KMC 2-80 | Assortment Optimization Under the Multivariate MNL Model & Choice Modeling and Assortment Optimization in the Presence of Context Effects |
2021-2022 Academic Year
2020-2021 Academic Year
2019-2020 Academic Year
Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Fall 2019 | |||
| Manuela Veloso (J.P. Morgan) | September 13, 2019 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-80 | "AI in the Financial Domain: Examples and Discussion" |
| Spring 2020 | |||
| Gabriel Weintraub (Stanford) | March 24th, 2019 12:30-1:45pm | TBA | TBA |
2018-2019 Academic Year | |||
| Fall 2018: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Vivek Farias (MIT) | October 16, 2018 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 3-90 | "Towards A New Liquid Biopsy via Slice Learning" |
| Anindya Ghose Xi Chen (NYU) | October 30, 2018 12:30-1:45 | KMC 3-90 | "TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy" (Ghose) "Statistical Inference for Model Parameters with Stochastic Gradient Descent" (Chen) |
| Spring 2019: | |||
| Ming Hu (University of Toronto) | April 30, 2019 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | "Values of Traceability in Supply Chains" |
2017-2018 Academic Year | |||
| Fall 2017: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| John Horton, Joshua Loftus (NYU) | October 11, 2017 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-90 | "Labor Market Equilibration: Evidence from Uber" (Horton) "Causality in Algorithmic Fairness" (Loftus) |
| Catherine Tucker (MIT) | Rescheduled to Spring 2018 | ||
| Andrew Gelman (Columbia) | December 8, 2017 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-90 | |
| Spring 2018 | |||
| Catherine Tucker (MIT) | February 23, 2018 | KMC 4-80 | Algorithmic Bias? An Emperical Studey into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads |
2016-2017 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2017: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Arun Sundararajan (NYU) Xi Chen (NYU) | February 8, 2017 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 3-120 | "Crowd-Based Capitalism, Automation, and the Future of Work" (Sundararajan) "Optimal Stopping and Worker Selection in Crowdsourcing: an Adaptive Sequential Probability Ratio Test Framework" (Chen) |
| Larry Wein (Stanford University) | May 10, 2017 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 3-55 | "Two Operations Management Problems in Criminology" |
| Fall 2016: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Antonio Moreno-Garcia (Northwestern University) | September 28, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 2-70 | Offline Showrooms in Omni-Channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits |
| Susan Athey (Stanford University) | October 26, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 2-70 | Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments and Observational Studies |
| Natalia Levina Maxime Cohen (NYU) | November 30, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 4-90 | Framing Innovation Opportunities While Staying Committed to an Organizational Epistemic Stance: Crowdsourcing, Data Science, and Beyond (Levina) Overcommitment in Cloud Services - Bin Packing with Chance Constraints (Cohen) |
2015-2016 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2016: | |||
| IOMS Faculty: Ilan Lobel & Peter Lakner | April 1, 2016 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-60 | Feature-based Dynamic Pricing & Reflected Brownian Motion in a Wedge |
| Mark van der Laan (UC Berkeley) | April 15, 2016 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-60 | Targeted Learning |
| Fall 2015: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Mark van der Laan (UC Berkeley) | Postponed to Spring 2016 | ||
| Xi Chen, Panos Ipeirotis (NYU Stern) | November 18, 2015 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 4-60 | A Statistical Learning Approach to Personalization in Revenue Management & A System for Scalable and Reliable Technical-Skill Testing in Online Labor Markets |
| David Parkes (Harvard) | December 2, 2015 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 4-60 | How to elicit information when it is not possible to verify the answer |
2014-2015 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2015: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT) | March 27, 2015 12:30pm - 1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | From Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics |
| Jure Leskovec (Stanford) | Canceled | Canceled | Canceled |
| Fall 2014: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Eric Bradlow (Wharton) | November 19 12:30pm - 1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | A Bayesian Model for Assignment of Anonymous Customer Visits |
| Cynthia Rudin (MIT) | December 3 12:30pm - 1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning |
2013-2014 Academic Year | ||
| Spring 2014 Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons from 12:15pm-1:45pm in KMC 3-90 | ||
| Speaker | Date | Presentation Title |
| David Madigan (Columbia University) | 03/05/2014 | Why most published studies are wrong but can be fixed. |
| Ramesh Johari (Stanford University) | 03/26/2014 | Managing congestion in decentralized matching markets |
| Adam Wierman (California Tech) | 04/16/2014 *Room KMC 3-120 | Algorithmic challenges for greening data centers |
| Fall 2013 Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons from 12-2pm in room 2-70 | ||
| Speaker | Date | Presentation Title |
| Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University) | 10/2/2013 | Multi-Armed Bandits and the Web |
| Matthew Salganik (Princeton University) | 10/23/2013 *This Seminar will take place from 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Wiki surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection |
| Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania) | 11/13/2013 | Competitive Contagion in Networks |