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.
2025-2026 Academic Year
Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars | |||
| Spring 2026 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Ananya Sen (Carnegie Mellon) | February 17 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| Sean Taylor (OpenAI) | March 31 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 1-70 | TBA |
| Raveesh Mayya (TOPS Internal) | April 21 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
Coordinators: Jackie Baek, Yaqi Duan, & João Sedoc
For more information on Colloquium seminars, contact:
Johanna Fortescue
jf4559@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0802
Technology | |||
| Spring 2026 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Amit Mehra (UT Dallas) | March 4th 12:30 p.m. | Virtual | Generative AI Co-Streamers: Information, Entertainment, and Demand Dynamics in Live Commerce |
| Sumit Sarkar (UT Dallas) | March 11th 12:30pm | KMC 4-110 | A Recommendation Framework for Crowdsourcing Contest Design |
| DJ Wu (Georgia Tech) | March 25th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Paramveer Dhillon (U. of Michigan) | April 1st 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Olivia Liu Sheng (Arizona State University) | April 8th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Jingjing Li (University of Virginia) | April 15th 12:30pm | KMC 3-60 | TBA |
Coordinators: João Sedoc & Junpei Komiyama
For more information on Tech seminars, contact:
Olivia Harry
okh226@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0810
Operations Management | |||
| Spring 2026 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Alp Kucukelbir (Columbia University) | February 5th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-75 | Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation |
| Kris Ferreira (Harvard University) | February 19th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-75 | Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation - Unless We Educate Them |
| Jann Spiess (Stanford University) | February 26th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-75 | Designing Algorithmic Recommendations to Achieve Human-AI Complementarity |
| Anyan Qi (UT Dallas) | March 5th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-75 | Why the Best Machine May Not Be the Best: Incentivizing Human–Machine Collaboration |
| Irene Yuan Lo (Stanford University) | March 26th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-75 | TBA |
| Christian Terwiesch (UPenn Wharton) | April 16th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-75 | TBA |
Coordinator: Omar Mouchtaki
For more information on OM seminars, contact:
Emily DeVito
efd7170@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0441
Statistics | |||
| Spring 2026 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Xiaohong Chen (Yale) | March 6 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | Optimization via the Strategic Law of Large Numbers & Optimization via Greedy Oriented Progression |
| Jelena Bradic (Cornell) | April 10 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | TBA |
| Matias Cattaneo (Princeton) | April 17 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | The Honest Truth About Causal Trees: Accuracy Limits for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation |
| Alex Belloni (Duke) | May 1 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | TBA |
| More Dates TBA | |||
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.