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 | |||
| Fall 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Solon Barocas (Microsoft) | October 14 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 1-70 | Informal Algorithms: On the Use of Generative AI for High-Stakes Decision Making |
| Divya Singhvi (TOPS Internal) | November 4 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Arvind Karunakaran (Stanford) | November 11 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 | |||
| Fall 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Beibei Li (Carnegie Mellon University) | September 17th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | Learning Social Determinants of Health from Location Big Data |
| Indranil Bardhan (University of Texas at Austin) | October 15th 12:30pm | KMC 4-120 | TBA |
Coordinators: João Sedoc & Junpei Komiyama
For more information on Tech seminars, contact:
Olivia Harry
okh226@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0810
Operations Management | |||
| Fall 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Ken Moon (Cornell University) | September 18th, 1:00 PM | KMC 5-80 | (Machine) Learning Preferences from Complex Choice Sets: An Application to Service Networks |
| Opher Baron (University of Toronto) | October 9th, 2:15 PM | KMC 2-60 | Queueing Analytics: Machine Learning, Causal Queueing, and SiMLQ for Data Driven Simulation |
| Thodoris Lykouris (MIT) | October 23rd, 1:00 PM | KMC 4-90 | Scheduling with Uncertain Holding Costs and its Application to Content Moderation |
| Seyed Emadi (University of North Carolina) | November 13th, 1:00 PM | KMC 3-130 | TBA |
| Sebastien Martin (Northwestern University) | December 11th, 1:00PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
Coordinator: Omar Mouchtaki
For more information on OM seminars, contact:
Emily DeVito
efd7170@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0441
Statistics | |||
| Fall 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Ji Zhu (U. of Michigan) | September 19 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Modeling Non-Uniform Hypergraphs Using Determinantal Point Processes |
| Ming Yuan (Columbia) | September 26 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | A cumulant approach to linear regression |
| Michael Kosorok (UNC) | October 17 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Linear regression using Hilbert-space valued covariates under general conditions |
| Marcelo Medeiros (U. of Illinois) | October 24 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Cost-aware Portfolios in a Large Universe of Assets |
| Runze Li (Penn State) | October 31 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | TBA |
| Weng Kee Wong (UCLA) | November 7 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Susan Murphy (Harvard) | November 14 11:30–12:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | 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.