## 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](#IS), [Operations Management](#OM), and [Statistics](#STAT). The current schedule of seminars planned for the academic year is listed below.

# 2025-2026 Academic Year

## <a class="ck-anchor" id="Tech, Ops, and Stat">Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars</a>

Spring 2026**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Ananya Sen](https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/faculty-research/profiles/sen-ananya)
(Carnegie Mellon)February 17
12:30–1:45 PMKMC 4-90GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment[Sean Taylor](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2VHQIgQAAAAJ&hl=en)
(OpenAI)March 31
12:30–1:45 PMKMC 1-70*Not published*[Raveesh Mayya](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/raveesh-mayya)
(TOPS Internal)April 21
12:30–1:45 PMKMC 4-90Privacy Policy Spillovers across Competing Platforms

Coordinators: Jackie Baek, Yaqi Duan, &amp; João Sedoc

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

## <a class="ck-anchor" id="IS">Technology</a>

Spring 2026**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Amit Mehra
(UT Dallas)March 4th
12:30 p.m.VirtualGenerative AI Co-Streamers: Information, Entertainment, and Demand Dynamics in Live CommerceSumit Sarkar
(UT Dallas)March 11th
12:30pmKMC 4-110A Recommendation Framework for Crowdsourcing Contest DesignDJ Wu
(Georgia Tech)March 25th
12:30pmKMC 4-90Incentivizing The Content Creator When Tasks Can Be Delegated to Artificial IntelligenceJingjing Li
(University of Virginia)April 15th
12:30pmKMC 3-60AI as Social Actors and Decision Partners: Behavioral Evidence and Design Insights

Coordinators: João Sedoc

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

## <a class="ck-anchor" id="OM">Operations Management</a>

Spring 2026**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Alp Kucukelbir
(Columbia University)February 5th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-75Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change MitigationKris Ferreira
(Harvard University)February 19th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-75Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation - Unless We Educate ThemJann Spiess
(Stanford University)February 26th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-75Designing Algorithmic Recommendations to Achieve Human-AI ComplementarityAnyan Qi
(UT Dallas)March 5th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-75Why the Best Machine May Not Be the Best: Incentivizing Human–Machine CollaborationIrene Yuan Lo
(Stanford University)March 26th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-75Optimization Meets Participation: Iterative School Zone Generation with LLMsChristian Terwiesch
(UPenn Wharton)April 16th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-75TBA

Coordinator: Omar Mouchtaki

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

## <a class="ck-anchor" id="STAT">Statistics</a>

Spring 2026**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Xiaohong Chen](https://economics.yale.edu/people/xiaohong-chen)
(Yale)March 6
11:30–12:45 PMKMC 3-80Optimization via the Strategic Law of Large Numbers **&amp;**
Optimization via Greedy Oriented Progression[Jelena Bradic](https://bowers.cornell.edu/people/jelena-bradic-0)
(Cornell)April 10
11:30–12:45 PMKMC 3-80Discovering Change Amid Complexity: A Sequentially Robust Framework[Matias Cattaneo](https://mdcattaneo.github.io/index.html)
(Princeton)April 17
11:30–12:45 PMKMC 3-80The Honest Truth About Causal Trees: Accuracy Limits for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation[Alex Belloni](https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/alexandre-belloni)
(Duke)May 1
11:30–12:45 PMKMC 3-80When the Treatment Is a System: Randomization and Inference under Shared Constraints

Coordinators: Elynn Chen &amp; 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](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/ioms-dept/events/ioms-seminar-series/ioms-colloquium-archive), [Technology](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/ioms-dept/events/ioms-seminar-series/information-systems-seminars-archive), [Operations Management](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/ioms-dept/events/ioms-seminar-series/operations-management-seminars-archive), and [Statistics](/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/ioms-dept/events/ioms-seminar-series/statistics-seminars-archive).