# Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics | Tech, Ops, & Stats Colloquium Archive ## 2025–2026 Academic Year | 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 PM | KMC 4-90 | GenAI 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 PM | KMC 1-70 | *Not published* | | [Raveesh Mayya](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/raveesh-mayya) (TOPS Internal) | April 21 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Privacy Policy Spillovers across Competing Platforms | | Fall 2025 | |---| | **Speaker/Affiliation** | **Date/Time** | **Room** | **Presentation Title** | | [Solon Barocas](http://solon.barocas.org/) (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](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/divya-singhvi) (TOPS Internal) | November 4 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-90 | Increasing Parents’ Engagement on Ed-Tech Platforms: Evidence from the Field | | [Arvind Karunakaran](https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/arvind-karunakaran) (Stanford) | November 11 12:30–1:45 PM | KMC 4-60 | “People Talk Back, Products Don’t:” How and When Using AI to ‘Optimize’ Work Practices Fail | ## 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](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/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](http://web.mit.edu/vivekf/www/) (MIT) | October 16, 2018 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 3-90 | *"*Towards A New Liquid Biopsy via Slice Learning" | | [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose) [Xi Chen](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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](http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/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](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/john-horton), [Joshua Loftus](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/detail/?id=41123) (MIT) | *Rescheduled to Spring 2018* | | | | [Andrew Gelman](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/) (Columbia) | December 8, 2017 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-90 | | | **Spring 2018** | | [Catherine Tucker](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/detail/?id=41123) (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](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) (NYU) [Xi Chen](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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](https://people.stanford.edu/lwein/) (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](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/moreno-garcia_antonio.aspx) (Northwestern University) | September 28, 2016 12:30pm-1:45pm | KMC 2-70 | *Offline Showrooms in Omni-Channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits* | | [Susan Athey](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/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](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/natalia-levina) [Maxime Cohen](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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 ](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ilan-lobel)& [Peter Lakner](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/peter-lakner) | April 1, 2016 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-60 | [Feature-based Dynamic Pricing & Reflected Brownian Motion in a Wedge](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Internal%20speakers%20Announcement_0.pdf) | | [Mark van der Laan](http://sph.berkeley.edu/mark-van-der-laan) (UC Berkeley) | April 15, 2016 12:30-1:45pm | KMC 4-60 | [Targeted Learning](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/IOMS%20Seminar%20Announcement%20vanderLaan_0.pdf) | | **Fall 2015:** | | **Speaker/Affiliation** | **Date/Time** | **Room** | **Presentation Title** | | [Mark van der Laan](http://sph.berkeley.edu/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](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Internal%20speakers%20Announcement.pdf) | | [David Parkes](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/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](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/IOMS%20Seminar%20Announcement%20Parkes.pdf) | | ## 2014-2015 Academic Year | |---| | **Spring 2015:** | | **Speaker/Affiliation** | **Date/Time** | **Room** | **Presentation Title** | | [Dimitris Bertsimas](http://www.mit.edu/~dbertsim/) (MIT) | March 27, 2015 12:30pm - 1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | [From Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Bertsimas.pdf) | | [Jure Leskovec](http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/) (Stanford) | Canceled | Canceled | Canceled | | **Fall 2014:** | | **Speaker/Affiliation** | **Date/Time** | **Room** | **Presentation Title** | | [Eric Bradlow](https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/185/) (Wharton) | November 19 12:30pm - 1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | [A Bayesian Model for Assignment of Anonymous Customer Visits](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Eric%20Bradlow%20Seminar%20Announcement.pdf) | | [Cynthia Rudin](http://web.mit.edu/rudin/www/Mypage.html) (MIT) | December 3 12:30pm - 1:45pm | KMC 3-110 | [Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Cynthia%20Rudin%20Seminar%20Announcement.pdf) | | ## 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](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~madigan/) (Columbia University) | 03/05/2014 | [Why most published studies are wrong but can be fixed.](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046574.pdf) | | [Ramesh Johari](http://www.stanford.edu/~rjohari/) (Stanford University) | 03/26/2014 | [Managing congestion in decentralized matching markets](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046865.pdf) | | [Adam Wierman](http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~adamw/) (California Tech) | 04/16/2014 \*Room KMC 3-120 | [Algorithmic challenges for greening data centers](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_047247.pdf) | | **Fall 2013** Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons from 12-2pm in room 2-70 | | **Speaker** | **Date** | **Presentation Title** | | [Robert Kleinberg](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~rdk/) (Cornell University) | 10/2/2013 | [Multi-Armed Bandits and the Web](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_043900.pdf) | | [Matthew Salganik](http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/) (Princeton University) | 10/23/2013 \*This Seminar will take place from 2:00pm - 3:00pm | [Wiki surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_043901.pdf) | | [Michael Kearns](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/) (University of Pennsylvania) | 11/13/2013 | [Competitive Contagion in Networks](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_044835.pdf) | ##