## Tech, Ops, & Stats Colloquium Archive
## 2025–2026 Academic Year
## Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars
Fall 2025**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Solon Barocas](http://solon.barocas.org/)
(Microsoft)October 14
12:30–1:45 PMKMC 1-70Informal 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 PMKMC 4-90Increasing 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 PMKMC 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 2-70Language Generation in the LimitMilind Tambe
(Harvard University)February 24
12:30–1:45 PM
KMC 4-90AI for Social Impact: Deployed Resource Optimization and Future Acceleration with Foundation ModelsElynn Chen
(TOPS Internal)February 14
12:30–1:45 PM
KMC 4-90TBADaniel Guetta
(Columbia)February 22
12:30–1:45 PM
KMC 3-90TBAJoão Sedoc
(TOPS Internal)February 28
12:30–1:45 PM
KMC 4-90TBA
## 2022-2023 Academic Year
Speaker/AffiliationDate/TimeRoomPresentation TitlePeng Shi (USC)September 14, 10-11 AMZoomOptimal Matchmaking Strategy in Two-Side MarketplacesYoni Gur (Stanford)September 21, 10-11 AMKMC 3-80Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion BoardsTauhid Zaman (Yale)September 28, 10-11 AMKMC 2-80Detecting, Assessing, and Countering Bots in Social NetworksAmy Ward (UChicago)October 6, 10-11 AMKMC 3-130Learning the Scheduling Policy in Time-Varying Multiclass Many Server Queues with AbandonmentAndrew Wu (Michigan)October 12, 10-11 AMKMC 2-80Text-Based Measures of Supply Chain Risk ExposureJing Wu (CUHK)October 14, 10-11 AMKMC 3-70Keeping Your Friends Closer: Supply Chain Near-shoring in Response to Local Content RequirementsNicholas Bambos (Stanford)October 27, 10-11 AMKMC 2-90 Hyoduk Shin (UCSD)November 2, 10-11 AMKMC 3-130 Jeff Hong (Fudan)February 1, 10-11 AMKMC 3-120The (Surprising) Rate Optimality of Greedy Algorithms for Large-Scale Ranking and SelectionYale Herer (Technion)February 8, 10-11 AMKMC 2-80An Asymptotic Perspective on Risk Pooling:
Limitations and Relationship to TransshipmentsJing Dong (Columbia)February 15, 10-11 AMKMC 2-80Optimal routing under demand surge: the value of future arrival rate informationBora Keskin (Duke)March 1, 10-11 AmKMC 2-80Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart MetersDennis Zhang (WUSTL)March 22, 10-11 AMKMC 2-80Deep Learning Based Causal Inference for Large-Scale Combinatorial Experiments: Theory and Empirical EvidenceXin Chen (Georgia Tech)March 29, 10-11 AMKMC 2-80Assortment Optimization Under the Multivariate MNL Model & Choice Modeling and Assortment Optimization in the Presence of Context Effects
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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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 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
12:30-1:45KMC 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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 4-90 **Spring 2018**[Catherine Tucker](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/detail/?id=41123) (MIT)February 23, 2018KMC 4-80Algorithmic 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 12:30-1:45pmKMC 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-1:45pmKMC 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-1:45pmKMC 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-1:45pmKMC 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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 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
12:30-1:45pmKMC 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 2016Xi Chen, Panos Ipeirotis (NYU Stern)November 18, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 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-1:45pmKMC 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 - 1:45pmKMC 3-110[From Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Bertsimas.pdf)[Jure Leskovec](http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/)
(Stanford)CanceledCanceledCanceled**Fall 2014:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Eric Bradlow](https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/185/)
(Wharton)November 19
12:30pm - 1:45pmKMC 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 - 1:45pmKMC 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)
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