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.
2024-2025 Academic Year
Tech, Ops, and Stat Colloquium Seminars | |||
| 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 |
Coordinators: Jackie Baek, Yaqi Duan, & Junpei Komiyama
For more information on Colloquium seminars, contact:
Johanna Fortescue
jf4559@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0802
Technology | |||
| Spring 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Dokyun Lee (Boston University) | February 21st 12:30pm | KMC 3-90 | Take Caution in Using LLMs as Human Surrogates: Scylla Ex Machina |
| Yash Kanoria (Columbia University) | February 26th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | Design and Impact of Recommendation Systems |
| Gordon Burtch (Boston University) | March 5th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | Gender Bias and Property Taxes |
| Yannai A. Gonczarowski (Harvard University) | March 12th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models |
| Jessica Clark (University of Maryland) | March 19th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | Labeling in their shoes: Improving Text Annotation with Empathy Priming |
| Danielle Li (MIT) | April 30th 12:30pm | KMC 4-90 | 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 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Galit Yom-Tov (Technion) | February 12th, 1:15 PM | KMC 4-90 | Operationalizing Emotional Load: The Human Side of Queueing Systems |
| Beril Toktay (Georgia Tech) | February 19th, 1:15 PM | KMC 4-90 | Circular Economy Strategies |
| Ashwin Venkataraman (University of Texas) | March 19th, 1:15 PM | KMC 3-80 | Leveraging Assortment Similarities for Data-driven Demand Prediction |
| Kimon Drakopoulos (USC Marshall) | April 2nd, 1:15 PM | KMC 4-90 | Blockchain Mediated Persuasion |
| Serguei Netessine (University of Pennsylvania) | April 23rd, 1:15 PM | KMC 4-90 | TBA |
| Auyon Siddiq (UCLA) | April 30th, 1:15 PM | KMC 3-80 | TBA |
Coordinator: Divya Singhvi
For more information on OM seminars, contact:
Emily DeVito
efd7170@stern.nyu.edu
212-998-0441
Statistics | |||
| Spring 2025 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Dacheng Xiu (Chicago Booth) | February 28 11:00 AM–12:15 PM | KMC 3-80 | Can Machines Learn Weak Signals? |
| Zhiliang Ying (Columbia) | March 7 11:30 AM–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | Recent developments in IRT and related latent variable models: from classical theory to modern applications |
| Edsel Peña (U. of South Carolina) | March 14 11:30 AM–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | Joint Dynamic Models of Competing Recurrent Events, Longitudinal Marker, and Performance Status |
| Jinchi Lv (USC Marshall) | March 21 11:30 AM–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | HNCI: High-Dimensional Network Causal Inference |
| Tianyi Lin (Columbia IEOR) | April 4 11:30 AM–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | Statistical and Computational Guarantee for Optimal Transport |
| Budhi Surya (VUW) | April 25 11:30 AM–12:45 PM | KMC 3-80 | TBA |
| Harrison Zhou (Yale) | May 9 11:30 AM–12:45 PM | TBA | 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.