Colloquium Series
The Data Science and Society Colloquium Series invites data scientists from academia and industry to present on work and topics in data science that showcase the important ways in which data science can, and already is, impacting society.
DSS Colloquium Series Calendar: browse it on Google Calendar here; open it in iCal format here; and subscribe to it here.
All Talks
The table below lists all talks organized or co-sponsored by DSS. Flyers, where available, are linked in the Talk Title column.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Position | Talk Title | Location | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/13/2025 | Steve Feldstein | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Senior Fellow | The Coercive Power of Tech: From AI Surveillance to Drones | Rockefeller Hall 200 | 5:00 |
| 10/1/2025 | Robin Dunn | Novartis Pharmaceuticals | Associate Director Biostatistician | Expanding the limits: a finite mixture of projects in biostatistics research | Kenyon Hall 133 | 1:00 |
| 3/4/2025 | Elise Zheng | Columbia University | Postdoctoral Fellow | Sociotechnical Ethics of Big Data: Exploring the Intersection of Data, Knowledge, and Epistemic Justice | Rockefeller 307 | 2:00 |
| 2/27/2025 | Nicole Holliday | UC Berkeley | Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics | Sociophonetic Variation and Human Interaction with “AI”-Based Systems | Rockefeller 300 | 7:00 |
| 2/6/2025 | Shazeda Ahmed | UCLA | Postdoctoral Fellow | The Work of “Aligning” Artificial Intelligence | Taylor 206 | 4:00 |
| 4/9/2024 | Lens Media Lab | Yale University | Characterizing Twentieth-Century Photographic Papers: A Multidisciplinary Approach | Taylor 203; Taylor Jade Room | 5:30–6:30; 6:30–7:30 | |
| 4/8/2024 | Thomas Schmickl | University of Graz, Austria | Professor, Institute of Biology | Can Robots Save Nature? | Rockefeller 300 | 5:00 |
| 2/7/2024 | Brenden Lake | New York University | Professor of Psychology and Data Science | Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with deep learning | Rockefeller 300 | 5:00 |
| 11/10/2023 | Rob Williams | Bayer Crop Science | Data Scientist Remote Sensing | Data Science for Plants | New England 206) | 5:00 |
| 10/6/2023 | Jenna Lemonias | The Atlantic | Executive Director, Data Science | Our personalized web: The role – and consequences – of recommendation algorithms for news | New England 206 | 4:00 |
| 9/20/2023 | Mine Dogucu | University of California Irvine | Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistics | The Place of Accessibility in (Data) Science | Rockefeller 312 | 3:00 |
| 4/28/2023 | Anurag Mehra | IIT-Bombay, India | Professor in Charge of IIT Bombay’s Centre for Liberal Education | Data-Based Surveillance During Covid-19 | Sanders Physics 105 | 4:00 |
| 4/7/2023 | Kristina Lerman | University of Southern California | Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute | Biases in Data & Other Threats to Validity of Predictive Models | Rockefeller 310 | 4:00 |
| 12/1/2022 | Jeremy Springman | DevLab@Penn | Senior Research Associate | Machine Learning for Peace | Sanders Physics 105 | 4:00 |
| 11/4/2022 | Michael Burnam-Fink | First Republic Bank | Senior Software Engineer | What is Scientific About Data Science? | Rockefeller 312 | 4:00 |
| 10/7/2022 | Marie desJardins | Simmons University | Dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences | Fairness and Equity in Data Science | New England 206 | 4:00 |
