{"id":16,"date":"2022-10-19T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/dss\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:59:30","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/dss\/talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Colloquium Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

All Talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The table below lists all talks organized or co-sponsored by DSS. Flyers, where available, are linked in the Talk Title<\/em> column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/th>Speaker<\/th>Affiliation<\/th>Position<\/th>Talk Title<\/th>Location<\/th>Time<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
4\/22\/2026<\/td>Silvia Lindtner<\/a><\/td>University of Michigan<\/td>Professor of Information and Professor of Digital Studies Institute<\/td>Feeling Like a State: Control in the Age of AI<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller Hall 300<\/td>3:00<\/td><\/tr>
4\/2\/2026<\/td>Noah Giansiracusa<\/td>Bentley University<\/td>Associate Professor of Mathematics<\/td>From Volcanoes to Robots:
The Hidden Geometric
Pattern Shaping our World<\/a><\/td>		Rockefeller Hall 300<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1\/2026<\/td>Honghong Tinn<\/a><\/td>University of Minnesota<\/td>Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/td>Taiwan Semiconductor and the New Geopolitics of the 21st Century<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller Hall 310<\/td>3:00<\/td><\/tr>
3\/24\/2026<\/td>Matt Jones<\/a><\/td>Colby College<\/td>Assistant Professor of Mathematics<\/td>Math to Data Science: The Study of Voting<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller Hall 310<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
2\/27\/2026<\/td>Akshatha Vydula<\/td>University of Richmond<\/td>Postdoc Research Associate<\/td>Experimental Frontiers in Low-Frequency Radio Cosmology<\/a><\/td>Sanders Physics 105<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
11\/13\/2025<\/td>Steve Feldstein<\/td>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/td>Senior Fellow<\/td>The Coercive Power of Tech: From AI Surveillance to Drones<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller Hall 200<\/td>5:00<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1\/2025<\/td>Robin Dunn<\/td>Novartis Pharmaceuticals<\/td>
Associate Director Biostatistician<\/td>		Expanding the limits: a finite mixture of projects in biostatistics research<\/td>Kenyon Hall 133<\/td>1:00<\/td><\/tr>
3\/4\/2025<\/td>Elise Zheng<\/td>Columbia University<\/td>Postdoctoral Fellow<\/td>Sociotechnical Ethics of Big Data: Exploring the Intersection of Data, Knowledge, and Epistemic Justice <\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 307<\/td>2:00<\/td><\/tr>
2\/27\/2025<\/td>Nicole Holliday<\/td>UC Berkeley<\/td>Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics<\/td>Sociophonetic Variation and Human Interaction with “AI”-Based Systems<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 300<\/td>7:00<\/td><\/tr>
2\/6\/2025<\/td>Shazeda Ahmed<\/td>UCLA<\/td>Postdoctoral Fellow<\/td>The Work of \u201cAligning\u201d Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/td>Taylor 206<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
4\/9\/2024<\/td>Lens Media Lab<\/td>Yale University<\/td><\/td>Characterizing Twentieth-Century Photographic Papers: A Multidisciplinary Approach<\/a><\/td>Taylor 203; Taylor Jade Room<\/td>5:30\u20136:30; 6:30\u20137:30<\/td><\/tr>
4\/8\/2024<\/td>Thomas Schmickl<\/td>University of Graz, Austria<\/td>Professor, Institute of Biology<\/td>Can Robots Save Nature?<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 300<\/td>5:00<\/td><\/tr>
2\/7\/2024<\/td>Brenden Lake<\/td>New York University<\/td>Professor of Psychology and Data Science<\/td>Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with deep learning<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 300<\/td>5:00<\/td><\/tr>
11\/10\/2023<\/td>Rob Williams<\/td>Bayer Crop Science<\/td>Data Scientist Remote Sensing<\/td>Data Science for Plants<\/a><\/td>New England 206)<\/td>5:00<\/td><\/tr>
10\/6\/2023<\/td>Jenna Lemonias<\/td>The Atlantic<\/em><\/td>Executive Director, Data Science<\/td>Our personalized web: The role \u2013 and consequences \u2013 of recommendation algorithms for news<\/a><\/td>New England 206<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
9\/20\/2023<\/td>Mine Dogucu<\/td>University of California Irvine<\/td>Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Department of Statistics<\/td>		The Place of Accessibility in (Data) Science<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 312<\/td>3:00<\/td><\/tr>
4\/28\/2023<\/td>Anurag Mehra<\/td>IIT-Bombay, India<\/td>Professor in Charge of IIT Bombay\u2019s Centre for Liberal Education<\/td>Data-Based Surveillance During Covid-19<\/a><\/td>Sanders Physics 105<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
4\/7\/2023<\/td>Kristina Lerman<\/td>University of Southern California<\/td>Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute<\/td>Biases in Data & Other Threats to Validity of Predictive Models<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 310<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1\/2022<\/td>Jeremy Springman<\/td>DevLab@Penn<\/td>Senior Research Associate<\/td>Machine Learning for Peace<\/a><\/td>Sanders Physics 105<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
11\/4\/2022<\/td>Michael Burnam-Fink<\/td>First Republic Bank<\/td>Senior Software Engineer<\/td>What is Scientific About Data Science?<\/a><\/td>Rockefeller 312<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr>
10\/7\/2022<\/td>Marie desJardins<\/td>Simmons University<\/td>Dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences<\/td>Fairness and Equity in Data Science<\/a><\/td>New England 206<\/td>4:00<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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