When: Friday, April 11, 2014
Where: Paul Brest Hall, Munger Building 4, Stanford University (Directions here)
Opening Remarks 8:30 a.m.
Session 1 - Diffusion of Sentiment and Community Building Online 8:45-10:30 a.m.
Matt Jackson (no video available)
"Centrality and Diffusion"
Matt Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and a fellow of CIFAR. His research focuses on microeconomics, game theory, social networks, and political economy.
Sep Kamvar (no video available)
"Designing Large-Scale Social Systems"
Sep Kamvar is the LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. He is also the Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include social computing and information management.
Session 2 – Computation and Markets 10:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Harikesh Nair
"Computational Incentive Design for Improved Workplace Analytics"
Harikesh Nair is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research interests include marketing analytics.
Kay Giesecke (no video available)
"Systemic Mortgage Defaults"
Kay Giesecke is an Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is also the Paul Pigott Faculty Scholar in the School of Engineering and on the faculty of Stanford's Financial Mathematics Program and Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He serves as the Director of Stanford's Center for Financial and Risk Analytics and of Stanford's Quantitative Finance Certificate Program in Hong Kong.
Neel Sundaresan
"What's 'Like' Got to Do With It? - When Commerce Meets Social"
Neel Sundaresan is the Chief of Research at eBay. His research interests include social and incentive networks, machine learning as applied to recommender systems, trust and reputation systems, ontology, classification, and search.
Lunch 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Session 3 – Health and Computational Social Science 1:30-3:15 p.m.
Russ Altman
"Using Search Logs to Infer Drug Side Effects"
Russ Altman is a Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, and Medicine at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Training Program and his primary research interests are in the field of bioinformatics.
Rob Munro
"Crowdsourcing and Natural Language Processing for the Social Good"
Rob Munro is the CEO and co-founder of Idibon. He is also the recognized global expert in Crowdsourcing and Natural Language Processing for disaster response.
Dennis Wall (no video available)
“Leveraging YouTube, Home Videos, and Artificial Intelligence for Rapid and Mobile Detection of Autism”
Dennis Wall is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Systems Medicine and Associate Professor by courtesy in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where his lab is developing novel approaches in systems biology to decipher the molecular pathology of autism spectrum disorder and related neurological conditions.
Session 4 – Social Movements and Social Media 3:30-5:15 p.m.
Michael Bernstein
"Breaking the Expertise Barrier in Crowdsourcing"
Michael Bernstein is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He also directs the Human-Computer Interaction group and is a Robert N. Noyce Family Faculty Scholar. His research interests include the design of crowdsourcing and social computing systems.
Jacob Eisenstein
"Stylistic Diversity and Hidden Structure in Online Writing"
Jacob Eisenstein is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He leads the Computational Linguistics Laboratory and his research focuses on social media, discourse, computational social science, and statistical machine learning.
Sarah Soule
"Protest Event Data: New Models for an Old Staple"
Sarah Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has recently completed two books, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility and A Primer on Social Movements.
Reception 5:15-6 p.m.
Organized by:
Margot Gerritsen, Director of The Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Chris Potts, Director of The Center for the Study of Language and Information
Dan McFarland, Director of The Center for Computational Social Science
Jure Leskovec, Stanford Department of Computer Science
Amir Goldberg, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Many thanks to:
