Past Events
Event Date:
Friday, February 26, 2021, 12 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Deciphering Neural Networks through the Lenses of Feature Interactions
Speaker
Yan Liu, (USC)
Abstract
Interpreting how neural networks work is a crucial and challenging task in machine learning. In this talk, I will discuss a novel framework, namely neural interaction detector (NID), for... more
Event Date:
February 24, 2021 1-4 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Ethical Practice of Statistics and Data Science in the Social Sciences has already occurred.
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Event Date:
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12-1pm ET (9-10am PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Misinformation and Attitude Formation Among the Canadian Public
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar series is co-... more
Event Date:
Friday, February 12, 2021, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Hardness of MDP Planning with Linear Function Approximation
Speaker
Csaba Szepesvari, (University of Alberta)
Abstract
Markov decision processes (MDPs) is a minimalist framework that is designed to capture the most important aspects of decision making under uncertainty, a problem of major practical... more
Event Date:
February 12, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Come join us for the NISS Graduate Student Network Winter Social!
The social will take place over Zoom on Friday February 12, 2021 at 3:00 PM ET (12:00 PM PT).
Find the Zoom link on the NISS Graduate Student Network website!
Event Date:
February 10, 2021 1-4 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Unstructured Data Analysis - Text Mining with Tidy Data Principles has already occurred.
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Event Date:
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 11 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Machine Learning under a Modern Optimization Lens
Speaker
Dimitris Bertsimas, (MIT)
Abstract
We use modern optimization methods to address a variety of ML problems:
1) We transform sparse regression problems to convex mixed-integer optimization problems, which we solve via cutting planes... more
Event Date:
Thursday, February 4th, 2021 12-1pm ET (9-10am PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Host and Viral Genetics of SARS-CoV-2 to Enable Epidemiologic Surveillance, Clinical Insight and Pathobiology
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS... more
Event Date:
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Competitive Control via Online Optimization
Speaker
Adam Wierman, (CalTech)
Abstract
Online optimization is a powerful framework in machine learning that has seen numerous applications to problems in distributed systems, robotics, autonomous planning, and sustainability. In my group at Caltech, we... more
Event Date:
January 22, 2021 4pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Robust Online Learning and its Applications to Assortment Optimization
Speaker
Xi Chen (New York University)
Abstract
In this talk, we will first provide an overview of my research on online learning and decision-making. We will highlight a few applications on dynamic pricing, assortment... more