Programs
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IGERT DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES (FALL 2015)
Fridays at 1:30-3:00PM
Please see the calendar on News & Events
Trainees are also required to attend 1-hour seminar series that will be held on every other Friday. Seminars will cover a variety of topics and feature a range of invited guest lecturers. The series is designed to give trainees a forum to discuss research amongst themselves as well as with IGERT faculty and invited speakers. The series will also include workshops centered on several topics and areas that will contribute to the academic and professional development of IGERT Trainees.
Some of the past speakers come from Google, Wall Street Journal, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Columbia Journalism School.
Spring 2015 Speakers
1/30/15 The Making and Knowing Project: Historians in the Laboratory by Pamela Smith (Columbia University, History)
2/6/15 Computational Healthcare - Healthcare in the Era of Big Data by Shahram Ebadollahi (IBM Research)
2/27/15 From Data to Discovery: Data-Driven Approach to Facilitating Chronic Disease Self-Management by Lena Mamykina (Columbia University, Biomedical Informatics)
3/6/15 Hate Speech Detection by Joel Tetrault, TempEval and "real world" date/time challenges by Amanda Stent, Insights from Big Data: Interaction, Design, and Innovation by Alex Jaimes (Yahoo Lab)
3/27/15 Challenges and opportunities in statistical neural data analysis by Liam Paninski (Columbia University, Statistics)
4/3/15 Information Extraction Over Large Volumes of Text: Efficiency Challenges and A Key Public Health Application by Luis Gravano (Columbia SEAS, Computer Science)
4/17/15 Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges by Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research)
5/1/15 Patterns of Large-Scale Attention by Mor Naaman (Cornell Tech)
Spring 2014 Speakers
01/23/14 IGERT evening social
01/31/14 Reverse engineering the neural mechanisms involved in speech processing by Nima Mesgarani(Columbia SEAS)
02/14/14 Modeling Social Data by Jake Hofman (Microsoft Research in New York City)
02/21/14 Deep Learning and the Representation of Natural Data by Yann LeCun (AI Research at Facebook)
03/28/14 When Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, Mosaic Theory and Machine Learning by Steve Bellovin (Columbia SEAS), Sebastian Zimmeck (Columbia SEAS) & Tony Jebara (Columbia SEAS)
04/25/14 IGERT Poster Session (IGERT students)
Spring 2013 Speakers
02/08/13 Watching the Watchers: How the Wall Street Journal uses Big Data to Investigate Digital Privacy by Julia Angwin (Technology Journalist at Wall Street Journal) and Jeremy Singer-Vine (reporter at Wall Street Journal)
02/22/13 Heterogeneity Meets Rarity: Mining Multi-Faceted Diamond by Jingrui He (Stevens Institute of Technology)
03/01/13 Language as influence(d): Power and memorability by Lillian Lee (Cornell Univ.)
03/29/13 The Promise of Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Processing and Other Data Sciences by Chris Callison-Burch (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
04/12/13 Text Normalization by Richard Sproat (Google)
04/19/13 Three Problems in Social Computing by Sep Kamvar (MIT)
04/22/13 Opportunities from Social Media Data for Public Health by Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University)
Fall 2012 Speakers
09/18/12 Solving Problems and Challenges in Telling Good Stories from Data by Mark Hansen (Columbia Journalism School)
10/16/12 Temporal Knowledge Base Population by Heng Ji (CUNY - Queens)
11/20/12 It's Time for Events: Event Information in Social Media by Mor Naaman (Rutgers Univ.)
11/27/12 Digital Humanities at Columbia by Dennis Y. Tenen (Columbia University, English & Comparative Literature)