Room 340 West Hall

Ivo D. Dinov Professor of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School Associate Director of Education and Training, Michigan Institute for…

Kevin S. Xu Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Toledo   Recorded Seminar   "Statistical models for analyzing dynamic social network data"   Abstract: Due in part to…

Jonathan Terhorst Assistant Professor of Statistics University of Michigan   RECORDED SEMINAR   New methods for detecting natural selection in large samples of genetic data   Abstract: Understanding how humans evolved…

Yang Chen Assistant Professor of Statistics University of Michigan   RECORDED SEMINAR   Determine the Number of States in Hidden Markov Models via Marginal Likelihood   Abstract: Hidden Markov models (HMM)…

Chris Callison-Burch, PhD Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania "The Promise of Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Processing and Other Data Sciences"   Recorded Seminar   Abstract: Crowdsourcing is a new tool for…

Matias D. Cattaneo Professor of Economics Professor of Statistics University of Michigan   Two-Step Estimation and Inference with Possibly Many Included Covariates   RECORDED SEMINAR   Abstract: We study the implications…

Tamara Broderick Assistant Professor, ITT Career Development Massachusetts Institute of Technology   "Automated Scalable Bayesian Inference Via Data Summarization"   RECORDED SEMINAR   Abstract: Bayesian methods are attractive for analyzing large-scale…

Adriene Beltz Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Michigan   Recorded Seminar   Person Specific Temporal Networks: Accuracy, Dynamics, and Emojis 😕   Abstract: Networks are everywhere! They provide a powerful…

Justin Grimmer Professor Department of Political Science Stanford University   RECORDED SEMINAR   How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts   Abstract: New text-as-data techniques offer a great promise: the…

Claire Cardie, PhD Professor Department of Computer Science Department of Information Science Cornell University VIEW RECORDING Information Extraction from Online Text --- from Opinions to Arguments to Persuasion Abstract: A…

Chris Miller, PhD Associate Professor of Astronomy Associate Professor of Physics College of Literature, Science, and the Arts University of Michigan   RECORDING   Quantify Systematics from Mislabeled Truth Tables…

Josh Pasek Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of Michigan RECORDING   What Can Tweets Tell Us About Public Opinions? Uncovering the Data Generating Process by Linking Twitter Data with…

Gil Shamir, PhD Google AI   RECORDED TALK   Leveraging Information Theory to Practical Machine Learning: Minimum Description Length Regularization for Online Learning   Abstract: Classical online learning techniques enforce…

Ji Zhu Department of Statistics University of Michigan   Recorded Seminar   Matrix Completion in Network Analysis   Abstract: Matrix completion is an active area of research in itself,and a…

Animashree Anandkumar Department of Computer + Mathematical Sciences California Institute of Technology View Recording   Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms Abstract: Standard deep-learning algorithms are based on a function-fitting…

  For more information on MIDAS or the Seminar Series, please contact midas-contact@umich.edu. MIDAS gratefully acknowledges Wacker Chemie AG for its generous support of the MIDAS Seminar Series.

Alex Leow, MD, PhD Departments of Psychiatry, Bioengineering, and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago   Recorded Seminar   Making Connections: Data Science Approaches to Understanding Mood and Cognition…

  DAVID DUNSON, PHD Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science & Mathematics Duke University VIEW RECORDING Learning & exploiting low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional data This talk will focus…

  Pei Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Recording   Constructing tumor-specific gene regulatory networks based on samples with tumor…

Arthur Spirling Deputy Director, Center for Data Science New York University VIEW RECORDING Word Embeddings What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research   Abstract:…

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing.   Julia Stoyanovich Assistant Professor, New York University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering…

  Luonan Chen, PhD Professor Executive Director, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences   Criticality detection and time-series prediction from small samples by dynamics-based model-free approaches Abstract:…

  Edward Stabler Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles Adversarial Training for Semantic Parsing ABSTRACT: Semantic parsing maps natural language sentences to formal representations of their meanings. In…

  Charles Yang Director of Undergraduate Studies in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania VIEW RECORDING How Language Makes Us Smart (Without Big Data) Abstract: Language provides the glue that combines…

  Jen Stirrup Founder and CEO, Data Relish; Microsoft Regional Director VIEW RECORDING Is it possible to democratize AI for businesses? Abstract: If data is the new 'oil', then AI…