CDAC Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop
CDAC Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop
A workshop focused on celebrating and fast tracking the careers of exceptional data scientists at a critical inflection point in their career: the transition from PhD to postdoctoral scholar, research scientist, or tenure track position.
All events are open to UChicago students, faculty, and staff, and some Jan 11th events are open to the public. Register for talks at the CDAC website.
Agenda | Monday Jan. 11th
OPENING REMARKS† | 10:00-10:10am
Angela V. Olinto, Dean, Physical Sciences Division; Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute; and the College
FIRESIDE CHAT† |10:10-11:00am
Rebecca Willett, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Statistics
Moderator: Julia Hanson (PhD Candidate, Computer Science)
PANEL: THE FUTURE OF DATA SCIENCE† | 11:15am-12:00pm
Michael J. Franklin, Liew Family Chairman of Computer Science; Senior Advisor to the Provost for Computing and Data Science
Katherine Baicker, Dean and the Emmett Dedmon Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Dan Nicolae, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics and the College; Professor, Departments of Human Genetics, Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine
Karen Livescu, Associate Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Moderator: David Uminsky, Executive Director of Data Science
RISING STAR SPOTLIGHT SESSION 1: COVID-19 + DATA SCIENCE* | 12:05-12:40pm
Abby Stevens, the University of Chicago
Bryan Wilder, Harvard University
RISING STAR SPOTLIGHT SESSION 2: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING* | 12:40-1:15pm
Maarten Sap, the University of Washington
Xinya Du, Cornell University
PANEL: INTERDISCIPLINARY DATA SCIENCE† | 1:15-2:00pm
Luís Bettencourt, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Associate Faculty in Sociology, Inaugural Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Marshini Chetty, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Director of Amyoli Internet Research Lab
James Evans, Professor, Department of Sociology, Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science
Moderator: Eamon Duede, Department of Philosophy, Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Knowledge Lab)
RISING STAR LIGHTNING TALK NETWORKING SESSION* | 2:00-3:00pm
Agenda | Tuesday Jan. 12th
OPENING REMARKS* | 9:00-9:15am
RISING STAR SPOTLIGHT SESSION 3: SECURITY + PRIVACY* | 9:15-9:50am
Wanrong Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Liwei Song, Princeton University
RISING STAR SPOTLIGHT SESSION 4: COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCES* | 9:50-10:25am
Yian Yin, Northwestern University
Teng Ye, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
RISING STAR SPOTLIGHT SESSION 5: DATA SCIENCE – FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE* | 10:25-11:00am
Ruqi Zhang, Cornell University
Qiyuan Hu, the University of Chicago
PANEL: POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IN DATA SCIENCE* | 11:15am-12:15pm
Qinyun Lin, Center for Spatial Data Science
Stefan Uddenberg, Center for Applied AI
Tarun Mangla, Center for Data and Computing
Anna Woodard, Computer Science Department
Moderator: Jamie Saxon, Center for Data and Computing
PANEL: CAREERS IN DATA SCIENCE* | 12:20-1:20pm
Maryellen Giger, A.N. Pritzker Professor of Radiology, Committee on Medical Physics, and the College; Vice-Chair of Radiology
Heather Zheng, Neubauer Professor of Computer Science
Chenhao Tan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Marynia Kolak, Assistant Director for Health Informatics, Center for Spatial Data Science
Bryon Aragam, Assistant Professor and Topel Faculty Scholar in the Booth School of Business
Moderator: Eric Jonas, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
