IDS Friday Research Workshops
Each Friday during the school year, the Information & Decision Sciences Department hosts a seminar discussion on new and in-progress research. The series provides opportunities for PhD students, faculty, and industry partners to engage with one another and with the research of scholars from around the world.
Current coordinators are Xuan Bi and Chaofan Zhai.
Upcoming events are listed at the bottom of the page.
Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan-9 | Geneviève Bassellier (McGill) | Impact of Leadership Selection and Rejection on Contributions in Online Communities |
| Jan-26 | Jorge Guzman (U Columbia) | Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source: Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program |
| Feb-2 | Shu He (UFL) | Navigating the Influencer Marketplace: How Influencers Adapt to Increased Sponsored Content |
| Feb-9 | Mehmet Ayvaci (UTD) | What People Think of Machines as Doctors: Unveiling the Value of ChatGPT for e-Health |
| Feb-16 | Anitesh Barua (UTD) | Follow Your Heart or Listen to Users? The Case of Mobile App Design |
| Feb-23 | Zhe Zhang (UCSD) | Imputation Strategies Under Clinical Presence: Impact on Algorithmic Fairness |
| Mar-1 | Kunpeng Zhang (UMD) | TBD |
| Mar-15 | Mingwen Yang (UW) | TBD |
| Mar-29 | Ramayya Krishnan (CMU) | TBD |
| April-5 | Raveesh Mayya (NYU) | TBD |
| April-12 | Ahmed Abbasi (U Notre Dame) | TBD |
| April-19 | Gordon Burtch (BU) | TBD |
| April-26 | Antino Kim (IU) | TBD |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Sep | Vibhanshu Abhishek (UCI) | Bias in Generative AI |
| 20-Oct | Param Vir Singh (CMU) | Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Simple Rule-Based Pricing |
| 27-Oct | Joao Sedoc (NYU) | New Frontiers in the Evaluation of Conversational Agents |
| 2-Nov | Scott Schanke (UWM) | Digital Lyrebirds: Experimental Evidence that Voice-based Deep Fakes’ Influence Trust |
| 10-Nov | Pei-yu Chen (ASU) | Jumpstarting Online Presence: How Algorithmic Content Mitigates Cold Start Woes |
| 17-Nov | Sumit Sarkar (UTD) | A Recommendation Framework for Crowdsourcing Contest Design |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Jan | Olivia Sheng (U Utah) | TBA |
| 27-Jan | Min-Seok Pang (Temple) | TBA |
| 3-Feb | Robert Gregory (U Miami) | TBA |
| 10-Feb | Jaehwuen Jung (Temple) | TBA |
| 17-Feb | Yan Leng (UT Austin) | TBA |
| 3-Mar | Paramveer Dhillon (U Michigan) | TBA |
| 24-Mar | Elena Karahanna (UGA) | TBA |
| 31-Mar | Siva Viswanathan (UMD) | TBA |
| 7-Apr | Gang Wang (U Delaware) | TBA |
| 14-Apr | Peiyu Chen (ASU) | TBA |
| 21-Apr | Alessandro Acquisti (CMU) | TBA |
| 28-Apr | Xin Luo (U New Mexico) | TBA |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Sep | Raghu Santanam (Arizona State University W. P. Carey) | TBA |
| 7-Oct | Abhay N Mishra (Iowa State University Debbie and Jerry Ivy) | TBA |
| 21-Oct | Tricia Moravec (Indiana University Kelley) | TBA |
| 28-Oct | Idris Adjerid (Virginia Tech Pamplin) | TBA |
| 11-Nov | Shaojie Tang (University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal) | TBA |
| 18-Nov | JJ Po-An Hsieh (Georgia State University Robinson) | TBA |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan | Shunyuan Zhang (Harvard Business School) | TBA |
| 28-Jan | Mochen Yang (UMN Carlson) | TBA |
| 4-Feb | Radhika Santhanam (OU Price) | TBA |
| 11-Feb | Likoebe Maruping (GSU Robinson) | TBA |
| 18-Feb | Jianqing Chen (UT Dallas) | TBA |
| 25-Feb | Beibei Li (CMU Heinz) | TBA |
| 4-Mar | Martin Ganco (Wisconsin) | TBA |
| 25-Mar | Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe (Wharton) | TBA |
| 1-Apr | Jason Greenberg (Wharton) | TBA |
| 8-Apr | Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School) | TBA |
| 15-Apr | Arun Rai (GSU Robinson) | TBA |
| 22-Apr | Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern) | TBA |
| 29-Apr | Alessandro Acquisti (CMU Heinz) | TBA |
| 6-May | DJ Wu (GT Scheller) | TBA |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1-Oct | Ananya Sen (CMU Heinz) | Quantifying the User Value of Social Media Data |
| 8-Oct | Hilal Atasoy (Rutgers) | "Where to, Doc?" Electronic Health Record Systems and the Allocation of Patients within Healthcare Systems |
| 15-Oct | Marios Kokkodis (Boston College) | Adjusting Skillset Cohesion in Online Labor Markets: Reputation Gains and Opportunity Losses |
| 29-Oct | Natalia Levina (NYU Stern) | To engage or not to engage with AI for critical judgments: How professionals deal with opacity when using AI for medical diagnosis |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Jan | Laura Brandimarte | A Sense of Privacy |
| 29-Jan | Lynn Wu | The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms |
| 5-Feb | Emmanuelle Vaast | When digital technologies enable and threaten occupational identity: The delicate balancing act of data scientists |
| 12-Feb | Gordon Burtch/Meizi Zhou | Healthcare across Boundaries: Urban-Rural Differences in the Financial and Healthcare Consequences of Telehealth Adoption |
| 19-Feb | Nathan Kallus | Smooth Contextual Bandits: Bridging the Parametric and Non-differentiable Regret Regimes |
| 26-Feb | Lusi Yang | Winner Takes All? The “Blockbuster Effect” on Crowdfunding Platform |
| 5-Mar | Jui Ramaprasad | Do Programming Tasks Bias Moral Decision-Making? |
| 12-Mar | Sagar Samtani | Linking Exploits from the Dark Web to Known Vulnerabilities for Proactive Cyber Threat Intelligence: An Attention-Based Deep Structured Semantic Model Approach? |
| 19-Mar | Sriram Somanchi | To Predict or Not to Predict: The Case of the Emergency Department |
| 26-Mar | Yixin Lu | Designing Personalized Treatment Plans for Breast Cancer |
| 2-Apr | Dean Eckles | Scalable bundling via dense product embeddings |
| 16-Apr | Solon Barocas | Unavoidable Tensions in Explaining Algorithmic Decisions |
| 23-Apr | Rema Padman | YouTube Video Analytics for Health Literacy and Chronic Care Management: An Augmented Intelligence Approach to Assess Content and Understandability |
| 30-Apr | Panagiotis (Panos) Adamopoulos | Heterogeneous Demand Effects of Recommendation Strategies in a Mobile Application: Evidence from Econometric Models and Machine-Learning Instruments |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Sep | PhD Student Presentations | |
| 18-Sep | PhD Student Presentations | |
| 25-Sep | Michael D Smith | THE ABUNDANT UNIVERSITY -- Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World |
| 2-Oct | Kristina McElheran | IT Outsourcing in the Age of the Cloud: Productivity, Survival, and Strategic Fit of IT Resources |
| 9-Oct | Jesse Shore | Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment |
| 16-Oct | Yinghui (Catherine) Yang | Background Music Recommendation for Short Videos on Social Video Platforms |
| 23-Oct | Indranil Bardhan | Impact of Telehealth Use on Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experimental Patient-Level Study |
| 13-Nov | Hila Lifshitz-Assaf | Using Technology to Augment Professionals, Not Replace Them, for Innovative Problem Solving |
| 20-Nov | Zaiyan Wei | Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb |
| 4-Dec | PhD Student Presentations |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Jan | Avi Goldfarb | Could Machine Learning be a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Online Job Postings |
| 31-Jan | Paul Ma | Information Externalities in Machine Learning Contests |
| 7-Feb | Marius Niculescu | Economics of Ransomware Attacks |
| 14-Feb | Kewei Huang | Controlling Homophily in Social Network Regression by Machine Learning |
| 21-Feb | Ching Ren | |
| 28-Feb | Brian Butler | A Potential Uses Model of Data Governance |
| 6-Mar | Catherine Tucker | Three new Field Tests Exploring Algorithmic Bias in Advertising |
| 13-Mar | Spring Break | |
| 20-Mar | Yixin Lu | Designing Personalized Treatment Plan for Breast Cancer: A Predictive Analytics Approach |
| 27-Mar | Sagar Samtani | |
| 3-Apr | Panos Adamopoulos | |
| 10-Apr | Laura Brandimarte | |
| 17-Apr | Bin Gu | |
| 24-Apr | Indranil Bardhan | |
| 1-May | Rema Padman | |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Sep | PhD Student Presentations | |
| 20-Sep | Kartik Hosanagar (Wharton) | Learning Instrumental Variables |
| 27-Sep | PhD Student Presentations | |
| 4-Oct | Jingjing Li (U of Virginia) | A Deep Learning Architecture for Psychometric Natural Language Processing |
| 11-Oct | Chris Forman (Cornell) | |
| 25-Oct | Marshall Van Alstyne (MIT) | |
| 8-Nov | Lauren Rhue (Wake Forest) | |
| 15-Nov | Tingting Nian (UC Irvine) | |
| 22-Nov | Tianshu Sun (USC) | |
| 6-Dec | PhD Student Presentations |
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1-Feb | Vijay Mookerjee (UT Dallas) | The Voice of the Customer: Managing Customer Care in Twitter |
| 8-Feb | Eric Zheng (UT Dallas) | The Transparency-Revenue Conundrum in Social Trading: Implications for Platforms and Investors |
| 15-Feb | Moshe Barach (UMN Strategy) | Small numbers bargaining in the age of big data: Evidence from a two-sided labor matching platform |
| 22-Feb | Gordon Gao (Maryland) | How Digital Word-of-Mouth Affects Consumer Decision Making: Evidence from Doctor Appointment Booking |
| 1-Mar | Pallab Sanyal (George Mason) | An Empirical Examination of the Economics of Mobile Application Security |
| 8-Mar | - | Winter BI Conference (No Workshop) |
| 15-Mar | Jingjing Zhang (Indiana) | It Takes Two to Tango: The Effects of Internal and External Information Integration on Healthcare Process and Outcomes |
| 29-Mar | Pedro Ferreira (CMU) | Binge Yourself Out: The Effect of Binge Watching on the Subscription of Video on Demand |
| 5-Apr | Nachi Sahoo (Boston University) | Reducing Product Expiration by Aligning Salesforce Incentives: A Data-driven Approach |
| 12-Apr | Jing Gong | Enhancing the “Call for Bids” to Improve Matching Efficiency in Online Labor Markets: Capturing the Meaning of Unstructured Textual Content with Machine Learning |
| 19-Apr | Alex Tuzhilin (Stern NYU) | Imputing Multi-Criteria Missing Ratings from User Reviews |
| 26-Apr | Amit Mehra (UT Dallas) | |
| 3-May | Dokyun Lee (CMU) | Focused Concept Miner (FCM): an Interpretable Deep Learning for Text Exploration |
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 09/28 | Corey Angst U of Notre Dame | Too Good to Be True: Firm Social Performance and the Risk of Data Breach |
| 10/05 | Yan Huang CMU | The Role of Feedback in Dynamic Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Empirical Analysis |
| 10/19 | Elina Hwang U of Washington | Mobilizing Healthcare across Geography through Telemedicine Consultations |
| 10/26 | Zaiyan Wei Purdue U | The Survival of Noise Traders: Evidence From Peer-to-Peer Lending |
| 11/09 | Anandhi Bharadwaj Emory U | Business Method Innovations and Firm Value: An Empirical Investigation |
| 11/16 | Hong Guo U of Notre Dame | Cross-Market Integration and Sabotage |
| 11/30 | Yash Babar Sandeep Gangarapu U of Minnesota | PhD Student Presentations |
| 12/07 | Yaqiong Wang Meizi Zhou U of Minnesota | PhD Student Presentations |
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 1/19 | Brad Greenwood U of M | Just What the Doctor Ordered? Physician Mobility after the Adoption of Electronic Health Records |
| 1/26 | Linli Xu U of M | There's No Free Lunch Conversation: The Effect of Brand Advertising on Word of Mouth |
| 2/2 | Bill Rand NC State | Extracting Actionable Marketing Intelligence from Social Media Data using Machine Learning |
| 2/9 | Maytal Saar-Tsechansky UT Austin | Who Is A Good Decision Maker? Data-Driven Decision Ranking under Unobservable Quality |
| 2/16 | Anand Gopal U Maryland | A for Effort? Using the Crowd to Identify Moral Hazard in NYC Restaurant Hygiene Inspections |
| 2/23 | Joel Waldfogel U of M | Platforms, Power, and Preferential Placement: Evidence from Spotify Playlists |
| 3/2 | Foster Provost NYU | Causal Classification: Treatment Effect vs. Outcome Estimation |
| 3/9 | Yili Hong ASU | IT-enabled Monitoring and Labor Contracting in Online Platforms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| 3/23 | Christian Catalini MIT | Technological Opportunity, Bubbles and Innovation: The Dynamics of Initial Coin Offerings |
| 3/30 | Ram Chellappa Emory | Platform Preannouncement Strategies: The Strategic Role of In-formation in Two-Sided Markets Competition |
| 4/6 | Gautam Pant U of Iowa | Predicting Interfirm Human Capital Flow: Leveraging Networks and Heterogeneous Effects |
| 4/13 | Jonathon Cummings Duke | Physical Collocation, Structural Interdependence, and Work-Related Interactions in Organizations |
| 4/20 | Beibei Li CMU | Nudging Mobile Customers with Real-Time Social Dynamics |
| 4/27 | Sunil Wattal Temple | Competitive Poaching in Search Advertising: A Randomized Field Experiment |
| 5/4 | Huaxia Rui Rochester | Voice Cascade on Social Media |