10/01: Fall Welcome Mixer

[shevajia]

Comment below with one speaker (and/or a paper by the speaker) whom you wish to see at our workshop.

Please make your comments by Wednesday 11:59 PM, and upvote at least five of your peers' comments on Thursday prior to the workshop. You need to use 'thumbs-up' for your reactions to count towards 'top comments,' but you can use other emojis on top of the thumbs up.

[hesongrun]

I would like to recommend professor Stefan Nagel from Booth school of business. His research is fascinating!

[bazirou]

I personally recommend Lebron James, who's the FMVP of NBA 2019-2020.

[yongfeilu]

I would recommend Prof. Devin G. Pope, Professor of Behavioral Science and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow at Booth Business School. He studies a variety of topics at the intersection of economics and psychology.

[sabinahartnett]

I would recommend Morgan Frank a postdoctoral associate at MIT's Media Lab researching the impact of AI on individuals and society.

[luyingjiang]

I would like to recommend Mladen Kolar from Booth to share his work on social media analysis. His research interests are in machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, high-dimensional statistics, and distributed optimization.

[jamesallenevans]

Elon Musk & the Neurolink executives/scientists to talk about the social potential for brain control of computers and arbitrary computation.

[FranciscoRMendes]

I would like to recommend David C Parkes who has designed optimal auctions using deep learning

[MkramerPsych]

I would like to recommend Michael Tarr, chair of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has conducted extensive research in computational neuroscience and has given many presentations on the use of computational models as analogs for human neurological processes.

[wanitchayap]

Dan Yurovsky. He used to be in UChicago's Psychology and now he is at CMU. I think he uses computational method very wisely with studying language/communication in children.

[smiklin]

More names from the group discussion

Lore Goetschalckx Filipo Menzcar Munmun De Choudhury
 Susan Athey Glen Coppersmith (Qntify) Joe Franklin (Florida State)
 Philip Howard (Oxford) Steve Piantadosi (Berkeley)

[mikepackard415]

Matthew Jackson came up in our discussion, he studies social and economic networks!

[nwrim]

New suggestion after the breakout talk:

• Alexander Todorov from Booth School of business, he recently joined the department and I heard he does great research on the perception of the social world and could be interesting to hear from!

[alevi98]

I would be interested in hearing from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook! Something a lot of people in my group seemed interested in is misinformation, and I have a feeling the people in this workshop would be able to ask better questions about their policy than U.S. congresspeople in a public hearing.

[TwoCentimetre]

I would like to recommend Zuckerberg. I want to know what kind of thing could he do with all the data generated from Facebook. Would that beyond our imagination? Will facebook do something out of the box?

[william-wei-zhu]

I personally recommend Lebron James, who's the FMVP of NBA 2019-2020.

It may be AD!

[william-wei-zhu]

I am interested in hearing from Professor Ronald Burt from Chicago Booth, who over the past few years published many interesting papers about the entrepreneurship network in yangtze delta region of China.

[Bin-ary-Li]

For people who second the cognitive scientist Dr. Tom Griffiths at Princeton, please also consider Dr. Steven T. Piantadosi at UC Berkeley. His research uses formal computational methods and behavioral experiments to study how people learn language and create conceptual systems.

Dr. Piantadosi and Griffiths were both working for the famous cognitive scientist Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT and Piantadosi took over Griffiths' position at Berkeley a few year ago when the latter left for Princeton. Dr. Piantadosi is a funny, perceptive, and charismatic speaker. I am sure his speech would be very engaging.

[egemenpamukcu]

My additional suggestion would be Professor Marshall Van Alstyne of MIT Initiative on Digital Economy for his work on network effects and "two-sided networks". He co-authored the book Platform Revolution where he analyzes today's platform companies and how they transform the economies formerly led by what he calls "pipeline" businesses through data savviness and building and exploiting networked markets where suppliers and consumers can move in between the system with extensive freedom.

His recent work (with Sinan Aral who is mentioned above) also looks at links between social networks and how they effect access to novel information.

He was also one of the co-authors of the piece we read on computational social science for the first week of the perspectives sequence.

[afchao]

It has already been suggested, but following our discussion I'd like to reiterate an interest in inviting David Krakauer, president of the Santa Fe Institute, whose work on complexity leverages computational approaches to a wide range of topics in the social sciences (and beyond).

[a-bosko]

An additional suggestion would be Professor Edward McFowland. He is a professor at the University of Minnesota in the Carlson School of Management that is interested in information systems, machine learning, and public policy. He also uses machine learning to look at different social science problems, which would be really interesting and relevant to our program.

[AlexPrizzy]

I would also like to see Bryan Johnson founder of Kernel

[j2401]

I would also recommend George Iosifidis. He also did research in optimizing benefits within a cooperation network.

[kthomas14]

I would like to recommend Dr. Leor Hackel. He is a Professor at USC and uses computational modeling to explore topics in social cognition and decision making.

[jkatz913]

I think Professor Ken Benoit from the London School of Economics would be another interesting speaker.  He uses to computational text analysis methods to explore questions pertaining to electoral politics and the role of campaign spending.  He is currently working on the development of the Quanteda R package for the analysis of quantitative textual data.

[sabinahartnett]

I would be excited to hear from Raj Chetty especially about his recent research on economic mobility (The Opportunity Atlas). Raj is a professor of economics at Harvard who focuses largely on economic disparities and opportunities. He also has two interesting features on NPRs Hidden Brain: "The State of Your American Dream" and "Zipcode Destiny" :)

[aolajide]

I would like to see Katy Milkman of the University of Pennsylvania, who I believe focuses on behavioral psychology and Joel Mainland also of the same university, who focuses on olfaction, a human behavior at the intersection of multiple disciplines. I would also like to see Leslie Kay of the University of Chicago, who also works in olfaction.

[ttsujikawa]

I would recommend JAY R. RITTER who is the Eminent Scholar Chair at the University of Florida. He is a leading financial economics scholar who has published outstanding papers on investment phenomena around the US IPO market. The reason why I recommend him as a speaker is that now is the time when investment activities are getting diverged and people eventually start reviewing the importance of how we invest in. I am really curious about how he sees the current investment market /IPO market.

[Qlei23]

I would recommend Matthew Botvinick, who is the Director of Neuroscience Research in University College London. I just watched his speech AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience: The View from DeepMind, and it's very inspiring to combine AI and neuroscience. I'm also interested in Professor Joshua Dean's (from Chicago Booth) researches in the field of behavioral development economics.

[ghost]

I would also like to see Professor Sendhil Mullainathan at the workshop.

[yiq029]

I would like to hear from Mark Zuckerberg.