[WTI-trainee] kickoff of Yale’s new Institute for the Foundations of Data Science

Wed Oct 12 14:10:53 EDT 2022

Dear Colleagues,

I write to invite you to the kickoff of Yale’s new Institute for the
Foundations of Data Science, <http://fds.yale.edu/> which will take place in
the  O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall on Friday, October 14, between 1 and 4pm.

You can RSVP here.
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/institute-for-foundations-of-data-science-kickoff-event-at-yale-university-registration-425183995777>

After introductions by the President and Provost, we will learn about the
tremendous breadth of data science research at Yale from 20 short talks by
faculty representing seven schools and many departments. We will break for
coffee and snacks in the middle. You can find the program below.

If you know students who may be interested, please forward this
announcement to them.

I hope to see you there.

Sincerely,

Dan Spielman

James A. Attwood Director of the Institute for Foundations of Data Science

Sterling Professor of Computer Science, Statistics & Data Science, and
Mathematics

*1:00pm Introductory Remarks*

   - University President Peter Salovey
   - University Provost Scott Strobel
   - Sterling Professor and James A. Attwood Director of FDS, Daniel
   Spielman

*1:15pm Lightning Round 1*

   - Rohan Khera
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cards-lab.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=96gwAtUIo5bv6Erx4qglhpKeSaaYI9P%2FYomql6vD5zM%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Healthcare 2.0: AI-Driven Innovation for Accessible and Accountable Care”

   - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine,
      Yale School of Medicine
      - Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Section of Health
      Informatics, Yale School of Public Health
      - Clinical Director, Data Analytics Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital
      Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
      - Director, Cardiovascular Data Science (CarDS) Lab

   - Elisa Celis
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatascienceethics.wordpress.com%2Felisacelis%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fvYMVFlqAU1GHKaeDxC4Rodn9teVHOqkn6UIiPushG8%3D&reserved=0>,
   "The ‘objectivity’ of data"

   - Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science

   - Amin Karbasi <https://iid.yale.edu/>, “Human in the loop”

   - Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
      Statistics & Data Science
      - Director, Inference, Information, and Decision Systems Group

   - Zhou Fan
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stat.yale.edu%2F~zf59%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8YfGzIY4bsNGidUFNqU4F0oIhl3Agy7ZyPRbLiEgP9g%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Empirical Bayes PCA in high dimensions”

   - Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science

   - Priya Panda <https://intelligentcomputinglab.yale.edu/>, "Exploring
   Robustness and Energy-Efficiency through Spike-based Machine Intelligence"

   - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
      - Director, Intelligent Computing Lab at Yale

   - Casey King <https://jackson.yale.edu/person/casey-king/>, “Compression
   is Key: Improving span annotation and classification task performance using
   parameter-efficient model architectures trained on BERT’s hidden state
   activations”

   - Lecturer, Jackson School of Global Affairs and Statistics & Data
      Science
      - Director of the Capstone Program at the Jackson School of Global
      Affairs

   - Bryan Kelly
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bryankellyacademic.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tu4041bo3b2yT8t7dM6ZdFgcZVbEOCKAC%2Fycxji7ie8%3D&reserved=0>,
   "Machine Learning in Finance"

   - Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

   - Mark Gerstein
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gersteinlab.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ppTZ87JZxBP1HPhi9iMGkUS9P%2Bq6kJKB1BWWcyuXdTw%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Interpretable machine learning for neurogenomics”

   - Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular
      Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Professor of Computer Science and
Statistics
      & Data Science

   - Jeffrey Park <https://people.earth.yale.edu/profile/jeffrey-park/about>,
   “Seismic Data Retrieval and Time-Series Processing for Scattered Waves
   Using Jupyter Notebooks”

   - Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

   - Dragomir Radev
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.yale.edu%2Fhomes%2Fradev%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SgzcxtCxhxD7pCI4NnKnO2KfTT9OTydeygcaIe0Oyag%3D&reserved=0>,
   "Natural Language Interfaces to Structured Data"

   - A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science
      - Director, LILY (Language, Information, and Learning at Yale) Lab

   - Dirk Bergemann <https://campuspress.yale.edu/dirkbergemann/>,
   “Information Design”

   - Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics
      - Professor of Computer Science in the Yale School of Engineering
      - Professor of Finance in the Yale School of Management.

*2:15pm Coffee Break*

*2:45pm Lightning Round 2*

   - Karen Seto <https://urbanization.yale.edu/>, “Satellite remote sensing
   to understand the human imprint on the planet”

   - Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science,
      Yale School of the Environment

   - Fredrik Sävje
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffredriksavje.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VzgQIT1WcbbItNoQBhm%2BuiSg0CkxQ04xb4hDfQUZpEM%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Social Science Experimentation Under Interference”

   - Assistant Professor Political Science and Statistics & Data Science

   - Ilker Yildirim
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcncl.yale.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HmNp%2FSBXLCtiKG1FfN1jKkFLCtWwPUELlHm283KNrPw%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Reverse-engineering the brain's 'world models'”

   - Assistant Professor of Psychology and Statistics & Data Science

   - Luke Sanford
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flcsanford.github.io%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=84IPUxcsp32AdKfjPSfOYcSO47CCuBWm%2F%2F4XGqXJQPQ%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Using satellite data for environmental measurement and causal inference”

   - Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance, Yale
      School of the Environment

   - Roy Lederman
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Froy.lederman.name%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3apnQesurzzqJf%2BuwMni%2F81ehXofy6Js6XFqiOPbW5A%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Wiggling molecules and spinning action figures”

   - Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science; Member of the
      Quantitative Biology Institute (QBio); Member of the Wu Tsai
Institute (WTI)

   - James S. Duncan
   <https://seas.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/james-duncan>,
   "Neuroimage Analysis in Autism: from Model-Based Estimation to Data-driven
   Learning”

   - Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical
      Engineering & Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

   - Xiaohong Chen <https://economics.yale.edu/people/faculty/xiaohong-chen>,
   “Optimal inference on structural elasticities in economics”

   - Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics, Professor of Management
      and of Statistics & Data Science

   - Charalampos Papamanthou <https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/cpap/>,
   "Computing on Private Data"

   - Associate Professor of Computer Science
      - Co-director of Yale Applied Cryptography Laboratory

   - Steven Zucker
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.yale.edu%2Fhomes%2Fvision%2Fzucker%2Fsteve.html&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RLHBHWnbiTzfz8ewuj3G%2B1ApxXJpf7ZfUFTCNl%2F9n6A%3D&reserved=0>,
   “Understanding the visual system using manifold inference”

   - David and Lucile Packard Professor of Computer Science and Professor
      of Biomedical Engineering
      - Co-Director, Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience

   - Forrest Crawford
   <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crawfordlab.io%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cemily.hau%40yale.edu%7C0c290c124b074ef7c55208daa87112f8%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638007500847499464%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kJgm%2FAck4PXKGAE0gSu%2BkM2OVeClPCRROGDz%2Byxg4Co%3D&reserved=0>,
   "Uncovering hidden structure in epidemiology"

   - Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics & Data Science,
      Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Management (Operations)
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