Agenda

Thursday, April 13 – E14-674 Multi Purpose Room

8:15am – Registration and Breakfast

9:00am – Opening
Munther Dahleh, Director, IDSS

9:15am – Introductory remarks
Michael Sipser, Donner Professor of Mathematics, MIT

9:30am – On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design
Michael Jordan, Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

10:15am – Break

10:30am – Statistics and Computation

• Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics & Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
• Anish Agarwal, Incoming Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• Guy Bresler, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IDSS, MIT
• Ankur Moitra, Norbert Wiener Professor, MIT, Mathematics; Director of Statistics and Data Science Center
• Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
• Philippe Rigollet, Professor, Mathematics, MIT
• Martin Wainwright, Cecil B. Green Professor, EECS, Mathematics and LIDS, MIT
• Ashia Wilson, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

12:30pm – Lunch

1:00pm – Spread of (Mis)information and Collective Action

• Adam Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science, MIT
• Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Toshiba Professor, Media Arts & Sciences, MIT
• David Rand, Erwin H. Schell Professor, Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
• Manon Revel, Graduate Student, IDSS, MIT

2:15pm – Plenary Talk: “Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment on Immunization”
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT

3:00 pm – Break

3:15pm – Smart Infrastructure Systems

• Saurabh Amin, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
• Navid Azizan, Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and IDSS
• Cathy Wu, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and IDSS, MIT
• Manxi Wu, Assistant Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
• Jinhua Zhao, Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor, MIT

4:25pm – Break

4:35pm – Equity, Justice, AI and Automation

• Fotini Christia, Director, SSRC; Program Chair, SES; Associate Director, IDSS; Ford International Professor, Social Sciences, MIT
• Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies, MIT
• Hoda Heidari, Assistant Professor, Machine Learning Department and the Institute for Software, Systems, and Society, Carnegie Mellon University
• Anette “Peko” Hosoi, Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Mathematics, MIT
• S. Craig Watkins, Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin

5:50 pm – Closing Remarks
6:00pm – Conference Ends

Friday, April 14 – E15-070 Bartos Theater

8:15am – Registration and Breakfast

8:45am – Opening Remarks
Munther Dahleh, Director, IDSS

8:55am – Remarks from the new IDSS Director
Martin Wainwright, Incoming IDSS Director

9:00am – Plenary Talk: “Modeling Conflict in Social Media”
Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor in the Computer Science Department, Cornell University

9:45am – Break

10:00am – Climate System Science and Engineering: A Proposal for a New Major at MIT
Ali Jadbabaie, JR East Professor of Engineering, CEE; Department Head, CEE, MIT

10:15am – Climate Change and Sustainability

• Elsa Olivetti, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
• Minghao Qiu, Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health, Stanford University
• Jessika Trancik, Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
• Sherrie Wang, Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, (future Asst Prof at Mech E and IDSS, MIT)

11:30am – Plenary Talk: “The Role of Time in the Design of Distributed Systems”
Balaji Prabhakar, Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

12:15pm – Lunch

12:45pm – Statistics and Human Health

• Emery Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor, Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience, MIT
• Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES), MIT
• Maia Majumder, Assistant Professor in the Computational Health Informatics Program, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
• Suvrit Sra, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Institute for Data, Systems and Society, MIT
• Caroline Uhler, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IDSS, MIT

2:00pm – Break

2:15pm – Global Online Education (virtual link here)

• Karene Chu, Assistant Director of Education of the MicroMasters in SDS, Research Scientist, MIT
• Milind Kopikare, President, Great Learning North America
• Lucia del Pilar Haro Gonzales, Manager, BREIT (Advanced Program in Data Science & Global Skills)
• Devavrat Shah, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• John Tsitsiklis, Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT

3:30pm – Closing Remarks

3:45pm – Conference Ends