Day 1 – Thursday, April 13
9:00am – Opening and Introductory Remarks
Munther Dahleh, Director, IDSS and Michael Sipser, Donner Professor of Mathematics, MIT
9:30am – Plenary Talk: On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design
Michael Jordan, Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
10:30am – 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
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
3:15pm – 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
4:35pm – 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
Day 2 – April 14
8:45am – Opening Remarks
Munther Dahleh, Director, IDSS and 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
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
11:30am – Plenary Talk: “The Role of Time in the Design of Distributed Systems”
Balaji Prabhakar, Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
12:45pm – 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
2:15pm – Global Online Education
- 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
