Lighting Talks with Industry Experts and Academic Researchers

Ever wonder how the data science research of our SCI-LIS data science faculty helps industry in the ‘real world’?  Industry expert Ganes Kesari joins a panel of our own SCI-LIS data science faculty for an evening of lightning talks and conversation about how data science research helps the industry understand its business and customers.  Moderated by Lilia Pavolovsky - Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the MI Program. 

Lightning Talks followed by Ask Me Anything with the panel 

Tawfiq Ammari,  Assistant Professor of LIS    

Using data science to analyze social change

Kiran Garimella  - Assistant Professor of LIS 

Tackling large-scale social problems with data science

Ganes Kesari, Co-founder and Chief Decision Scientist at Gramener 

 Discovering roles and career options in data science  

Shagun Jhaver - Assistant Professor of LIS :  

Creating social computing systems to collect and analyze social data  

Michael Lesk - Professor of LIS 

Understanding how data curation is important in organizational and political issues

Vivek Singh - Associate Professor of LIS - Director of the Behavioral Informatics Lab

Using phone and sensor data to understand, influence, and predict human behavior