Department seminar series

Leading scholars on areas related to Information and Decision Sciences from across the world bring their latest research to faculty, staff, and students. Seminars are usually held on Friday afternoons in UH 2450. Some seminars may be held virtually via Zoom. For detailed announcements, please subscribe to the IDS-seminar mailing list here.

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Meeting ID: 975 3576 7242
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Upcoming Seminars Heading link

February 16
Achal Bassamboo, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business

Topic: Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive A/B Tests for Average Treatment Effect

March 8
Saibal Ray, James McGill Chair in Supply Chain Management and Vice Dean of Faculty, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Topic: Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices Using Add-on Bundling: A Field Experiment

Past Seminars Heading link

September 22
Natalie Parde, University of Illinois Chicago

Topic: Low-Resource Spoken Language Analysis for Cognitive Health Assessment

September 16
Peter Frasier, Cornell University

September 23
Jim Smith, Dartmouth University

September 30
Dong Kyu Lee, Boston University

October 14
Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin Madison

October 21
Ashish Aggarwal, UT Austin

October 28
Amy Ward, Chicago Booth

Spring 2022

February 25
Zachary Lipton, CMU

March 4
Jason Chan, University of Minnesota

March 11
Stefan Wager, Stanford University

March 23
William Cooper, University of Minnesota

April 1
Rene Caldentey, Chicago Booth

April 8
Sridhar Seshadri, UIUC

April 15
Karthik Kannan, Purdue University

April 22
Liangfei Qiu, University of Florida

April 29
Itai Gurvich, Northwestern University

September 10
Chris Ryan, UBC

September 12
Ian Kash, UIC

September 15
Negin Golrezaei, OM

September 16
Beibei Li, IS

September 17
Gord Burtch, IS

January 15
Adith Swaminathan, Microsoft

January 22
Dan Adelman, University of Chicago

February 5
Velibor Misic, UCLA

March 5
Haihao (Sean) Lu,  University of Chicago

March 19
Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland

April 30
Georgia Perakis, MIT

February 21 
Eric Zheng, UT Dallas

February 28
Dorothee Honhon, UT Dallas

March 13
Owen Wu, Indiana University

March 20
Dan Adelman, University of Chicago

April 3
Steve Hanneke, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

April 10
Gediminas Adomavicius, University of Minnesota

April 17
Adith Swaminathan, Microsoft Research

May 1
Ahmed Abbasi, University of Virginia

March 1
Elias Bareinboim, Purdue University

March 8
Jiaming Xu, Duke University

March 15
Olivia Sheng, University of Utah

March 22
Paul Pavlou, Temple University

April 5
Jonathan Libgober, University of South California

April 26
Theja Tulabandhula, UIC

September 13 
PhD students summer paper presentations

September 27 
Devavrat Shah, MIT

October 7
Jeannette Song, Duke University

October 18
Renyu Zhang, NYU-Shanghai

October 25
Alexandre Belloni, Duke University

December 6
Huseyin Topaloglu, University of Cornell

February 23
Nagesh Gavirneni, Cornell University

March 9
Hao Lin, University of Notre Dame

March 16
Diego Klabjan, Northwestern University

March 23
William Cooper, University of Minnesota

April 6
Xin Chen, UIUC

April 20
Young Tan, University of Washington

April 27
Andreas Waechter, Northwestern University

September 7
Bora Keskin, Duke University

September 14
Jiaming Xu, Duke University

October 12
David Brown, Duke University

October 19
Ruoyu Sun, UIUC

November 16
Kevin Hong, Arizona State University

November 30
Theja Tulabandhula, UIC