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
Spring 2024
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
Fall 2023
September 22
Natalie Parde, University of Illinois Chicago
Topic: Low-Resource Spoken Language Analysis for Cognitive Health Assessment
Fall 2022
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
Fall 2021
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
Spring 2021
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
Fall 2020
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
Spring 2019
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
Fall 2019
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
Spring 2018
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
Fall 2018
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