Information and Decision Sciences Speaker Series
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.
Upcoming Seminars
Spring 2025
January 31
Alexandre Jacquillat, Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics
Sloan School of Business, MIT
Topic: “From vaccines to wildfires: branch-and-price for social good”
February 7
Min-Seok Pang, Professor of Information Systems and Analytics, Karen A. and William S. Monfre Professor in Business
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Topic: “Safety on Autopilot: An Empirical Investigation of Autonomous Driving and Traffic Safety”
February 28
Daniel Rock, Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
Topic: “Deep Capital for Deep Learning”
March 7
Michael Lingzhi Li, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Department of Technology and Operations Management
Harvard University
Topic: “CRAM: Efficient Statistical Evaluation of Generic Machine Learning Algorithms”
March 14
Yixin Lu, Associate Professor of Information Systems & Technology Management
George Washington University
Topic: “Spatial Competition in Fast-Charging Networks.”
March 21
Daniel Freund, Assistant Professor, Operations Management
Sloan School of Business, MIT
Topic: “Scheduling Considerations in the US Asylum System: LIFO, FIFO, and the Dedicated Docket”
April 4
Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho, Associate Professor
Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
Topic: “AI Enforcement: Examining the Impact of AI on Judicial Fairness and Public Safety”
April 18
Will Ma, Associate Professor, Decision, Risk and Operations
Columbia University
Topic: TBA
April 25
Sumit Kunnumkal, Professor and Area Leader
Indian School of Business
Topic: TBA
Past Seminars
Fall 2024
September 13
Omar Besbes, Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Columbia University
Topic: “Operations/Machine Learning”
October 4
T. Ravichandran, Irene and Robert Bozzone ’55 Distinguished Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Topic: “Information Systems”
October 18
Manling Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Topic: “Multimodal AI”
November 1
Miki Racz, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Computer Science
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Topic: “Statistics/Econometrics”
November 8
Santiago Balseiro, Associate Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Columbia University
Topic: “Operations/Machine Learning”
November 15
Jingjing Zhang, Judith Norman Davis and Kim G. Davis Professor of Business Analytics
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Topic: “Information Systems”
Spring 2024
February 2
Moontae Lee, Assistant Professor, Information and Decision Sciences
University of Illinois Chicago
Topic: “Large Language Models”
February 16
Achal Bassamboo, Charles E. Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences, Professor of Operations
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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”
April 5
Lucy Yan, John & Esther Reese Professor, Operations and Decision Technologies
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Topic: “Value Co-Creation in Online Weight loss Platforms: a Service-Dominant Perspective”
April 19
Xiao Liu, Associate Professor of Marketing
Stern School of Business, New York University
Topic: “The Impact of Sustainability Certifications on Sales and Seller Competition: Evidence from Amazon Climate Pledge Friendly”
Fall 2023
September 22
Natalie Parde, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois Chicago
Topic: “Low-Resource Spoken Language Analysis for Cognitive Health Assessment”
October 6
Pengyi Shi, Associate Professor of Management, Supply Chain and Operations Management
Purdue University
Topic: “Reducing Recidivism with Community-based Programs: Data-driven Analytics for Societal Benefits and Fairness”
November 3
Shane Henderson, Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor in Productivity, Operations Research and Information Management
Cornell University
Topic: “Modeling the Impact of Community First Responders”
November 10
Yingda Lu, Associate Professor, Information and Decision Sciences
University of Illinois Chicago
Topic: “Information Systems”
November 17
Zhuoxin Li, Associate Professor, Operations and Information Management
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Topic: “Regulating Powerful Platforms: Evidence from Commission Fee Caps”
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