OPEN TO ALL ABSTRACT: The Data, Ethics, and Decision-making Speaker Series hosted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) presents Dr. Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science in at Columbia University, on "Using Data for Good: What does it mean?". Professor Wing […]

OPEN TO ALL ABSTRACT When training large-scale deep neural networks for pattern recognition, hundreds of hours on clusters of GPUs are required to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Improved optimization algorithms could potentially enable faster industrial prototyping and make training contemporary models more accessible. In this talk, I will attempt to distill the key difficulties in optimizing […]

OPEN TO ALL SAVE THE DATE Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 8am–5pm New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJIT Campus Center Atrium 150 Bleeker Street, Newark, NJ 07103 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Jacqueline Law Global Head & VP, Real World Data Science Roche/Genentech Dr. Shahram Ebadollahi Chief Technology Officer IBM Watson Health The symposium will highlight two areas. […]

OPEN TO ALL Friday, February 16, 2018 12:00PM-1:30PM CEPSR 750 In this talk, we discuss a systematic evaluation of the impact of financial regulations concerning the collateralization of derivative trades on systemic risk - a topic that has been vigorously discussed since the financial crisis in 2007/08. Experts often disagree on the efficacy of these […]

LOCATION Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech 2 West Loop Road New York, NY 10044 February 20, 2018 Reception: 5:30pm-6:30pm Talk: 6:30pm-7:30pm  Every field has data. We use data to discover new knowledge, to interpret the world, to make decisions, and even to predict the future. The recent convergence of big data, cloud computing, and novel machine learning algorithms […]

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 11:00AM-12:15PM CEPSR 414, DAVIS AUDITORIUM "Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making - A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science" New instrument technologies are enabling a new generation of in-situ and in-operando experiments, with extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution, that allows researchers to observe as physics, chemistry and biology are happening. These […]

Open to all Regiser here Celebrating 5 years of Data Science at Columbia University Join us for demos and lightning talks by Columbia researchers presenting their latest work in data science. The event provides a forum for innovators in academia, industry and government to connect. Roone Arledge Auditorium Lerner Hall | Columbia University 2920 Broadway, New York, […]

OPEN TO ALL REGISTER HERE Thursday, September 13th, 2018 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Lecture 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Reception Brown Institute | 2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall (2950 Broadway) C++ is one of the key foundations of our software. It is invisible to most people because they use it only indirectly. It's in your computer and your […]

OPEN TO ALL RSVP HERE   Friday, September 14, 2018 Location: Pupin 428 1:00PM - 2:30PM Abstract: In our data-rich world, we in the technology community have a responsibility to ensure that we use data for good. In this talk, under the acronym FATES, I will focus on these aspects of the responsible use of […]

OPEN TO ALL REGISTER HERE Wednesday, September 26, 2018 5:00PM - 6:30PM Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium (412)   ABSTRACT: As people now engage with digital properties using a myriad of devices such as laptops, smart phones, tablets, connected TVs and gaming consoles, the traditional cookie-based or device-level views of online user interaction are too narrow. […]