Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Find seminars on operations, information, and technology that are open to the Stanford University community.

OIT seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. PT, unless otherwise indicated.

 

Spring 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 12
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Daniel Kuhn
EPFL

On the Interplay of Optimal Transport and Distributionally Robust Optimization

Apr 19
12:00-1:00pm
E102

Jónas Oddur Jónasson
MIT Sloan School

Personalizing Interventions in Behavioral Health 
Apr 26
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Maria De-Arteaga
University of Texas at Austin
joint paper with Riccardo Fogliato and Alexandra Chouldechova
May 03
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Jordan Tong
University of Wisconsin-Madison  
Improving Human-Algorithm Collaboration: Causes and Mitigation of Over- and Under-Adherence joint paper with Maya Balakrishnan and Kris Ferreira
May 10
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Vasilis Syrgkanis
Stanford University
Estimating the Long-Term Effects of Novel Treatments
May 17
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Ziv Scully
Cornell University
A New Toolbox for Scheduling Theory ( )
May 31
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Pedro Ferreira
Carnegie Mellon University
joint paper with Miguel Godinho de Matos 
Jun 07
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Angela Zhou
USC

Data-Driven Influence Functions for Optimization-Based Estimators in Causal Inference 

 

Winter 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 11
11:45-1:00pm
C106
Thi Mai Anh Nguyen
MIT Economics
Long-Term Relationships and the Spot Market: Evidence from US Trucking joint paper with Adam Harris
Jan 18
11:45-1:00pm
C106
Paul Gölz
Carnegie Mellon University
joint paper with Bailey Flanigan, Anupam Gupta, Bret Hennig and Ariel D. Procaccia
Jan 25
11:45-1:00pm
C106
Raaz Dwivedi
UC Berkeley
Counterfactual inference for sequential experimental design joint paper with Susan Murphy and Devavrat Shah
Feb 01
11:45-1:00pm
C106
Alp Sungu
London Business School
Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: Take-up, Substitution Effects and Nutrition joint paper with Ali Aouad and Kamalini Ramdas
Feb 15
11:45-1:00pm
C106
Alireza Fallah
MIT
Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms joint paper with Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh and Asuman Ozdaglar
Feb 22
11:45-1:00pm
C106
Sophie Yu
Duke University
joint paper with Cheng Mao, Yihong Wu, and Jiaming Xu

Fall 2022

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 07
12:00-1:00pm
C105
Kamalini Ramdas
London Business School
Shared Service Delivery Can Increase Client Engagement: A Study of Shared Medical Appointments (
Sep 28
12:00-1:00pm
M105
Michael R. Wagner
University of Washington
joint paper with Andrew F. Siegel
Oct 05
12:00-1:00pm
M105
Velibor Misic
UCLA 
joint paper with Yi-Chun Chen 
Oct 12
12:00-1:00pm
M105
Alex Yang
London Business School
Crowd-judging joint paper with Alan Kwan and Angela Huyue Zhang 
Oct 26
12:00-1:00pm
M105
Georgia Perakis
MIT Management Sloan School
The Role of Optimization in Operations Management Applications joint paper with Lennart Baardman, Rares Cristian, Divya Singhvi, Omar Skali Lami and Leann Thayaparan ( )
Nov 02
12:00-1:00pm
P101
Daniela Saban
Stanford GSB 
 
Nov 09
12:00-1:00pm
M105
Ioannis Stamatopoulos
The University of Texas at Austin
Do observational methods recover true price elasticities? Experimental evidence ( )
Nov 16
12:00-1:00pm
M105
Christina Yu
Cornell University
Adaptive Discretization in Online Reinforcement Learning (
Nov 30
12:00-1:00pm
C106
Yoni Gur
Stanford GSB 
Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards joint paper with Gad Allon, and Joseph Carlstein
Dec 06
12:00-1:00pm
C106
Jann Spiess
Stanford GSB 
Fair and Bias-Aware Algorithmic Assistance ( )
Dec 14
12:00-1:00pm
E102
Benjamin Van Roy
Stanford University
Nonstationary Bandits and Predictive Sampling joint work with Yueyang Liu and Kuang Xu (

Seminar Organizers

Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology