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Past Event
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Monica Lee, Facebook "Graph Mining to Protect the US 2020 Election"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
Details
PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE UNABLE TO LIVE STREAM THIS WEEK'S TALK.
Speaker:
Monica Lee - Data & Machine Learning Scientist, Facebook
Title:
Graph Mining to Protect the US 2020 Election
Abstract:
One of the most exciting machine learning initiatives supporting election protection at Facebook is Coordinated Operations Detection. Using a novel methodology based on graph embeddings, FB researchers have developed and implemented a system of at-scale community detection to pursue coordinated forms of election interference. This talk will describe its methodology and applications.
Speaker Bio:
Monica Lee is a Sociologist and Data & Machine Learning Scientist. She currently leads the Core Data Science: Political Organizations & Society team at Facebook and serves as an Engineering Lead on the Civic Integrity team. Her group develops innovative graph and machine learning models to detect and deter election-related platform abuse and protect users most vulnerable to its effects. Before Facebook, Monica received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. While she used to publish frequently on graph methods, quantitative analyses of culture, morality and ethics, musical taste, and social theory, she now mostly hunts bad guys on the internet with big data.
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between.
Time
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO Fall Seminar Series returns on Sept 24th!
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
Details
The Wednesdays @ NICO Fall Seminar Series returns on September 24th and will run through November 12th, 2025. Please visit our web site in early September for detailed speaker information, talk titles and abstracts.
This fall, we are honored to host the following distinguished speakers:
9/24 - Emma Alexander, Dept of Computer Science, Northwestern University
10/1 - Sebastien Martin, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
10/8 - Tomer Ullman, Dept of Psychology, Harvard University
10/15 - Patrick Park, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
10/22 - Max Kreminski, Midjourney
10/29 - Elizabeth Gerber, Mechanical Engineering and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
11/5 - Julio Ottino, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
11/12 - Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google Research
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: TBA via Zoom
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
Contact
Calendar
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)