Wednesdays@NICO
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. This seminar series not only brings some of the top researchers in complex systems from around the country to NICO, but also stimulates interdisciplinary discussion and eventually collaborations. Please join us on Wednesdays at noon!
Spring 2020 Speakers
We are rescheduling speakers for the 2020-21 academic year. Stay safe and healthy NICO community!
Winter 2020 Speakers
A Neural Network Model of Human Perception + Understanding in Data Visualizations
Steven Franconeri - Director, Cognitive Science Program and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
January 15, 2020
Promoting Healthy Eating through Local and Global Networks
Kayla de la Haye - Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Director, USC Center for Applied Network Analysis, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
January 22, 2020
High-Stakes Medical Decision Making: Investigating Human Behavior in a Complex Social System
Jacqueline Kruser, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
January 29, 2020
Revisiting "All Models are Wrong": Addressing Limitations in Big Data, Machine Learning, and Computational Social Science
Momin Malik - Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
February 5, 2020
Bias in Big Data
Michelle Birkett - Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences; Director, CONNECT Complex Systems and Health Disparities Research Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
February 12, 2020
Graph Mining to Protect the US 2020 Election
Monica Lee - Research Scientist and Engineering Manager, Facebook
February 19, 2020
Rewiring the Gender Distribution of Technical Jobs: Online Training Programs and (In)equality
Jacqueline Ng Lane - Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), Harvard Business School
February 26, 2020
Xuan Ma - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Suman Kalyan Maity - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, The Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI), and NICO
Rebeka O. Szabo - Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University