CRCS Social Impact Seminar Series
CRCS hosts the CRCS Seminar Series from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern on Mondays during the academic year. CRCS fellows, faculty and friends are encouraged to join us. See here for information about past seminars.
CRCS also hosts regular internal events - professional development panels on topics including interviewing for jobs; putting together application packages; and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.
CRCS Spring 2022 Seminar Schedule -
February 7: Hamsa Bastiani (University of Pennsylvania)
March 7: Carl Boettiger (University of California, Berkeley)
March 28: Nithya Sambasivan (Google Research)
April 4: Erroll Southers (University of Southern California)
April 11: Joshua Blumenstock (University of California, Berkeley)
April 25: Nisarg Shah (University of Toronto)
May 2: Miguel Hernan (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)
CRCS Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule
September 13: Francesca Dominici (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)
September 27: Marzyeh Ghassemi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
October 4: Meredith Gore (University of Maryland)
October 25: Sheena Erete (DePaul University)
November 15: Kayse Maass (Northeastern University)
November 29: Haifeng Xu (University of Virginia)
December 6: Andrew Plumptre (Key Biodiversity Areas)
CRCS Spring 2021 Seminar Schedule
January 25 through April 19: AI for Social Impact Seminar Series
- Jan 25: Danielle Belgrave, Ph.D. (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
- Feb 1: Omer Reingold, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
- Feb 8: Heather Lynch, Ph.D. (Stony Brook University)
- Feb 22: Munmun De Choudhury, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Mar 8: Courtney Cogburn, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
- Mar 15: Lauren Wilcox, Ph.D (Georgia Institute of Technology, Wellbeing Lab at Google)
- Mar 22: Tiffany Veinot, MLS, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
- Mar 29: Kush Varshney, Ph.D (Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM)
- Apr 5: Christopher Le Dantec, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Apr 12: Nyalleng Moorosi (Google AI)
- Apr 19: Michael J. Mina, MD, PhD (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School)
- Apr 26: Kobi Gal, PhD (Ben-Gurion University)
January 7 and 8: IJCAI 2020 AI for Social Good workshop
CRCS Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule
August 24 through December 14: AI for Social Impact
- Aug. 24: Stevie Chancellor (Northwestern University)
- Sep. 14: Eric Rice (University of Southern California)
- Sep. 21: Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI)
- Sep. 28: Stefano Ermon (Stanford University)
- Oct. 19: Elaine Nsoesie (Boston University)
- Oct. 26: Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia)
- Nov. 16: Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard University)
- Dec. 7: Maimuna Majumder (Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
- Dec. 14: Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh)
July 20th and 21st: AI for Social Good workshop
CRCS Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule
- Monday, March 2nd: Jukka-Pekka (JP) Onnela of HSPH: "Smartphone-based Digital Phenotyping"
- Wednesday, March 4th: Google Research India: A Peek at Research Activities in Fundamental and Applied CS Research (please RSVP at https://google-india-ai.splashthat.com/)
- Monday, March 9th: Ece Kamar of Microsoft Research: In the Pursuit of Responsible AI: Developing AI Systems for People with People
- Monday, March 23rd: Stefano Ermon of Stanford: Measuring Economic Development from Space
- Wednesday, March 25th: Speaker and Details TBA
- Monday, March 30th: Francesca Dominici of HSPH: Can Data Science save the Environment?
- Monday, April 6th: Harvard Global Health Institute: Details TBA
- Monday, April 13th: Shahin Jabbari of CRCS: Details TBA
- Monday, April 20th: Rohini Pande of Yale: Details TBA
- Monday, April 27th: Eric Rice of USC: Details TBA