{"id":494282,"date":"2018-08-21T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=494282"},"modified":"2018-11-28T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:17:20","slug":"msrne-10th-anniversary-symposium","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/msrne-10th-anniversary-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"MSRNE 10th Anniversary Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-england\/\" target=\"_new\">Microsoft Research New England<\/a><br \/>\nMann, Paul & Sampson Conference Rooms<br \/>\nOne Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upon Arrival:\u00a0<\/strong>Please arrive early to get through security.\u00a0Visitors will check in via the Microsoft Welcome Center on the ground floor.\u00a0All visitors must show a government-issued photo ID each day to obtain a pass for the elevator turnstiles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact us:<\/strong> If you have any questions regarding this event please send email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:MSRNE10@microsoft.com\">MSRNE10@microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research New England, we are hosting a one-day symposium comprised of themed panels focused on mathematics and theory, economics, big data and machine learning, fairness, and social platforms. Join us in Cambridge as we welcome researchers, faculty, and students to discuss the future and advancing the state of the art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":500996,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2018-10-11","msr_enddate":"2018-10-11","msr_location":"Cambridge, MA","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"9:00 AM\u20135:00 PM","msr_hide_region":true,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13563,13548,13546,13559],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197944],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-494282","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-data-platform-analytics","msr-research-area-economics","msr-research-area-computational-sciences-mathematics","msr-research-area-social-sciences","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-hosted-by-microsoft","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-england\/\" target=\"_new\">Microsoft Research New England<\/a>\r\nMann, Paul &amp; Sampson Conference Rooms\r\nOne Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA\r\n\r\n<strong>Upon Arrival:\u00a0<\/strong>Please arrive early to get through security.\u00a0Visitors will check in via the Microsoft Welcome Center on the ground floor.\u00a0All visitors must show a government-issued photo ID each day to obtain a pass for the elevator turnstiles.\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact us:<\/strong> If you have any questions regarding this event please send email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:MSRNE10@microsoft.com\">MSRNE10@microsoft.com<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Since its founding in 2008, the New England lab builds on Microsoft\u2019s commitment to collaborate with the broader research community and pursues new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable computing and online experiences of the future.\r\n\r\nTo mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research New England, we are hosting a one-day symposium comprised of themed panels focused on mathematics and theory, economics, big data and machine learning, fairness, and social platforms. Join us in Cambridge as we welcome researchers, faculty, and students to discuss the future and advancing the state of the art.\r\n<h2>Organizing committee<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/baym\/\">Nancy Baym<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borgs\/\">Christian Borgs<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jchayes\/\">Jennifer Chayes<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cohn\/\">Henry Cohn<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nicimm\/\">Nicole Immorlica<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adum\/\">Adam Kalai<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"},{"id":1,"name":"Agenda","content":"<h2>Thursday, October 11, 2018<\/h2>\r\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 8px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PDT)<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 20%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Session<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">8:00 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Breakfast<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Introduction, Different Disciplines, Shared Vision\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Borgs<\/a>, Deputy Managing Director Microsoft Research New England<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">9:15 AM\u201310:15 AM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Panel: The Usefulness of Long-Term Thinking (aka Theory)\r\n<div style=\"height: 20px\"><\/div>\r\nModerator: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/scholars\/dijkgraaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbert Dijkgraaf<\/a>, Director of Institute for Advanced Study\r\nPanelists:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~jacksonm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Jackson<\/a>, Stanford University<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yael\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yael Tauman Kalai<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/directory\/madhusudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madhu Sudan<\/a>, Harvard University<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.as.cornell.edu\/people\/%C3%A9va-tardos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eva Tardos<\/a>, Cornell University<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:15 AM\u201310:45 AM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 AM\u201311:45 AM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Panel: Frontiers of Machine Learning\r\n<div style=\"height: 20px\"><\/div>\r\nModerator: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/~kevinlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Leyton-Brown<\/a>, University of British Columbia\r\nPanelists:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu\/users\/anima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anima Anandkumar<\/a>, California Institute of Technology<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~vchern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Chernozhukov<\/a>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fusi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolo Fusi<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lester Mackey<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45 AM\u20131:15 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">1:15 PM\u20132:15 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Panel: Platform Society\r\n<div style=\"height: 20px\"><\/div>\r\nModerator: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/ethanz\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethan Zuckerman<\/a>, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media\r\nPanelists:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/baym\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Baym<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/guyberger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Berger<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tarleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tarleton Gillespie<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/bridgitm\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridgit Mendler<\/a>, MIT Media Lab<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">2:15 PM\u20133:15 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Panel: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics\r\n<div style=\"height: 20px\"><\/div>\r\nModerator: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>, Microsoft Research New York City\r\nPanelists:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vpge.stanford.edu\/people\/timnit-gebru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Timnit Gebru<\/a>, Stanford University<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.virginia.edu\/faculty\/profile\/dh9ev\/2299809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deborah Hellman<\/a>, University of Virginia School of Law<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Kalai<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miralane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mira Lane<\/a>, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">3:15 PM\u20133:45 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">3:45 PM\u20134:45 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Panel: The Future\r\n<div style=\"height: 20px\"><\/div>\r\nModerator: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jchayes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Chayes<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England\r\nPanelists:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/debcha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debbie Chachra<\/a>, Olin College<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Dyson_(science_historian)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Dyson<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/blampson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butler Lampson<\/a>, Microsoft Research New England<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/steven-pinker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Pinker<\/a>, Harvard University<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">4:45 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Closing Remarks\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jchayes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Chayes<\/a>, Technical Fellow and Managing Director of New England, New York City, and Montreal<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 27%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">5:00 PM\u20137:00 PM<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;width: 73%;padding: 8px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Reception<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"},{"id":2,"name":"Speakers","content":"<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507185 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/anima_anandkumar_125x125.png\" alt=\"Portrait of Anima Anandkumar\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Anima Anandkumar<\/strong>\r\nCalifornia Institute of Technology\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu\/users\/anima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anima Anandkumar<\/a> is a Bren Professor at the Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department at Caltech. Anima Anandkumar's research interests span theory and practice of large-scale machine learning. In particular, she has been spearheading the development and analysis of multi-dimensional (tensor) algorithms for machine learning. She is the recipient of several awards such as the Bren endowed chair professorship at Caltech, Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, Google research award, ARO and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, NSF Career Award, and several best paper awards. She received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and her PhD from Cornell University in 2009. She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2009 to 2010, an assistant professor at U.C. Irvine between 2010 and 2016, a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England in 2012 and 2014, and a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services between 2016-2018.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507188 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Nancy-Baym_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Nancy Baym\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Nancy Baym<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/baym\/\">Nancy Baym<\/a> studies how people, audiences and workers such as musicians\u00a0understand and use communication technologies in their everyday\u00a0relationships. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity Press, 2010\/2014), now in its second edition, Internet Inquiry: Conversations about Methods (co-edited with Annette Markham, Sage 2009), as well as dozens of articles and book chapters.\r\n\r\nShe earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994, writing the first Ph.D. dissertation on online community (later published as Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community; Sage, 2000). She was a co-founder and is Past-President of the Association of Internet Researchers and serves on the editorial boards of several new media and Communication journals. Before coming to Microsoft, she was a Professor of Communication Studies. She is a Research Associate in Comparative Media Studies\/Writing at MIT.\r\n\r\nLinks to publications and talks\u00a0are <u><a href=\"http:\/\/nancybaym.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/u>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507191 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/guy-berger_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Guy Berger\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Guy Berger<\/strong>\r\nLinkedIn\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/guyberger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Berger<\/a> is LinkedIn's Economist, understanding what is going on in the labor market, and helping ensure that that \"what\" is harnessed to benefit the billions of people who rely on the labor market to make better lives for themselves.\r\n\r\nIn his role on the Economic Graph team, Guy looks at LinkedIn's treasure trove of data to tease out trends and patterns that often can't be found or measured elsewhere. Whether it's measuring skills gaps or noticing which economic characteristics make a city unique, there are many interesting stories to tell.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507194 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/christian-borgs_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Christian Borgs\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Christian Borgs<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borgs\/\">Christian Borgs<\/a> is\u00a0deputy managing director and co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-england\/\">Microsoft Research New England Lab<\/a> in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\r\n\r\nHe studied physics at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-muenchen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Munich<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upmc.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Pierre et Marie Curie<\/a> in Paris, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institut des Hautes Etudes<\/a> in Bures-sur-Yvettes, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mppmu.mpg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max-Planck-Institute for Physics<\/a> in Munich.\u00a0He received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from the University of Munich, held a postdoctoral fellowship at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethz.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH Zurich<\/a>, and received his Habilitation in mathematical physics from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fu-berlin.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free University in Berlin<\/a>.\u00a0After his Habilitation he became the C4 Chair for Statistical Mechanics at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-leipzig.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Leipzig<\/a>, and in 1997 he joined Microsoft Research to co-found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/theory-group\/\">Theory Group<\/a>. He was a manager of the Theory group until 2008, when he co-founded Microsoft Research New England.\r\n\r\nChristian Borgs is well known for his work on the mathematical theory of first-order phase transitions and finite-size effects, for which he won the 1993 Karl-Scheel Prize of the German Physical Society.\u00a0Since joining Microsoft, Christian Borgs has become one of the world leaders in the study in phase transitions in combinatorial optimization, and more generally, the use of methods from statistical physics and probability theory in problems of interest to computer science and technology.\u00a0He is one of the top researchers in the modeling and analysis of self-organized networks (such as the Internet, the World Wide Web and social networks), as well as the analysis of processes and algorithms\u00a0on networks.\r\n\r\nHis most recent research includes game theoretic models of online social networks, the development of pricing algorithms to incentivize energy conservation in cloud computing, the analysis of local graph algorithms, and the development of methods to reconstruct gene regulatory networks in order to find potential drug targets for cancer treatment. On the more mathematical side, he has been one of the founders of the area of convergent graphs sequences, a field which characterizes the properties of sequences of growing networks and studies the properties of their limiting structures.\r\n\r\nChristian Borgs has authored about 120 research papers and is named as an inventor on a little over 30 patents.\u00a0Among the honors he has received are a scholarship from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studienstiftung.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German National Merit Foundation<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgzb.tu-berlin.de\/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1993 Karl-Scheel Prize<\/a> of the German Physical Society, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfg.de\/forschungsfoerderung\/nachwuchsfoerderung\/heisenberg\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heisenberg Fellowship<\/a> of the German Research Council.\u00a0He has been invited by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbmsweb.org\/NSF\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(CBMS) to give a lecture series on \"Statistical Physics Expansion Methods in Combinatorics and Computer Sciences.\" He has been a long-term visitor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princeton<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA<\/a>, and has twice been a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ias.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Advanced Study<\/a> in Princeton.\u00a0Among the boards and councils on which he has served or is still serving are the Council of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zv.uni-leipzig.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Leipzig<\/a>, the Editorial Boards of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Journal_of_Statistical_Physics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Statistical Physics<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siam.org\/journals\/sidma.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\https://www.microsoft.com/jstat.sissa.it\https://www.microsoft.com/jstat\/help\/helpLoader.jsp?pgType=about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Statistical Mechanics<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ems-ph.org\/journals\/journal.php?jrn=aihpd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincar\u00e9 D<\/a>, the Board of Trustees of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipam.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics<\/a> (IPAM), and the governing board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ima.umn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Mathematics and its Applications<\/a>.\u00a0He is a fellow of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/about-us\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Mathematical Society<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/aboutaaas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of the Advancement of Science<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSee a full list of publications <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ChristianBorgsFullPublicationList.pdf\">here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507197 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Chachra_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Debbie Chachra\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Debbie Chachra<\/strong>\r\nOlin College\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/debcha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debbie Chachra<\/a> is working to make engineering education more effective, responsive and inclusive. Besides her teaching at Olin College and her own research on the engineering student experience, Debbie speak and write widely, and also work closely with faculty around the world to help them redesign learning experiences, primarily as part of Olin\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olin.edu\/collaborate\/collaboratory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collaboratory<\/a>. See full biography at <a href=\"http:\/\/debcha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/debcha.org\/<\/a>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507200 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Jennifer-Chayes_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Jennifer Tour Chayes\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Jennifer Tour Chayes<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jchayes\/\">Jennifer Tour Chayes<\/a> is Technical Fellow and Managing Director of <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-england\/\">Microsoft Research New England<\/a><\/u> in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she co-founded in 2008, and <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-york\/\">Microsoft Research New York City<\/a><\/u>, which she co-founded in 2012, and <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-montreal\/\">Microsoft Research Montreal<\/a><\/u> since 2017. These three laboratories are widely renowned interdisciplinary centers, bringing together computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, social scientists, and biologists, and helping to lay the foundations of data science. Prior to founding these labs, Chayes was Research Area Manager for Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, and Cryptography at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-redmond\/\">Microsoft Research Redmond<\/a><\/u>. Chayes joined <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/\">Microsoft Research<\/a><\/u> in 1997, when she co-founded the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/theory-group\/\">Theory Group<\/a><\/u>. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of large networks, mechanism design, and graph algorithms. She is the co-author of about 130 scientific papers and the co-inventor of about 30 patents.\r\n\r\nChayes has many ties to the academic community. She was for many years Professor of Mathematics at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCLA<\/a><\/u>. Chayes serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the Boards of Trustees of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/icerm.brown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics<\/a><\/u> (ICERM) and the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/dimacs.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science<\/a><\/u> (DIMACS), the Scientific Advisory Boards of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing<\/a><\/u> (of which she is Chair) and the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation<\/a><\/u>, and the Advisory Committees of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhmi.org\/janelia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus<\/a><\/u> and the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/dir\/index.jsp?org=mps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation<\/a><\/u>. In addition, Chayes is on the Advisory Board of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/awmmath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Women in Mathematics<\/a><\/u> (AWM), the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/pga\/cwsem\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine<\/a><\/u> (CWSEM) of the National Academies, and the Board of Directors of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmd-it.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities<\/a><\/u> in IT (CMD-IT). Chayes is the past Chair of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/awards.acm.org\/homepage.cfm?srt=all&amp;awd=140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turing Award Selection Committee<\/a><\/u> of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association for Computing Machinery<\/a><\/u>, past Chair of the Mathematics Section of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a><\/u>, and past Vice-President of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Mathematical Society<\/a><\/u>.\r\n\r\nChayes received her B.A. in biology and physics at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wesleyan University<\/a><\/u>, where she graduated first in her class, and her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/\">Princeton<\/a><\/u>. She did her postdoctoral work in the mathematics and physics departments at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard<\/a><\/u> and <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell<\/a><\/u>. She is the recipient of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">National Science Foundation<\/a><\/u> Postdoctoral Fellowship, the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloan.org\/programs\/scitech_fellowships.shtml\">Sloan Fellowship<\/a><\/u>, and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. Chayes has recently been the recipient of many leadership awards including the Leadership Award of <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westorg.org\/\">Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology<\/a><\/u>, the Leading Women Award of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlscoutseasternmass.org\/\">Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts<\/a><\/u>, the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceclubforgirls.org\/catalyst-2013\">Catalyst Award of the Science Club for Girls<\/a><\/u>, the Women to Watch Award of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/BOSTON\/\">Boston Business Journal<\/a><\/u>, and the Women of Vision Leadership Award of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anitaborg.org\/\">Anita Borg Institute<\/a><\/u>. She has twice been a member of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/\">Institute for Advanced Study<\/a><\/u> in Princeton. Chayes is a Fellow of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a><\/u>, the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/\">Fields Institute<\/a><\/u>, the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/\">Association for Computing Machinery<\/a><\/u>, the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.org\/\">American Mathematical Society<\/a><\/u>, a National Associate of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.edu\/\">National Academies<\/a><\/u>, and an Elected Member of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amacad.org\/\">American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/u>. Chayes was the recipient of the 2015 <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siam.org\/prizes\/sponsored\/vonneumann.php\">John von Neumann Lecture Award<\/a><\/u>, the highest honor of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siam.org\/\">Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics<\/a><\/u>. In 2016, Chayes was awarded an <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/news\/2016\/02\/honorary-doctor-jennifer-chayes-excels-at-microsoft\">Honorary Doctorate<\/a><\/u> by Leiden University in the Netherlands.\r\n\r\nChayes is well known for her work on phase transitions, in particular for laying the foundation for the study of phase transitions in problems in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science; this study is now giving rise to some of the fastest known algorithms for fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. Chayes is one of the world\u2019s experts in the emerging field of network science, particularly in its mathematical and algorithmic foundations. She is well known for her work in the modeling and analysis of random, dynamically growing graphs, which are used to model the Internet, the World Wide Web, social networks, and networks in computational biology. Chayes is one of the inventors of the field of graph limits (graphons), which are now being used extensively in the machine learning of massive networks, both theoretically and in practice. Among Chayes\u2019 contributions to Microsoft technologies are the development of methods to analyze the structure and behavior of various networks, the design of auction algorithms, and the design and analysis of various business models for the online world.\r\n\r\nChayes lives with her husband, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borgs\/\">Christian Borgs<\/a><\/u>, who also happens to be her principal scientific collaborator. In her spare time, she enjoys overworking.\r\n\r\nFor more details, download the detailed <strong>CV<\/strong> <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/01\/chayes_cv.pdf\">here<\/a><\/u>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507203 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Victor_Chernozhukov_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Victor Chernozhukov\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Victor Chernozhukov<\/strong>\r\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~vchern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Chernozhukov<\/a> works in econometrics and mathematical statistics, with much of recent work focusing on the quantification of uncertainty in very high dimensional models. He is a fellow of The Econometric Society and a recipient of The Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and The Arnold Zellner Award.\r\n\r\nMore information can be found on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~vchern\/\">homepage<\/a>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507206 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Robbert_Dijkgraaf_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Robbert Dijkgraaf\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Robbert Dijkgraaf<\/strong>\r\nInstitute for Advanced Study\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/scholars\/dijkgraaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbert Dijkgraaf<\/a>, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leon Levy Professor since July 2012, is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections between matrix models, topological string theory, and supersymmetric quantum field theory, Dijkgraaf has developed precise formulas for the counting of bound states that explain the entropy of certain black holes. For his contributions to science, Dijkgraaf was awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands, in 2003. He was named a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2012 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.\r\n\r\nPast President (2008\u201312) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knaw.nl\/en\/about-us\">Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a> and past Co-Chair (2009\u201317) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interacademycouncil.net\/\">InterAcademy Council<\/a>, Dijkgraaf is a distinguished public policy adviser and passionate advocate for science and the arts. Many of his activities\u2013\u2013which have included frequent appearances on television, a monthly newspaper column in <em>NRC Handelsblad<\/em>, several books for general audiences, and the launch of the science education website Proefjes.nl\u2013\u2013are at the interface between science and society. In 2017, Princeton University Press published\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10924.html\">The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in which Dijkgraaf and IAS founding Director Abraham Flexner articulate\u00a0how essential basic research and original thinking are to innovation and societal progress, a belief that\u00a0has informed the mission of the Institute for nearly ninety years.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507209 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/George_Dyson_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of George Dyson\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>George Dyson<\/strong>\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Dyson_(science_historian)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Dyson<\/a> (born 26 March 1953) is an American non-fiction <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Author\">author<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historian\">historian<\/a> of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation to the physical environment and the direction of society.<u><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Dyson_(science_historian)#cite_note-motherobit-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/u> He has written on a wide range of topics, including the history of computing, the development of algorithms and intelligence, communication systems, space exploration, and the design of water craft. Lecturing widely at academic institutions, corporations, and tech conferences, Dyson gives a historical context to the evolution of technology in modern society and provides thought-provoking ideas on the directions in which technology and the Internet might develop.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507212 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Nicolo_Fusi_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Nicolo Fusi\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Nicolo Fusi<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fusi\/\">Nicolo Fusi<\/a>\u2019s research interests lie at the intersection of\u00a0computational biology\u00a0and machine learning. In particular, Nicolo\u2019s focus is on the development of new machine learning techniques and their application to problems in molecular biology and personalized medicine.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507215 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Tarleton_Gillespie_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Tarleton Gillespie\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Tarleton Gillespie<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tarleton\/\">Tarleton Gillespie<\/a> is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, the newest permanent member of the <u><a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediacollective.org\/\">Social Media Collective<\/a><\/u>, (joining <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/\">danah boyd<\/a><\/u>, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancybaym.com\/\">Nancy Baym<\/a><\/u>, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katecrawford.net\/\">Kate Crawford<\/a><\/u>, and <u><a href=\"http:\/\/marylgray.org\/\">Mary Gray<\/a><\/u>)\u00a0Microsoft Research\u2019s team of sociologists, anthropologists, and communication &amp; media scholars studying the impact of information technology on social and political life. Tarleton also retains an adjunct Associate Professor position with Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty for over a decade.\r\n\r\nTarleton\u2019s current work investigates how social media platforms and other algorithmic information systems shape public discourse. His forthcoming book (Yale University Press, exp. Spring 2018) examines how the content guidelines imposed by social media platforms set the terms for what counts as \u2018appropriate\u2019 user contributions, and ask how this private governance of cultural values has broader implications for freedom of expression and the character of public discourse. A second thread of his research examines how the algorithmic selection of information and culture has equally important consequences for public discourse. His essay \u201cThe Relevance of Algorithms\u201d has been a key component in the recent emergence of a sociology of algorithms; his contributions focus on how algorithms embedded in social media and search engines are organizing information based on implicit and unexamined assumptions about popularity, relevance, and value \u2013 that have implications for how public discourse functions. This work is designed to develop a vocabulary for a society in which algorithmic information systems and social media platforms are more and more deeply interwoven into the lives of users and into the public institutions on which they depend.\r\n\r\nTarleton received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego (2002); he also has a M.A. in Communication from UCSD (1997) and a B.A. with honors in English from Amherst College (1994). In 2011-12 he was awarded funding from the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) to be a Residential Research Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon, at the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon, France.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507218 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/timnit_gebru_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Timnit Gebru\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Timnit Gebru<\/strong>\r\nStanford University\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vpge.stanford.edu\/people\/timnit-gebru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Timnit Gebru<\/a> is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University and is a member of the computer vision lab led by Fei-Fei Li. Her research interests lie in the intersection of computer vision and computational sociology: making use of millions of publicly available images to draw sociological insights. Using cars detected from 50 million Google Street View images, her team was able to study and quantify demographic variables such as segregation rates, political affiliations, race, income, and crime rates. Timnit intends to continue her efforts to use artificial intelligence to study society.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507221 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/hellman_deborah_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Deborah Hellman\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Deborah Hellman<\/strong>\r\nUniversity of Virginia School of Law\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.virginia.edu\/faculty\/profile\/dh9ev\/2299809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deborah Hellman<\/a> joined the Law School in 2012 after serving on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Law since 1994.\r\n\r\nThere are two main strands to Hellman\u2019s work. The first focus on equal protection law and its philosophical justification. She is the author of\u00a0When is Discrimination Wrong?\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2008) and co-editor of\u00a0The Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2013) and several articles related to equal protection. The second strand focuses on the relationship between money and legal rights. This includes articles on campaign finance law, bribery and corruption, each of which explore and challenge the normative foundations of current doctrine. Her article \"A Theory of Bribery\" won the 2019 Fred Berger Memorial Prize (for philosophy of law) from the American Philosophical Association.\r\n\r\nIn addition, she writes about the obligations of professional roles, especially in the context of clinical medical research. She teaches constitutional law, legal theory and contracts, as well as advanced classes and seminars on questions related to these fields (Discrimination Theory, Profiling and Contract Theory, for example).\r\n\r\nHellman was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2005-06) and the Eugene P. Beard Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2004-05). She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers in 1999 and was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2007-08 and at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2011.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507224 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/matt-jackson_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Matthew Jackson\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Matthew O. Jackson<\/strong>\r\nStanford University\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~jacksonm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew O. Jackson<\/a> is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and a senior fellow of CIFAR. He was at Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford, and received his BA from Princeton University in 1984 and PhD from Stanford in 1988. Jackson's research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the book `Social and Economic Networks'. He also teaches an online course on networks and co-teaches two others on game theory. Jackson is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Game Theory Society Fellow, and an Economic Theory Fellow, and his other honors include the von Neumann Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the B.E.Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, and teaching awards. He has served as co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior, the Review of Economic Design, and Econometrica.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507227 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/adam-kalai_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Adam Kalai\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Adam Kalai<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adum\/\">Adam Kalai<\/a> received his BA (1996) from Harvard, and MA (1998) and PhD (2001) under the supervision of Avrim Blum from CMU. After an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at M.I.T. with Santosh Vempala, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and then at Georgia Tech. He is now a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His honors include an NSF CAREER award and an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship. His research focuses on machine learning, human computation, and algorithms.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507230 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Yael-Tauman-Kalai_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Yael Tauman Kalai\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Yael Tauman Kalai<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yael\/\">Yael Tauman Kalai<\/a> joined Microsoft Research New England in 2008 after being an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech and a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and Microsoft Research in Redmond. She graduated from MIT, working in cryptography under the superb supervision of Shafi Goldwasser. She was also extremely fortunate to have the guidance of Adi Shamir for her master\u2019s degree.\r\n\r\nYael\u2019s main research interests are Cryptography, the Theory of Computation, and Security &amp; Privacy.\r\n\r\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=cPDxYXMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Yael's publications<\/a>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507233 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Mira-Lane_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Mira Lane\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Mira Lane<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Cloud and Enterprise Group\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miralane\">Mira Lane<\/a> is a video artist and technologist working at Microsoft. Mira is the head of Design &amp; Ethics in the Artificial Intelligence for Business organization. She specializes on crafting cohesive user experiences, incubation of new products &amp; concepts, product strategy, and nurturing innovation into the product experience. Mira believes that corporations need the power and insights of creative individuals in order to weave empathy, soul and humanness into form and matter.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507236 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Butler_Lampson_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Butler Lampson\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Butler Lampson<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/blampson\/\">Butler Lampson<\/a> is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft Corporation and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT.\u00a0He was on the faculty at Berkeley and then at the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC and at Digital\u2019s Systems Research Center.\u00a0He has worked on computer architecture, local area networks, raster printers, page description languages, operating systems, remote procedure call, programming languages and their semantics, programming in the large, fault-tolerant computing, transaction processing, computer security, WHSIWYG editors, and tablet computers.\u00a0He was one of the designers of the SDS 940 time-sharing system, the Alto personal distributed computing system, the Xerox 9700 laser printer, two-phase commit protocols, the Autonet LAN, the SDSI\/SPKI system for network security, the Microsoft Tablet PC software, the Microsoft Palladium high-assurance stack, and several programming languages.\r\n\r\nHe received an AB from Harvard University, a PhD in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley, and honorary ScD\u2019s from the Eidgen\u00f6ssische Technische Hochschule, Zurich and the University of Bologna.\u00a0He holds a number of patents on networks, security, raster printing, and transaction processing.\u00a0He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the ACM Software Systems Award in 1984 for his work on the Alto, the IEEE Computer Pioneer award in 1996, the National Computer Systems Security Award in 1998, the IEEE von Neumann Medal in 2001, the Turing Award in 1992, and the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s Draper Prize in 2004.\r\n\r\nAt Microsoft he has worked on anti-piracy, security, fault-tolerance, and user interfaces. He was one of the designers of Palladium, and spent two years as an architect in the Tablet PC group. Currently he is in Microsoft Research, working on security, privacy, and fault-tolerance, and kibitzing in systems, networking, and other areas.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507239 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Kevin_Leyton-Brown_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Kevin Leyton-Brown\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Kevin Leyton-Brown<\/strong>\r\nUniversity of British Columbia\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/~kevinlb\/\">Kevin Leyton-Brown<\/a> is a professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/cs.ubc.ca\/\">Computer Science<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc.ca\/\">University of British Columbia<\/a> and an associate member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/economics.ubc.ca\/\">Vancouver School of Economics<\/a>. He holds a PhD and M.Sc. from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford University<\/a> (2003; 2001) and a B.Sc. from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmaster.ca\/\">McMaster University<\/a> (1998). He studies the intersection of computer science and microeconomics, addressing computational problems in economic contexts and incentive issues in multiagent systems. He also applies machine learning to various problems in artificial intelligence, notably the automated design and analysis of algorithms for solving hard computational problems.\r\n\r\nHe has co-written two books, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/masfoundations.org\/\">Multiagent Systems<\/a>\" and \"<a href=\"http:\/\/gtessentials.org\/\">Essentials of Game Theory<\/a>,\" and over 100 peer-refereed technical articles; his work has received <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/c2yQ4d\">over 11,000 citations and an <em>h<\/em>-index of 41<\/a>. He is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/Awards\/fellows-list.php\">Fellow<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/\">Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (AAAI; elected 2018). He was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informs.org\/Recognizing-Excellence\/Award-Recipients\/Federal-Communications-Commission\">member of a team<\/a> that won the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informs.org\/Recognizing-Excellence\/INFORMS-Prizes\/Franz-Edelman-Award\">INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science<\/a>, described as \"the leading O.R. and analytics award in the industry.\" This award recognizes a \"completed, practical application that had significant, verifiable and quantifiable impact on the performance of [a] client organization,\" in his case the Federal Communications Commission. Leyton-Brown also received UBC's <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ubc.ca\/research-excellence\/awards-honours\/faculty-research-award-winners\">2015 Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Prizes-Prix\/Steacie-Steacie\/Profiles-Profils\/LeytonBrown-LeytonBrown_eng.asp\">2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship<\/a>\u2014previously given to a computer scientist only 10 times since its establishment in 1965\u2014and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/news\/2014\/03\/kevin-leyton-brown-receives-2013-cacsaic-outstanding-young-computer-science-researcher-\">2013 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cacsaic.org\/awards_2013\">Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cacsaic.org\/\">Canadian Association of Computer Science<\/a>. He and his coauthors have received paper awards from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jair.org\/\">JAIR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigecom.org\/\">ACM-EC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aamas-conference.org\/\">AAMAS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lion10.unina.it\/\">LION<\/a>, and numerous medals for the portfolio-based SAT solver SATzilla at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satcompetition.org\/\">international SAT<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/baldur.iti.kit.edu\/SAT-Challenge-2012\/\">solver <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/iconchallenge.insight-centre.org\/\">competitions <\/a>(2003\u201315).\r\n\r\nHe has co-taught two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/gametheory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coursera courses on \"Game Theory\"<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141021041406\/http:\/science.ubc.ca\/news\/680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 700,000 students<\/a> (and counting!), and has received awards for his teaching at UBC\u2014notably, a <a href=\"http:\/\/vpacademic.ubc.ca\/killam-awards\/killam-teaching-prize\/award-winners\/#20132014-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013\/14 Killam Teaching Prize<\/a>. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigecom.org\/officers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce<\/a>, which runs the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigecom.org\/events.html#ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economics &amp; Computation conference<\/a>. He has served as an associate editor for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jair.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jair.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAIR<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/teac.acm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (ACM-TEAC)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/aiaccess.web.cse.unsw.edu.au\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI Access<\/a>; and was program chair for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigecom.org\/ec12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC) in 2012<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe has held a wide range of visiting professor\/researcher positions, at: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.iem.technion.ac.il\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technion Israel Institute of Technology<\/a> (April 2018); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-york\/\">Microsoft Research New York City<\/a> (Jan\u2013Feb 2018); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-england\/\">Microsoft Research New England<\/a> (Mar\u2013Jun 2016); <a href=\"http:\/\/econcs.seas.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard's EconCS group<\/a> (Mar\u2013Jun 2016); the <a href=\"https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley<\/a> (Aug\u2013Sep, Nov 2016; Sep-Dec 2015); the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.as.huji.ac.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Advanced Studies<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/new.huji.ac.il\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel<\/a> (Mar\u2013Jun 2011); <a href=\"http:\/\/cit.mak.ac.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Makerere University<\/a> in Kampala, Uganda (Sep 2010\u2013Jan 2011).\r\n\r\nHe currently advises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auctionomics.com\/team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auctionomics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ai21.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI21<\/a>, and He is a co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/kudu.ug\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kudu.ug<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/meta-algorithmics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta-Algorithmic Technologies<\/a>. He was scientific advisor to UBC spinoff <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140228200300\/http:\/zite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zite<\/a> until it was <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/08\/30\/cnnzite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired by CNN<\/a> in 2011. His past consulting has included work for <a href=\"http:\/\/zynga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zynga<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19991013143248\/http:\/tradingdynamics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trading Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fariba.com&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFrqEzf45ByvIRb8AX7VTCWRPOiVXuW6Yw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ariba<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20031001160101\/http:\/cariocas.com\/index3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cariocas<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<em>External links:<\/em>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cs.ubc.ca\/~kevinlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homepage at UBC<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/~kevinlb\/dl2.php?u=http:\/\/cs.ubc.ca\/~kevinlb\/CV%20%28Leyton-Brown%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ubc.ca\/~kevinlb\/publications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=_4dnp0IAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;pagesize=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citations (Google Scholar)<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507242 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/lester_mackey_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Lester Mackey\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Lester Mackey<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New England\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lester Mackey<\/a> is a researcher at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-england\/\">Microsoft Research New England Lab<\/a><\/u> and an adjunct professor of <u><a href=\"https:\/\/statistics.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statistics<\/a><\/u> at Stanford University.\u00a0He spent three wonderful years as an assistant professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, Computer Science at Stanford and one as a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsfoundation.org\/funded-programs\/math-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simons Math+X<\/a><\/u> postdoctoral fellow, working with <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www-stat.stanford.edu\/~candes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Candes<\/a><\/u> at Stanford.\u00a0Lester received my Ph.D. in Computer Science (2012) and my M.A. in Statistics (2011) from UC Berkeley and his B.S.E. in Computer Science (2007) from Princeton University.\u00a0Lester\u2019s Ph.D. advisor was <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Jordan<\/a><\/u>, and his undergraduate research advisors were <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/president-klawe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Klawe<\/a><\/u> and <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.princeton.edu\/~dpw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Walker<\/a><\/u>.\r\n\r\nLester Mackey\u2019s current research interests include statistical machine learning, algorithms and data structures, high-dimensional statistics, and concentration inequalities.\u00a0Lately, he has been developing and analyzing scalable learning algorithms for healthcare, recommender systems, approximate posterior inference, high-energy physics, and the <u><a href=\"http:\/\/stanford.edu\/group\/stats-for-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social good<\/a><\/u>.\r\n\r\nQuixotic though it may sound, Lester hopes to use computer science and statistics to change the world for the better.\r\n\r\nFor more details\u00a0about my interests and work please see Lester\u2019s <u><a href=\"http:\/\/stanford.edu\/~lmackey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">external website<\/a><\/u>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507248 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Bridgit-Mendler_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Bridgit Mendler\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Bridgit Mendler<\/strong>\r\nMIT Media Lab\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/bridgitm\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridgit Mendler<\/a> is a platinum songwriter and recording artist, entertaining audiences through diverse media and live events around the globe. She was a leading television actress of multiple network series including Disney Channel\u2019s award-winning Good Luck Charlie and NBC\u2019s Undateable. Simultaneously she has pursued a degree in anthropology from University of Southern California and engages in multiple philanthropic pursuits including serving as Save the Children\u2019s Artist Ambassador. Through leading her own independent music career, she has developed a passion for the business of entertainment and the anthropology of the digital space where she has a substantial global following.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507251 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/steven_pinker_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Steven\u00a0Pinker\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Steven\u00a0Pinker<\/strong>\r\nHarvard University\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/steven-pinker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven\u00a0Pinker<\/a> is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. A native of Montreal, he earned his Bachelor\u2019s degree at McGill University in 1976, his PhD from Harvard in 1979, and taught at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT before returning to Harvard in 2003. Pinker\u2019s research on vision, language, and social relations has won prizes from the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. He has also received eight honorary doctorates, several teaching awards at MIT and Harvard, and numerous prizes for his books\u00a0The Language Instinct,\u00a0How the Mind Works,\u00a0The Blank Slate,\u00a0The Better Angels of Our Nature,\u00a0and\u00a0The Sense of Style. He is Chair of the Usage Panel of the\u00a0American Heritage Dictionary, and often writes for\u00a0The New York Times, Time,\u00a0and other publications.\u00a0He has been named Humanist of the Year,\u00a0Foreign Policy\u2019s\u00a0\u201c100 Global Thinkers,\u201d and\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine\u2019s \u201c100 Most Influential People in the World Today.\u201d\r\n\r\nProf. Pinker is currently doing research on a diverse array of topics in psychology, including the role of common knowledge (where two or more people know that the others know what they know) in language and other social phenomena; historical and recent trends in violence and their explanation; the psycholinguistics of good writing; the nature of the critical period for acquiring language; the neurobiology and genetics of language; and the nature of regular and irregular phenomena in grammar.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507254 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Sudan_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Madhu Sudan\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Madhu Sudan<\/strong>\r\nHarvard University\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/directory\/madhusudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madhu Sudan<\/a> got his Bachelors degree from IIT Delhi in 1987 and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1992. Between 1992 and 2015, Madhu Sudan spent time at IBM Research (Research Staff Member 1992-1997), at MIT (Associate Professor 1997-2000, Professor 2000-2011, Fujitsu Chair Professor 2003-2011, CSAIL Associate Director 2007-2009, Adjunct Professor 2011-2015), and at Microsoft Research (Principal Researcher, 2009-2015).\r\nHe has been at Harvard since October 2015.\r\n\r\nMadhu Sudan's research interests revolve around theoretical studies of communication and computation. Specifically his research focusses on concepts of reliability and mechanisms that are, or can be, used by computers to interact reliably with each other. His research draws on tools from computational complexity, which studies efficiency of computation, and many areas of mathematics including algebra and probability theory. He is best known for his works on probabilistic checking of proofs, and on the design of list-decoding algorithms for error-correcting codes.\r\n\r\nIn 2002, Madhu Sudan was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize, for outstanding contributions to the mathematics of computer science, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. He is also the recipient of the 2014 Infosys Foundation Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Madhu Sudan is a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, the AMS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a Radcliffe Fellow from 2003-2004.\r\n\r\n<strong>Videos: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XWcUzEureCQ?list=PLtHrXQsUhv808aEykSmZZDxmFgrQFymBA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Overview<\/a>\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507551 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Tardos_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Eva Tardos\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Eva Tardos<\/strong>\r\nCornell University\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/people.as.cornell.edu\/people\/%C3%A9va-tardos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eva Tardos<\/a> focuses on Algorithmic game theory, an emerging new area of designing systems and algorithms for selfish users. Her research focuses on algorithms and games on graphs or networks. Eva is mostly interested in designing algorithms and games that provide provably close-to-optimal results.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507260 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/hanna_wallach_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Hanna Wallach\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Hanna Wallach<\/strong>\r\nMicrosoft Research New York City\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dirichlet.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanna Wallach<\/a> is a Senior Researcher at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-new-york\/\">Microsoft Research New York City Lab<\/a> and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a member of UMass\u2019s Computational Social Science Institute. Hanna develops machine learning methods for analyzing the structure, content, and dynamics of social processes. Her work is inherently interdisciplinary: she collaborates with political scientists, sociologists, and journalists to understand how organizations work by analyzing publicly available interaction data, such as email networks, document collections, press releases, meeting transcripts, and news articles. To complement this agenda, she also studies issues of fairness, accountability, and transparency as they relate to machine learning. Hanna\u2019s research has had broad impact in machine learning, natural language processing, and computational social science. In 2010, her work on infinite belief networks won the best paper award at the Artificial Intelligence and Statistics conference; in 2014, she was named one of Glamour magazine\u2019s \u201c35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry\u201d; in 2015, she was elected to the International Machine Learning Society\u2019s Board of Trustees; and in 2016, she was named co-winner of the 2016 Borg Early Career Award. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation grants, an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity grant, and a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Hanna is committed to increasing diversity and has worked for over a decade to address the underrepresentation of women in computing. She co-founded two projects\u2014the first of their kind\u2014to increase women\u2019s involvement in free and open source software development: Debian Women and the GNOME Women\u2019s Summer Outreach Program. She also co-founded the annual Women in Machine Learning Workshop, which is now in its eleventh year. Hanna holds a BA in computer science from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in cognitive science and machine learning from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in machine learning from the University of Cambridge.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n[\/accordion]\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-507269 alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/09\/Ethan_Zuckerman_125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Ethan Zuckerman\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><strong>Ethan Zuckerman<\/strong>\r\nMIT Center for Civic Media\r\n\r\n[accordion]\r\n[panel header=\"Bio\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/ethanz\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethan Zuckerman<\/a> is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and an Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He is the author of <em>Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection<\/em> (W. W. Norton, 2013).\r\n\r\nWith Rebecca MacKinnon, Zuckerman co-founded the international blogging community Global Voices. It showcases news and opinions from citizen media in more than 150 nations and 30 languages, publishing editions in 20 languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Zuckerman is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces.\r\n\r\nIn 2000, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer organization that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously, he helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first \"personal publishing\" sites. Zuckerman blogs at <u><a href=\"http:\/\/ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethanzuckerman.com\/blog<\/a><\/u>. 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