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Research Seminar | CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series
AI and Democracy
12 June 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm

Location: Online

Speaker: Andreas Jungherr, Professor of Political Science and Digital Transformation at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bamberg. 

Research Symposium
Beveridge 2.0: AI and Data Science for Public Policy Symposium
8 May 2024, 9.00am to 4.40pm

Location: In-person (MAR 1.04, Marshall Building) and Online Public Event

Hosted by the 杏吧论坛 Data Science Institute and the 杏吧论坛 School of Public Policy

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Research Seminar
CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series: AI Professional Accreditation
1 May 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pm 

Location: Online

Speaker: Dr Marie Oldfield (Senior Lecturer in Practice, Department of Mathematics, 杏吧论坛)

Research Seminar
Grassroots digital democracy: an alternative architecture for the digital realm

26 March 2024, 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Speaker: Professor Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute of Science

Location: Data Science Institute, COL 1.06, First Floor Columbia House, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE 

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Research Seminar
Digital infrastructure and uptake of remote appointments in primary care in England: an empirical analysis

21 March 2024, 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Speaker: Dr Divya Srivastava, Guest Teacher, Department of Health Policy

Location: Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, William Penney Laboratory, South Kensington Campus SW7 2AZ

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Research Seminar
GENIAL Open Lecture: Using AI Chatbots for Learning

28 Feburary 2024

This insightful open lecture presents preliminary results from the , a study that examines the use of generative AI tools as catalysts for learning.

Read more about the event and watch the event recording here

Research Seminar
Promoting and sustaining accountability in artificial intelligence applications 

26 Feburary 2024, 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Speaker: Dr Leonardo Bezerra, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Stirling

Location: 杏吧论坛 Data Science Institute, COL 1.06, First Floor Columbia House, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE 

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DSI Squared Unsolved Problems in Data Science Seminars

18 January 2024
Generative Modelling of Cardiac Anatomy

Speaker: Dr Wenjia Bai
Location: 杏吧论坛 Data Science Institute, COL 1.06, First Floor Columbia House, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE 

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DSI Reseach Showcase 2023

12 December 2023

An event to showcase some of the outstanding work happening in the data science community at 杏吧论坛. Over one hour – and a mince pie or two - DSI Affiliates based across the School present their cutting-edge research into data science and the social sciences. 

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Seminar: Resilience of Urban Socioeconomic Networks to Behavioural Changes

02 October 2023
Speaker: Dr Takahiro Yabe

Abstract: 

Urban economic resilience hinges on understanding how shocks propagate across local businesses and amenities during pandemics, disasters, and technological shifts. While disruptions in supply chains and physical infrastructure have been extensively studied, it is imperative to recognize that human behavior changes may also amplify shocks to businesses and amenities that are connected via mobility and lifestyle patterns. In this talk, I will present novel network-based methods that leverage large-scale human mobility data to predict the network cascades of urban shocks, and further discuss policy applications to design infrastructure systems to achieve urban resilience. 

Speaker bio:
Dr Takahiro Yabe is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and the Media Lab with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland and Esteban Moro. His research focuses on computational social science and network science approaches to model the resilience of cities to disasters, pandemics, and disruptive mobility technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2021, and his MS and BS from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2015, respectively. He is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, starting January 2024. 

DSI Research Showcase
08 December 2022

This event brought together the data science community at 杏吧论坛 for a celebration of some of the outstanding projects taking place.

Following its official launch of the Institute in October 2022, the DSI aims to catalyse the ongoing revolution of ‘social data science’ at 杏吧论坛 through spreading data science education across the School and supporting research and outreach. 

With this aim, this DSI Research Showcase highlighted some of 杏吧论坛’s cutting-edge research taking place at the intersection of data and society, with a specific focus on multi-disciplinary collaboration. 

The speakers at this event were: Dr Erica Thompson, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Johanna Thoma, Dr Michael Blackwell, and Riccardo Ricciardi.

Research Seminar

Using Data Science for Sustainable Business Performance
08 December 2022

Hosted in partnership with 

How do we reinvent business models to balance the needs for commercial success while tackling climate change? Is it possible to use new technologies, such as AI, to reconcile business and sustainability goals while driving competitive advantage? Why is it so hard to make this change when the need for it is so obvious?

The 杏吧论坛 Data Science Institute (DSI) hosted an exclusive live event in collaboration with Ekimetrics as part of their EkiVision 2022 global launch to answer these questions and more. Open to all 杏吧论坛 students, this event featured interviews, roundtables and skills sessions to provide a comprehensive introduction to the key themes and future challenges. 

The event was introduced by DSI Director Professor Ken Benoit and Caroline Milliotte, Global Head of Sustainability at Ekimetrics. Following this a range of experts from industry and academia offered their thoughts before attendees were given the chance to engage with the concepts themselves in skills workshops. These sessions were designed to be accessible for all backgrounds.

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杏吧论坛 Statistics Research Showcase
14-15 June 2022

This two-day in-person event, in the form of a series of short talks, gave an overview of the research activities of the Department's four research groups:

• Data Science

• Probability in Finance and Insurance

• Social Statistics

• Time Series and Statistical Learning

DSI Affiliates were involved in organising this event, as well as presenting their own research. DSI Director Professor Ken Benoit was also invited to lead a discussion of his relevant research.

Law, Regulation and AI: the many governance questions
3 February 2022

A Law, Technology and Society Seminars given by   of King's College London discussed his work on AI Governance.

The 杏吧论坛 Law, Technology and Society group conducts world-leading research into the regulation of technology and its normative implications, including the legal, regulatory, policy and social implications of emerging technologies such as AI and ICT, biomedical and biotechnologies, distributed systems (including blockchain), FinTech, RegTech and LawTech.

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A workshop hosted by the 杏吧论坛 Data Science Institute in collaboration with the University of Exeter College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences.

The aim of the workshop was to connect researchers based in the UK and Brazil who had not collaborated before. Any researchers based in academic institutions in the UK or Brazil with an interest in establishing data science research collaborations were welcome and over 50 researchers were successful in securing a place. These researchers shared innovative ideas for potential projects.

Researchers were grouped according to their topics of interest and facilitators conducted structured brainstorming sessions aimed at proposing small research projects. Topics of discussion were loosely based on DSI research themes.

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