Deen Freelon will present his methodology in research on citation inequities in the social sciences, specifically in the case of Communication studies.
Damon Jones, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, will present his paper "Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks."
Kristina Lerman is a Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute. Her research focuses on applying network and machine learning-based methods to problems in social computing.
Ivuoma Onyeador, an assistant professor in the Kellogg School of Northwestern University, will discuss her paper "Bias Intolerance: Predicting Condemnation of Apologetic Perpetrators of Prejudice."
Dashun Wang is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. His current research focus is on Science of Science.
Professor David Lazer is the co-director of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His research centers on social networks; governance, or how the patterns of institutional relations yield functional or dysfunctional systems; and technology and its use in communication.
Ed H. Chi is a Principal Scientist at Google, leading several machine learning research teams focusing on neural modeling, inclusive ML, reinforcement learning, and recommendation systems in Google Brain.