It is a pleasure to invite you to our third LSS Presentation of 2021, to take place on June 4, from 8pm – 9:30 pm via Microsoft Teams.

The talk will be given by Prof. Lester Mackey. Lester Mackey is a statistical machine learning researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2012) and my M.A. in Statistics (2011) from UC Berkeley and my B.S.E. in Computer Science (2007) from Princeton University. Before joining Microsoft, he spent three years as an assistant professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, Computer Science at Stanford and one as a Simons Math+X postdoctoral fellow, working with Emmanuel Candes. His Ph.D. advisor was Mike Jordan, and his undergraduate research advisors were Maria Klawe and David Walker. He got his first taste of research at the Research Science Institute and learned to think deeply of simple things at the Ross Program

Abstract

This is the story of my assorted attempts to do some good with machine learning. Through its telling, I’ll highlight several models of organizing social good efforts, describe half a dozen social good problems that would benefit from our community’s attention, and present both resources and challenges for those looking to do some good with ML.

Practical information

Date: 4 June 2021
Time: 20:00-21:30
Place: Microsoft Teams
Fee: Free
Registration: please register by sending an email to Michela Bia (michela.bia@liser.lu)