Chara Podimata (MIT): “TBD”
August 26 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abstract:
TBD
Biography:
Chara Podimata is the Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Operations Research/Statistics in MIT Sloan.
She is interested in social aspects of computing and more specifically, the effects of humans adapting to machine learning algorithms used for consequential decision-making.
While studying for her PhD, Chara interned at MSR and Google, and her research was supported by a Microsoft Dissertation Grant and a Siebel Scholarship. She received her PhD from Harvard, advised by Yiling Chen and then was a FODSI postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.
Outside of research, she spends her time adventuring with her pup, Terra.
Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96259675892
