Media, Talks, Announcements

Announcements

This summer I was a keynote speaker at KDD 2019 and the INFORMS Decision Analysis meeting. I will be the Langford lecturer at Duke in 2019-2020, as well as the Terng Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Study in May 2020.

Aaron Struck, Brandon Westover, Berk Ustun and I won the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award in 2019 for our work on interpretable models for ICU seizure prediction. Thank you to our amazing coach Leo Guadalupe. (Analytics News Announcement) (INFORMS ORMS Resoundingly Human Podcast)

Chaofan Chen, Kangcheng Lin, Yaron Shaposhnik, Sijia Wang, Tong Wang and I won the FICO Recognition Prize for the FICO Explainable Machine Learning Challenge. We did not follow the instructions - rather than explaining a black box we provided a globally interpretable model. (FICO's announcement of the winners)

Congratulations to the Duke Data Science Team! After our first semester, we are winners of the CVPR-NTIRE 2018 Single Image Super-Resolution Competition (Track 1) , and winners of the PoetiX Creative Turing Test 2018! It's been a pleasure coaching you guys!

• Bard or Bot? Duke team wins prize for most human-like sonnet written by A.I., written by Robin A. Smith

• Duke Team Attempts a Real-Life Version Of CSI 'Zoom and Enhance’, written by Robin A. Smith

Talks and Interviews

• ElementAI Opening the AI Black Box, 2019

• Opening the Black Box, Rate of Change Podcast, 2019

• KDD Keynote video, Anchorage, 2019 and slides

• Winner of 2019 INFORMS Innovative in Analytics Award Presentation

• Talk at ICLR workshop on Debugging ML

• Recent seminar at Boston University

• NSF Statistics at a Crossroads Webinar, featuring Jianqing Fan, Michael Jordan and I, my talk at 17:30 in the video, called “Please stop doing explainable ML”

• Data Science at Home Podcast by Francesco Gadaleta, called “How can deep neural networks reason” about our work on interpretable networks for computer vision

• FAT-ML invited talk 2016, on interpretable models

• Raymond and Beverly Sacker USA-UK Scientific Forum 2017, on interpretable models

• INFORMS IAAA Award semi-final presentation INFORMS 2013, on power grid reliability

• PAPIs random interview, 2016

Media

This list contains only articles that are still live on the Internet. Past aired TV, Radio, or Magazine articles that are not archived are not included. A complete list is in here.

Crime Data Mining

• “Possible to predict recidivism? Here's how…”: The Docket, MSNBC (TV), Tuesday May 19, 2015

• “Crime-Fighting Computer Code from Cambridge Police and MIT”: Interview on WBUR (NPR) Radio Boston, August 2013

• “Cambridge police look at math to solve crimes”: Boston Globe, Metro Section, front page (also link to article from Boston Globe front page), Sunday August 4 2013

• “Statistician enlisted to fight crime by numbers”: The Times of London, US & Americas section, Tuesday August 6 2013

• “Mapping the Future: The Power of Algorithms”: Documentary by Java Films, 2015

• “Can Cops Predict Crime?”: Discovery News, December 12, 2014. (Slightly misquoted - we do consider time and space.)

Health

• How Can Doctors Be Sure A Self-Taught Computer Is Making The Right Diagnosis?: NPR 2019

• Do You Zone Out? Procrastinate? Might Be Adult ADHD: NPR 2017 (article about Berk Ustun's JAMA Psychiatry paper on ADHD)

• How Big Data Can Be Used to Improve Early Detection of Cognitive Disease: The Health Care Blog 2015

• Could a digital pen change how we diagnose brain function?: Phys.org 2015

• Digital pen is better dementia-prediction tool than a doctor: WIRED.co.uk

• Data-driven tool enables patients to balance recovery expectations: FierceHealthIT, July 2, 2014

Meeting Analysis

Some of the media coverage of our meetings analysis paper was pretty funny.

• “At Work: Just Say 'Yeah’”: Wall Street Journal, Business Section, on page B8 in the U.S. edition, June 19, 2013

• “How to sound like a boss at your next work meeting,”: Interview on Fox & Friends, Fox News, national television, 6:45AM July 3 2013

• "How to be effective at meetings? Say 'yeah’: Toronto Star, Business section, June 28, 2013

• 'Yeah’ is the most persuasive word to use in a meeting: study says,": NY Daily News, living section, June 26, 2013

• Most Persuasive Four-Letter-Word in Meetings (It's Not What You Think): Yahoo! Shine, work-money section, June 25, 2013

• 5 Words That Get Results Business Meetings: Yahoo! News, (also LiveScience and Business News Daily), June 21, 2013

• Researchers discover the key to persuasion: ABC News, consumer report blog / business, June 24, 2013

• MIT Sloan Professor's Research Identifies Top Persuasive Words in Meetings : Reuters, Businesswire

• 5 Important words to say in every business meeting: Business News Daily, June 20, 2013

• “How To Win Over Co-Workers And Influence Meetings: Use These 3 Words”: Forbes.com, Pharma & healthcare section, June 23, 2013

• “The most effective words to use at a meeting”: Fox Nation, foxnews.com, June 20, 2013

• “Five words that can persuade your boss to give you a raise”: NDTV (India) June 25, 2013

Product Rankings

• “How to Improve Product Rankings”: Businessweek, March 09, 2012

Power Grid Reliability

• INFORMS Innovative Analytics Award Semifinal Presentation, October 2012

• “New York's Exploding Manhole Covers Pose Unexpected Winter Hazard”: Reuters, Yahoo! News, NY Times

• “Machine vs. Manhole”: U.S. News and World Report, Science News, WIRED Science, Slashdot, Discovery News

• “21st-Century Data Miners Meet 19th-Century Electrical Cables”: IEEE Computer Magazine (one of three articles featured on the cover), 2011

Other

• Top 40 Under 40: Poets & Quants, 2015

• 12 of the most impressive professors at MIT: Business Insider, 2015

from The Docket on MSNBC