Data Science Lunches

Data Science Lunches

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm in the PSC 5th Floor Collaboration Space for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker. Each speaker then leads the group in a casual discussion regarding the use of data science in their research. Discussions vary in content, but tend to focus on the applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in various academic disciplines.

We encourage open conversation and the exchange of ideas at each lunch, thus fostering a collaborative environment among fellows and faculty alike. As such, these lunches provide an excellent opportunity for our fellows to make interdisciplinary connections and discover new ways to utilize data science in their own research.

Upcoming Data Science Lunches

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Past Data Science Lunches

Data Science Lunch: Anna Shapiro

Studying sleep and memory using neural network modeling and empirical methods

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Arnold Mathijssen

Exploring the physics of life: Combining experimental and theoretical techniques across the disciplines of physics and biology

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: David Lydon-Staley

A dynamic network perspective on substance use

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Sam Dillavou

Emergent Learning Via Sequential Error Mode Reduction

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Desmond Upton Patton; Aviv Landau

Language analysis and bias in AI; Ethical recommendations for implementing machine learning-based models for detecting child abuse

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Dan Hopkins

The role of data in race, ethnicity, and immigration research

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: New Postdoc Welcome Lunch

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Dimitrios Tanoglidis

Transformers: The machine learning model behind ChatGPT

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Sergey Molodtsov

Global ocean circulation – climate dynamics and big data in Earth Sciences

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.

Data Science Lunch: Karen Chow

A psychometric approach to quanitfying and classifying absolute and implicit pitch memory

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615

3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.