Cambridge/ Boston folks: Which are your favorite cute and quite cafes with good WiFi for working/ studying in the area? #AcademicChatter

"I wish I could get [X] data from [Y Federal Agency] broken down by [race/ ethnicity/ sexual orientation / gender/ disability status/ veteran status/ small area geography/ etc] so I can [Z]" Have you ever had that thought? If so, please tell us about it: whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

The best conference I have been so far! 🤩

Incoming tweetstorm about the new equity EO that just came out today: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… Hang on for a whirlwind deconstruction of the EO and its digital civil rights components.

Very excited to be PC co-chair for the 3rd annual ACM EAAMO (Handle Retired, Visit @EAAMO_ORG) (Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization) Submit your work on: - algorithmic auditing - ML/AI/Mech. Design approaches to understand/fix societal problems - and more! CFP: eaamo.org/cfp/

Congrats to Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian, Itai Ashlagi, Yash Kanoria & Jacob Leshno for being awarded the ACM SIGecom #TestofTime Award for 2023 for two beautiful papers explaining an apparent gap between the theory and practice of matching market. Details: sigecom.org/award-tot.html

"Online and Matching-Based Markets" will hit the US market in two months. A complete PDF of the book is available for download. Here is the direct link to the file: cambridge.org/files/9216/848… The password is OMBMD_CUP (also printed on the copyright page of the book). Cheers!

This is an amazing article. I read it on my phone this morning and laughed when Kamini Singha said “if u have the time to read you are privileged” which is so true. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢 My book on Fairness and ML with Solon Barocas and Moritz Hardt has been published by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048613/… The draft (fairmlbook.org) has already been used in many courses. We've also released a set of exercises and discussion prompts: docs.google.com/document/d/1oJ…

Here is the second version of my monograph on "minimalist market design," now with a new chapter on liver exchange and an expanded one on kidney exchange. It can be useful for researchers who aspire to influence policy as outsider critics. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00307…

Hi all, Prof. Weijun Xie and myself are organizing an ISyE workshop for junior researchers, targeted at Ph.D. students and postdocs. More info here: sites.gatech.edu/isye-junior-re… We are soliciting applications for the workshop (see website for rsvp); the deadline is February 2nd!

Excited to see my first paper published!

Excited to share our new applied causal machine learning book causalml-book.org is available online. Any feedback/corrections greatly appreciated!

📢📢📢 One of our first important announcements is the Call for Participation for the ACM EAAMO Conference 2024, which will be taking place in Mexico! The Paper Submission Deadline is April 15, 2024 (AoE) - don't miss your chance to attend! CfP 📎 : conference.eaamo.org/cfp/

In March, I visited Crete to speak at the annual educational policy conference ΠΔΕ Κρήτης, and also met with some brilliant high school students and their inspiring teacher. Listen to our interview on the European School radio (in 🇬🇷): europeanschoolradio.eu/el/episode/104…

🌟 Our panel on "Developing and Managing Interdisciplinary Collaborators" brought together a diverse group eager to bridge academia and industry. Huge thanks to Faidra Monachou , Nikhil Garg, Woojin Jung, David Rea, and Tom Hartvigsen for hosting!

📣 Pre-Doc in Operations 📣 Our Operations group Yale School of Management is hiring a Tobin pre-doc fellow to work on projects at the intersection of operations and education/ technology/ sports, mentored by @zhen_is_jen, Nils Rudi & myself. Apply here: tobin.yale.edu/opportunities/…

🇬🇷 #FAccT25 will be happening in Athens, Greece! The GCs (myself included) are looking for PhD students interested in paid RA positions helping organize the conference—in particular looking for students located in Athens. If this is you, please send me an email 🙏🏽

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