Below you will find the full programme and timings of our inaugural two day Workshop.
Day One - 27th March 2018
08:30 - 09:00
Registration and refreshments
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome note
Pauline Barrieu, Head of Department of Statistics
Milan Vojnovic, Department of Statistics
Session: Perspectives
09:15 - 10:00
Neil Lawrence, Amazon
Time for Professionalisation?
10:00 - 10:45
Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research
Distributed Graph Mining: Theory and Practice
10:45 - 11:00
Refreshments
Session: Scalable Data Analytics
11:00 - 11:45
Yang Cao, University of Edinburgh
Is Big Data Analytics beyond the Reach of Small Companies?
11:45 - 12:30
Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics
Multiscale Thinking in Data Analysis, Recursive Algorithms, and Data-Adaptive Change-Point Detection
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch + poster session
Session: Machine Learning
13:30 - 14:15
Moez Draief, Huawei Research
Machine Learning for Telecommunication Networks at Huawei
14:15 - 15:00
Alexandre Proutiere, KTH Stockholm
Online Learning of Optimally Diverse Rankings
15:00 - 15:45
Martin Anthony, London School of Economics
Sample Width in Classification
15:45 - 16:00
Refreshments
Session: Network Data
16:00 - 16:45
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
Distribution-Free Models of Social and Information Networks
16:45 - 17:30
Laurent Massoulie, INRIA / MSR-INRIA joint centre
Phase Transitions on Community Detectability for Various Types of Stochastic Block Models
17:30 - 18:15
Sofia Olhede, University College London
Network Comparison
18:15 - 18:30
Day 1 Closing Remarks
Day Two - 28th March 2018
08:30 - 09:00
Registration and refreshments
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome note
Milan Vojnovic, Department of Statistics
Session: Perspectives
09:15 - 10:00
Nimrod Priell, Facebook
Innovation at the Frontiers of Data Science at Facebook
10:00 - 10:45
Ashish Umre, XL Catlin
Mummy, what’s a steering wheel? and other stories from insurance
10:45 - 11:00
Refreshments
Session: Knowledge Graphs and Databases
11:00 - 11:45
Edin Zajmovic, Thomson-Reuters
Optimization of NLP & Knowledge Graphs for Capital Market Analysis
11:45 - 12:30
Jim Webber, Neo4j
Eventual Consistency Will Ruin Your Graphs, Eventually
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch + poster session
Session: Advertising and Marketing
14:00 - 14:45
Dean Straw, Proximity London
Using Data Analysis to Inform Marketing Challenges - An Agency View
14:45 - 15:30
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Google
Search Ads Overview
15:30 - 16:15
Clement Calauzenes, Criteo
Revenue Maximizing Auctions: the Buyer Prospective
16:15 - 16:30
Day 2 Closing Remarks