Agenda: 4th CSS Conference

April 11, 2014

8:45am to 10:30am - Diffusion of Sentiment and Community Building Online

Matt Jackson

WILLIAM D. EBERLE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Centrality and Diffusion

Sep Kamvar

LG ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES AT MIT

Designing Large-Scale Social Systems

10:45am to 12:30pm - Computation and Markets

Harikesh Nair

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MARKETING AT THE STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Computational Incentive Design for Improved Workplace Analytics

Kay Giesecke

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE & ENGINEERING AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Systemic Mortgage Defaults

Neel Sundaresan

CHIEF OF RESEARCH AT EBAY

What's 'Like' Got to Do With It? - When Commerce Meets Social

1:30pm to 3:15pm - Health and Computational Social Science

Russ Altman

PROFESSOR OF BIOENGINEERING, GENETICS, AND MEDICINE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Using Search Logs to Infer Drug Side Effects

Rob Munro

CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF IDIBON

Crowdsourcing and Natural Language Processing for the Social Good

Dennis Wall

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS, DIVISION OF SYSTEMS MEDICINE AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BY COURTESY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Leveraging YouTube, Home Videos, and Artificial Intelligence for Rapid and Mobile Detection of Autism

3:30pm to 5:15pm - Social Movements and Social Media

Michael Bernstein

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Breaking the Expertise Barrier in Crowdsourcing

Jacob Eisenstein

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF INTERACTIVE COMPUTING AT THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Stylistic Diversity and Hidden Structure in Online Writing

Sarah Soule

MORGRIDGE PROFESSOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AT THE STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Protest Event Data: New Models for an Old Staple