[Theory] TTIC Guest Lecture: Nihar Shah (CMU), Nov 11 @3:30-4:50pm

[Mary Marre via Theory]

*FORWARDED ANNOUNCEMENT:*

Hi everyone,

Nihar Shah from CMU will be giving a guest lecture in my special-topics
course TTIC 44010 "People, Society, and Algorithms" during *3:30-4:50pm
next Tuesday, Nov 11*, in Room 529 at TTIC. *The content will be different
from his TTIC colloquium talk during 2-3pm on the day*. Please see below
for the title and abstract. Everyone is welcome to join!

Best,
Jingyan

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*Title:* State of the Review-nion

*Abstract: *Peer review today is central to evaluating scientific research.
Its outcomes shape careers of researchers, funding decisions worth
billions, public trust in science, and failures in some fields can even
have fatal consequences. But how well does peer review actually meet its
objectives? We will survey a number of insightful experiments on review
processes across many disciplines, and also discuss possible directions for
the future.

*Bio:* Nihar B. Shah is an Associate Professor in the Machine Learning and
Computer Science departments at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His
research focuses on the Evaluation of Science and the Science of
Evaluation. His group develops computational tools with strong theoretical
guarantees, and designs and conducts controlled experiments for
evidence-based policy design. His work has been used in the review of well
over a hundred thousand papers and thousands of proposals, across over 200
venues. He is a recipient of the Young Alumnus Medal from the Indian
Institute of Science, a JP Morgan faculty research award, Google Research
Scholar Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the David J. Sakrison memorial
prize from UC Berkeley for a "truly outstanding and innovative PhD thesis."
Papers authored by him have won awards from HCOMP, AAMAS, IEEE Data
Storage, and several workshops.

Mary C. Marre
Faculty Administrative Support
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*773-834-1757*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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