Talks

Collection of talks and presentations from over the years given by me and my team members on our joint work.

Recent Conferences and Workshops


  1. Operationalizing Responsible AI in Large-Scale Organizations (Slides coming soon)
    Trusted AI Summit, 2022
    San Francisco, CA, USA. June 2022.
    Related live chat with DataEthics4All Founder

  2. Looking Beyond Theory; Considerations & Best Practices for Operationalizing Ethical AI in Industry (Panel Discussion)
    AI Ethics Summit 2022
    San Francisco, CA, USA. February 2022.

  3. Efficient Vertex-Oriented Polytopic Projection for Web-scale Applications (Slides coming soon)
    36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022)
    Virtual Event, February 2022.

  4. Achieving Fairness in Large-Scale Recommender Systems (Slides)
    CM Statistics 2021
    London, UK. (Virtual Event) December 2021.

  5. INFORMS 2021 (Slides)
    Anaheim, CA, USA. October 2021.

  6. Microsoft Research Summit (Slides)
    Bangalore, India (Virtual Event), September 2021.

  7. Personalized Treatment Selection using Causal Heterogeneity (Slides)
    The Web Conference, (WWW) 2021
    Ljubljana, Slovenia (Virtual Event), April 2021.

  8. Tutorial on Bayesian Optimization for Balancing Metrics in Recommender Systems (Webpage)
    ICJAI 2020
    Yokohama, Japan. (Virtual Event) January 2021.

  9. A/B Testing in Dense Large-Scale Networks: Design and Inference (Slides)
    2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020)
    Spotlight Presentation
    Virtual Event, December 2020.

  10. INFORMS 2020 (Slides)
    Washington D.C, USA. November 2020.

  11. 2020 Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium. (BayLearn 2020) (Slides)
    Virtual Event. October 2020.
    • ECLIPSE: Extreme-Scale Linear Programs for Web-Applications

  12. Evaluating Fairness using Permutation Tests (Slides)
    26rd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020)
    Virtual Event, August 2020.

  13. Rise of the Machines: Removing the Human-in-the-Loop
    2020 USENIX Conference on Operational Machine Learning (OpML '20')
    Virtual Event, August 2020.


  14. ECLIPSE: Extreme-Scale Linear Programs for Web-Applications (Slides)
    37th International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML 2020)
    Virtual Event, July 2020.

  15. INFORMS 2019 (Slides)
    Seattle, WA, USA. September 2019.

  16. 2019 Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium. (BayLearn)
    Pinterest, San Francisco, CA, USA. October 2019.
    • Personalization and Optimization of Decision Parameters via Heterogenous Causal Effects (Poster)
    • A/B Testing in Dense Large-Scale Networks: Design and Inference (Slides) (Poster)

  17. ML Platform Meetup: Infra for Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning (Slides, Medium Blog Post)
    Netflix, Los Gatos, CA, USA. September 2019

  18. 2018 Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium. (BayLearn) (Poster)
    Menlo Park, CA, USA. October 2018

  19. Online Parameter Selection for Web-Based Ranking (Slides)
    24rd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018)
    London, UK. August 2018.

  20. Large Scale Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Program via Low-Discrepancy Sequences (Poster)
    2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017)
    Long Beach, CA, USA. December 2017.

  21. 2017 Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium. (BayLearn) (Slides)
    Apple HQ, Cupertino, CA, USA. October 2017.

Past Talks


  1. Workshop on Quasi-Monte Carlo and High-Dimensional Sampling Methods for Applied Mathematics.
    Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. August 2017

  2. Asymptotic Normality of Scrambled Geometric Nets (Slides)
    12th International Conference on Monte-Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing
    Stanford University, USA. August 2016

  3. Workshop on Discrepancy Theory (Slides)
    Varenna, Italy. June 2016

  4. Conference on Information Based Complexity (Slides)
    Bedlewo, Poland, April 2015

  5. Workshop on Discrepancy Theory (Slides)
    ICERM, Brown University, October 2014

  6. 11th International Conference on Monte-Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing (MCQMC 2014) (Slides)
    KU Leuven, Belgium, April 2014.

  7. 10th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
    Gold Coast, Australia, April 2012.

  8. United States Conference on Teaching of Statistics (USCOTS 2009)
    Ohio State University, June 2009.