SSI Lecture Series “Gigabytes for Good” 11/1/2019

Can data science promote opportunity, equality, and equity? Hear from three distinguished speakers focused on research that addresses these issues. Read more “SSI Lecture Series “Gigabytes for Good” 11/1/2019″ →

SSI Lecture Series presents “Gigabytes for Good” 11/1/2019

Gigabytes for Good

Friday, 11/1/2019, 3-4:30 PM | Otto G. Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

Can data science promote opportunity, equality, and equity?
Hear from three distinguished speakers focused on research that addresses these issues.

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This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Nick Petersen

Assistant Professor, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
Nick and his team are working to improved facial-recognition technology by making it more demographically inclusive.

Robert Latham

Associate Director, School of Law’s Children & Youth Law Clinic
Robert utilizes data science to uncover disturbing and promising patterns of use in Florida’s foster care System.

Lynn K. Perry

Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
Lynn uses automated measures of speech in social contact to facilitate the language development of bilingual children with disabilities.

This lecture is part of a series presented by the Center for Computational Science Social Systems Informatics (SSI) group. SSI focuses on understanding of the nature of social interaction using the techniques and methods of data science. For more information, visit ccs.miami.edu/ssi, email ccs@miami.edu, or call 305.243.4962.

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Events

SSI Lecture Series: “Gigabytes for Good” 11/1/2019

Can data science promote opportunity, equality, and equity? Hear from three distinguished speakers: Nick Petersen, Robert Latham, and Lynn K. Perry, who are focused on research that addresses these issues. Read more “SSI Lecture Series: “Gigabytes for Good” 11/1/2019″ →

Engagement

Report on Student Social Systems Flash Talks

On Friday, September 21st, the CCS Social Systems Informatics program hosted graduate students and postdocs from across the University for an afternoon of networking and flash presentations of their research, at an event titled “Connections, Connections: Student Research in Social Systems @ UM”. A program created in 2015, Social Systems Informatics is about modeling (big) behavioral data to understand human and non-human social interactions. Read more “Report on Student Social Systems Flash Talks” →

Engagement

Connections Connections: Student Research in Social Systems 9/21

It is a pleasure to invite you to “Connections, Connections: Student Research in Social Systems @ UM” a Flash Talks and Networking Symposium organized by the IDSC Social Systems Informatics Members. Social informatics includes modeling big behavioral data to understand human and non-human social interaction. Students working in psychology, education, geography, public health, or architecture; students studying sociality in model organisms; or students working on method development through computer science, mathematics, physics and engineering, may fall under the Social Systems Informatics umbrella. Read more “Connections Connections: Student Research in Social Systems 9/21” →

Events - Past

Social Systems Informatics Flash Talks & Happy Hour 12/1/2017

Join us for Flash Talks and Happy Hour! The second meeting of the Social Systems Informatics Members will now take place (reschedule post-Hurricane-Irma from 9/8) on Friday, 12/1/2017 in the Abess Center (Ungar Building 230C-D) from 3:00 to 5:30 PM. Please feel free to drop in during those hours. Refreshments (beer, wine, hors d’oeuvre) will be served. SSI Members will give flash talks (approx. 5 minutes each) on what they are currently working on. You do not need to be an SSI Member to participate. Hope to see you there. This event is free and open to UM Faculty, Staff, and Students. Read more “Social Systems Informatics Flash Talks & Happy Hour 12/1/2017” →

News - Archived

Researchers Go High-Tech to Explore the Social World of…

Remember your earliest friends from preschool? Researchers from the University of Miami want to know how those friendships formed, and they plan to do just that through a $200,000+ grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF Award Abstract #1052736 https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1052736), and a nifty device that will track the movements of children at two UM centers in real time for four years. Read more “Researchers Go High-Tech to Explore the Social World of Children” →

News - Archived

Featured Scientist C. Hendricks Brown, PhD

Dr. C. Hendricks Brown is Director of the Social Systems Informatics focus area in the Center for Computational Science, a program that he founded in 2011. He holds the rank of Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, and is Interim Director of the Prevention Science and Community Health Division in that department. Read more “Featured Scientist C. Hendricks Brown, PhD” →

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