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  • Jan
    15

    CS Seminar: Context-aware Responsible Data Science (Sainyam Galhotra)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    Wednesday / CS Seminar
    January 15th / 12:00 PM
    Hybrid / Mudd 3514

    Speaker
    Sainyam Galhotra, Cornell University

    Talk Title
    Context-aware Responsible Data Science

    Abstract
    "Data-based systems are increasingly used in applications that have far-reaching consequences and long-lasting societal impact. However, the development process remains highly specialized, tedious, and unscalable. This produces a manually fine-tuned rigid solution that works only for one specific problem in one specific context. The system fails to adapt to the changing world and severely limits the full utilization of valuable data.

    So, how can you avert this fate for your systems?

    In this talk, I present my vision of context-aware systems that enable even non-expert users to develop correct, explainable, and equitable data-science pipelines. To achieve this, I will focus on i) re-thinking the design of data science pipelines, and ii) the importance of causal inference for trustworthy data analysis. I will present a data discovery framework that automatically identifies useful data on behalf of end-users for various tasks. Lastly, I will discuss my proposal of leveraging counterfactual reasoning and causal inference to quantify the impact of an input on the outcome. These topics are the pieces of the puzzle that come together to create the Data Scientists' holy grail - an easily deployable, scalable, and robust system that you can trust even as everything around it evolves."

    Biography
    Sainyam Galhotra is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University and a field member for Computer Science, Statistics and Data Science. Previously, he was a Computing Innovation Fellow pursuing postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Prof. Barna Saha (currently at UC San Diego). The goal of his research is to lay the foundation of responsible data science, that enable efficient development and deployment of trustworthy data analytics applications. His research has combined techniques from Data Management, Probabilistic Methods, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, and Software Engineering. His research has been published in top-tier Data Management (SIGMOD, VLDB, PODS, & ICDE), AI (NeurIPS, AAAI & AIES) and Software Engineering (FSE) conferences. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award in FSE 2017 and Most Reproducible Paper Award in both SIGMOD 2017 and 2018, and Best Artifact Paper Honorable Mention Award in SIGMOD 2023. He was recognized as a Data Science rising star, a DAAD AInet Fellow, and as the first recipient of the Krithi Ramamritham Award at UMass for contribution to database research.

    Research/Interest Areas
    Data Management
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    TIME Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Aug
    20

    Alumni Education Webinar: McCormick School of Engineering's Strategic Vision

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    12:00 PM

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    TIME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    8

    Welcome & Breakfast for New McCormick PhD Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    9:00 AM LR2 & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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  • Sep
    12

    New Undergraduate Fall 2025 Registration

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Friday, September 12, 2025

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  • Sep
    15

    Welcome & Luncheon for New Full-time Graduate Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    11:00 AM Ryan Auditorium & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    16

    Fall Classes Begin. Change of Registration (Drop/Add) Late registration for returning students begins

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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  • Sep
    25

    Bagel Thursday

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    9:00 AM

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    TIME Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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    CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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