SERC Symposium 2023

The Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) within the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is bringing together social scientists and humanists with engineers, computer scientists, and computing-related faculty for a daylong symposium at MIT to address the challenges and opportunities that have emerged with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of our society.

Join us on Tuesday, April 18 for panels and sessions featuring a distinguished lineup of speakers. We will also bring the vision and activities of SERC to the forefront by showcasing the work that is already taking place, and highlighting the faculty, postdocs, and students that are advancing SERC-related education and research across disciplines at MIT.

AGENDA

(8:30-9:15 am) Panel 1: Implications of Data and Algorithms

Moderator: Asu Ozdaglar, Deputy Dean of Academics, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & Head, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)

• Srini Devadas, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• Swati Gupta, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
• John Horton, Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan
• Sarah Williams, Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning, MIT

(9:15-10:40 am) Session 1: Beneficent and Fair Computing

Session Chair: Georgia Perakis, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan

• Fotini Christia, Associate Director, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) & Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
• Maximilian Kasy, Professor of Economics, Oxford
• Manish Raghavan, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, MIT Sloan & EECS
• Sherrie Wang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering & IDSS, MIT

(11:00-12:00 pm) Session 2: Equitable and Personalized Health

Session Chair: Dimistris Bertsimas, Associate Dean for Business Analytics & Professor of Operations Research, MIT Sloan

• Dimitris Bertsimas, Associate Dean for Business Analytics & Professor of Operations Research, MIT Sloan
• Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) & EECS, MIT
• Amy Moran Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT
• Nikos Trichakis, Associate Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan

(2:00-3:20 pm) Session 3: Algorithms and Humans

Session Chair: Dan Huttenlocher, Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

• Vivek Farias, Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan
• Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, Chicago Booth
• Ashesh Rambachan, Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT
• Ashia Wilson, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

(3:30-4:15 pm) Panel 2: Ethics and Computing Education

Moderator: Caspar Hare, Associate Dean of SERC, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing & Professor of Philosophy, MIT

• John Basl, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University
• Katrina LaCurts, Senior Lecturer & Undergraduate Officer, MIT EECS
• Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, MIT
• Milo Phillips-Brown, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Oxford