Data Economies

Concluded Spring 2022. Organized by Ali Alkhatib (University of San Francisco) and Charles Cui (Northwestern University)

The data economies and data markets working group aims to better understand the challenges that arise across the data pipeline from creation, ownership, accessibility, and sharing to data analysis and use.

Developing Nations

Organized by Tejumade Afonja (Saarland) and Illenin Kondo (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

We are a group of academic researchers working on understanding and tackling issues pertaining to the role and application of technology in addressing challenges in emerging nations or under-resourced settings.

Discrimination

Concluded Spring 2022. Organized by Samuel Galler and Richard Lanas Philips (Cornell)

This group focuses on different research areas, such as understanding the impacts of ranking problems and design of resource allocation mechanisms.

Environment and Climate

Organized by Matthew vonAllmen (Northwestern University) and Andrew Roberts (Boston University)

We study how computational methods can help address environmental challenges, particularly those that exacerbate the climate crisis.

Latin America and Caribbean

Concluded Spring 2022. Organized by Michelle González Amador (UNU-MERIT), Francisco Marmolejo-Cosío (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Tilsa Oré Mónago (Universidad de Piura), and Juan Felipe Penagos (Fundación Ceiba)

Major themes include: migration (especially the Venezuelan diaspora), crime (with a focus on youth crime), and education (integrating/engaging at risk youth in educational systems).

Asia-Pacific

Fall 2020 - Spring 2021. Organized by Matthew Olckers (UNSW Sydney)

The Asia-Pacific group covered a range of topics, with meetings scheduled for participants in these time zones.

Bias, Discrimination, and Fairness

Organized by Faidra Monachou (Stanford), Jessica Finocchiaro (University of Colorado - Boulder), and Duncan McElfresh (University of Maryland)

We work to better understand issues of bias, discrimination, and fairness that arise when technological systems are deployed in social and economic environments.

Healthcare

Fall 2018 - Spring 2020. Organized by Zhaowei She (GATech)

We are a group of academic researchers working on real world healthcare market design problems (e.g. kidney exchange, risk adjustment) using techniques from computer science, operations research and economics.

Housing

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019. Organized by Daniel Walinger (NYU)

We are a group of academic researchers working on market design problems in affordable housing policy (e.g. affordable housing allocation, fair housing) using techniques from computer science, operations research, and economics.

Online Labor Markets

Fall 2018 - Spring 2020. Organized by Sara Kingsley (CMU) and Manish Raghavan (Cornell)

We are a group of academic researchers seeking to apply techniques from mechanism design to problems found in online labor markets, including those related to matching mechanisms, inequality and information asymmetry, and hiring algorithms.