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Previous Talks
Please find below the details of some of the previous talks held as part of the Metrics and Models seminar series:
| Speaker | Date | Title | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohsen Mosleh | 14:00 BST, 14th May, 2026 | Echo Platforms & Conversational Corrections | More details |
| Mathew Zook | 14:00 GMT, 30th April, 2026 | The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place | More details |
| Freddie Bickford Smith | 14:00 GMT, 16th April, 2026 | Rethinking aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty | More details |
| Junde Wu | 14:00 GMT, 2nd April, 2026 | Human, Agent, and One Context | More details |
| Joshua Gilbert | 14:00 GMT, 18th March, 2026 | Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with item-level outcome data: Insights from item response theory | More details |
| Chris Barrie | 14:00 GMT, 5th March, 2026 | Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems | More details |
| CANCELLED Munib Mesinovic | 14:00 GMT, 19th February, 2026 | TBC | TBC |
| Fazl Barez | 14:00 GMT, 5th February, 2026 | How can we automate Interpretability to help people make better and faster decisions? | More details |
| Yan Leng | 14:00 GMT, 22nd January, 2026 | Latent Neural Coupling of Risk and Time Preferences in LLMs | More details |
| Xi Song | 14:00 GMT, 8th January, 2026 | From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data | More details |
| Weisi Guo | 14:00 BST, 17th December 2025 | Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics | More details |
| Giovanni Mauro | 14:00 BST, 19th November 2025 | The Urban Impact of AI: Modelling Feedback Loops in Location-Based Recommender Systems | More details |
| Sam Trejo | 14:00 BST, 5th November 2025 | Utilizing DNA to Measure Within-Race Skin Tone Disparities | More details |
| Felix Elwert | 14:00 BST, 8th October 2025 | Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences: New Mechanisms & New Methods | More details |
| Andrea Ganna | 14:00 BST, 22th October 2025 | Disease prediction using nation-wide health data and genetics | More details |
| Brandon Stewart | 14:00 BST, 24th September 2025 | Design-Based Supervised Learning: A General Framework for Using LLM Annotations and Other Predicted Variables in Downstream Analyses | More details |
| Alexander Vezhnevets | 14:00 BST, 10th September 2025 | Concordia, a multi-actor generative agent based modelling system | More details |
| Keyon Vafa | 14:00 BST, 27th August 2025 | What are AI’s World Models? | More details |
| Juan Carlos Perdomo | 14:00 BST, 13th August 2025 | The relative value of prediction | More details |
| Klint Kanopka | 14:00 BST, 30th July 2025 | Reproducing Expert Judgement with Shortened Surveys using Simulated Annealing | More details |
| Ramina Sotoudeh | 14:00 BST, 16th July 2025 | Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth | More details |
| Elliott Ash | 14:00 BST, 2nd July, 2025 | Courts of Tomorrow: Experimental Evidence on AI-Augmented Justice in Pakistan | More details |