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
Weisi Guo	14:00 BST, 17th December 2025	Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics	More details
Xi Song	14:00 BST, 3rd December 2025	From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data	CANCELLED: To be re-arranged!
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