Summer of AI, Part 3 | Carolina Data Science Now

Please join us for three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill's academic community, centered around how data science is used in a broad range of disciplines. These talks will be followed by a guided panel and an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers. We hope you will enjoy discovering how data science underpins and influences research and daily life.

Speakers:

Our speakers for this month are as follows:

• Daniela De la Parra

  Assistant Professor of Accounting, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

  Daniela De la Parra researches the determinants of corporate information, with an emphasis on qualitative properties of disclosures, and their implications for capital markets. She is particularly interested in applications of machine learning to accounting research.

• Saravanan Kesavan

  Professor of Operations and Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

  Saravanan Kesavan studies retail operations with an emphasis on responsible business practices to labor management and automation. His current areas of research include improving labor productivity and worker well-being, using big data to improve forecasting, customer recycling and digitization.

• Daniel Ringel

  Assistant Professor of Marketing, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

  Daniel Ringel is a marketer and data scientist interested in creating insights into complex relationship systems such as markets, assortments and networks. His work is at the frontier of cross-disciplinary methodology and contemporary marketing problems. His research interests include competitive analysis, data visualization, machine learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence in marketing.

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