Ted Enamorado, assistant professor of political science; Soumendra Lahiri, the Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Mathematics and Statistics; and Kunal Agrawal, professor of computer science and engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering, lead this project focused on enabling researchers to integrate information from multiple data sets when no unique identifier that links records across datasets is available. Combining data sources can be incredibly powerful, but such efforts carry computational difficulties and raise privacy concerns. The team will develop solutions to these problems built on accuracy, computational efficiency, privacy protection, and algorithmic fairness. They will also invite expert speakers to Washington University to share their insights.
About Future Fridays: The Graduate Center is partnering with the Arts & Sciences Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures initiative to host informal lunches where graduate students can connect with faculty leading the initiatives. First Friday Futures will be held on Fridays at noon throughout the spring 2023 and fall 2023 semesters and will be an informal way for faculty teams to speak briefly about their work, and for students to engage in questions and conversation. Full descriptions of each research and teaching cluster and registration forms can be found in the Upcoming Events Section.