CIRSS Seminar: Il-Chul Moon

Il-Chul Moon, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will give the talk, "Computational Social Science with Latent Information."

Abstract: Computational social science has grown to answer diverse challenges with the support from data science, machine learning, and generative models. These challenges often involves understanding latent profiles and dynamics. This talk will provides a number of computational methodologies and case studies on such understanding. For example, we understand the latent health-care profiles of population with a probabilistic model; we look into the reason why our politicians vote on a certain bill with a deep generative model; and we regenerate a housing market with an agent based model automatically calibrated to match the real world. Along these studies, we observe how the generative models, i.e. Probabilistic Graphical Models, Deep Generative Models, and Agent-Based Models, can be fused to investigate the challenges that we see in our society.

Moon received his PhD in societal computing from the Institute of Software Research, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. His research interests include the overlapping area of computer science, management, sociology, and operations research, and also command and control analyses, health-care analyses, and disaster management.

Questions? Contact Janet Eke