Responsible DS+AI Speaker Series: Manish Raghavan

Manish Raghavan

Manish Raghavan, assistant professor in informational technology at MIT's Sloan School of Management, will present "The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization."

Manish Raghavan is the Drew Houston (2005) Career Development Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS). His research centers on the societal impacts of algorithmic decision making.

Publication:
Kleinberg, J., Mullainathan, S., & Raghavan, M. (2022). The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement Optimization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11776.

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