Please join us for a discussion of Prof. Sharad Goel’s pioneering research on police practices.

Dinner will be served at 5:45PM

Sharad Goel is an Assistant Professor in Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering Department and, by courtesy, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Computer Science. His primary area of research is computational social science, an emerging discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences. He’s particularly interested in applying modern computational and statistical techniques to study social and political policies, such as stop-and-frisk, swing voting, filter bubbles, do-not-track, and media bias. Before joining Stanford, Sharad was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and Yahoo Labs. He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, an MS Computer Science from Cornell University, and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago.