#AcademicRunPlaylist - 5/8/24

Today I wore yet another highly recommended ML-themed shirt, and it made extremely appropriate garb for listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a thought-provoking talk by Kaivan Munshi on social status, economic development, and female labor force participation at the CEPR. Munshi develops a model that convincingly matches the data in India showing that social norms are likely depressing female labor force participation, and that raising income by itself can have unintuitive effects on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElWUMGhxh_o

Next was an excllent symposium on labor market inequality in Indonesia and India with Kunal Sen providing a broad overview of the state of play and discussion by Maria Monica Wihardja and I Dewa Gede Karma Wisana at the Crawford School of Public Policy. There's a wealth of information on these labor markets with insightful comparisons and suggestions for policy improvements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk89V1uce8E

Next was an interesting talk by Ruchen (Puck) Wen on designing robots to operate in different ethical modes at the Maryland Robotics Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfc37WtBDPQ

Next was an engaging conversation with Geeyoung Min on how firms strategically roll out insider trading compliance policies on Andrew Jennings' Business Scholarship Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6YebFI1vs

Next was a great talk by Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman on enhancing transparency in human-robot teams at the Maryland Robotics Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tko7m0cyOoY

Next was an excellent talk by Samir Yitzhak Gadre on methodologies for dataset construction and building large model training pipelines at the Allen Institute for AI. There's a lot of time spent here on the down-and-dirty process of actually building these pipelines in the real world, and I highly recommend this for people looking to build or fine-tune a large model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX3Mwp68pZo

Next was an intriguing talk by Naresh Khatri on the cultural underpinnings of India's brand of crony capitalism at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2MkP5sKik

Next was a fascinating talk by Sujatha Srinivasan on designing, developing, and deploying assistive devices at the Global Disability Innovation Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Ply__KM7g

Next was a powerful panel on the history and legacy of the Pernkopf Atlas with Sabine Hildebrandt and Howard Israel at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. The Pernkopf Atlas is an anatomical atlas developed by Nazi surgeons, using the bodies of political dissidents, but published in 1960 with its origins meticulously obscured. This tough discussion digs into that history and the ethics of using the Atlas moving forward. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJez1AvgHU0

Next was an important talk by Hemachandran Karah on the relationship between life histories of disabled people and academic disciplines at the Global Disability Innovation Hub. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrnOgQb5yk