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Meet YINS, 12/3/14: "Crowd Teaching" and “Geography as a determinant of and proxy for social relationships”
Meet YINS, 12/3/14: "Crowd Teaching" and “Geography as a determinant of and proxy for social relationships”
“Crowd Teaching,” Amin Karbasi: How should we present training examples to learners to teach them classification rules? This is a natural problem when training workers for crowdsourcing labeling tasks, and is also motivated by challenges in data-driven online education.
“Geography as a determinant of and proxy for social relationships,” Olav Sorenson: Much of Dr. Sorenson’s research has investigated the relationship between social networks and economic geography. He will review the central themes in this research — (i) proximity influences who interacts with whom, (ii) social relationships influence geographic mobility, and (iii) local relationships influence organizational performance — and introduce two new related ideas that currently interest him.
Professor Amin Karbasi’s research interests include learning theory, large-scale networks, optimum information processing, high dimensional statistics, information theory, and graphical models.
Olav Sorenson is currently the Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management and Director of the Core Curriculum at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), at Yale University, where he teaches electives on entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, as well as modules on strategy, innovation and organization design. His primary stream of research pertains to economic geography, focusing on how entrepreneurship influences the growth and competitiveness of regions within countries. In particular, he has called attention to some of the unexpected consequences of the fact that social capital plays an important role in entrepreneurial success. Olav’s most recent projects within this stream have been examining whether the availability of venture capital influences regional entrepreneurship and economic growth, and how going to work for a startup affects the future careers of employees.