Research Events

Research Seminar
Grassroots digital democracy: an alternative architecture for the digital realm

26 March 2024, 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Speaker: Professor Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute of Science

Location: Data Science Institute, COL 1.06, First Floor Columbia House, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE 

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Research Seminar
Digital infrastructure and uptake of remote appointments in primary care in England: an empirical analysis

21 March 2024, 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Speaker: Dr Divya Srivastava, Guest Teacher, Department of Health Policy

Location: Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, William Penney Laboratory, South Kensington Campus SW7 2AZ

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Research Seminar
DSI Squared Unsolved Problems in Data Science Seminars

18 January 2024
Generative Modelling of Cardiac Anatomy

Speaker: Dr Wenjia Bai
Location: LSE Data Science Institute, COL 1.06, First Floor Columbia House, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE 
Time: 12:30-13:30

Read more about the event and other DSI Squared activities on the DSI Squared Unsolved Problems in Data Science Seminars page.

DSI Reseach Showcase 2023

12 December 2023

An event to showcase some of the outstanding work happening in the data science community at LSE. Over one hour – and a mince pie or two - DSI Affiliates based across the School present their cutting-edge research into data science and the social sciences. 

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Seminar: Resilience of Urban Socioeconomic Networks to Behavioural Changes

02 October 2023
Speaker: Dr Takahiro Yabe

DSI Research Showcase
08 December 2022

This event brought together the data science community at LSE for a celebration of some of the outstanding projects taking place.

Following its official launch of the Institute in October 2022, the DSI aims to catalyse the ongoing revolution of ‘social data science’ at LSE through spreading data science education across the School and supporting research and outreach. 

With this aim, this DSI Research Showcase highlighted some of LSE’s cutting-edge research taking place at the intersection of data and society, with a specific focus on multi-disciplinary collaboration. 

The speakers at this event were: Dr Erica Thompson, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Johanna Thoma, Dr Michael Blackwell, and Riccardo Ricciardi.

Research Seminar

Using Data Science for Sustainable Business Performance
08 December 2022

Hosted in partnership with Ekimetrics

How do we reinvent business models to balance the needs for commercial success while tackling climate change? Is it possible to use new technologies, such as AI, to reconcile business and sustainability goals while driving competitive advantage? Why is it so hard to make this change when the need for it is so obvious?

The LSE Data Science Institute (DSI) hosted an exclusive live event in collaboration with Ekimetrics as part of their EkiVision 2022 global launch to answer these questions and more. Open to all LSE students, this event featured interviews, roundtables and skills sessions to provide a comprehensive introduction to the key themes and future challenges. 

The event was introduced by DSI Director Professor Ken Benoit and Caroline Milliotte, Global Head of Sustainability at Ekimetrics. Following this a range of experts from industry and academia offered their thoughts before attendees were given the chance to engage with the concepts themselves in skills workshops. These sessions were designed to be accessible for all backgrounds.

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LSE Statistics Research Showcase
14-15 June 2022

This two-day in-person event, in the form of a series of short talks, gave an overview of the research activities of the Department's four research groups:

• Data Science

• Probability in Finance and Insurance

• Social Statistics

• Time Series and Statistical Learning

DSI Affiliates were involved in organising this event, as well as presenting their own research. DSI Director Professor Ken Benoit was also invited to lead a discussion of his relevant research.

Law, Regulation and AI: the many governance questions
3 February 2022

A Law, Technology and Society Seminars given by  Professor Roger Brownsword of King's College London discussed his work on AI Governance.

The LSE Law, Technology and Society group conducts world-leading research into the regulation of technology and its normative implications, including the legal, regulatory, policy and social implications of emerging technologies such as AI and ICT, biomedical and biotechnologies, distributed systems (including blockchain), FinTech, RegTech and LawTech.

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Building Data Science Collaborations between the UK and Brazil

25 November 2021

A workshop hosted by the LSE Data Science Institute in collaboration with the University of Exeter College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences.

The aim of the workshop was to connect researchers based in the UK and Brazil who had not collaborated before. Any researchers based in academic institutions in the UK or Brazil with an interest in establishing data science research collaborations were welcome and over 50 researchers were successful in securing a place. These researchers shared innovative ideas for potential projects.

Researchers were grouped according to their topics of interest and facilitators conducted structured brainstorming sessions aimed at proposing small research projects. Topics of discussion were loosely based on DSI research themes.

Find out more about the event and the themes discussed