DSI research events archive
Explore the DSI research events archive to discover the breadth of research events hosted by the Data Science Institute for its affiliates and the wider LSE research community. These include seminars, showcases, lectures by visiting fellows, and other academic gatherings.
Past research events
PhD Affiliate research spotlight | February
Wednesday 18 February 2026Speakers: Sonja Belkin, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, and Roop Bhadury, Department of Management
How gender diversity shapes company performance: a new approach to measuring impact
Wednesday 28 January 2026Speakers: Dr Grace Lordan and Dr Kaveh Salehzadeh-Nobari, The Inclusion Initiative LSE
PhD Affiliate research spotlight | November
Thursday 27 November 2025 | 1.00pm to 2.00pmSpeakers: Edward Plumb and Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos.
Gender dynamics in online deliberation: evidence from the 2023 Meta Community Forum on AI chatbots
Wednesday 19 November 2025 | 12.30pm to 1.15pmSpeaker: Dr Alexandra Cirone
Beyond the limits of our intelligence
Monday 17 November 2025 | 6.30pm - 8pmSpeaker: Professor Nello Cristianini
PhD Affiliate Research Spotlight
Thursday 30 October 2025 | 1.00pm to 2.00pmSpeakers: Hannah Bunt and Zarja Hude
Developing Catholic AI: how the Catholic Church develops and implements LLMs for clergy and the lay
Wednesday 15 October 2025Speaker: Dr Tomislav Karačić. Department of Management
Research Event
AI/ML in Finance – Shaping the Future of Financial Markets
Tuesday 24 June 2025 5.45pm to 8.00pmLocation: Shaw Library, LSE
Speakers and panellists: Giovanni Beliossi, Head of Investment Strategies at Axyon AI, UK; Peter Hafez, Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack and Bigdata.com; Petter Kolm, Professor at NYU Courant, USA; Johannes Muhle-Karbe, Professor at Imperial College London: Hilary Till, Principal at Premia Research, USA
Chair: Johannes Ruf, Professor in Department of Mathematics and Deputy Director, Data Science Institute, LSE
Hosted by the Data Science Institute and the International Association for Quantitative Finance
Collaborative Open Research Workshop
Tuesday 27 May 2:00pm to 4:00pmLocation: Data Science Institute, Columbia House, LSE.
Led by: Tom Graves, Open Research Library, LSE and members of the LSE Open Research Library team
Please note this event is open only to LSE PhD Students
AI and Finance - Collaborative Frontiers
Friday 11 April, 2.00pm to 6.00pmLocation: Centre Building, Houghton Street, LSE.
Speakers: Christian Julliard, LSE; Silvia Bartolucci, UCL; Bart De Keijzer, KCL; James Hamp, Citi.
DSI PhD Affiliate Lightning Talks Winter Term 2025
Tuesday 18 February, 2.00pm to 3.30pm and Thursday 6 March, 2.00pm to 3.30pmLocation: Data Science Institute, Columbia House, LSE.
Speakers: Members of the DSI PhD Affiliate Network
Thursday 13 February 2025, 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Location: Data Science Institute, Columbia House, LSE.
Speaker: Anuschka Schmitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, LSE
Hosted by The Data Science Institute, LSE
Monday 10 February 2025, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: William Penney Laboratory, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ
Speaker: Astrid Krenz, Miguel Dols Fellow, LSE
Chair: Mark Kennedy, Director of the Data Science Institute, Imperial College London
Hosted by The Data Science Institutes at LSE and Imperial College London.
Research Seminar | CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series
Wednesday 11 December 2024 3.00pm to 4.00pm GMTLocation: Online
Speaker: Florian Guitton, Researcher, Imperial College London.
DSI Research Showcase
Friday 06 December 2024 04:00pm to 5:30pmLocation: MAR 1.08, Marshall Building, LSE
Speakers: Kaveh Salehzadeh-Nobari, Astrid Krenz, Jon Cardoso-Silva, LSE
Chair: Martin Anthony, Director of the Data Science Institute, LSE
Hosted by The Data Science Institute, LSE.
Tuesday 08 October 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: Data Science Institute, Columbia House, LSE
Speaker: Florian Guitton, Researcher, Imperial College London.
Chair: Martin Anthony, Director of the Data Science Institute, LSE
Hosted by The Data Science Institutes at LSE and Imperial College London.
Research Seminar | CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series
AI and Democracy
12 June 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pmLocation: Online
Speaker: Andreas Jungherr, Professor of Political Science and Digital Transformation at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bamberg.
Research Symposium
Beveridge 2.0: AI and Data Science for Public Policy Symposium
8 May 2024, 9.00am to 4.40pmLocation: In-person (MAR 1.04, Marshall Building) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE Data Science Institute and the LSE School of Public Policy
Research Seminar
CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series: AI Professional Accreditation
1 May 2024, 3.00pm to 4.00pmLocation: Online
Speaker: Dr Marie Oldfield (Senior Lecturer in Practice, Department of Mathematics, LSE)
Research Seminar
Grassroots digital democracy: an alternative architecture for the digital realm26 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
Research Seminar
Digital infrastructure and uptake of remote appointments in primary care in England: an empirical analysis21 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
Research Seminar
GENIAL Open Lecture: Using AI Chatbots for Learning28 Feburary 2024
This insightful open lecture presents preliminary results from the GENIAL research project, a study that examines the use of generative AI tools as catalysts for learning.
Read more about the event and watch the event recording here
Research Seminar
Promoting and sustaining accountability in artificial intelligence applications26 Feburary 2024, 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Speaker: Dr Leonardo Bezerra, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Stirling
Location: LSE Data Science Institute, COL 1.06, First Floor Columbia House, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE
Read more about the event here
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
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.
Seminar: Resilience of Urban Socioeconomic Networks to Behavioural Changes
02 October 2023
Speaker: Dr Takahiro Yabe
Abstract:
Urban economic resilience hinges on understanding how shocks propagate across local businesses and amenities during pandemics, disasters, and technological shifts. While disruptions in supply chains and physical infrastructure have been extensively studied, it is imperative to recognize that human behavior changes may also amplify shocks to businesses and amenities that are connected via mobility and lifestyle patterns. In this talk, I will present novel network-based methods that leverage large-scale human mobility data to predict the network cascades of urban shocks, and further discuss policy applications to design infrastructure systems to achieve urban resilience.
Speaker bio:
Dr Takahiro Yabe is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and the Media Lab with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland and Esteban Moro. His research focuses on computational social science and network science approaches to model the resilience of cities to disasters, pandemics, and disruptive mobility technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2021, and his MS and BS from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2015, respectively. He is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, starting January 2024.
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.
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 given by Professor Roger Brownsword of King's College London discussed his work on AI Governance.
The 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.
Listen to a recording of the event
Building Data Science Collaborations between the UK and Brazil
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.