Keynote talk - Dweepobotee Brahma

Title: Collaboration of Computer Science with Social Science

Abstract: The collaboration of computer science with other disciplines such as medicine has been particularly fruitful. The next untapped frontier is collaboration of computer science and technology with social science and policy making. The talk will discuss the opportunities, and challenges of such collaborations. It will cover instances of some successful cases of collaboration between computer science and economics, political science, behavioral science and conclude with discussions of some unexplored ways in which the two disciplines can collaborate with each other.

About the speaker: Dweepobotee Brahma is an Assistant Professor at the Centre For Mathematical and Computational Economics in the School of AI and Data Science at IIT-Jodhpur. Prior to this position, she served as a Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and as an Associate Fellow at Brookings India. Her doctoral degree in Applied Economics was obtained from Western Michigan University in 2019. Her research interests are centered on the intersection of applied econometrics, including Machine Learning and Causal Inference techniques, with development economics and health economics.