The Computational Social Science Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar series featuring speakers of broad appeal in the social sciences who use computational techniques to analyze big data for research into human behavior. This workshop is cosponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Yale Department of Sociology, and the Yale School of Management (SOM) with support from the Initiative for Leadership and Organization at SOM.
The workshop typically meets on selected Mondays from 12:00-1:15 p.m. at Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Avenue. Please see the schedule below for room numbers.
This workshop is open to the Yale community only. To receive regular announcements and invitations, please use this link to subscribe with your Yale NetID.
Faculty Organizers: Balazs Kovacs, Professor of Management, Yale School of Management; and Daniel Karell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Staff Coordinator and Contact: Laurel Mahler
2025-2026 Speaker Schedule
| date | speaker & title |
|---|---|
| SEP 29 | Jonathan Elkobi, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, Yale University Evans Hall, Room 2230, Nooyi Classroom |
| OCT 27 | Elizabeth Bruch, Sociology & Complex Systems, University of Michigan Evans Hall, Room 2230, Nooyi Classroom |
| NOV 17 | Arthur Spirling, Politics, Princeton University Evans Hall, Room 2230, Nooyi Classroom |
| FEB 2 | Austin van Loon, Work & Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management Evans Hall, Room Location TBD |
| FEB 23 | Janet Xu, Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business Evans Hall, Room Location TBD |
| APR 13 | Fabrizio Gilardi, Policy Analysis, University of Zurich Evans Hall, Room Location TBD |