Metrics and Models

We have a focus on the metrics and models used across health and social data science. We’re specifically interested – but not exclusively – in predictive methods (i.e., machine/deep learning, LLMs), because this is where most of the organiser’s shared interests overlap. However, we are broadly interested in all computational tools and techniques, including but not limited to the mathematical philosophy underpinning prediction, and efforts to make research more reproducible in general.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford), Charles Rahal (University of Oxford), Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), Daniel Valdenegro (University of Oxford), Jiani Yan (University of Oxford), Mark Verhagen (University of Oxford), Xiaowen Dong (University of Oxford), Duiyi Dai (University of Oxford)
Timing: Wednesdays fortnightly at 2pm UK Time
Web Address: https://metrics-and-models.github.io/
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Population Health

Talks:

Wednesday 16 July 2025

Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth
Date: 16 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Ramina Sotoudeh (Yale University)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 July 2025

Reproducing Expert Judgement with Shortened Surveys using Simulated Annealing
Date: 30 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Klint (Kanopka)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 August 2025

The relative value of prediction
Date: 13 August 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Juan Carlos Perdomo (Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 August 2025

Behavioral Machine Learning
Date: 27 August 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Keyon Vafa (Harvard Data Science Initiative)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 8 October 2025

Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics
Date: 8 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Weisi Guo (Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, Cranfield University)
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Organiser: Metrics and Models Management Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Richard Rahal