Carlos Greg Diuk-Wasser (Facebook)

April 23, 2014 at 9:30 PM UTC – April 24, 2014 at 12:30 AM UTC

Carlos Greg Diuk is a data scientist in Facebook. Greg studies the neural bases of hierarchical behavior. and is interested in how humans learn and plan action sequences in unknown, complex environments. His recent analysis on the formation of love, a data analysis on how people conduct on Facebook before dating has toured the world.

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Carlos Greg Diuk is a data scientist at Facebook's Core Data Science Team, where he tries to understand people's behavior using Facebook data. Before that, Greg studied the neural bases of hierarchical behavior using brain scans of humans learning and planning action sequences in unknown, complex environments. And even prior to that, he was trying to program computers to learn how to play videogames. His recent analysis on the formation of love, an analysis on how people interact on Facebook before and after getting into a relationship, has toured the world. Carlos has a degree in Computer Science from the Universidad of Buenos Aires, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University and before joining Facebook he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University.

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Speaker

  • Carlos Greg Diuk-Wasser

    Facebook

When

When

April 23 – 24, 2014
9:30 PM – 12:30 AM UTC

Agenda

9:30 PMNetworking and Food
10:30 PMFireside Chat
11:30 PMNetworking

Organizers

  • Solange Rodriguez Soifer

    Chapter Director

  • Manuel Alejandro Milano Martinez

    Focus Monk

    Copywriter