The Data, Ethics, and Decisionmaking Speaker Series presents Dr. Wendy Tam Cho, Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Statistics, and Asian American Studies and Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on "Fighting Gerrymandering with the Blue Waters Supercomputer ". Professor Tam Cho will discuss massively parallel evolutionary computation for empowering electoral reform and quantifying gerrymandering via multi-objective optimization and statistical analysis.
Wine and cheese will be served following the talk.
Speaker Biography
Wendy K. Tam Cho is Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Statistics, and Asian American Studies, Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, a Guggenheim Fellow (2015-2016), Faculty in the Illinois Informatics Institute, and Affiliate of the Cline Center for Democracy, the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, and the Computational Science and Engineering Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
