Public Speaking

I have presented talks on statistics and data science at conferences, universities, non-profit organizations, and private companies for both academic and business audiences around the world. I am comfortable presenting for beginner, intermediate, or advanced audiences.

In addition to my presentations, I also taught almost 100 students in two sections of an upper level data science course at USC [syllabus].

If you’d like me to present a talk or tutorial for your organization, feel free to email me at gregory.faletto@marshall.usc.edu.

Past presentations:

  • Workshops for Ukraine (May 23 2024), “Conducting Simulation Studies in R.” [Blog post]
    • You can access the recording, slides, and code by donating 20 euro to your choice of organization supporting Ukraine. See details here.
  • VideoAmp (April 5 2024), “Doubly-Robust Estimation of Advertising Uplift.”
  • University of Southern California Causal Inference Reading Group (February 8 2024), “Fused Extended Two-Way Fixed Effects for Differences-in-Differences.” [Blog post] [Slides] [Paper]
  • VideoAmp (September 6 2023), “Conformal Prediction.”
  • Data Con LA (August 12 2023), “Predicting Purchases, Rare Diseases, and More: Using Ordinal Regression to Estimate Rare Event Probabilities.” [Video] [Blog post] [Slides and code]
  • International Conference on Machine Learning, (July 26 2023), “Predicting Rare Events by Shrinking Towards Proportional Odds” (poster session; joint with Jacob Bien). [More information]
  • University of Southern California Marshall School of Business (June 29 2023), Tutorial on Monte Carlo simulations for USC JumpStart. [Slides and code] [Blog post]
  • VideoAmp (June 7 2023), “Fused Extended Two-Way Fixed Effects for Differences-in-Differences.” [Paper]
  • Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Division of Cardiology (May 22 2023), “Leveraging Sparsity in Theoretical and Applied Machine Learning and Causal Inference.” [Slides]
  • University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Department of Data Sciences and Operations Statistics Ph.D. Student Seminar (December 2 2022), “Predicting Rare Events by Shrinking Towards Proportional Odds.” [Paper] [Slides]
  • University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Department of Data Sciences and Operations Statistics Ph.D. Student Seminar (April 23 2021), “Generalized Stability Selection.” [paper]
  • Copenhagen Workshop On Algorithmic Fairness (University of Copenhagen) (Nov. 13 2020) “Fair Decisions, Hard and Soft.”
    • Presentation on accounting for more than one measure of algorithmic fairness. Joint work with Prof. Kenneth Silver (Trinity College Dublin).
  • IM Data Conference 2020 (Nov. 3 2020), “Data-Driven Forecasts of Local COVID-19 Risk in Los Angeles.”
  • University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Department of Data Sciences and Operations Statistics Ph.D. Student Seminar (March 25 2020), “Generalized Stability Selection.” [paper]
  • Orange County R Users Group (May 2019) Presented models that won “Best Model” at the Orange County R Users Group Hackathon 2019. [Blog post]