User Perceptions of Problematic Ads
Eric Zeng joins us to discuss his study around understanding bad ads and efforts that can be taken to limit bad ads online. He discussed how he and his co authors scrapped a large amount of ad data, a...
25 Jul 202237min
Political Digital Advertising Analysis
NaLette Brodnax, a political scientist and an Assistant Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University joins us to discuss her work on analyzing digital advertisements for p...
21 Jul 202235min
Fraud Detection in Crowdfunding Campaigns
18 Jul 202235min
Artificial Intelligence and Auction Design
11 Jul 202243min
Privacy Preference Signals
Have you ever wondered what goes on under the hood when you accept a website's cookies? Today, Maximilian Hils, a PhD student in Computer Science, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, dissects the...
4 Jul 202233min
Neural Architecture Search for CTR Prediction
Ravi Krishna joins us today to talk about his recent work on a differentiable NAS framework for ads CTR prediction. He discussed what CTR prediction is about and why his NAS framework helps in buildin...
27 Jun 202228min
Algorithmic PPC Management
Effectively managing a large budget of pay per click advertising demands software solutions. When spending multi-million dollar budgets on hundreds of thousands of keywords, an effective algorithmic s...
21 Jun 202243min
Data Skeptic: Ad Tech
Increasingly, people get most if not all of the information they consume online. Alongside the web sites, videos, apps, and other destinations, we're consistently served advertisements alongside the o...
18 Jun 202242min
