Studying and Researching

COURSES OUTSIDE OF GSU

Econometrics or Causal Inference Methods

• Estimates taught by Dr. Wooldridge (with a fee)

• The Chicago School in Experimental Economics (CSEE) by Dr. John List (2024, can be fully sponsored with application)

Machine Learning

• Machine Learning & Causal Inference: A Short Course (free)

• Machine Learning & Game Theory (free)

• Human-Centered Machine Learning (free)

• Deeplearning.ai courses and short courses by Dr. Andrew Ng and team (?$)

Economics

• Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation (free, with instructors)

Natural Language Processing

• Stanford CS 224N | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (free version)

• Natural Language Processing Course | Stanford Online (paid version)

• NLP for Social Science (free, no instructor) and many other courses offered by Dr. Diyi Yang

• Advances in Foundation Models (free)

AI Systems

• AI Systems Design (offered at Emory) | Systems for AI and ML (offered at GaTech)

Other Quant Courses

• Bayesian Data Analysis (free, no instructor)

MATERIALS (Free)

Books:

• Econometrics (more maths): Bruce Hansen's Probability and Statistics for Economists | Bruce Hansen's Econometrics

• Causal Inference (more intuition): Causal Inference The Mixtape | Mostly Harmless

• Natural Language Processing: Speech and Language Processing

• Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Intro to Statistical Learning (more intuition)| Elements of Statistical Learning (more math) |Murphy’s Probabilistic ML 1 | Murphy 2| Explainable AI rec’ded by Prof. Yu-Kai | Deep Learning by Goodfellow | Dive into Deep Learning

• Dissertation and early career related: road-to-success r’cded by Dr. Maruping | Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: Davis, Gordon r’cded by Dr. Maruping

Podcast and Seminars:

• Information Systems: “this IS Research” PODCAST | Jan Recker | ISPOC Series

• Economics: Seminar list currated by AEA | NBER Summer Institute

• Methods: Causal Inference Seminar

List of papers: An_incomplete_reading_list_for_HCC by Dr. XinyuFu | NLP4SocialGoods | SPATIAL Social Network

Slides: Explainable AI by Prof. Yu-Kai Lin | Intro to Deep Learning by Dr. Yu-Kai Lin | MISQ Seminar - Qualitative Methods for IS | Dr. Robey’s Recommendations for publications | Tips for Hybrid Teaching

Economics Research Centers: Center for Economic Policy and Research | Institute for Progress

Tech Industry News and Opinion: Tech Policy Institute | Tech Crunch | Crunch Base (for acquisition, entrepreneurship news) | The Verge and its podcast

Read our news archive here.

CONFERENCES

Major Information Systems conferences:

• ICIS: usually happens during December after Fall semester ends. The deadline for papers is May 1st that year. You will need to go through a round of review before being accepted into the conference. All papers are published at AIS Library. Doctoral Consortium: for students who proposed but have yet to defend their dissertation, you can apply to the Doctoral Consortium.

• AMCIS: usually happens in August before Fall semester starts. The deadline for papers is March 1st that year. All papers are published at AIS Library. Doctoral Consortium (2024) early stages (have yet to pass comprehensive exams) and late stages (have passed comprehensive exams) can apply to the two tracks.

• CIST (2024): usually happens in October during the Fall semesters. The deadline for papers is around the first two weeks of June. Papers and presentations are not published. They also have a doctoral consortium (2024) at all stages.

• WITS: happens in December after ICIS, deadline for research in progress and complete research within the first week of August. Students who successfully proposed their dissertation can also submit it for feedback and awards.

• WISE (2024): happens in December after ICIS. Submission is only extended abstract. Deadline for submission is August.

• AOM: happens in August before the semester starts. IS scholars usually attend CTO or TIM division. The deadline for papers is around the 9th or 10th of January. Doctoral consortiums are offered by individual consortiums Check with your consortium to learn about the criteria and travel funds.

  Also look out for paper development workshops in the major IS conferences.

More specialized areas:

• BU PLATFORM SYMPOSIUM: usually happens in July. The deadline for papers is around the first two weeks of April. Papers and presentations are published online as conference programs.

• CHITA (2024): happens around the first week of May and for health-related topics. The deadline is usually around the first week of March. They also have a doctoral consortium.

• CODE MIT (2023): for experiment methods.

• GenAI at Wharton (2023)

• Wiki Workshop (2024)

• WoPA by USC (2024). Platform research

• Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium

Other fields:

• ACM CHI (2024)

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

• ICIS. Doctoral Consortium: as for students who proposed but have yet to defend their dissertation, you can apply to the Doctoral Consortium.

• AMCIS: Doctoral Consortium (2024) early stages (have yet to pass comprehensive exams) and late stages (have passed comprehensive exams) can apply to the two tracks.

• CIST (2024): doctoral consortium (2024) for all stages.

• AOM: Doctoral consortiums are offered by individual consortium (CTO or TIM division). Check with your consortium to learn about the criteria and travel funds.

JOB MARKET

This consists of many job market experience sharing presentation I’ve attended. I am sure that I am not the most diligent student; so this list is an incomplete one. But I hope that I will be helpful in some sense. Click the name of the person to get their sharing.

2023-2024: William Olivera

2022-2023: Xinyu Fu | Liwei Chen

2021-2022: Rongen “Sophia” Zhang | Junyoung Park | Jing Tian

AMAZING EXTERNAL RESOURCES

• Resources for Economics PhD Students ( by LSE Econs PhD Students)

• Shanjun Li: PhD Resources (cornell.edu)

Contributed by GSU CIS and CDIN Students. Updated May 29, 2024.