WORKSHOP DETAILS

About the Workshop
What to Expect
Travel Grants
Hotel Accommodations
How to get to Yale University and Kline Tower
Airport Convenience Calculus
Venue
Cancellation Policy

About the Workshop

Social scientists are increasingly incorporating AI into their designs, data collection, analyses, and workflows. Alongside rapid adoption, important methodological questions remain: What are the principled approaches to validating measurements via AI tools? To what extent are AI-generated observations interchangeable with those from human respondents — and what does that mean for the future of survey research?

This workshop convenes researchers working on the methods of AI-enabled social science. We welcome submissions that develop new methodological frameworks, propose evaluation strategies, introduce tools or benchmarks, or present empirical findings that clarify when and how AI improves — or complicates — social science inference.

Hosted by the Yale Institute for the Foundations of Data Science (FDS), the workshop will bring together a small group of scholars working on methodological innovation across sociology, economics, political science, public health, statistics, computer science, and related fields.

Workshop Details

What to Expect

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May 20–22

Welcome dinner & mentoring on May 20. Full workshop on May 21–22.

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Present Your Work

Share ongoing research in a talk or poster session with a small, engaged audience.

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Travel Support

Mentors and poster presenters will be reimbursed up to $800 for travel and accommodation expenses.

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Mentoring Event

Connect with peers and mentors at the welcome dinner on the evening of May 20.

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What’s Included

Dinner on May 20; breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, and a poster-session reception on May 21; breakfast and lunch on May 22.

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Topics We’ll Explore

AI-mediated experiments, hybrid human–AI measurement, synthetic data pipelines, prompting as treatment, and simulation-based social science research.

Organizers

Travel Grants

We are committed to supporting participation in the workshop. Travel support is provided as follows:

  • Speakers – Travel and hotel accommodations are covered in full.
  • Session Chairs – Travel and hotel accommodations are covered in full.
  • Mentors – A limited number of travel grants are available; must attend the mentoring event on May 20th.
  • Graduate Students & Postdocs – A limited number of travel grants are available for selected poster presenters. Each grant covers transportation and hotel accommodations up to $800, and includes a waiver of the registration fee. To be considered, submit your poster abstract by April 6th. Decisions will be announced by April 16th.

All travel grant recipients will have their registration fees waives, and will have hotel accommodations booked directly by our team. For questions about travel support, please contact Emily Hau at emily dot hau at yale dot edu.

Hotel Accommodations

Yale FDS will arrange hotel accommodations directly for invited speakers, mentors, session chairs, and poster travel grant recipients. If you fall into one of these categories, you will hear from us about your booking no later than April 22nd.

All other attendees are responsible for booking their own accommodations. Our hotel recommendations are all about one mile from our workshop venue, nearby Yale shuttle routes, and walking distance to Metro North and Amtrak trains.

We recommend the following hotels:

New Haven Hotel
New Haven Hotel
229 George St
New Haven, CT 06510
United States
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The distance from the New Haven Hotel (229 George St) to our workshop venue in Kline Tower (52 Sachem St) in New Haven is approximately 1.1 miles.

New Haven Hotel offers convenient parking in a secure lot for $24 per day. Simply drive up to the entrance, check-in, and access the garage across the street with your room keycard.
Graduate by Hilton New Haven
Graduate by Hilton New Haven
1151 Chapel St
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
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The distance from the The Graduate by Hilton New Haven (1151 Chapel St) to our workshop venue in Kline Tower (52 Sachem St) in New Haven is approximately 0.9 miles.

No on-site parking available. Off-site - additional fees apply at York St Garage.
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
155 Temple St
New Haven, CT 06510
United States
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The distance from the the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale (155 Temple St) to our workshop venue in Kline Tower (52 Sachem St) in New Haven is approximately 0.8 miles.

Valet and self parking available.

Venue: Kline Tower

Use 52 Sachem St for walking directions.

In 2023 a freshly renovated and reimagined Kline Tower (KT) was unveiled at Yale University on Science Hill as the new home of the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science, and the Departments of Statistics and Data Science, Mathematics, and Astronomy. Our location matches our vision: to convene faculty from departments and schools across the university, united by shared research interests. The 16-story building, which is the tallest on the Yale campus, features open-concept programming space — including a state-of-the-art conference center on the top floor, with panoramic views of Yale, greater New Haven, and the Long Island Sound. KT’s event and meeting spaces enable faculty and students across departments — as well as visiting scholars from around the world — to gather, collaborate, and spark interdisciplinary discoveries and scholarship. We will convene this conference at the top of KT.

Getting to New Haven, CT

See the airport convenience calculus below if you're unfamiliar with the area.

Regional Airports:

Train Station: New Haven, CT - Union Station 

Local Airports:

Airport Shuttles, Taxis & Cars: 

  • Red Dot Airport Shuttle (Protip: provides an easy, inexpensive and reliable ride to and from LaGuardia and JFK right to Phelps Gate at Yale University, and is walking distance to all our recommended hotels.
  • Metro Taxi
  • Go Airport Shuttle
  • Uber & Lyft

 

Airport Convenience Calculus

Most convenient: Tweed (HVN) in New Haven
(Note: limited connecting cities and airlines. If it works, always pick Tweed. Some hotels provide shuttles from Tweed. Only Lyft is authorized to pick up at Tweed.)

After HVN, ordered from most convenient to least convenient: BDL, HPN, LGA, JFK

Least convenient: EWR. It's a haul and a half. But, it's very inexpensive.

Cancellation Policy

We are glad to accept cancellations made on or before May 12th. Please notify Kayla Lindauer of your cancellation at kayla dot lindauer at yale dot edu for a full refund.