Past talk · AI/ML Seminar Series
Behavioral science research at a corporate research laboratory
Lead Research Scientist, Snap Research
- Date & time
- Monday, January 30, 2023 · 1:00 PM
- Location
- Donald Bren Hall 4011
Abstract
Corporate research labs aim to push the scientific and technological forefront of innovation outside traditional academia. Snap Inc. combines academia and industry by hiring academic researchers and doing application-driven research. In this talk I will give examples of research projects from my corporate research experience. My goal is to showcase the value of — and hurdles for — working both with and within corporate research labs, and how some of these values and hurdles are different from working in traditional academia.
About the speaker
Maarten Bos is a Lead Research Scientist at Snap Inc. After receiving his PhD in The Netherlands and postdoctoral training at Harvard University, he led a behavioral science group at Disney Research before joining Snap in 2018. His research interests range from decision science to persuasion and human-technology interaction, with work published in Science, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Marketing Research.