Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) is committed to addressing complex societal challenges by advancing education and research at the intersection of statistics, data science, information and decision systems, and social sciences.

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MIT News | December 16, 2025

“Robot, make me a chair”

An AI-driven system developed by a team including IDSS faculty members Faez Ahmed and Lawrence Sass lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.

MIT News | December 15, 2025

Making clean energy investments more successful

Tools for forecasting and modeling technological improvements and the impacts of policy decisions can result in more effective and impactful decision-making, says recent article co-authored by IDSS faculty Jessika Trancik.

Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

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Subhodh Kotekal (MIT)
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IDSS Distinguished Seminar Series

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Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

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Max Simchowitz (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

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Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy (University of California, San Diego)
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Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

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Michael Albergo (Harvard University)
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