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IDSS congratulates 2018 graduates

June 8, 2018

IDSS’s 2018 graduates were awarded 7 doctoral degrees in Engineering Systems, 2 interdisciplinary doctoral degrees in statistics, 2 interdisciplinary doctoral degrees in other fields, and 26 Master of Science degrees in Technology and Policy.

6 MIT undergraduates were awarded bachelor’s degrees with a Minor in Statistics and Data Science. There were also 11 PhD, 10 SM and 13 MEng graduates affiliated with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Engineering Systems Graduates

Academic Administrator Elizabeth Milnes, Dr. Michael Davidson, Dr. Sarah Fletcher, Dr. Sahar Hashmi, Dr. Goksin Kavlak, Dr. Joshua Mueller, Dr. Daniel Merchan, Dr. Jingshu Zhang
l to r: Academic Administrator Elizabeth Milnes, Dr. Michael Davidson, Dr. Sarah Fletcher, Dr. Sahar Hashmi, Dr. Goksin Kavlak, Dr. Joshua Mueller (back), Dr. Daniel Merchan, Dr. Jingshu Zhang

Michael Davidson, PhD
Sarah Fletcher, PhD
Goksin Kavlak, PhD
Daniel Merchan, PhD
Joshua Mueller, PhD
Jingshu Zhang, PhD
Xin Zhang, PhD

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics Graduates

Tetsuya Kaji, PhD in Economics and Statistics
Cheng Mao, PhD in Mathematics and Statistics

Other Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program Graduates

Sahar Hashmi, PhD in Healthcare Systems: Management and Policy Research
Shlomiya Lightfoot, PhD in Science, Technology, and Policy

Technology and Policy Graduates

The TPP Class of 2018 at Thompson Island during their first month at MIT
The TPP Class of 2018 at Thompson Island during their first month at MIT.

Sydney Beasley
Louis Cammarata
Jung Yun Cho
Danielle Dahan
Alix de Monts de Savasse
Jessica Farrell
Veronica Foreman
Shreyas Gadgin Matha
Donovan Guttieres
Florian Hillen
Jordan Kearns
Chetan Krishna
Erik Landry
Stephen Lee
Nathaniel McLauchlan
Paige Midstokke
Katherine Picchione
Roxanne Rahnama
Jack Reid
Jieun Shin
Christoph Tries
Anna Turskaya
Anna Waldman-Brown
Shun Him Wong
Alexander Yee
Janet Yun

LIDS-affiliated Graduates

LIDS-affiliated graduates, with current LIDS students

Abhishek Agarwal, SM
Alec Anderson, MEng
Amado Antonini, SM
Jasper Arneberg, SM
Matthew Brennan, SM
Tony (Bingfei) Cao, SM
Bennett Cyphers, MEng
Yuzhou Gu, MEng
Laura Gustafson, MEng
Suhas Kowshik, SM
Xianglin Flora Meng, SM
Caroline Morganti, MEng
Alex Nordin, MEng
Rajeev Parvathala, MEng
Zara Perumal, MEng
Vinayak Ramesh, MEng
Akshay Ravikumar, MEng
James Siderius, SM
Micah Smith, SM
Ali Soylemezoglu, MEng
Corey Walsh, MEng
William Xue, MEng
Chenyang Yuan, SM
Diego Cifuentes, PhD
Virgile Galle, PhD
Chong Yang Goh, PhD
Mina Karzand, PhD
Christina Lee, PhD
Frank Permenter, PhD
Shreya Saxena, PhD
Abhishek Sinha, PhD
Amith Somanath, PhD
Thomas Stahlbuhk, PhD
Tianheng Wang, PhD

Bachelor’s Degree with Statistics and Data Science Minor

Vahid Fazel-Rezai
Claire Khodadad
Alexis Oriole
Daniel Rigobon
Jacqueline Shen
Margaret Tian


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