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IDSS MicroMasters Teaching Assistants
Drawn from Social and Engineering Systems (SES) PhD students and IDSS research staff, IDSS TAs provide expert guidance for online learners developing analytical skills.
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From algorithm development to experimental design
Graduating SES student Jinglong Zhao designs experiments to measure the efficacy of the algorithms driving online marketplaces.
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Celebrating IDSS 2021 graduates
IDSS congratulates our almost 100 grads — from SES, TPP, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics, the minor in Statistics and Data Science, and students affiliated with LIDS.
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Paths from research to impact: a year of collaborative research on Covid-19
IDSS hosted a day-long workshop exploring different ways that data-driven research from MIT and beyond impacted pandemic policy.
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Modeling the impacts of sustainability policies
Minghao Qiu combines predictive models with real-world data to assess policy effectiveness and inform policy design.
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Data for Good
The fourth MIT Policy Hackathon, hosted virtually and focusing on equity, brought together policy and data science expertise to deliver solutions to challenges from environmental justice to Covid-19.
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A model approach to public health
SES student Marie-Laure Charpignon uses computational tools to explore large-scale questions in public health, from finding better Alzheimer's drugs to modelling the spread of Covid-19.
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Can AI tell us when to use AI and when not to?
SES student Hussein Mozannar contributes to the development of a machine learning system that can “assess a task and identify whether it’s one that would be best performed by a human expert or technology.”
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Inequality across networks
Eaman Jahani examines how resources are distributed across networks as a Social & Engineering Systems PhD student.
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3 questions with Fotini Christia, the new Chair of the Social & Engineering Systems PhD program
Christia, a professor of political science and IDSS, says SES research focused on “data for the people” is cross-disciplinary research at its best.
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