SES News
Racial equity and data science
Professor Fotini Christia introduces a new MIT-wide effort to address systemic racism with social science and computation, launched by IDSS.
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When should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions?
MIT researchers, including IDSS doctoral student Hussein Mozannar, created a method that helps humans develop a more accurate mental model of an artificial intelligence teammate.
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At UN climate change conference, trying to “keep 1.5 alive”
Andreas Haupt, a graduate student in IDSS, joined MIT’s COP26 delegation to follow negotiations to keep global climate goals on track.
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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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