Green tariffs are now our best hope of beating climate change
IDSS core faculty Daron Acemoglu says environmental tariffs may be humanity’s last hope for mitigating increasingly devastating outcomes.
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Alexander Rakhlin Receives a 2022 MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Award
IDSS core faculty was noted in particular for “his ability to make complex material understandable” to his students.
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Marija Ilic Elected IFAC Fellow
Dr. Ilic was elected for “for contributions to hierarchical modeling and control in electric power systems and for open access modeling and control of changing electric energy systems"
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MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23
Tawanna Dillahunt from the University of Michigan's School of Information will join IDSS in Sept 2023 and focus on equitable and inclusive computing, including discrimination in employment.
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Costis Daskalakis appointed inaugural Avanessians Professor in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
SDSC affiliate and professor of electrical engineering and computer science will receive additional support to advance his research and career.
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‘Fair’ AI could help redress bias against Black US homebuyers
The ICSR Housing team explores how AI could guide reparations programs created to redress decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers.
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Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models
Researchers including LIDS principal research scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni develop tools to help data scientists make the features used in machine-learning models more understandable for end users.
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Three MIT faculty members named 2022 Simons Investigators
Faculty including IDSS affiliate Jesse Thaler are honored for their research, leadership, and mentorship.
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Mining social media data for social good
Erin Walk, a PhD student in social and engineering systems, studies the impact of social media on the Syrian conflict.
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Companies use MIT research to identify and respond to supply chain risks
IDSS core faculty David Simchi-Levi applies Risk Exposure Index (REI) research to identify and respond to hidden risks in supply chains.
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