David Simchi-Levi awarded INFORMS Impact Prize
Professor of civil and environmental engineering and IDSS honored for his continuing research in understanding and improving supply chain management.
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Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
Analysis by IDSS professor Jessika Trancik points to ways that engineering strategies could be reimagined to minimize delays and other unanticipated expenses.
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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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Bringing down mercury
TPP director Noelle Selin explores mercury's toxic history and informs policy-makers "how they can better manage mercury and evaluate how effective their strategies are."
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Putting sustainability front and center at the MIT Career Fair
With help from Sloan professor and IDSS affiliate Roberto Rigobon, a new online tool lets students track key metrics on employers’ carbon footprints.
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MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science announces new Data Analysis elective
New course focuses on hands-on applications of data analysis across disciplines.
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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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The complicated history of voting technology
Political science professor, IDSS affiliate, and MIT Election Lab founding director Charles Stewart traces 150 years of voting machine history.
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Testing sewage to home in on Covid-19
Letting an algorithm decide which manholes to test for evidence of coronavirus could improve pandemic containment efforts by narrowing down where infections are occurring.
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