Sarah Cen

Living better with algorithms
MIT News Office | May 18, 2022

LIDS student Sarah Cen explores the interplay between humans and artificial intelligence systems, to help build accountability and trust.

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On the road to cleaner, greener, and faster driving
MIT News Office | May 17, 2022

Researchers including senior author and IDSS faculty Cathy Wu use artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights.

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Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
MIT News Office | May 2, 2022

Model predictions, from study author and IDSS affiliate Themis Sapsis, should help researchers improve ocean climate simulations and hone the design of offshore structures.

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MIT announces plans for presidential search
MIT News Office | April 29, 2022

Search committee members are named; John Jarve ’78, SM ’79 will lead the process.

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SDSCon 2022 explores “the challenge of the era”: societal scale data systems
April 29, 2022

SDSCon 2022 featured a day of talks on a variety of topics, from machine learning and microeconomics to strategies for mitigating inherent biases in data and using statistics in astrophysics to explore the nature of dark matter.

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Alberto Abadie elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2022
MIT News Office | April 29, 2022

IDSS core faculty one of seven new MIT faculty members elected to prestigious honor society.

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Study: adolescents accounted for larger share of suicides in 2020
US News & World Report | April 28, 2022

SES student and lead study author Marie-Laure Charpignon says investigation is needed to uncover the root factors driving the troubling increase in the proportion of suicides among youth.

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Absent legislative victory, the President can still meet U.S. climate goals
MIT Global Change | April 26, 2022

Activating a Clean Air Act provision could deliver major climate, health and economic benefits, says new study co-authored by IDSS core faculty Noelle Selin and TPP student Paul Picciano.

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Batteries, solar, wind and hydropower: Why renewable energy is essential to curbing climate change
ABC News | April 26, 2022

The need to transition to renewable energy is becoming more urgent, experts including IDSS professor Jessika Trancik say.

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Raffaele Ferrari and Noelle Selin

Computing our climate future
School of Science | April 14, 2022

To put global climate modeling at the fingertips of local decision-makers, some scientists, including IDSS/EAPS professor Noelle Selin, think it’s time to rethink the system from scratch.

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