Fishman, Ubellacker, Hughes, and Carlone win Best Student Paper Award at IROS 2021
IDSS core and LIDS faculty member Luca Carlone supervised research on “Dynamic Grasping with a “Soft” Drone: From Theory to Practice.”
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3 Questions: Kalyan Veeramachaneni on hurdles preventing fully automated machine learning
Kalyan Veeramachaneni, LIDS principal research scientist, spoke with MIT News about the current state of automated machine learning (AutoML) and the road ahead for AutoML researchers.
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Study: Global cancer risk from burning organic matter comes from unregulated chemicals
IDSS core faculty Noelle Selin and fellow researchers hope scientists and regulators will consider a broader class of compounds in evaluating cancer risk in new study.
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Statistical model defines ketamine anesthesia’s effects on the brain
IDSS core faculty Emery Brown, along with fellow neuroscientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital, have developed a statistical framework that describes brain-state changes patients experience under ketamine-induced anesthesia.
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Why Care About Climate Change?
IDSS affiliate John Sterman and colleagues have developed interactive climate policy simulation models grounded in peer-reviewed science; each lets people experience firsthand how various decisions affect the fate of humanity.
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New Research Busts Popular Myths About Innovation
Using both previously untapped pools of data and new analytical methods, along with the usual tools of modern-day forecasting, researchers including IDSS affiliate Christopher Magee are taking a quantitative approach to examining how quickly technologies improve.
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Causality in digital medicine : Q&A with Caroline Uhler and colleagues
IDSS core faculty Caroline Uhler and colleagues talked to Nature Communications about their research interests in causality inference and how this can provide a robust framework for digital medicine studies.
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Taking on the stormy seas
IDSS affiliate Themistoklis Sapsis tackles engineering problems associated with the unpredictable ocean environment and its effects on ships and other structures.
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MIT appoints members of new faculty committee to drive climate action plan
Professors Noelle Selin and Anne White will co-chair the Climate Nucleus, charged with managing and implementing MIT’s new plan.
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Making self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
LIDS graduate student Heng “Hank” Yang and collaborators, including IDSS core faculty Luca Carlone, have developed the first set of “certifiable perception” algorithms, which could help protect the next generation of self-driving vehicles.
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