Allison Shepard

Energy equity
TPP News | October 19, 2022

Allie Shepard ’19, TPP ’23 interned in the New York City Mayor’s Office, where she got a firsthand view of the opportunities for climate change mitigation policy at the city.

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Former President Trump and an icon for his Truth Social app

Getting the facts straight on online misinformation
Financial Times | October 18, 2022

Social media companies are exploring radical solutions to moderation, writes IDSS affiliate David Rand

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Noelle Selin and Frank Field awarding Farri Gaba the TPP 2022 Thesis Prize

Going the extra mile
TPP News | October 18, 2022

Farri Gaba TPP ’22 hopes to leverage his experience researching last-mile drone delivery to help solve sociotechnical challenges in sustainable transportation and logistics.

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Jonathan Novak

Protecting space infrastructure
TPP News | October 14, 2022

Farri Gaba TPP ’22 hopes to leverage his experience researching last-mile drone delivery to help solve sociotechnical challenges in sustainable transportation and logistics.

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The four winners of the NIH award

Four from MIT receive NIH New Innovator Awards for 2022
MIT News Office | October 6, 2022

IDSS core faculty Caroline Uhler receives award supporting high-risk, high-impact research from early-career investigators.

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Max Vilgalys and Yunzong Xu

IDSS recognizes two TAs with new award
October 5, 2022

The first IDSS TA awards were given to SES students Max Vilgalys and Yunzong Xu in recognition of their excellent instruction and commitment to students.

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Juncal Arbelaiz

Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
MIT News Office | October 2, 2022

Inspired by jellyfish and octopuses, SSRC PhD candidate Juncal Arbelaiz investigates the theoretical underpinnings that will enable systems to more efficiently adapt to their environments.

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Guy Bresler

Investigating at the interface of data science and computing
MIT News Office | September 28, 2022

IDSS core faculty Guy Bresler builds mathematical models to understand multifaceted, interdisciplinary engineering problems that have far-reaching applications.

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Visualizing migration stories
MIT News Office | September 27, 2022

“Distance Unknown,” an exhibition by MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab, with lead designer and IDSS affiliate Sarah Williams, documents the often challenging journeys migrants undertake to gain economic opportunity and food security.

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clip art representation of information web

Aleksander Madry, Asu Ozdaglar, and Luis Videgaray, co-chairs of the AI Policy Forum, discuss key issues facing the AI policy landscape today.
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing | September 27, 2022

The three are co-organizing the upcoming AI Policy Forum Summit on September 28 which will further explore challenges surrounding the deployment of AI.

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