The virus and the vote
Read the final report of The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, led on the MIT side by IDSS affiliate Charles Stewart, detailing their research of US election administration during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Why cheaper solar photovoltaics are key to addressing climate change
IDSS professor and energy systems scientist Jessika Trancik and her group study the factors that have driven down the cost of solar power — and provide insights into making it even cheaper.
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Social media is broken. A new report offers 25 ways to fix it
The Social Media Summit @ MIT, led by IDSS and Sloan faculty member Sinan Aral, brought together experts to discuss these issues and focus on solutions, which range from new oversight panels to breaking up big companies.
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Dimitri Bertsekas named winner of 2022 IEEE Control Systems Award
The LIDS and IDSS faculty member received the award for his fundamental contributions to the methodology of optimization and control of uncertain and large-scale dynamical systems.
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A unique collaboration with US Special Operations Command
IDSS and LIDS faculty members Sertac Karaman and Asu Ozdaglar were part of a new kind of AI and machine learning crash course, designed for U.S. special operations personnel.
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Ankur Moitra named next director of the Statistics and Data Science Center
Moitra is a math professor who works at the interface between theoretical computer science and machine learning.
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Trying to put the brakes on car ownership
Study of Beijing’s car-restriction policy, co-authored by IDSS affiliate Jinhua Zhao, underscores value of regional coordination to meet transportation and emissions goals.
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From algorithm development to experimental design
Graduating SES student Jinglong Zhao designs experiments to measure the efficacy of the algorithms driving online marketplaces.
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Optimization and adaptation in machine learning and life
LIDS student Alireza Fallah’s research characterizes the theory of optimization algorithms used in various machine learning problems.
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If we can vaccinate the world, we can beat the climate crisis
Rich countries can’t expect to be trusted on their climate promises if they fail the poorest on vaccines, say 2019 Nobel prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
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