Alumni profile: Ivan Rudnick, TPP’s 2020 Best Thesis winner
Rudnick’s research, which earned him TPP’s Best Thesis Award for 2020, offers insights into designing energy policies that could help India achieve its decarbonization goals.
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Does ride-sharing substitute for or complement public transit?
Researchers from MIT SMART's Future Urban Mobility interdisciplinary research group, including IDSS affiliate Jinhua Zhao, investigate the relationship between ride-sharing and public transit using ride-sourcing data.
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Jamie Kelly wins Superfund Externship Award
IDSS postdoc Jamie Kelly won a 2020 K.C. Donnelly Externship Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program, a part of NIH.
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A fast track for machine learning
IDSS affiliate and EECS professor Tamara Broderick studies how machine-learning systems can be made to quantify the “known unknowns” in their predictions using Bayesian inference.
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Reshoring, restructuring, and the future of supply chains
IDSS professor David Simchi-Levi and IDSS affiliate Yossi Sheffi offer their thoughts about reliance on China, the possibility of reshoring, and how supply chains will — and won’t — change in the era of COVID-19.
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Igor Kadota wins MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award
Kadota is a LIDS PhD candidate who researches communications networks, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and smart factories.
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IDSS and LIDS faculty receive funding to develop artificial intelligence techniques to combat Covid-19
Projects to steer how society responds to the pandemic led by Munther Dahleh, Saurabh Amin, and Asu Ozdaglar were all awarded funding by C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.
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The value of batteries as power grids integrate more renewable energy
A new study from TPP/IDSS alumni Nestor Sepulveda and Jesse Jenkins finds that the economic value of battery storage increases as variable renewable sources supply more electricity.
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Giving robots human-like perception of their physical environments
3D Dynamic Scene Graphs, a new model co-developed by Luca Carlone of LIDS, enables a robot to generate a 3D map of its surroundings that includes objects and semantic labels.
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Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19 misinformation
A study co-authored by David Rand, a Sloan and Brain and Cognitive Sciences professor who is also an IDSS affiliate, finds "a disconnect between accuracy judgments and sharing intentions."
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