Guy Bresler Receives NSF CAREER Award
IDSS and LIDS faculty member Guy Bresler has received an NSF CAREER Award for his research on “Reducibility among high-dimensional statistics problems: information preserving mappings, algorithms, and complexity.”
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Ethics, efficiency, and artificial intelligence
Researchers including IDSS affiliate and Media Lab professor Iyad Rahwan explore the advantages and ethics of bots that pose as humans.
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MIT’s 2019 Presidential Fellow: Anoushka Bose
Each year, the Technology and Policy Program nominates one MIT undergrad to be a presidential fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. This year’s nominee is Anoushka Bose, a double major in political science and physics focusing on nuclear policy and security.
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On the ground in China to provide clean water
TPP alum Charlene Ren wrote the business proposal for MyH2O during her first semester at MIT. Now the NGO works to connect rural Chinese villages with clean drinking water.
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Cutting mercury emissions in China
New research from TPP alum Kathleen Mulvaney and TPP director Noelle Selin shows how climate and air pollution policies can work together to maximize the reduction of mercury emissions.
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Caroline Uhler Granted Tenure
IDSS and LIDS faculty member Caroline Uhler has been granted tenure by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
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Zeroing in on decarbonization
TPP alum Nestor Sepulveda uses 'a unique computational framework blending optimization and data science, operations research, and policy methodologies' to describe potential pathways to combat climate change.
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Sending clearer signals
IDSS & LIDS professor Yury Polyanskiy is working to keep data flowing as the “internet of things” becomes a reality.
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MITEI’s 2019 Annual Research Conference highlights “energy at scale” and engagement as levers of decarbonization
IDSS professor Jessika Trancik joined faculty, students, and research staff from IDSS, MIT, and beyond to discuss the urgency of the climate crisis, collaborating on decarbonization, and the role of policy in combatting global temperature rise.
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Cybersecurity Experts Are Leaving the Federal Government. That’s a Problem.
The departures leave critical infrastructure, elections, data, and networks vulnerable, argues TPP alum and Tufts professor Josephine Wolff.
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