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LIDS Welcomes Visiting Scholar Abbas El Gamal Fall 2018
Professor El Gamal visits from Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering. While at LIDS for the semester, he has co-organized the Topics in Information and Inference seminar with Professor Devavrat Shah.
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Study: Adding power choices reduces cost and risk of carbon-free electricity
Research from Nestor Sepulveda (TPP '16, now a doctoral student in Nuclear Engineering), Jesse Jenkins (TPP '14, ESD '18), and Fernando de Sisternes (TPP '10, ESD '14) provides guidelines for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Ankur Moitra wins 2018 MIT School of Science Teaching Prize
Moitra, an MIT Math professor and core faculty member with the Statistics and Data Science Center, won the award for his course 'Algorithmic Aspects of Machine Learning.'
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Noelle Selin named Director of Technology and Policy Program
Noelle has substantially contributed to the curriculum in IDSS and TPP, and is internationally recognized for her interdisciplinary research linking science and policy on the topics of air pollution, climate change, and hazardous substances like mercury.
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Thomas Magnanti receives Singapore’s Gold Public Administration Medal
Magnanti, an IDSS affiliate, received the award for his leadership at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he was the founding president, now emeritus.
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Three questions with Tetsuya Kaji, one of the first alumni of the new Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics
Kaji works at the intersections of economics, statistics, and machine learning -- and was a member of the MIT Figure Skating Club for the last 5 years.
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Elections management in the U.S. is improving
An updated Elections Performance Index from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) evaluates the 2016 election. “The index is an important foundation for the ongoing discussions on election management,” says Charles Stewart III, an MIT professor of Political Science, IDSS affiliate, and MEDSL’s founding director.
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Shaping technology’s future
With data-informed models, Jessika Trancik seeks ways to coax progress toward efficient, sustainable systems.
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Hammer family gift to support doctoral fellowships in IDSS
Gift honors Michael Hammer, influential business leader, engineer, educator, MIT faculty member, and MIT alumnus.
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Statistics and Data Science Center affiliate Constantinos Daskalakis wins prestigious Nevanlinna Prize
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science is honored for his contributions to theoretical computer science.
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