Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
A new web-friendly modeling tool helps organizations build tailored Covid-19 testing strategies that can save money and reduce coronavirus spread.
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Striving to make our infrastructure safer
Saurabh Amin focuses on making transportation, electricity, and water infrastructure more resilient against disruptions as a civil & environmental engineering professor and IDSS affiliate.
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Building nuclear power plants
Research from a team led by IDSS professor Jessika Trancik uncovers why nuclear power plant costs often exceed projections — and demonstrates a new approach that could reduce those costs in the future.
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Nazli Choucri elected 2020 AAAS Fellow
The political science professor and IDSS affiliate is one of six faculty members from MIT recognized for their efforts to advance science.
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Center to advance predictive simulation research established at Schwarzman College of Computing
IDSS affiliate and professor of aeronautics and astronautics Youssef Marzouk will lead a new center to support science-based modeling and simulation and exascale computing technologies.
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The recommendation engine industry of the future
Investment and advancement are key to building better recommendation systems, writes EECS and IDSS professor Devavrat Shah.
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David Simchi-Levi awarded INFORMS Impact Prize
Professor of civil and environmental engineering and IDSS honored for his continuing research in understanding and improving supply chain management.
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Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
Analysis by IDSS professor Jessika Trancik points to ways that engineering strategies could be reimagined to minimize delays and other unanticipated expenses.
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Data for Good
The fourth MIT Policy Hackathon, hosted virtually and focusing on equity, brought together policy and data science expertise to deliver solutions to challenges from environmental justice to Covid-19.
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A model approach to public health
SES student Marie-Laure Charpignon uses computational tools to explore large-scale questions in public health, from finding better Alzheimer's drugs to modelling the spread of Covid-19.
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