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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Fly me to the moon
Graduating TPP student Becca Browder is taking her research on commercial spaceports to a new job at SpaceX – and has worked for years to get an MIT experiment on the moon.
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On a quest through uncharted territory
Math professor and new SDSC director Ankur Moitra seeks algorithms with provable guarantees, to pin down the mechanisms of machine learning.
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Celebrating IDSS 2021 graduates
IDSS congratulates our almost 100 grads — from SES, TPP, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics, the minor in Statistics and Data Science, and students affiliated with LIDS.
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