Cathy Wu

IDSS faculty Cathy Wu awarded promotion

MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering | February 21, 2024

Original Story:  MIT CEE

Cathy Wu has been promoted to Associate Professor without Tenure effective July 1, 2024. Professor Wu received her B.S. and M.Eng from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Her research is at the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and large-scale societal systems. Her current focus is on mixed autonomy systems in mobility, which studies the complex integration of connected and automated vehicle technologies, such as self-driving cars, into existing urban systems. Her research group also develops computational tools to enable reliable decision-making for critical societal systems.


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