IDSS 2020 graduates waving in a Zoom gallery

IDSS honors 2020 graduates with virtual celebration

June 25, 2020

IDSS celebrated 2020 graduates virtually with remarks from faculty, students, and staff. This year’s graduates include the first doctor of Social & Engineering Systems, Ian Schneider. In addition, IDSS students were awarded 6 doctoral degrees in Engineering Systems, 1 interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Statistics, and 17 Master of Science degrees in Technology and Policy.

17 MIT undergraduates were awarded bachelor’s degrees with a Minor in Statistics and Data Science. There were also 26 graduates affiliated with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Engineering Systems Graduates

Scott Burger
Henry Fingerhut
Magdalena Klemun
Marco Miotti
Rachel Perlman
Peter Zhang

Technology and Policy Graduates

Wajeeha Ahmad
Lawrence Baker
Charles W. Chimento III
Anna Evans
Tomas Green
Andrés Inzunza Besio
Mine Kansu
Xavier Lavenir
Pedro Maddens Toscano
Julia Milton
Dylan Muramoto
Benny Ng
Uyiosa Oriakhi
Bora Ozaltun
Sohum Pawar
Ivan Rudnick Garcia
Pankhuri Sen

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics Graduates

Yaroslav Mukhin

LIDS-affiliated Graduates

Rares Buhai
Wenhan Dai
Michael Fleder
Julia Gaudio
Winter Guerra
Arjun Gupta
Theia Henderson
Ana Jevtic
Peter Li
Jing Lin
Xia Miao
Samuel Miller
Mira Anita Partha
Tianyi Peng
Sebastian Quilter
Hajir Roozbehani
Maryann Rui
Gilhyun Ryou
Basil Saeed
Tuhin Sarkar
Ian Schneider
Soumya Sudhakar
Omer Tanovic
Andrew Tsai
Zehao Yu
Martin Zubeldia

Bachelor’s Degree with Statistics and Data Science Minor

Rishabh Chandra
Allen Cheng
Karen Gu
Ivan Jutamulia
Sule Kahraman
Patricia Lu
Aman Patel
Enrique Perez
Sarbari Sarkar
Janice Shiu
Oleksandr Shumaiev
Andy Tso
Suchan Vivatsethachai
Sarah Von Ahn
Lawrence Wong
Carol Wu
Taras Zhylenko


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