“Climate change will not wait for us”
Updates and reflections from the UN Climate Change Conference, where MIT researchers share knowledge and tools to help nations meet Paris Agreement targets, and students and alumni of our Technology and Policy Program wrestle with the difficulty and importance of climate action.
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Can Online Professional Development Courses Teach Data-Driven Decision Making?
Statistics and Data Science Center Director Devavrat Shah weighs in on how the MIT xPRO online course 'Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions' is helping professionals leverage an avalanche of data to make better decisions for their organizations.
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Cathy Wu Receives Pikarsky Award
Wu, soon to join the IDSS faculty, was recognized for “Learning and Optimization for Mixed Anatomy Systems – A Mobility Context" -- named the best doctoral dissertation in its field by the Council of University Transportation Centers.
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Emery Brown Awarded the 2018 Dickson Prize in Science
The prize recognizes Brown's substantial achievements in the statistical analysis of neuronal data and his research on anesthesia.
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Alan Willsky honored for achievements in signal processing
Willsky, a professor of Electrical Engineering and a member of both IDSS and LIDS, has been named the recipient of IEEE’s 2019 Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for “contributions to stochastic modeling, multi-resolution techniques, and control-signal processing synergies.”
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Meet the first class of SES Hammer Fellows
Three Social and Engineering Systems (SES) students carry on the legacy of Michael Hammer - an engineer and businessman who studied and taught at MIT - with innovative research applying data analytics to complex societal challenges.
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Ian Schneider named Siebel Scholar
Schneider is one of 16 MIT grad students in the 2019 cohort of Siebel Scholars, a prestigious award honoring academic achievement, leadership, and commitment to addressing crucial global challenges.
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Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power
Jessika Trancik and her team uncover the factors that have caused photovoltaic module costs to drop by 99 percent.
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Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis awarded von Neumann Theory Prize
The 2018 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize was awarded to Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis for fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.
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Bridge to the future of engineering
“The new college will create new opportunities to connect with a larger community in sciences, social science, and urban planning and architecture,” says IDSS director Munther Dahleh, commenting on how the cross-disciplinary "bridge" role that IDSS plays at MIT will be expanded under the new Schwarzman College of Computing.
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