The Statistics and Data Science Center is an MIT-wide focal point for advancing research and education programs related to statistics and data science. The Center was created in 2015 with the goal of formalizing and consolidating efforts in statistics at MIT. The Center’s academic mission is to host and develop new academic programs, from a minor to a PhD in statistics and data science.

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Statistics and Data Science Seminar

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Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Statistics and Data Science Seminar

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Shay Moran, Technion
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Statistics and Data Science Seminar

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Benjamin Recht, University of California - Berkeley
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Statistics and Data Science Seminar

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Yuejie Chi, Yale University
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Statistics and Data Science Seminar

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Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania
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