Yury Polyanskiy wins the 2020 James L. Massey Award
IDSS and LIDS professor Yury Polyanskiy received the IEEE Information Theory Society’s 2020 James L. Massey Award, recognizing his outstanding ac...
IDSS honors 2020 graduates with virtual celebration
IDSS 2020 graduates included one interdisciplinary PhD in Statistics and 17 undergraduates who minored in Statistics and Data Science in 2020.
Team 2020 charts a course for MIT
Key input for MIT's options for the 2020-2021 academic year included transmission models developed by the IDSS Covid-19 Collaboration (Isolat).
Professor Esther Duflo’s salute to advanced degree recipients
IDSS affiliate and Nobel Economics laureate Esther Duflo, addressing the graduating class of 2020, says "it it is possible to make significant pr...
Isolat: a data-driven response to a pandemic
Isolat, a volunteer collaboration organized by IDSS, informs coronavirus policy at MIT and beyond by analyzing data associated with the pandemic.