A team from Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT, including IDSS affiliate Anette “Peko” Hosoi, has created an online tool to help organizations calculate the costs and benefits of different COVID-19 testing and mitigation strategies.

Caroline Uhler (IDSS, EECS, Broad Institute) and fellow researchers develop a system to identify drugs that might be repurposed to fight the coronavirus in elderly patients.

IDSS is delighted to share that three faculty members have been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective July 1, 2021: Noelle Selin and Jessika Trancik, core members of IDSS, and Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin, BCS and IDSS core faculty member.

IDSS and education partner Aporta celebrate learners who have completed the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science, gained professional skills, and contributed to data projects for social good.

MIT researchers from LIDS have developed an algorithm that can break down anonymized bill totals into individual item costs, creating an overview of how many people are buying a specific item or service.