SES student Hussein Mozannar, working with SDSC affiliate David Sontag, has developed a machine learning system that looks at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — but also knows when to defer to a radiologist.

IDSS affiliate and EECS professor Tamara Broderick studies how machine-learning systems can be made to quantify the “known unknowns” in their predictions using Bayesian inference.

A study led by IDSS and Economics professor Victor Chernozhukov suggests that nationally mandating face masks could have reduced pandemic deaths in the US.

“I’m now responsible for data science tasks linked to the corona crisis.” Credential holders of the MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science leverage MIT-caliber education to move their industries to the cutting edge.

IDSS and LIDS professor Yury Polyanskiy received the IEEE Information Theory Society’s 2020 James L. Massey Award, recognizing his outstanding achievement in research and teaching.