IDSS 2020 graduates included one interdisciplinary PhD in Statistics and 17 undergraduates who minored in Statistics and Data Science in 2020.

Key input for MIT’s options for the 2020-2021 academic year included transmission models developed by the IDSS Covid-19 Collaboration (Isolat).

IDSS affiliate and Nobel Economics laureate Esther Duflo, addressing the graduating class of 2020, says “it it is possible to make significant progress by focusing on small manageable issues.”

Isolat, a volunteer collaboration organized by IDSS, informs coronavirus policy at MIT and beyond by analyzing data associated with the pandemic.

The Department of Defense awarded Mossel the fellowship, which “aims to advance transformative, university-based fundamental research,” for his work ‘Information Flows on Networks.’