The Statistics and Data Science Center, along with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), is officially a part of the new Schwarzman College of Computing.

IDSS and LIDS faculty member Guy Bresler has received an NSF CAREER Award for his research on “Reducibility among high-dimensional statistics problems: information preserving mappings, algorithms, and complexity.”

IDSS and LIDS faculty member Caroline Uhler has been granted tenure by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).

IDSS & LIDS professor Yury Polyanskiy is working to keep data flowing as the “internet of things” becomes a reality.

Nobel Prize in Economics winners Esther Duflo, an IDSS affiliate, and Abhijit Banerjee discuss tackling tricky global challenges like economic inequality. Includes an excerpt from their book “Good Economics for Hard Times.”