• Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

    Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

    A research team led by Devavrat Shah has built a model that outperforms Wall Street experts at predicting a company’s sales using limited, noisy data like anonymized credit card transactions.


  • Finding new ways to fight global poverty

    Finding new ways to fight global poverty

    Nobel Prize winner and IDSS affiliate Esther Duflo used randomized controlled trials to help the poor and transform development economics.


  • Duflo and Economics Laureates donate Nobel Prize money to next generation of economists

    Duflo and Economics Laureates donate Nobel Prize money to next generation of economists

    Nobel winners Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, and Michael Kremer are each donating their Nobel prize money to the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics.


  • Using computers to view the unseen

    Using computers to view the unseen

    SDSC affiliate Gregory Wornell joins a team of CSAIL researchers on a new computational imaging method that could change how we view hidden information in scenes.


  • Economics for hard times

    Economics for hard times

    SDSC affiliate and recent Nobel laureate Esther Duflo examines what we know about the global economy and how to improve it in a new book co-written with fellow Nobel winner and MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee.