• Congratulations to SDSC’s Moitra and Mazumder, recipients of ONR’s 2018 YIP Award

    Congratulations to SDSC’s Moitra and Mazumder, recipients of ONR’s 2018 YIP Award

    Congratulations to Ankur Moirtra for receiving a 2018 Young Investigators Award from ONR for his proposed research on “An Algorithmic Theory of Robustness” and Rahul Mazumder for his proposal on “Combinatorial Statistical Inference with Mathematical Optimization”


  • From undisciplined to interdisciplinary

    From undisciplined to interdisciplinary

    Math professor Philippe Rigollet, once a “not very disciplined” student, moves between computer science and statistics.


  • Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data Driven Decisions

    Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data Driven Decisions

    This seven-week course launches February 5, 2018. This course was developed by over ten MIT faculty members at IDSS. It is specially designed for data scientists, business analysts, engineers, and technical managers looking to learn the latest theories and strategies to harness data.


  • Professor Tamara Broderick Named ARO Young Investigator

    Professor Tamara Broderick Named ARO Young Investigator

    Tamara Broderick, the ITT Career Development Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a faculty member of IDSS, has been awarded an Army Research Office Young Investigator Program (YIP) award. Bestowed by the Army to outstanding scientists, the YIP award was created…


  • Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm

    Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm

    Improved recommendation algorithm should work especially well when ratings data are “sparse.”