Power lines stretching above a group of windmills

Building a resilient, carbon-neutral electric grid requires energy ‘superhighways’
The Hill | July 09, 2021

Today’s electric grid infrastructure is not ready for the scale and speed of energy portfolio transformation being envisioned, says IDSS Director...


Ankur Moitra

Ankur Moitra named next director of the Statistics and Data Science Center
June 15, 2021

Moitra is a math professor who works at the interface between theoretical computer science and machine learning.


A woman is among the first in Niger to receive a Covid-19 vaccine

If we can vaccinate the world, we can beat the climate crisis
The Guardian | June 09, 2021

Rich countries can’t expect to be trusted on their climate promises if they fail the poorest on vaccines, say 2019 Nobel prize winners Abhijit Ba...


Ankur Moitra

On a quest through uncharted territory
MIT News | June 06, 2021

Math professor and new SDSC director Ankur Moitra seeks algorithms with provable guarantees, to pin down the mechanisms of machine learning.


Philippe Rigollet

Philippe Rigollet named IMS Fellow
May 12, 2021

Rigollet received the award for outstanding contributions to the analysis of statistical versus computational trade-offs, to the theory of aggreg...



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