Students and Alumni

SES student Hammaad Adam’s novel data set ‘ORCHID’ can help increase the supply of organs for transplants, saving lives and improving health equity.

Through research combining drug policy, race, and criminal justice – and through advocacy and community action – TPP grad and 2024 Collier Medal awardee Ben Lewis champions harm reduction.

Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the IDSS Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.

A new method explored by Arnab Sarker to measure homophily in large group interactions offers insights into how groups might interact in the future.

SES student Andreas Haupt studies how algorithms try to predict what content social media users will like, and how the design of these algorithms influences not only the content you see, but what content gets made.

Faculty

IDSS faculty Charles Stewart III discusses how the Elections Performance Index shows overall steady improvement in how US elections are administered.

Ikigai Labs, an MIT STEX25 startup co-founded by Devavrat Shah, brings the power of an emerging form of generative AI to crucial enterprise data.

Tamara Broderick uses statistical approaches to understand and quantify the uncertainty that can affect study results.

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Why are they using more electric cars in Norway than in the US? What are the underlying mechanisms that drive technological change, and how can we influence them? What is ‘soft technology’ and what role can it play in lowering carbon emissions? In the season 2 finale of Data Nation, IDSS professor Jessika Trancik explains how her lab attempts to measure and model a technology’s real or potential impact, beneficial or harmful, on people, the environment, society — and on critical outcomes like mitigating climate change.