At SSRC

We bring together faculty, researchers, students and staff from across MIT to develop collaborative, holistic and systems-based approaches for the study of the high-impact, complex, sociotechnical systems that shape our world

Our groups and programs address complex challenges across a wide spectrum, including health, energy and the environment.

Our research addresses some of the most pressing information and systems challenges facing the world.

SSRC brings together faculty, researchers, students, and staff from across MIT to seek solutions to complex societal challenges.

Making clean energy investments more successful

New research can identify opportunities to drive down the cost of renewable energy systems, batteries, and many other technologies. The role of predictive tools, and the areas where further research is needed, are addressed in a perspective article published Nov. 24 in Nature Energy, by professor Jessika Trancik of MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center and…
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Read Cisco Outshift’s blog on their new collaboration with SSRC’s Ramesh Raskar

Read more: Read Cisco Outshift’s blog on their new collaboration with SSRC’s Ramesh Raskar
Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels

New research can identify opportunities to drive down the cost of renewable energy systems, batteries, and many other technologies.
Read more: Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels