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Ali Jadbabaie

Research Team Receives
Prestigious ARO MURI
Award

The selected project proposes a new interdisciplinary research program that works toward a unified theory on human decision making.

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Peko Hosoi and Munther Dahleh

Data-Driven Decisions
During a Pandemic

Through IDSS Isolat, researchers developed
a tool to help organizations like schools,
businesses, and factories make rational
decisions and implement successful
strategies for Covid-19 testing. The Covid-19
Testing Impact Calculator can be found at
whentotest.org.

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Sandy Pentland

MIT Connection Science
Takes on the Technology
of Innovation

Working to incorporate the next-generation
of technology for social good and sustainable
development with data-driven solutions.

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Michiel Bakker

Computational Social
Science PhD Student
Uses Data for Refugees

Using statistics and data science to track
mobile phone records in order to better
understand the flows of people and ensure
privacy.

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Gigi Hirsch

MIT CBI Thinks Through
Patient-Centered
Healthcare with LEAPS

The latest project incorporates a sustainable
innovative systems approach to connect
with patients in an accelerated learning
ecosystem.

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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
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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
See How We Do It
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
See How We Do It
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
See How We Do It

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PEOPLE

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SSRC programs and research groups are addressing complex sociotechnical challenges across all five MIT schools

Latest News

Characterizing social networks

Characterizing social networks

(Image: Adobe Stock) MIT researchers developed a new measure to understand whether homophily occurred in group interactions. Their work can help identify when certain characteristics…
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Growing Our Organ Supply

Growing Our Organ Supply

SES student Hammaad Adam’s novel data set ‘ORCHID’ can help increase the supply of organs for transplants, saving lives and improving health equity. For those…
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IDSS Faculty Awarded Seed Grants to Study the Impact & Application of Generative AI

IDSS Faculty Awarded Seed Grants to Study the Impact & Application of Generative AI

(Photo: Adam Glanzman) Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and…
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