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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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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
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
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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