Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism

The Research Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism aims to launch and coordinate cross-disciplinary research on how to identify and overcome racially discriminatory processes across a range of American institutions and policy domains.

The effort brings together faculty and researchers from all five schools and the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT, as well as partner institutions. Building on the extensive social science literature on systemic racism, our focus is to use big data to develop and harness computational tools that can help effect structural and normative change towards racial equity.

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CONTACT INFO

RESEARCH AREAS

Artificial Intelligence

Computation

Data Science

Info & Decision

Institutional Behavior

Life Sciences

Machine Learning

Statistics

Systems Innovation

Systems & Networking

IMPACT AREAS

Big Data

Finance

Healthcare / Medicine

Infrastructure

Social Networks

Urban Systems

Leadership Team

Fotini Christia headshot

Fotini Christia

Director, SSRC / Associate Director, IDSS

Ford International Professor, Social Sciences

Munther Dahleh

Munther Dahleh

Director IDSS

William A. Coolidge Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science