This celebratory event reflected on the impact in research and education the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society has had since its launch in 2015 and explored future opportunities with thought leaders and policy experts. In panels and plenary talks, we discussed the impact of research areas utilizing the available massive data, in-depth understanding of underlying social and engineering systems, and the investigation of social and institutional behavior to provide answers to critical and complex challenges.
Watch a recording of the panel sessions and plenary talks here.
Plenary Speakers
Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT
Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Tisch University Professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University
Panelists and Panel Moderators
Alberto Abadie
Professor of Economics & Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
Anish Agarwal
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Saurabh Amin
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
Navid Azizan
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and IDSS
Adam Berinsky
Mitsui Professor of Political Science, MIT
Guy Bresler
Assistant Professor, MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Emery Brown
Professor, MIT, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Fotini Christia
Director, SSRC; Program Chair, SES; Associate Director, IDSS; Ford International Professor, Social Sciences, MIT
Karene Chu
Assistant Director of Education of the MicroMasters in SDS, Research Scientist, MIT
Munther Dahleh
Director, IDSS
Marzyeh Ghassemi
Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES), MIT
Sally Haslanger
Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
Hoda Heidari
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Anette Hosoi
Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Mathematics, MIT
Ali Jadbabaie
JR East Professor of Engineering, CEE; Department Head, CEE
Milind Kopikare
President of Great Learning, North America
Maia Majumder
Assistant Professor in the Computational Health Informatics Program, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
Ankur Moitra
Norbert Wiener Professor, Mathematics; Director of Statistics and Data Science Center, MIT
Elsa Olivetti
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Minghao Qiu
Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health, Stanford University
Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Toshiba Professor, Media Arts & Sciences, MIT
Lucia del Pilar Haro Gonzales
Manager of BREIT, Institute of Advanced Technology
Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
David Rand
Erwin H. Schell Professor, Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Manon Revel
Graduate Student, IDSS, MIT
Philippe Rigollet
Professor, Mathematics, MIT
Devavrat Shah
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director of the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science program, MIT
Michael Sipser
Donner Professor of Mathematics, MIT
Suvrit Sra
Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Jessika Trancik
Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
John Tsitsiklis
Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
Caroline Uhler
Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IDSS, MIT
Martin Wainwright
Cecil B. Green Professor, EECS, Mathematics and LIDS, MIT
Sherrie Wang
Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, (future Asst Prof at Mech E and IDSS, MIT)
S. Craig Watkins
Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin
Ashia Wilson
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Cathy Wu
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and IDSS, MIT
Manxi Wu
Assistant Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Stanford University
Jinhua Zhao
Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor, MIT
