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IDSS Celebration

Thursday, April 13 and Friday, April 14, 2023

MIT Media Lab
(MIT Building E15)

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

  • Balaji Prabhakar

    Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
  • Esther Duflo

    Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT
  • Michael Jordan

    Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jon Kleinberg

    Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, Cornell University

Panelists and Panel Moderators


  • Alberto Abadie

    Alberto Abadie

    Professor of Economics & Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
  • Anish Agarwal

    Anish Agarwal

    Assistant Professor, Columbia University
  • Saurabh Amin

    Saurabh Amin

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
  • Navid Azizan

    Navid Azizan

    Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and IDSS
  • Adam Berinsky

    Adam Berinsky

    Mitsui Professor of Political Science, MIT
  • Guy Bresler

    Guy Bresler

    Assistant Professor, MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Emery Brown

    Emery Brown

    Professor, MIT, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
  • Fotini Christia

    Fotini Christia

    Director, SSRC; Program Chair, SES; Associate Director, IDSS; Ford International Professor, Social Sciences, MIT
  • Karene Chu

    Karene Chu

    Assistant Director of Education of the MicroMasters in SDS, Research Scientist, MIT
  • Munther Dahleh

    Munther Dahleh

    Director, IDSS
  • Marzyeh Ghassemi

    Marzyeh Ghassemi

    Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES), MIT
  • Sally Haslanger

    Sally Haslanger

    Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
  • Hoda Heidari

    Hoda Heidari

    Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Anette Hosoi

    Anette Hosoi

    Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Mathematics, MIT
  • Ali Jadbabaie

    Ali Jadbabaie

    JR East Professor of Engineering, CEE; Department Head, CEE
  • Milind Kopikare

    Milind Kopikare

    President of Great Learning, North America
  • Maia Majumder

    Maia Majumder

    Assistant Professor in the Computational Health Informatics Program, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Ankur Moitra

    Ankur Moitra

    Norbert Wiener Professor, Mathematics; Director of Statistics and Data Science Center, MIT
  • Elsa Olivetti

    Elsa Olivetti

    Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
  • Alex “Sandy” Pentland

    Alex “Sandy” Pentland

    Toshiba Professor, Media Arts & Sciences, MIT
  • Lucia del Pilar Haro Gonzales

    Lucia del Pilar Haro Gonzales

    Manager of BREIT, Institute of Advanced Technology
  • Minghao Qiu

    Minghao Qiu

    Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Health, Stanford University
  • Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin

    Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin

    Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
  • David Rand

    David Rand

    Erwin H. Schell Professor, Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
  • Manon Revel

    Manon Revel

    Graduate Student, IDSS, MIT
  • Philippe Rigollet

    Philippe Rigollet

    Professor, Mathematics, MIT
  • Devavrat Shah

    Devavrat Shah

    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director of the MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science program, MIT
  • Michael Sipser

    Michael Sipser

    Donner Professor of Mathematics, MIT
  • Suvrit Sra

    Suvrit Sra

    Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
  • Jessika Trancik

    Jessika Trancik

    Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
  • John Tsitsiklis

    John Tsitsiklis

    Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
  • Caroline Uhler

    Caroline Uhler

    Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IDSS, MIT
  • Martin Wainwright

    Martin Wainwright

    Cecil B. Green Professor, EECS, Mathematics and LIDS, MIT
  • Sherrie Wang

    Sherrie Wang

    Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, (future Asst Prof at Mech E and IDSS, MIT)
  • S. Craig Watkins

    S. Craig Watkins

    Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin
  • Ashia Wilson

    Ashia Wilson

    Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
  • Manxi Wu

    Manxi Wu

    Assistant Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Stanford University
  • Cathy Wu

    Cathy Wu

    Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and IDSS, MIT
  • Jinhua Zhao

    Jinhua Zhao

    Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor, MIT