MIT - Key Persons
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- Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Economics
- Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Economics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Mathematics and Statistics
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- Mitsui Professor of Political Science, Political Science
- Professor of Political Science
Adam Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and serves as the director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL). Berinsky received his PhD. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He is the author of "In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq" (University of Chicago Press, 2009). He is also the author of "Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America" (Princeton University Press, 2004) and has published articles in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. He is currently the co-editor of the Chicago Studies in American Politics book series at the University of Chicago Press. He is also the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
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- Doctoral Student, Political Science and Statistics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Professor
- Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
Alan Willsky is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, which he joined in 1973, and led the Stochastic Systems Group through June 2014. Prof. Willsky served as director of MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) from 2009 through June 2014. He is an IEEE fellow and an elected member of the NAE. He is also a founder and member of the board of directors of Alphatech, Inc. (now BAE Systems).
In 1975, he received the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council. Prof. Willsky has held visiting positions at Imperial College, London, L'Universite de Paris-Sud, and the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires in Rennes, France. He has served as a co-organizer of International Conferences and workshops, and as an associate editor of several IEEE and mathematical journals and as special guest editor of the first special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on wavelet transforms and multiresolution signal analysis in July 1992. Prof. Willsky is the author of the research monograph Digital Signal Processing and Control and Estimation Theory and is co-author of the widely used undergraduate text Signals and Systems. He was awarded the 1979 Alfred Noble Prize by the ASCE, the 1980 Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award by the IEEE for a paper excerpted from his monograph, as well as the 2004 Donald G. Fink Award, the 2010 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the 2013 SPS Society Award Signal Processing Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Prof. Willsky's present research interests are in problems involving multidimensional and multiresolution estimation and imaging, and particularly in the development and application of advanced methods of estimation and statistical signal and image processing. Methods he has developed have been successfully applied in a wide variety of applications including failure detection in high-performance aircraft, advanced surveillance and tracking systems, electrocardiogram analysis, computerized tomography, and remote sensing.
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
Alberto Abadie is an econometrician and empirical microeconomist, with broad disciplinary interests that span economics, political science and statistics. Professor Abadie received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999. Upon graduating, he joined the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was promoted to full professor in 2005. He returned to MIT in 2016, where he is Professor of Economics and was Associate Director of IDSS until 2023.
His research areas are econometrics, statistics, causal inference, and program evaluation. Professor Abadie's methodological research focuses on statistical methods to estimate causal effects and, in particular, the effects of public policies, such as labor market, education, and health policy interventions. He is Associate Editor of Econometrica and has previously served as Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
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- Professor
- Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Professor, MIT Sloan
Alessandro Bonatti is a professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research focuses on the provision of incentives in research-intensive and creative industries, and on the impact of technological advances on firms' online advertising and pricing strategies.
Bonatti holds an MA, an MPhil, and a PhD in economics from Yale University.
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- Toshiba Professor, Media Arts & Sciences
Prof. Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance and the Institute for Data Driven Design. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and leader within the World Economic Forum.
Over the years Prof. Pentland has advised more than 60 PhD students. Almost half are now tenured faculty at leading institutions, with another one-quarter leading industry research groups and a final quarter founders of their own companies. Together Prof. Pentland and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.
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- Professor in Brain
- Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Alexander Rakhlin is a Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and IDSS. His research is in machine learning, with an emphasis on statistics and computation. He is interested in formalizing the process of learning, in analyzing learning models, and in deriving and implementing emerging learning methods. A significant thrust of his research is in developing theoretical and algorithmic tools for online prediction, a learning framework where data arrives in a sequential fashion.
Prof. Rakhlin received his bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from Cornell University, and doctoral degree from MIT. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley EECS before joining the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and co-director of the Penn Research in Machine Learning (PRiML) center. He was also a Visiting Professor in IDSS's Statistics and Data Science Center (2016). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, IBM Research Best Paper award, Machine Learning Journal award, and COLT Best Paper Award.
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- Professor, Electrical Engineering
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- East Professor of Engineering, CEE Department Head, CEE
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Senior Administrative Assistant, IDSS Room
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- Doctoral Candidate, Engineering - Economic Systems ( With SES )
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- Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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- Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor, Mechanical Engineering Professor, Mathematics Associate Chair of the Faculty
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- Director
- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Director, SDSC / Associate Director, IDSS
- Director, SDSC Associate Director, IDSS Norbert Wiener Professor, Mathematics Principal Investigator, CSAIL
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- Humanities Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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- Senior Research Scientist
- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Senior Financial Officer, SSRC, E18 - 309D
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- Admissions and Catalog Coordinator, IDSS
- Admissions and Catalog Coordinator, IDSS Room
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- Doctoral Candidate, Social & Engineering Systems and Statistics
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Principal Research Scientist, LIDS
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- Doctoral Candidate, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Associate
- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Academic Administrator, TPP Room
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Candidate, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Academic Administrator, IDSS
- Academic Administrator, IDSS Room: E17 - 375 ( 617 ) 253 - 1182
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
- Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor, Political Science
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Financial Assistant II, SSRC Room
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems and Statistics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Associate
- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Doctoral Student, Physics and Statistics
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- Professor of the Practice Emeritus, Engineering Systems
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- Professor, Electrical Engineering
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Assistant Professor, Comparative Media Studies
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- Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence, CSAIL
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
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- Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Interim Institute Community & Equity Officer Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Japan Steel Industry Professor, Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Institute Professor, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor, Economics
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- Director
- Director, Media Lab Apollo Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- David Austin Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
- Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
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- Postdoctoral Associate, LIDS
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- Nanyang Technological University Professor of Operations Research, MIT Sloan
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- Professor, Engineering Systems
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Associate Director, IDSS Associate Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan
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- Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Senior Director / Fairmont Consulting Group
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- President / Four Sigma Corporation
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Professor of Statistics / Stanford University / Professor Erica R. Fuchs
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- Chairman of the Visiting Committee
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- President / Harvey Mudd College
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- Helios Investment Partner
- Vice President, Engineering / Qualcomm Incorporated
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- Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, Statistics
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Edward Hood Taplin Professor, Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience
- Professor, Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience
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- Admissions Coordinator, TPP Room
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- Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Edward Hood Taplin Professor, Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Financial Officer, IDSS
- Financial Officer, IDSS Room
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Professor of Statistics / Stanford University / Professor Erica R. Fuchs
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- Program Development Manager, IDSS Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism
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- External Relations Officer, IDSS
- External Relations Officer, IDSS Room
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- Professor, Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Economics
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- Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Doctoral Candidate, Social & Engineering Systems and Statistics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Senior Administrative Assistant, IDSS
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- Director
- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Director, SSRC / Program Chair, SES / Associate Director, IDSS
- Director, SSRC Program Chair, SES Associate Director, IDSS Ford International Professor, Social Sciences
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Interim Director, TPP / Senior Research Engineer
- Interim Director, TPP Senior Research Engineer Graduate Officer, IDSS
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- Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan
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- Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
- Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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- Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
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- Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Department Head, Aeronautics and Astronautics Director, Transportation@MIT
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- Career Development Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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- Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor of Management, MIT Sloan Associate Professor of System Dynamics, MIT Sloan
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- IBK Postdoctoral Fellow, SSRC
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- Professor of EECS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Education Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Associate Professor, Political Science
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- HR Administrator, IDSS and SSRC
- HR Administrator, IDSS and SSRC Room
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- Professor, Mechanical Engineering / Professor, Mathematics
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- Professor of System Dynamics, MIT Sloan
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- Professor
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Info Science, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
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- Career Development Professor of Management, MIT Sloan / Associate Professor of System Dynamics, MIT Sloan
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Program Coordinator, IDSS MicroMasters Program Room
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- Administrative Officer, SSRC
- Director, Administration and Finance, SSRC
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- Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
- Professor
- Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- School of Government
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- IT Professor, Emeritus, MIT Sloan
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- Doctoral Student, Mathematics and Statistics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Principal Research Scientist, LIDS
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- Assistant Director of Education of the MicroMasters in SDS, IDSS
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Administrative Assistant to the Director, IDSS Room
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Distinguished Professor, Political Science
- Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor, Political Science
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- Professor, Political Science
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Senior Program Assistant, SDSC Room: E17 - 462B
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Administrative Assistant II, SSRC
- Administrative Assistant II, SSRC Room
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Associate Professor, Architecture
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Candidate, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Principal Research Scientist, LIDS
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- Senior Research Scientist, LIDS / Adjunct Professor, EECS
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Professor
- Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Michael Hammer Postdoctoral Fellow, IDSS
- Postdoctoral Fellow, IDSS
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- Professor
- Professor, Department of Physics
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- Director, Administration and Finance, IDSS
- Director, Administration and Finance, IDSS Room
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Professor
- Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Doctoral Candidate, Economics and Statistics / IDSS Student Councilor, Stats
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Managing Director / Goldman Sachs
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Founder and President / Front Range Technology Group, LLC
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Business Consultant and Author
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Founder / Coyote Logistics
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- Helios Investment Partner
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- Co - Founder
- Managing Partner
- Member of the Visiting Committee
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
- Principal Business Process Engineer
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- Member of the Visiting Committee
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- Helios Investment Partner
- Vice President, Special Programs / 247Solar, Inc. Senior Vice President
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems IDSS Student Councilor, SES
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- Professor
- Professor, Political Science
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
- Professor, Technology and Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Interim Director, IDSS / Professor, IDSS and EAPS
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Associate Director, IDSS
- Mathematics
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- Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Administrative Assistant
- Financial Assistant II, SSRC
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy / IDSS Student Councilor, TPP
Master's Student, Technology & Policy; IDSS Student Councilor, TPP
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
Ms. Zhou Qing graduated from Jinan University. She is currently the Dean of Readboy Educational Technology Research Institute. After working in the education technology industry for 10 years, she got a deep understanding of primary and secondary education systems in China. She has many years of research experience in the field of education modernization and educational technology. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the educational journal. She once served as the project leader of the "Research and Practice of Big Data in the Field of Precision Teaching" at South China Normal University.
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
- ASSISTANT PHONE
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Economics and Statistics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Development Professor Associate Professor
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- Professor, Engineering Systems
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- Professor Post Tenure, Data, Systems, and Society
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Associate Professor, Political Science
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- Professor, Computational Linguistics
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- Theresa Seley Professor, Operations Research, Sloan School of Management
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- Career Development Associate Professor, MIT Sloan
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, IDSS
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Urban Planning
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- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
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- Communications Officer, IDSS
- Communications Officer, IDSS Room
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- Director, LIDS Charles Stark Draper Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Development Assistant Professor
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Postdoctoral Associate, LIDS
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- David Austin Professor of Management, MIT Sloan
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- Senior Research Scientist, Engineering Systems
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- X - Consortium Career Development Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ( 617 ) 324 - 6748
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
- Professor
- Professor Post Tenure, Mech. Engineering & Engineering Systems Abraham J. Siegel Professor, Management Science
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Industries Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Leon and Anne Goldberg Humanities Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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- Administrative Assistant to the Executive Director, IDSS
- Program Manager, IDSS MicroMasters Room
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, EECS
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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- Professor, Applied Economics
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
- Professor, Political Science
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- Professor
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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- Operations Research
- Theresa Seley Professor, Operations Research, Sloan School of Management
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Professor, EECS and IDSS
- Thomas Siebel Professor, EECS and IDSS
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- Thomas Siebel Professor, EECS and IDSS
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Professor
- Professor, Economics
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- Ford Professor of Economics
- Ford Professor of Economics ( 617 ) 253 - 6420
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- Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Master
- Master 's Student, Technology & Policy
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems
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- Postdoctoral Associate, IDSS
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- Professor
- Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Doctoral Student, Social & Engineering Systems