Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS)

Illustration of a wind turbine powering a building

Evaluating battery revenues for offshore wind farms using advanced modeling

MIT researchers reveal inadequacies in current battery models.

September 21, 2020

Electric power grids and energy infrastructure are becoming increasingly threatened as extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, occur with more frequency and strength. One of the eight novel energy research projects to recently win an MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund award will address these challenges by developing an approach for building hurricane-resilient smart grids.

MIT Energy Initiative awards eight seed fund grants for early-stage MIT energy research

Annual MITEI awards support research on battery storage, smart grids, and carbon emissions reduction.

June 30, 2020

Ali Jadbabaie has been named the new head of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Ali Jadbabaie named head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Systems science and control theory expert to succeed Markus Buehler.

June 26, 2020

The startup macro-eyes is bringing new techniques in machine learning and artificial intelligence to global health problems like vaccine delivery and patient scheduling with its Connected Health AI Network (CHAIN).

Improving global health equity by helping clinics do more with less

The startup macro-eyes uses artificial intelligence to improve vaccine delivery and patient scheduling.

June 25, 2020

Professor Emeritus Michael Athans, pioneer in control theory, dies at 83

Longtime professor of electrical engineering was also a transformative director of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems.

June 8, 2020

Researchers with the IDSS Covid-19 Collaboration (Isolat) are designing a control model for testing and isolating members of communities like MIT’s to reduce Covid-19 infection.

A data-driven response to a pandemic

Isolat, a volunteer collaboration organized by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, informs coronavirus policy by analyzing data associated with the pandemic.

May 15, 2020

Marija Ilic — a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, affiliate of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, senior staff in MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Energy Systems Group, and Carnegie Mellon University professor emerita — is a researcher on a mission: making electric energy systems future-ready.

Shedding light on complex power systems

Senior Research Scientist Marija Ilic is making electric energy systems future-ready.

April 23, 2020

WiDS Cambridge, co-hosted by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, recognized and empowered women in STEM across a variety of disciplines.

Annual Women in Data Science conference discusses fake news

WiDS Cambridge, co-hosted by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, recognizes and empowers women in STEM across a variety of disciplines.

April 17, 2020

PatternEx’s Virtual Analyst Platform uses machine learning models to detect suspicious activity on a network. That activity is then presented to human analysts for feedback that improves the systems’ ability to flag activity analysts care about.

A human-machine collaboration to defend against cyberattacks

PatternEx merges human and machine expertise to spot and respond to hacks.

February 21, 2020

Jessica Xu and Priscilla Wong stand in front of their finished chalk art in the Stata Center.

Drawing daily doodles: Chalk of the Day brightens MIT

Chalk of the Day, an MIT student group, draws beautiful daily works of art on the chalk wall in Building 32.

February 10, 2020

Robert G. Gallager, emeritus professor of electrical engineering and computer science (left) with Svante Pääbo, director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2020. Gallager and Pääbo are this year's Japan Prize Laureates.

Robert Gallager wins 2020 Japan Prize

The EECS emeritus professor is recognized for groundbreaking contributions in information and coding theory.

February 7, 2020

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing leadership team (left to right) David Kaiser, Daniela Rus, Dan Huttenlocher, Julie Shah, and Asu Ozdaglar

A college for the computing age

With the initial organizational structure in place, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing moves forward with implementation.

February 4, 2020

Sending clearer signals

Associate Professor Yury Polyanskiy is working to keep data flowing as the “internet of things” becomes a reality.

January 11, 2020

An automated machine-learning model developed by MIT researchers significantly outperforms human Wall Street analysts in predicting quarterly business sales.

Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

Using limited data, this automated system predicts a company’s quarterly sales.

December 19, 2019

A system designed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere enables interconnected smart devices to cooperatively pinpoint their positions in noisy environments where GPS usually fails, which is useful for emerging “localization-of-things” applications.

System helps smart devices find their position

Connected devices can now share position information, even in noisy, GPS-denied areas.

October 2, 2019

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