Doing the math
MIT management professor Vivek Farias crunches the numbers to see how complex systems can be optimized.
MIT management professor Vivek Farias crunches the numbers to see how complex systems can be optimized.
MIT senior Jonathan Tebes sees economics as a way to alleviate poverty in the US, Tanzania, and beyond.
Kristala Jones Prather engineers cells to produce useful compounds such as drugs and biofuels.
Senior Laura Lu’s years at MIT have included cancer research, ROTC leadership, and prosthesis trials — and she aims to put her talents to use one day as a Navy surgeon.
Paulo Lozano is designing tiny ion thrusters for the next generation of satellites
With U.S. history and constitutional law on his mind, senior Cory Hernandez envisions a society that welcomes all — starting with MIT.
Economist Arnaud Costinot studies international trade — and has helped revive interest in economics’ venerable Theory of Comparative Advantage.
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
MIT professor Heather Hendershot studies the conservative movement’s strategic use of television through the decades.
Luminoso Technologies uses artificial-intelligence research as a commercial springboard.
CEE professor’s studies of how fluids move underground could help with cleaner energy production and water supplies.
HASTS doctoral student Tom Schilling is conducting an anthropological study of geology, forestry and First Nations-led mapping and modeling in rural British Columbia.
MIT sociologist T.L. Taylor studies the subcultures of online gaming and the nascent world of online e-sports.
Rodrigo Verdi teaches accounting, the ‘language of business’ — and studies the links between accounting and market movements.
Graduate student Sarah Dimson is hatching plans for renewable energy and affordable housing in Tanzania.