NEW FACULTY
Professors Guillaume Basse and Irene Lo Join MS&E Faculty
Professor Basse studies causal inference and design of experiments in the presence of inference. He completed a postdoc with UC Berkeley Statistics. Read more...
Professor Lo just finished a postdoc at Stanford Economics. Her work focuses on matching markets and mechanism design for social good. Read more...
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FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Professor Johan Ugander featured in Nature
Nature Research recently featured Professor Johan Ugander in their Spotlight on Early-Career Researchers series. He discusses his work, his personal journey, and his predictions for the future of computational social science. Read more...
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RESEARCH
MS&E Proposes Study of Energy Transitions, Including Impacts of Low-Carbon Energy Rollouts
A research team including Professor John Weyant and PhD candidate Patricia Levi has recommended a new field of study: macro-energy systems. This new discipline will illuminate the dynamics, benefits, costs and impacts of large-scale energy system transitions. Read more...
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RESEARCH
AI Could Help Radiologists Interpret Mammograms More Accurately
Professor Ross Shachter and Professor Daniel L. Rubin (Stanford Biomedical Data Science) analyzed data from 112,000 women to determine if their AI could more accurately diagnose breast cancer. Read more...
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Alum Discusses the Impact of MS&E on His Career
Chief Medical Officer Garry Choy (MS '00) of Q Bio reflects on his time at MS&E, "MS&E has been an anchor to my professional career." Read more...
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION NEWS
ETL Series Begins, Plus the Perks of Time Travel
This fall, the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series brings industry influencers center stage to share what it takes to become a disruptor. This Wednesday series is open to the public. Check out the lineup.
In a thought-provoking article, Professor Bob Sutton discusses the benefits of shifting your attention to the future and the past.
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Spotlight on students: research & profiles
MS&E students do some amazing things, so we're dedicating this section to our undergrad, MS and PhD students.
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Students Design Innovative Solutions to Real-life Challenges
MS&E's Senior Project course offers a "learn-by-doing" experience. Student teams begin by selecting and defining a problem with a sponsoring organization, and then they design, test, analyze, and provide recommendations to the sponsor using their cumulative MS&E education. Finally, students present their engineered solutions for these in-depth, real-world problems.
See their project solutions here.
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STUDENT RESEARCH
Can AI-assisted "Super Agents" Protect us From Cybersecurity breaches?
Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Faber (PhD '19) proposes an early warning system for cybersecurity hacks that leverages the speed of computers and superiority of human decision-making. Read more...
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STUDENT RESEARCH
Case Study Says Data Analysts Face Pressure to Find "Right" Answers
While innovative strategies to harness data have the potential to illuminate corporate decision making, PhD student Ryan Stice-Lusvardi details a fascinating case study where the opposite was true. Read more...
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STUDENT RESEARCH
PhD Students Study Effects of Authority and Autonomy on Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Khonika Gope set up an experiment to test how bureaucratic conditions affected a startup's idea generation. It turns out there could be an upside to bureaucracy. Read more...
Jason Rathje analyzed more than 33,000 U.S.patents to determine whether government funding helped or hindered startups' innovation. Read more...
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