As co-faculty director of the Shaping the Future of Work initiative at MIT, Simon Johnson works on the economics and politics of AI development and deployment in the US and globally.
Swati Gupta explores machine learning and optimization to improve the efficiency, quality, and fairness of the decisions models make.
Vivek Farias is using massive parallelism—many processors working simultaneously—to speed up different types of computations. He is also studying the intersection of large language models and human behavior to simulate consumer behavior and determine the impact of bias on LLMs.
Dimitris Bertsimas has worked in artificial intelligence for more than 20 years, spanning fields from health care to climate. He's optimistic that AI will be multimodal and multitasking, but he also sees challenges ahead.
Every year for 50 years, the U.S. Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program.
The blog, written by Isha Doshi , explores the challenges posed by currency volatility in sub-Saharan Africa, where erratic exchange rates impact both international investors and local economies. TLG Capital, with over a decade of experience investing in African SMEs, highlights how factors like rel...
MIT Sloan Professor Simon Johnson, PhD ’89, credits the success of his and his fellow Nobel laureates’ research to their students.
Matt Beane, SM ’14, PhD ’17, argues those using artificial intelligence will become incrementally de-skilled unless they are consciously upskilling at the same time.
The Fall 2024 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is available online. The theme is “What Helps—Or Hinders—Career Progress.”
After her daughter's traumatic brain injury (TBI), Lynne Becker became an entrepreneur on a mission—a mission to share with others what she learned about TBI. And ultimately, a mission to accelerate research and clinical trials. Two student teams taking MIT Sloan’s Analytics Lab (A-Lab) helped her t...
