Ali Jadbabaie seeks to optimize large-scale systems, from social networks to teams of people or devices.

MIT and Uber team up to study the potential for shared rides and vehicles to reshape urban mobility.

Real Estate Innovation Lab to promote the future of urban development by showing investors how it can work.

New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.

New model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables.

Combining cellphone data with perceptions of public spaces could help guide urban planning.

With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.

Data-analytics platform helps parking managers meet driver demand in high-traffic areas.

“Electome” project charts the national conversation in unique detail.

Event and new IDSS projects will provide insights into some of society's most pressing data challenges.