75 PhD Defenses Put Alexander Rakhlin Atop MIT SDSC

Alexander Rakhlin will lead MIT SDSC, making mathematical rigor and AI safety central to the center's next chapter.

Key takeaways

• More than 75 Interdisciplinary PhD in Statistics students have defended successfully under Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin’s orbit at **MIT’s Statistics and Data Science...
• Rakhlin, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and a professor of **brain and cogni...
• MLXIO analysis: this is not just a campus appointment. MIT is placing a theorist of machine learning, statistics, optimization, and computation at the center of its da...
• Rakhlin’s appointment puts mathematical AI foundations back in the foreground

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