Pandemic book

Constance Wu. Image: Courtesy C. Wu

Pandemic project

HST MD student Constance Wu on what inspired a COVID-19 children’s book

SoE new faculty 2021

First row, left to right: Navid Azizan, Rodrigo Freitas, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Jack Hare. Second row, left to right: Samuel Hopkins, Michael Howland, Yoon Kim, Adrian Lozano-Duran, Kelly Metcalf Pate. Third row, left to right: Anand Natarajan, Jelena Notaros, Carlos Portela, Ashia Wilson, Sixian You.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Fifteen new professors, including a new HST faculty member, join the MIT community.

Reinventing community during pandemic

At a virtual event, graduate students gathered together to write letters or notes to loved ones distanced by the pandemic.

Credits:

Image courtesy of the Sidney Pacific Graduate Community.

Reinventing the graduate student community during a pandemic

Sidney Pacific residents, including HST students, empower each other to sustain community togetherness.

Melanoma research

Using wide-field images and deep learning, researchers developed an analysis system of suspicious pigmented skin lesions for more effective and efficient skin cancer detection.

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Image courtesy of the researchers.

An artificial intelligence tool that can help detect melanoma

Using deep convolutional neural networks, MIT researchers, including HST faculty members, devise a system that quickly analyzes wide-field images of patients’ skin in order to more efficiently detect cancer.

Jordan Harrod

Jordan Harrod, HST MEMP PhD, has been named to a list of 9 Black women to know in data science.

Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites

Many YouTube power users, including an HST student, have been looking for alternative platforms, due to disputes over such things as ad revenue or copyright problems.