MIT-DSI International Research Opportunities Programme

Two MIT students will be working on research projects at the DSI and two Imperial students will be working on research projects at MIT

IROP is a summer exchange programme offered jointly by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Imperial College London. Imperial undergraduate students spend eight weeks working on a research project under the supervision of faculty members at MIT. As well as, MIT undergraduate students spend eight weeks working on a research project under the supervision of faculty members at the DSI. After receiving many applications, four students were chosen to begin placement on the 3^rd of July at their respective universities. Ioan Budea and Thi Nguyen from Imperial College were chosen to study at MIT and Tim Truong and Liza Mingxin Zhu were chosen from MIT to study here at the Data Science Institute.

Ioan Budea will be supervised by Professor Sandy Pentland at MIT while researching privacy preserving data architecture.

Thi Nguyen from Imperial will be supervised by Professor Iyad Rahwan at MIT while researching ethical uses of big data.

Tim Troung from MIT will be supervised by Dr David Birch at the DSI while researching visualizing large scale mobile phone data on the DO.

Lisa Mingxin Zhu from MIT will be supervised by Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye at the DSI while researching algorithms for data re-identification. 

We are anticipated to see what discoveries these student’s research will conclude!