Profile: Mengjie Ding ’12 SB

Mengjie Deng attended the Sept. 10 Math Department event “From Here to Where,” where alumni talk to students about their career path after leaving MIT. Now a Data Science Manager at Stripe, Mengjie uses machine learning and statistical methods to optimize user experience and business performance for financial products. Name: Mengjie DingHometown: Shanghai, ChinaMajors/Minors: Course […]

Math program promotes global community for at-risk Ukrainian high schoolers

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Two-time Yulia’s Dream participant Sophia Breslavets appreciates joining a global math community.

Marisa Gaetz Works on Brave Behind Bars

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Research co-written by Math PhD candidate Marisa Gaetz shows education is key to successful reentry of the incarcerated. See MIT News

Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed

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When the senior isn’t using mathematical and computational methods to boost driverless vehicles and fairer voting, she performs with MIT’s many dance groups to keep her on track. Read more at MIT News

A Visit to JMM

Former MIT postdoc Maggie Miller had just one day to spend at JMM 2024 in San Francisco. A first-year assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and a Clay Research Fellow, Miller had another math conference to go to that week. But having attended JMM for more than a decade meant she knew […]

Dr. Lenore Carol Blum PhD ’68: ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics

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Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation while championing women in mathematics and computer science. Now consciousness is on her mind. Read more in Quanta.