News
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Shi Dong awarded INFORMS Nicholson Prize
The annual award honors outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student.
January 11, 2022
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Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth
An expert in the spread of misinformation talks about how we might at last conquer falsehood and the surprising new direction his work is taking him.
January 07, 2022
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Graduate student enrollment at Stanford is increasingly diverse
Data shows that underrepresented minorities and women in STEM fields are the fastest growing groups among Stanford’s graduate student population.
December 15, 2021
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Riitta Katila named W.M. Keck Professor
The professorship, made possible from a bequest by W.M. Keck, Sr., recognizes a School of Engineering faculty member for outstanding leadership and scholarship.
December 09, 2021
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How do you give voters a greater voice in their local governments?
When a Texas city enlisted Stanford’s Crowdsourced Democracy Team to survey residents on its budget, it got a wildly lopsided response. Did that make it less representative?
November 30, 2021
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MS&E newsletter autumn 2021
Research from faculty, students, and alumni. Explore podcasts, videos and articles in this issue of the MS&E Newsletter.
October 29, 2021
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How do you beat fake news?
New research on the ways fake news spreads via social media refines conventional wisdom and offers potential solutions to a vexing problem.
October 26, 2021
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Meet our new PhD students: Autumn 2021
As the 2021-22 academic year begins, get to know where our incoming PhD students came from and what brings them to MS&E.
September 20, 2021
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Graduating students share their journeys, aspirations
Eleven graduates share how they came to MS&E, how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their studies, and where they'll go after Stanford.
August 31, 2021
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Stanford engineers develop algorithm to aid kidney transplant exchanges
A historic and complex kidney exchange between Israel and Abu Dhabi put a spotlight on the Stanford algorithm that made it all possible.
August 12, 2021
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INFORMS editorial boards exhibit low levels of diversity, MS&E study finds
Prof. Margaret Brandeau recently assessed editorial boards of 16 INFORMS journals on the basis of gender, underrepresented minorities, and coauthor connections between members.
August 05, 2021
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Irene Lo: How math makes markets fairer
An expert in algorithms discusses how the changing meaning of the word “market” is being leveraged to achieve important social goals.
July 16, 2021
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Program alumna pays it forward by helping new students learn to SURF
A Stanford Undergraduate Research Fellowship propelled Andrea Coto into STEM. Now a Stanford PhD student, she encourages undergraduates to apply for the program that helped her.
June 15, 2021
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June 14, 2021
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Do people governed by algorithms improve or quit?
Research by an MS&E alumnus reveals whether performance evaluations with secret or hidden criteria increase workers' performance.
May 10, 2021
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How technology and organizational design affect routines
MS&E postdoctoral researcher Jen Rhymer and colleagues discuss how an organization's use of varying technologies can differently affect its operation.
May 07, 2021
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Data science takes on racial bias
A group of scholars discuss how medicine, artificial intelligence, criminology, and other fields can better understand and anticipate bias and the ways it manifests in society.
May 06, 2021
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Is natural language processing ready to take on legal hearings?
AI can help us read tens of thousands of case records within minutes, but some key Natural Language Processing challenges remain.
May 03, 2021
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April 09, 2021
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Stanford MS&E Prof. Irene Lo co-organizes ACM conference on equity and access in algorithms, mechanisms, and optimization
The conference aims to highlight research that can help improve equity and access to opportunity for historically disadvantaged and underserved communities.
April 06, 2021
