Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

KEY POINTS

1. Alexander Rakhlin, an expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, has been named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, succeeding Professor Ankur Moitra.
2. The appointment represents a leadership change at a major academic hub for data science research.
3. The new director's expertise in ML and statistics could influence the center's research direction and collaborations in data science and AI.