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

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

Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT; and a principal investigator in the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). 

Rakhlin succeeds Ankur Moitra, the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics, associate director of the IDSS, and a faculty member in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) who has been SDSC director since 2021. Philippe Rigollet, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and a core faculty member in IDSS, also served as interim director in 2024-25. “Sasha is one of the sharpest theoretical minds working in statistics and machine learning today, and also one of the most devoted mentors I know,” says Fotini Christia, the Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences and director of IDSS, which houses SDSC. “He has helped train an entire generation of interdisciplinary scholars through the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Statistics (IDPS), while his own research keeps pushing the boundaries. ” Rakhlin is the inaugural holder of the Distinguished Professorship in Data, Systems, and Society, an endowed chair created in 2025 by the generosity and vision of IDSS professor Richard “Dick” Larson, an “MIT lifer” and pioneer in operations research, queueing theory, and system optimization. “I am honored to take on this role,” says Rakhlin. “The strength of the Statistics and Data Science Center has always been its people — students, postdocs, and faculty from across MIT who bring sharply different perspectives to the most interesting problems of the day in statistics, machine learning, and AI.


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