--- title: Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics... description: Alexander 'Sasha' Rakhlin has been appointed director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC), succeeding Ankur Moitra. Rakhlin, the Distinguished... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/alexander-rakhlin-named-director-of-the-mit-statistics-and-data-science-center-oq6jedtjx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center | daily.dev og:description: Alexander 'Sasha' Rakhlin has been appointed director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC), succeeding Ankur Moitra. Rakhlin, the Distinguished... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/alexander-rakhlin-named-director-of-the-mit-statistics-and-data-science-center-oq6jedtjx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oq6JEdTJX.png og:image:alt: Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Alexander 'Sasha' Rakhlin has been appointed director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC), succeeding Ankur Moitra. Rakhlin, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at MIT's IDSS, has been affiliated with SDSC since 2016 and formally joined MIT in 2018. He previously chaired the Interdisciplinary PhD in Statistics program, overseeing more than 75 successful PhD defenses. As director, he aims to strengthen interdisciplinary connections across MIT and position SDSC as the institute's hub for rigorous foundations of data science and AI, with a focus on safety, uncertainty quantification, and statistical guarantees as AI expands into medicine, energy, and public life. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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