Category Archives: Graduate Students

Graduate Students

Beomjun Kim

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Beomjun Kim is currently in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. His research interests include a wide range of decision-making, including control, optimization, data science, and economics, with their application to transportation, infrastructure, and management.

Contact: kimbj at mit dot edu

Michelle Vaccaro

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Michelle Vaccaro joined the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) as a PhD student in September 2021. Her research focuses on human-AI collaboration, and she is particularly interested in combining expert knowledge and data-driven models to forecast technological change. Before coming to MIT, Michelle worked at Goldman Sachs in foreign exchange strategy and structuring. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in 2019 from Harvard College, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with highest departmental honors in Computer Science. Her research has been generously supported by the Bose Fellowship and Accenture Fellowship.

Contact: vaccaro at mit dot edu

Shannon Hwang

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Shannon Hwang is a PhD student in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) program at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). She received her MEng. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and minor in Energy Studies from MIT, and interned at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory prior to starting graduate school. Her research explores methods for reliably providing energy under variability and uncertainty in deeply decarbonized energy systems.
Contact: hwangys at mit dot edu