MIT Connection Science News, February 12, 2021

New Events:

• February 18, 2021 11AM-12 PM EST: "Quant & MIT Industry Day for Financial Services to discuss - Interoperability of Digital Assets and Cross-Border Transfers", (Repeated February 19 from 3 AM-4 AM EST for Australia and Asia)
• February 18, 2021 12:00 PM - 1PM: "New Strategies and Platforms for Data, Logistics, and Finance", Fireside Chat with Prof. Alex "Sandy" Pentland, David Shrier & Douglas Kim.

New Research:

• "COVID-19 Infodemic Prevalence over 35 Countries", Meeyoung Cha;  Chiyoung Cha; Karandeep Singh;  Gabriel Lima; Yong-Yeol Ahn;  Juhi Kulshrestha; Onur Varol, JMIR Human Factors.

New Press:

• "On Caring, Co-Elevation And Connectedness: How To Build A Great Team", Forbes.
• "Your urge to micromanage is actually the result of bad communication", Fast Company.
• "AWS expands into SA through new Amazon Office Based at Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen", ARN

People News:

• "Connection Science Fellow Alex Lipton Named "Buyside Quant of the Year" by Risk.NET.
• Xiowen Dong (Ph.D '14) has been promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) at Univerity of Oxford
• Yuan Yuan (Ph.D '21), has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Perdue University

New Videos:

• "IEEE Interview with Prof. Alex "Sandy" Pentland, How is Success Measuered in AI"
• "The Future of Finance; Investment Opportunities Through Data Ownership", Prof. Alex Sandy Pentland
• "Untangling the Web: Data and Privacy with Prof Sandy Pentland"