{
  "id": 98478,
  "title": "Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/alexander-rakhlin-named-director-of-the-mit-statistics-and-data",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-03T19:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MIT News AI",
    "slug": "mit-news-ai",
    "url": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/alexander-rakhlin-named-director-mit-statistics-data-science-center-0803"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}