Cathy Wu
@cathywu.bsky.social
AI & Transportation | MIT Associate Professor
Interests: AI for good, sociotechnical systems, machine learning, optimization, reinforcement learning, public policy, gov tech, open science.
Science is messy and beautiful.
http://www.wucathy.com
Interests: AI for good, sociotechnical systems, machine learning, optimization, reinforcement learning, public policy, gov tech, open science.
Science is messy and beautiful.
http://www.wucathy.com
Yeah, same deal with navigating a city thanks to google maps
August 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yeah, same deal with navigating a city thanks to google maps
I think it goes beyond cost. There’s also talent and the know-how to adapt & implement the tech. For example, I don’t think the public sector has caught up on the last bunch of waves of tech yet, despite it getting commoditized. In general, I think it’s the rich getting richer phenomenon.
August 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I think it goes beyond cost. There’s also talent and the know-how to adapt & implement the tech. For example, I don’t think the public sector has caught up on the last bunch of waves of tech yet, despite it getting commoditized. In general, I think it’s the rich getting richer phenomenon.
I've been struggling with this since realizing that the rich and powerful get first dibs on new tech. The only way I've been able to resolve the issue for myself is to deliberately work on applications for the public interest.
August 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've been struggling with this since realizing that the rich and powerful get first dibs on new tech. The only way I've been able to resolve the issue for myself is to deliberately work on applications for the public interest.
do you mean cost-benefit of research that's already done?
August 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
do you mean cost-benefit of research that's already done?
Inviting #orms @thserra.bsky.social @vanhentenryck.bsky.social @vidalthi.bsky.social @bistradilkina.bsky.social @akazachk.bsky.social @lawlessopt.bsky.social @annanagurney.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This work would not have been possible without lead author @vindulaj.bsky.social and collaborators Baptiste Freydt, Ao Qu, Cameron Hickert, Edgar Sanchez, Catherine Tang, Mark Taylor, Blaine Leonard, as well as the financial support of UDOT, NSF, and Amazon AWS, and support from MIT SuperCloud.
August 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This work would not have been possible without lead author @vindulaj.bsky.social and collaborators Baptiste Freydt, Ao Qu, Cameron Hickert, Edgar Sanchez, Catherine Tang, Mark Taylor, Blaine Leonard, as well as the financial support of UDOT, NSF, and Amazon AWS, and support from MIT SuperCloud.
Website: vindulamj.github.io/eco-drive/
Published paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2408.05609
Published paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2408.05609
August 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Website: vindulamj.github.io/eco-drive/
Published paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2408.05609
Published paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2408.05609
MIT News article: news.mit.edu/2025/eco-dri...
Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions
Implementing co-driving techniques, like the use of intelligent speed controls to mitigate congestion at traffic lights, can significantly reduce intersection carbon dioxide emissions without impactin...
news.mit.edu
August 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
MIT News article: news.mit.edu/2025/eco-dri...
I’ll consider it! Been meaning to start a blog and maybe this is just the push I needed!
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I’ll consider it! Been meaning to start a blog and maybe this is just the push I needed!
That is, what constitutes good ways to perform science is necessarily philosophical or based on beliefs.
Quote from academia.stackexchange.com/a/17275
Quote from academia.stackexchange.com/a/17275
Are there any documented cases of meta-science or scientific meta-research? Does that have a name?
Research is an activity, a process to obtain knowledge, which has been greatly empowered by the scientific method.
We can collect lots of information about research, consider impact factors, etc.
academia.stackexchange.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That is, what constitutes good ways to perform science is necessarily philosophical or based on beliefs.
Quote from academia.stackexchange.com/a/17275
Quote from academia.stackexchange.com/a/17275
I found this insightful and wonder what you think:
“If the objective of meta-science is to determine what are the good ways to perform science, it immediately runs into a major methodological hurdle: it is necessarily going to beg the question.”
“If the objective of meta-science is to determine what are the good ways to perform science, it immediately runs into a major methodological hurdle: it is necessarily going to beg the question.”
June 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I found this insightful and wonder what you think:
“If the objective of meta-science is to determine what are the good ways to perform science, it immediately runs into a major methodological hurdle: it is necessarily going to beg the question.”
“If the objective of meta-science is to determine what are the good ways to perform science, it immediately runs into a major methodological hurdle: it is necessarily going to beg the question.”