Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

The Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) is an interdepartmental laboratory for research and education in systems, control, optimization, communication, networks, and statistical inference. These disciplines, which span the domain of the analytical information and decision sciences, play a critical and pervasive role in science, engineering, and society more broadly. LIDS continues to be at the forefront of research in traditional core disciplines in this area. Over the past few years, the scope of LIDS research has broadened to include new emerging areas at the intersection of several fields including game theory, social and economic networks, efficient large-scale inference (using optimization, statistics, and algorithms), and autonomous systems. LIDS provides an intellectually cohesive and interactive environment that fosters the research needed for the future and instills in our students the disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary understanding required of research and engineering leaders of today and tomorrow.