Can a $350 Million Gift Change AI’s Trajectory?

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s mega-gift aims to develop ethically grounded AI leaders and accelerate America’s competitiveness.

By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

In 2018, ChatGPT was four years away and artificial intelligence was a wonky concern for …

By Janine Sazinsky
Janine Sazinsky Employer Relations Coordinator
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Susquehanna: STEM stock rising in quantitative finance

Physicsworld.com | April 17, 2026

In a recent feature on Physics World, read about MIT PhD alum (Mathematics) Lyubo Panchev, a quantitative researcher at Susquehanna, and how his academic background and career path has led to his current quantitative finance role.

By Janine Sazinsky
Janine Sazinsky Employer Relations Coordinator
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Economic consulting in action: A Brattle Group site visit

MIT students and postdocs visited The Brattle Group’s Boston office to explore careers in economic consulting—gaining firsthand insight into how rigorous research informs high-impact, real-world decision-making.

The visit, hosted by MIT Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD), offered participants an …

By Janine Sazinsky
Janine Sazinsky Employer Relations Coordinator
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Insights from a City of Boston data engineer

Click here to read this blog post from Jenna Jordan, a former Data Engineer for the City of Boston’s Analytics Team. In her blog, she walks through the full arc of her role, from how she got started to what …

By Aidan Wright
Aidan Wright Career Advisor
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Five Key Trends in AI and Data Science for 2024

These developing issues should be on every leader’s radar screen, data executives say. Artificial intelligence and data science became front-page news in 2023. The rise of generative AI, of course, drove this dramatic surge in visibility. So, what might happen …

By Mitchell Moise
Mitchell Moise Employer Outreach and Engagement Specialist
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MIT Podcasts: AI in hiring trends

The dramatic advancements in AI over the past few years are omnipresent in the job search, and this collection of podcasts from MIT’s In Machines We Trust can shed light on ways AI might affect your experience in the job …

By Ariel Ackermann
Ariel Ackermann
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How to prevent ChatGPT from destroying creative jobs

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology advances, so do the capabilities of automation for what we consider creative work. Introduced in November 2022, ChatGPT is all the buzz in the AI/ML space and beyond because it is designed …

By External Source
External Source
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Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century? 

Ten years ago we published the article “Data Scientist: Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Most casual readers probably remember only the “sexiest” modifier — a comment on their demand in the marketplace. The role was relatively new at the time, but …

By Mitchell Moise
Mitchell Moise Employer Outreach and Engagement Specialist
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Einblick Analytics: The Hard Parts of Data Science Made Easy

Emanuel Zgraggen is Co-Founder and CEO of Einblick Analytics, the MIT spinoff making data science more accessible, allowing anyone, regardless of domain specialty, to optimize their jobs with state-of-the-art machine learning and data science methods.

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By Mitchell Moise
Mitchell Moise Employer Outreach and Engagement Specialist
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Careers in Data Science Panel, Friday Aug. 19

We invite you to join the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) on Friday, August 19th from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. (EST) for the next NSDC Data Science Panel.  Learn from other data scientists about their journeys and why they are …

By Francis Borrego
Francis Borrego Associate Director, Employer Relations 
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