Jennifer Tang

About Me

Beginning in Fall 2026, I will be an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in IDSS (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) and LIDS (Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems) at MIT working with Ali Jadbabaie. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, advised by Yury Polyanskiy. Prior to that, I received my B.S.E in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where I did my junior and senior independent work with Paul Cuff.

My research interests include information theory, prediction and estimation, quantization and data compression, high-dimensional statistics, data analytics, multi-agent networks, and models for social dynamics and inference.

I am recruiting students to my group at Polytechnique Montréal! In particular, I am looking for students interested in working on the intersection of machine learning and information theory. If you are interested, please send me an email with the subject line "Prospective Student", introducing yourself and describing why you are interested in working with me. Attach also a resume or CV. I may not be able to respond to everyone's email. Note that admission to Polytechnique Montréal is decentralized. I first accept you as a student and then you apply to the university.

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Teaching

College of the Holy Cross

  • CSCI 399: Network Science (Spring 2026)
  • CSCI 235: Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2026)
  • CSCI 132: Data Structures (Fall 2025)

MIT

  • Instructor for 1.022: Introduction to Network Models (Spring 2025)
  • TA for 6.008: Introduction to Inference (Fall 2020)
  • Graduate Instructor for 6.041/6.431: Probabilistic Systems Analysis (Spring 2020)
  • TA for 6.008: Introduction to Inference (Fall 2019)
  • TA for 6.437: Inference and Information (Spring 2019)
  • TA for 6.439: Statistics, Computation and Applications (Fall 2018)
  • Mathematics Instructor for MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) (Summer 2017)

Contact Me

You can email me at: jstang AT mit.edu or jtang AT holycross.edu