The winners of the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data included Center for Transportation and Logistics researchers Connor Makowski, Tim Russell, Willem Guter and Austin Saragih for their work on SCGraph, an open-source Python toolkit for modeling transportation and logistics networks. SCGraph enables researchers and practitioners to tackle real-world supply chain challenges by running accurate, offline routing simulations across road, rail and maritime networks — without the costs or limitations of commercial APIs. Tim Russell also received an honorable mention for the CAVE App, a tool for easily creating interactive web applications for geospatial models.
Winners and honorable mentions were selected from more than 60 nominees representing 30 different departments, labs, centers and institutes across MIT. The MIT Prize for Open Data was founded in 2022 to recognize MIT-affiliated researchers who use or share open data, create infrastructure for open data sharing, or theorize about open data.
See the full list of winners here and learn more about SCGraph here.