Edward Adelson
John and Dorothy Wilson Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Edward Adelson is interested in human and computer vision, computer graphics and artificial touch sensing for robotics.
Pulkit Agrawal
ARA Recipient; Steven G (1968) and Renee Finn CD Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Pulkit Agrawal is interested in building machines that can automatically and continuously learn about their environment to reach what humans consider common sense.
Ekin Akyürek
Amazon Fellow; PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ekin Akyürek studies artificial intelligence through natural language processing and machine learning, and improving sequence modeling for language processing and understanding.
Mohammad Alizadeh
ARA Recipient; TIBCO Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mohammad Alizadeh wants to make computing networks and cloud computing systems faster, more robust, and easier to use.
Jacob Andreas
ARA Recipient; X Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Jacob Andreas aims to understand the computational foundations of efficient language learning, and build general-purpose intelligent systems that can communicate effectively with humans and learn from human guidance.
Navid Azizan
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Navid Azizan researches various aspects of enabling large-scale intelligent systems, with an emphasis on principled learning and optimization algorithms, with applications in autonomous systems and societal networks.
Aparna Balagopalan
Amazon Fellow; PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Aparna focuses on developing interpretable and robust AI models in socially-relevant contexts.
Cynthia Barnhart
MIT Provost; Ford Foundation Professor and Professor of Operations Research, Sloan School of Management
Cynthia Barnhart specializes in large-scale optimization, planning and operations of networked systems, and transportation systems design under uncertainty and competition.
Cynthia Breazeal
Professor and Associate Director, MIT Media Lab; Dean for Digital Learning
Cynthia Breazeal is interested in the theme of "living with AI" and understanding the long-term impact of social robots that can build relationships and provide personalized support and companionship in daily life.
Tamara Broderick
ARA Recipient; Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tamara Broderick is interested in understanding how we can reliably quantify uncertainty and robustness in modern, complex data analysis procedures.
Michael Carbin
ARA Recipient; Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Michael Carbin is interested in the semantics, design, and implementation of systems that operate in the presence of uncertainty.
Luca Carlone
ARA Recipient, Leonardo Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Luca Carlone works to enable human-level perception and world understanding on mobile robotics platforms operating in the real world.
Adam Chlipala
ARA Recipient; Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Adam Chlipala is interested in programming languages and many aspects of computer-system design including, supporting programmer productivity, correctness, security, and performance.
Frédo Durand
Amar Bose Professor, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Frédo Durand is an expert in synthetic image generation and computational photography, with an emphasis on mathematical analysis and signal processing.
William Freeman
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
William Freeman is interested in mid-level vision and computational photography, and computer vision for computer games, motion magnification, and belief propagation in networks with loops.
Manya Ghobadi
TIBCO Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Manya Ghobadi research interests include systems for ML, Cloud infrastructure, data center networks, optical networks, and hardware-software co-design.
Negin Golrezaei
ARA Recipient; Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Negin Golrezaei is interested in machine learning, statistical learning theory, mechanism design and optimization algorithms, with applications to revenue management, pricing and online markets.
Song Han
ARA Recipient; Robert J. Shillman (1974) CD Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Song Han is interested in efficient deep learning computing and Efficient hardware for computation-intensive AI.
Jonathan How
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jonathan How is interested in robust planning algorithms to coordinate autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments and adaptive flight control to allow autonomous flight and aerobatics.
Phillip Isola
ARA Recipient; Bonnie & Marty (1964) Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Phillip Isola is interested in why we represent the world the way we do, and how we can replicate these abilities in machines.
Alexandre Jacquillat
Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics, Sloan School of Management
Alexandre Jacquillat focuses on data-driven decision-making, large-scale optimization, operations and pricing in the transportation sector
Leslie Kaelbling
Amazon Scholar; Panasonic Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Leslie Kaelbling is interested in building intelligent robots, with a focus on learning, state estimation, and planning under uncertainty.
Yoon Kim
NBX Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Yoon Kim is interested in efficient large-scale models, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Samuel Madden
College of Computing Distinguished Professor, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Samuel Madden is interested in databases, distributed computing and networking, developing tools for processing massive data, and complex AI systems and algorithms.
Wojciech Matusik
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Wojciech Matusik is interested in computer graphics, computational design and fabrication, computer vision, robotics and human-computer interaction.
Anastasia Ostrowski
Amazon Fellow; Research Assistant and Design Researcher, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Anastasia's research focuses on equitable design of robots, including co-design and participatory design approaches.
Joseph Paradiso
Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor, MIT Media Lab
Joseph Paradiso is interested in how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction and perception.
Alberto Rodriguez
Amazon Scholar; Class of 1957 Career Development Professor Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Alberto Rodriguez is interested in autonomous robotic manipulation through an effective use of materials, modeling, perception, planning, control and design.
Daniela Rus
Director, MIT CSAIL; Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Daniela Rus is interested in developing the science of networked, distributed, and collaborative robotics by asking: how can multiple machines collaborate to achieve a common goal?
Devavrat Shah
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Devavrat Shah researches statistical inference and stochastic networks, within networks, his work spans a range of areas across electrical engineering, computer science and operations research.
Julie Shah
Amazon Scholar; Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Julie Shah is interested in developing interactive robots and improving human-robot collaboration by drawing on expertise in artificial and human intelligence, and systems engineering.
Vincent Sitzmann
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vincent Sitzmann is interested in the self-supervised learning of neural representations of 3D scenes and their applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and robotics.
Russ Tedrake
Toyota Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Russ Tedrake is interested in motor control systems in animals and machines that can execute dynamically dexterous tasks and interact with uncertain environments.
Josh Tenenbaum
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Joshua Tenenbaum is interested in research that straddles cognitive science and artificial intelligence, to reverse engineer human intelligence and build machines that behave in human-like ways.
Antonio Torralba
Head of the Faculty of AI and Decision-making, Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Antonio Torralba is interested in building systems that can perceive the world via multiple senses, and that can learn from far fewer data.
Mycal Tucker
Amazon Fellow; PhD Student, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Mycal focuses on explainability and interpretability of robotics and AI systems for language comprehension
Greta Tuckute
Amazon Fellow; PhD Student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Greta works at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science.
Ashia Wilson
ARA Recipient; Lister Brothers Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ashia Wilson research interests include optimization, algorithmic decision making, dynamical systems, and fairness within large scale machine learning.
Cathy Wu
Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cathy Wu is interested in developing computational tools to enable reliable decision-making in safety-critical systems.
Sixian You
ARA Recipient; Alfred Henry (1929) and Jean Morrison Hayes Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Sixian You is interested in developing innovative optical imaging solutions to enable noninvasive, deeper, faster, and richer visualization for biomedicine.