People

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

Aditi Aditi

Visiting Student

Aviv Adler

Graduate Student

E adlera@mit.edu

Iman Aganj

Research Affiliate

E iman@csail.mit.edu

Evangelia Agapaki

Graduate Student

Vest Scholar, Ph.D. Candidate

E eagapaki@mit.edu

Vest Scholar, Ph.D. Candidate

Anant Agarwal

Professor

Systems, architecture, online learning, edX

E agarwal@edx.org

T 253-1448

Systems, architecture, online learning, edX

Raj Agrawal

Graduate Student

E rajisme@mit.edu

RM

Leandro Agudelo

Postdoctoral Associate

Computational Biology, Integrative Systems Biology

E lagudelo@csail.mit.edu

Computational Biology, Integrative Systems Biology

Wajeeha Ahmad

Graduate Student

E wajeeha@mit.edu

RM

Peter Ahrens

Graduate Student

E pahrens@mit.edu

RM

Marc Aidinoff

Temporary Graduate Student

E Aidinoff@mit.edu

Miika Aittala

Postdoctoral Associate

E miika@mit.edu

RM

Anurag Ajay

Graduate Student

E aajay@mit.edu

RM

Member

Abdurrahman Akkas

Graduate Student

E akkas@mit.edu

Ekin Akyurek

Visiting Student

E akyurek@mit.edu

Tuka Al Hanai

Graduate Student

Machine learning for speech, language, and health applications.

E tuka@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Detecting Cognitive Impairment from Speech

Automatic Speech Recognition

Member

Arabic Language Processing

Machine learning for speech, language, and health applications.

Abdullah Al-Dujaili

Postdoctoral Associate

E aldujail@csail.mit.edu

RM

Ahmed Alawaji

Graduate Student

E alawaji@mit.edu

Yodahe Alemu

UROP

E ykinsew@mit.edu

Ferran Alet I Puig

Graduate Student

E alet@mit.edu

RM

Member

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Maryam Aliakbarpour

Graduate Student

E maryama@mit.edu

RM

Graduate Student

PI
Core/Dual

Mohammad Alizadeh

Assistant Professor

Networks, systems, theory

E alizadeh@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Networks and Mobile Systems

Networks, systems, theory

Obada Alkhatib

UROP

E obada@mit.edu

James Allen

UROP

E jamesal4@mit.edu

Member

Using Computers to Eat Healthier

Algebraic Techniques for Algorithm Design

Josh Alman

Graduate Student

E jalman@mit.edu

RM 32-G634

Lead

Member

Complexity Theory Group

Tarfah Alrashed

Graduate Student

E tarfah@mit.edu

RM

Member

Haystack Group

Gil Alterovitz

Research Affiliate

E gil@CSAIL.MIT.EDU

RM 32-250D

Member

Clinical Decision-Making Group

David Alvarez Melis

Graduate Student

E dalvmel@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Interpretability in complex machine learning models

Julian Alverio

UROP

E jalverio@mit.edu

Joshua Gyesi Amaniampong

UROP

E amanj@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Saman Amarasinghe

Professor

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

E saman@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8879

RM

Lead

Commit Group

Tiramisu Compiler

Member

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler

Halide

OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

Alexander Amini

Graduate Student

PhD Candidate. Deep Learning; Robotics

E Amini@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Robust Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

Member

Self-Driving Vehicles

Reliable Robotic Construction of Multi-object Arrangements

PhD Candidate. Deep Learning; Robotics

David Amirault

UROP

E davidja@mit.edu

Suma M. Anand

Graduate Student

E sanand@mit.edu

Aneesh Anand

Graduate Student

E aanand@mit.edu

Prabhanjan Ananth

Postdoctoral Associate

E pananth@mit.edu

RM

Ishwarya Ananthabhotla

Temporary Graduate Student

E ishwarya@MIT.EDU

Kshama Ananthapura

Administrative Assistant

E kshama@mit.edu

RM 32-D408A

Ariel Anders

Graduate Student

Ariel is a PhD candidate researching robust robotic manipulation.

E aanders@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Member

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Ariel is a PhD candidate researching robust robotic manipulation.

Justin Anderson

Senior Software Engineer

E jander@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-G883

Luke James Anderson

Graduate Student

E lukea@mit.edu

RM

Member

Computational Connectomics Group

Alex Andonian

Technical Associate I

E aandnia@mit.edu

RM

William Ang

Temporary Consultant

E ang@csail.mit.edu

T 258-9111

Member

Brandon Araki

Graduate Student

E araki@mit.edu

Lead

Drones that Drive

Member

Task-Driven Co-Optimization Of Articulated Robots

Wearable Blind Navigation

Computation Structures Group

Self-Driving Vehicles

Ellie Aranov-Zucker

Administrative Assistant II

E eliaranov@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6747

RM

Maryam Archie

UROP

E marchie@mit.edu

Member

Software Design Group

Peniel Argaw

Graduate Student

E peniel@mit.edu

Biswas Aritro

Graduate Student

E abiswas@mit.edu

Caroline Aronoff

Graduate Student

E caronoff@mit.edu

Philip Arsenault

Client Relations Coordinator

E pmarsena@mit.edu

T 324-8367

RM

Venkat Arun

Graduate Student

Congestion control, applied cryptography

E venkatar@MIT.EDU

RM 32-G978A

Congestion control, applied cryptography

PI
Core/Dual

Arvind

Professor

architecture, parallel computing, programming languages

E arvind@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6090

RM

Lead

architecture, parallel computing, programming languages

Anish Athalye

Graduate Student

E aathalye@mit.edu

RM 32-G978B

Eric Atkinson

Graduate Student

E eatkinson@csail.mit.edu

RM

Samer Awale

UROP

E sawale@mit.edu

Kyriakos Axiotis

Graduate Student

E kaxiotis@mit.edu

RM

Derek Aylward

Facilities and Operations Assistant

E derekaylward@csail.mit.edu

T 715-4882

RM

Member

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Benjamin Ayton

Graduate Student

E AytonB@mit.edu

RM

Member

Pablo Azar

Graduate Student

E azar@csail.mit.edu

Vahid Babaei

Postdoctoral Fellow

E babaei@mit.edu

Member

Katharine Bacher

UROP

E ktbacher@mit.edu

Arturs Backurs

Graduate Student

E backurs@mit.edu

RM

Mohamed Riyadh Baghdadi

Postdoctoral Associate

E baghdadi@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Tiramisu Compiler

Member

Commit Group

Postdoctoral Associate

Ayesha Bajwa

Graduate Student

E abajwa@mit.edu

Guha Balakrishnan

Postdoctoral Associate

E balakg@csail.mit.edu

Member

Networks and Mobile Systems

PI
Core/Dual

Hari Balakrishnan

Professor

Networks, wireless, mobile systems, data management

E hari@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8713

RM

Lead

Member

Computation Structures Group

Networks, wireless, mobile systems, data management

Thomas Balch

Control Engineer

E tbalch@csail.mit.edu

RM

Member

Self-Driving Vehicles

Fact-Checking and Reasoning

Ramy Baly

Postdoc Associate

E baly@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Arabic Language Processing

Member

Semantic Parsing using Vision

Suri Bandler

Graduate Student

E scb@mit.edu

Rohan Banerjee

Graduate Student

E rohanb@mit.edu

Hyemin Bang

UROP

E hbang@mit.edu

Yujia Bao

Graduate Student

E YujiaBao@mit.edu

RM

Andrei Barbu

Research Scientist

E abarbu@mit.edu

RM

Member

Infolab

Richard Barnes

Temporary Visiting Student

E richard.barnes@berkeley.edu

RM 32-D475F

Jake Barnwell

Graduate Student

E Jb16@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Regina Barzilay

Professor

Natural language processing, machine learning

E regina@csail.mit.edu

T 258-5706

RM

Lead

Natural Language Processing Group

Aspect-Augmented Adversarial Networks for Domain Adaptation

Member

Aspect-Augmented Adversarial Networks for Domain Adaptation

Natural language processing, machine learning

Favyen Bastani

Graduate Student

E fbastani@mit.edu

RM 32-G904B

Lead

Mapping Roads with Satellite Imagery and GPS Data

Osbert Bastani

Postdoctoral Associate

E obastani@csail.mit.edu

David Bau

Graduate Student

E davidbau@mit.edu

RM 32-D475D

Lead

Understandable Deep Networks

David Bau

UROP

E abau@mit.edu

Steve Bauer

Temporary Consultant

E bauer@mit.edu

RM

Member

Advanced Network Architecture Group

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Cenk Baykal

Graduate Student

E baykal@mit.edu

RM 32-376C

Member

Coresets for Machine Learning Algorithms

Jonathan Behrens

Graduate Student

E behrensj@mit.edu

Member

Soup: A New Structured Datastore for Modern Applications

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

PI
Core/Dual

Adam Belay

Assistant Professor

E abelay@CSAIL.MIT.EDU

T 253-0004

RM

Lead

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

Yonatan Belinkov

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD Candidate in Computer Science, language and speech processing

E belinkov@mit.edu

Lead

Understanding Language Representations in Deep Learning Models

Arabic Language Processing

Language and Dialect Identification

Member

Detailed Interpretation of Object Images

PhD Candidate in Computer Science, language and speech processing

Gillian Belton

UROP

E gbelton@mit.edu

Anastasiya Belyaeva

Graduate Student

E belyaeva@mit.edu

Malek Ben Romdhane

Graduate Student

E malek@mit.edu

Guy Ben-Yosef

Research Scientist

E gby@csail.mit.edu

RM

Lead

Michael Benjamin

Temporary Research Scientist

E mikerb@csail.mit.edu

Member

Marine Robotics Group

Tristan Bepler

Graduate Student

E tbepler@MIT.EDU

RM

Member

Computation and Biology

Alexandra Berg

UROP

E alexberg@mit.edu

Arthur Berger

Research Affiliate

E awberger@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6079

RM

Member

Advanced Network Architecture Group

Internet Policy Research Initiative

PI
Core/Dual

Bonnie Berger

Professor

Computational biology, genomics

E bab@csail.mit.edu

T 253-1827

RM

Lead

Theory of Computation Group

Covering All K-mers Using Joker Characters

Towards Context-Aware Functional Genomics

Metagenomic Binning Through Low-Density Hashing

Computation and Biology

Member

Computation Structures Group

Computational biology, genomics

Hayley Bergman

UROP

E hayberg@mit.edu

Heather Berlin

Graduate Student

E hberlin@mit.edu

Itay Berman

Graduate Student

E itayberm@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Basing Cryptography on Structured Hardness

Member

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Sara Bernardini

Visiting Scientist

E sarabern@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Tim Berners-Lee

Professor

Systems, privacy, inventor of the World Wide Web

E timbl@w3.org

T 253-5702

Lead

Decentralized Information Group

World Wide Web Consortium

Solid: Social Linked Data

Systems, privacy, inventor of the World Wide Web

Abigail Bertics

UROP

E abertics@mit.edu

Yevgeni Berzak

Graduate Student

E berzak@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Language Learning from a Computational Perspective

Member

Infolab

Semantic Parsing using Vision

Mikhail Bessmeltsev

Postdoctoral Associate

E bmpix@cs.ubc.ca

RM 32-D475F

Member

Geometric Data Processing Group

Nishchal Bhandari

Graduate Student

E nishchal@mit.edu

Nikhil Bhargava

Graduate Student

E nkb@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Uhura: Personal Assistant that Manages Risk

Member

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Sanchit Bhattacharjee

UROP

E sanchitb@mit.edu

J. Alan Bird

Global Business Development Leader

E abird@w3.org

Davis Blalock

Graduate Student

Machine learning with 10x less time, space, and data.

E dblalock@csail.mit.edu

RM

Machine learning with 10x less time, space, and data.

David Allen Bloore

Graduate Student

E dbloore@mit.edu

Lead

Structure-based Inhibitor Design Against ZIKV Protease

Member

Learning Representations for Biomolecular Interaction Prediction

Lotta-Gili Blumberg

UROP

E blumberg@mit.edu

William Boag

Graduate Student

Clinical NLP

E wboag@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Synthetically-Identified Clinical Notes

Information Retrieval for Cancer Treatments in Clinical Literature and Trial Eligibility

CliNER: Clinical Concept Extraction

Quantifying Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care

Member

AWE-CM Vectors: Augmenting Word Embeddings with a Clinical Metathesaurus

Clinical Decision-Making Group

Clinical NLP

Gregory Michael Bodwin

Graduate Student

E gbodwin@mit.edu

RM 32-G634

Lead

Sketching Distances in Graphs

Carles Boix

Graduate Student

E Cboix@mit.edu

RM

Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan

Postdoctoral Associate

E shaileshh.bv@gmail.com

RM

Nicholas Bonaker

UROP

E nbonaker@mit.edu

Brian Bonk

Graduate Student

E bmbonk@mit.edu

Member

Tidor Lab

Akhilan Boopathy

UROP

E akhilan@mit.edu

Gary Borchardt

Research Affiliate

E borch@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5867

RM

Jeffrey Bosboom

Graduate Student

E jbosboom@mit.edu

Member

Commit Group

OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning

Brett Boston

Graduate Student

E boston@csail.mit.edu

RM

Thomas Bourgeat

Graduate Student

E bthom@csail.mit.edu

RM

Christopher Powell Bradley

Graduate Student

E cbrad@mit.edu

RM 32-334

Jacqueline Bredenberg

UROP

E jamb@mit.edu

Joel Brenner

Temporary Research Fellow

E brennerj@mit.edu

Lead

Keeping America Safe: Toward More Secure Networks for Critical Sectors

PI
Core/Dual

Judy Brewer

Principal Research Scientist

Web accessibility

E jbrewer@w3.org

T 258-9741

RM

Lead

World Wide Web Consortium

Web accessibility

Matthew Briggs

Program Manager, IPRI

E mbriggs@mit.edu

RM

Pedro Brin

Graduate Student

E pebrin@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Tamara Broderick

Assistant Professor

Machine learning, statistics, Bayesian modeling, inference

E tbroderick@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6749

RM

Lead

Machine Learning

Scalable Bayesian Inference via Adaptive Data Summaries

Scalable Bayesian inference with optimization

Broderick Lab

Machine learning, statistics, Bayesian modeling, inference

Michael Brodie

Research Affiliate

E michael@michaelbrodie.com

RM

Lead

Database Design

Michael Bronstein

Research Affiliate

E bronstei@mit.edu

Joel Brooks

Graduate Student

E brooksjd@mit.edu

Lead

Machine Learning for Insights in Basketball Strategy

Rodney Brooks

Professor Emeritus

Computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics

E brooks@csail.mit.edu

Computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics

Cree Bruins

Administrative Assistant II

E cbruins@csail.mit.edu

T 253-2629

RM 32-G784A

Tom Buehler

Research Specialist/Video Technician

E tbuehler@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6035

RM

Member