Research

Impact Areas

Lead

Costis Daskalakis

+20

Costis Daskalakis

Community of Research

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

This CoR brings together researchers at CSAIL working across a broad swath of application domains. Within these lie novel and challenging machine learning problems serving science, social science and computer science.

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

1 News Results matching all criteria

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Computational Biology Computer Architecture Graphics & Vision Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages & Software Engineering Robotics Security & Cryptography Systems & Networking Cybersecurity Education Energy Entertainment Health Care Manufacturing Transportation Wireless

June 27 '19

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

34 Group Results

Community of Research

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Group

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Our main goal is developing a computationally based understanding of human intelligence and establishing an engineering practice based on that understanding.

Tomaso Poggio

Leads

Tomaso Poggio

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Tomaso Poggio

Research Center

Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)

The MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML) works towards creating AI systems that are robust, reliable and safe for real-world deployment.

Aleksander Madry

Leads

Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Aleksander Madry

Research Group

Clinical Decision-Making Group

We focus on furthering the application of technology and artificial intelligence in medicine and health-care.

+11

Peter Szolovits

Leads

Peter Szolovits

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Lead

Peter Szolovits

+11

Peter Szolovits

Research Group

Commit Group

We focus on finding novel approaches to improve the performance of modern computer systems without unduly increasing the complexity faced by application developers, compiler writers, or computer architects.

Saman Amarasinghe

Leads

Saman Amarasinghe

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Saman Amarasinghe

Research Group

Computation and Biology

Our lab focuses on designing algorithms to gain biological insights from advances in automated data collection and the subsequent large data sets drawn from them.

Bonnie Berger

Leads

Bonnie Berger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Bonnie Berger

Research Group

Computation Structures Group

Our mission is fostering the creation and development of high-performance, reliable and secure computing systems that are easy to interact with.

+21

Leads

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

+21

Research Group

Computational Biology Group

We seek to understand the mechanistic basis of human disease, using a combination of computational and experimental techniques.

Manolis Kellis

Leads

Manolis Kellis

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Manolis Kellis

Research Group

Computational Cognitive Science Group

We study the computational basis of human learning and inference.

Joshua Tenenbaum

Leads

Joshua Tenenbaum

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Joshua Tenenbaum

Research Group

Computational Connectomics Group

Our group’s goal is to create, based on such microscopic connectivity and functional data, new mathematical models explaining how neural tissue computes.

Nir Shavit

Leads

Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Nir Shavit

Research Group

Computational Genomics Group

We develop new machine learning techniques and algorithms to model the transcriptional regulatory networks that control gene expression programs in living cells.

Dave Gifford

Leads

Dave Gifford

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Dave Gifford

Research Group

Computational Perception & Cognition

We combine methods from computer science, neuroscience and cognitive science to explain and model how perception and cognition are realized in human and machine.

Aude Oliva

Leads

Aude Oliva

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Aude Oliva

Research Group

Computer-Aided Programming

We develop techniques and tools that exploit automated reasoning and large amounts of computing power to tackle challenging programming problems

Armando Solar-Lezama

Leads

Armando Solar-Lezama

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Armando Solar-Lezama

Research Group

Data Systems Group

We conduct research on all areas of database systems and information management.

+15

Leads

Sam Madden

Michael Stonebraker

Tim Kraska

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Sam Madden

Michael Stonebraker

Tim Kraska

+15

Research Group

Decentralized Information Group

We are investigating decentralized technologies that affect social change.

Lalana Kagal

Tim Berners-Lee

Leads

Lalana Kagal

Tim Berners-Lee

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Lalana Kagal

Tim Berners-Lee

Lalana Kagal

Tim Berners-Lee

Research Group

Haystack Group

We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers blending approaches from human-computer interaction, social computing, databases, information management, and databases.

Lea Verou

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

David Karger

Lea Verou

David Karger

Community of Research

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

The focus of the HCI CoR is inventing new systems and technology that lie at the interface between people and computation, and understanding their design, implementation, and societal impact.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Entertainment

Manufacturing

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Julia Lab

We focus on theoretical and numerical aspects of the core Julia language, base library, and several other packages.

Leads

Research Areas

Research Group

Medical Vision Group

We develop new algorithms for medical image analysis and visualization of medical imagery.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Polina Golland

Research Group

MIT App Inventor

MIT App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone – even children – to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets.

Hal Abelson

Leads

Hal Abelson

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Hal Abelson

Research Group

Programming Languages & Verification

Mission: improve the software development process by replacing ugly development techniques with beautiful ones

Secret weapon: applied mathematical logic, including computer theorem proving (especially Coq) and type systems

Adam Chlipala

Leads

Adam Chlipala

Research Areas

Lead

Adam Chlipala

Research Group

Programming Languages and Software Engineering

We research programming languages, software engineering, and related work in human-computer interaction.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Research Group

Programming Methodology Group

We develop innovative approaches for building software and for solving problems in modern parallel and distributed software systems.

Barbara Liskov

Leads

Barbara Liskov

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Barbara Liskov

Research Group

Programming Systems Group

Investigating the semantics, design, and implementation of programming systems (programming languages, compilers, and runtime systems).

Michael Carbin

Leads

Michael Carbin

Research Areas

Lead

Michael Carbin

59 Project Results

Project

A Simplified and Extensible Cilk Runtime for Research

CilkS is a new runtime system for the Cilk multithreaded programming environment which makes it easy to experiment with new algorithms, data structures, and programming linguistics.

Charles E. Leiserson

Tao Schardl

Leads

Charles E. Leiserson

Tao Schardl

Research Areas

Charles E. Leiserson

Tao Schardl

Project

Alloy

Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them. It has been used in a wide range of applications from finding holes in security mechanisms to designing telephone switching networks. Hundreds of projects have used Alloy for design analysis, for verification, for simulation, and as a backend for many other kinds of analysis and synthesis tools, and Alloy is currently being taught in courses worldwide.

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Computer-Aided Programming

Self-driving cars are likely to be safer, on average, than human-driven cars. But they may fail in new and catastrophic ways that a human driver could prevent. This project is designing a new architecture for a highly dependable self-driving car.

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Research Areas

Weiss Laboratory for Synthetic Biology

Impact Areas

Transportation

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Project

Artificial tissue homeostasis

In order to be able to design synthetic organs that function autonomously, we will need to engineer artificial tissue homeostasis. To control the size of these artificial tissues, two major mechanisms will have to be engineered.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Computer-Aided Programming

Project

Bellmania

Supertech Research Group

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Deductive synthesis for large-scale implementations of dynamic programming algorithms

Leads

Research Areas

Project

Blood Pressure Imager

Vision Group

Development of affordable wearable continuous blood pressure monitor based on radial arterial pulse imaged from the skin surface of human wrist

Mumin Jin

Aya G. Halawi

Jianhua Li

Leads

Abhijit Biswas

Ted Adelson

Mandayam A. Srinivasan

Mohan Thanikachalam

Research Areas

Mumin Jin

Aya G. Halawi

Jianhua Li

Project

Bridging Theory and Practice in Shared-Memory Parallel Algorithm Design

This project aims to design parallel algorithms for shared-memory machines that are efficient both in theory and also in practice.

Julian Shun

Leads

Julian Shun

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Julian Shun

Project

CilkPride

Usable Programming Group

CilkPride is a programming environment that aims to make performance and safety information always available and appropriately visible to the programmer.

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Leads

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Research Areas

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Project

Clinical Intervention Prediction with Neural Networks

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Integrating multi-modal clinical data and using recurrent and convolution neural networks to predict when patients will need important interventions.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

We're using proof assistants to build correct, extensible compilers, by rephrasing compilation in terms of producing mathematical proofs.

Adam Chlipala

Leads

Adam Chlipala

Research Areas

Adam Chlipala

Project

Compression and Reordering for Parallel Graph Analytics

We plan to develop a suite of graph compression and reordering techniques as part of the Ligra parallel graph processing framework to reduce space usage and improve performance of graph algorithms.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Project

Covering All K-mers Using Joker Characters

Computation and Biology

We developed a new algorithm to generate compact sequence sets covering all k-mers using joker characters.

Bonnie Berger

Leads

Bonnie Berger

Research Areas

Bonnie Berger

Project

Data Civilizer

Data Systems Group

Data scientists universally report that they spend at least 80% of their time finding data sets of interest, accessing them, cleaning them and assembling them into a unified whole.

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Leads

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Project

Data Warehouse Construction

Data Systems Group

Historically, DBMSs in the warehouse space partitioned their data across a shared nothing
cluster.

Michael Stonebraker

Leads

Michael Stonebraker

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Michael Stonebraker

Project

Determining Wikipedia's Influence on Science

Supertech Research Group

Wikipedia is one of the most widely accessed encyclopedia sites in the world, including by scientists. Our project aims to investigate just how far Wikipedia’s influence goes in shaping science.

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

Leads

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

Project

Distributed Robot Garden

The robot garden provides an aesthetically pleasing educational platform that can visualize computer science concepts and encourage young students to pursue programming and robotics.

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Lindsay Sanneman

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Entertainment

Project

Drug Target Identification Via Computational Modeling

Tidor Lab

We use computational models of biological pathways in disease to estimate the range of possible responses to various hypothetical drugs, given patient variability and limited pathway-relevant data.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Déjà Vu: Constructing Apps from Concepts

Déjà Vu is a new platform for end-user development of apps with rich functionality. It features a novel theory of modularity for binding concepts; an extensive library of reusable concepts; and a WYSIWYG tool for specifying bindings and customizing visual layout

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

Espalier

Espalier (formerly Object Spreadsheets) is a new computational paradigm that combines the usability advantages of spreadsheets with SQL-like expressive power, providing a way to build a wide class of interactive applications more easily than with existing tools.

Leads

Research Areas

Project

Fast & Accurate Alignment of Barcoded Short Reads

This project aims to develop an improved alignment algorithm for barcoded short reads as produced by 10X Genomics' sequencing platform.

Leads

Research Areas

Weiss Laboratory for Synthetic Biology

Project

Flexible cellular platforms for reconfigurable biocircuits

Existing methods for cloning and recombination of DNA enable construction of arbitrary sequences. However, the sequential nature of these techniques makes them time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, while the transformation of an existing plasmid into a host strain can be reliable when a selection marker is used, there are many current limitations: the number of different plasmids that can be co-transformed is limited by the choice of markers and compatible origins of replication; plasmids are less stable than chromosomal DNA and are difficult to maintain indefinitely without mutation; and cistronic interactions cannot be designed since each new nucleotide sequence added is on an unconnected DNA molecule. To overcome these limitations, we are designing reconfigurable chromosomes consisting of both fixed and variable regions. While the fixed region is carefully optimized and tuned ahead of time, the variable region can be modified in the field, at the point-of-use, leading to rapid and on-demand realization of novel biocircuits with many different phenotypes.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Genome Wide Association and Pharamcokinetics of Statin Therapies

Tidor Lab

We study genetic predictors of statin metabolism, efficacy, and tolerability in a post-cardiac event population.

Leads

Research Areas

Project

Gitless: a simple version control system built on top of Git

Gitless is a conceptual redesign of Git which attempts to make Git easier to learn and use

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

Halide

Commit Group

A language for image processing and computational photography.

Leads

Research Areas

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

35 People Results

Leandro Agudelo

Research Scientist

Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology

E lagudelo@csail.mit.edu

Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology

Ekin Akyürek

Graduate Student

First year PhD student in computer science

E akyurek@mit.edu

First year PhD student in computer science

PI
Core/Dual

Saman Amarasinghe

Professor

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

E saman@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8879

Lead

Commit Group

Tiramisu Compiler

Member

Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler

Halide

OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning

Program Performance Prediction with Deep Learning

Covering All K-mers Using Joker Characters

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

PI
Core/Dual

Bonnie Berger

Professor

Computational biology, genomics

E bab@csail.mit.edu

T 253-1827

Lead

Towards Context-Aware Functional Genomics

Metagenomic Binning Through Low-Density Hashing

Computation and Biology

Member

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Computational biology, genomics

PI
Core/Dual

Michael Carbin

Assistant Professor

Programming languages and systems.

E mcarbin@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5881

Lead

Programming Systems Group

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Member

Programming with spaces

Program Performance Prediction with Deep Learning

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

FSCQ: File-system verification

Programming languages and systems.

Tej Chajed

Graduate Student

PhD student in systems

E tchajed@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-G978B

Lead

Perennial

Member

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

PhD student in systems

PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

E adamc@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8439

Lead

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Hemiola: Structural Design and Proof of Cache-Coherence Protocols

Member

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming with spaces

FSCQ: File-system verification

Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

Stephen Chou

Graduate Student

E s3chou@csail.mit.edu

Member

Commit Group

Valentin Churavy

Graduate Student

#JuliaLang, #GPU, #HPC

E vchuravy@MIT.EDU

Member

Julia Lab

Adversarial Cyber Security

#JuliaLang, #GPU, #HPC

PI
Core/Dual

Fredo Durand

Professor

Vision, graphics, computational photography

E fredo@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7223

Lead

Computer Graphics Group

Computational Understanding of Visualizations and Graphic Designs

Vision Group

Member

Computational Bounce Flash for Indoor Portraits

Halide

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, graphics, computational photography

Barış Ekim

Graduate Student

E ekim@csail.mit.edu

Samuel Gruetter

Graduate Student

E gruetter@mit.edu

Member

Data-Driven Inference Group

PI
Core/Dual

John Guttag

Professor

Machine learning, medicine, data-driven inference

E guttag@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6022

Lead

Hidden Influencers, Risk and Causes of Infection

Predicting Adverse Events Across Changing Electronic Health Record Systems

Machine Learning for Insights in Basketball Strategy

Detecting Voice Misuse to Diagnose Disorders

Member

Machine learning, medicine, data-driven inference

Jamey Hicks

Research Affiliate

E jamey.hicks@accelerated.tech

Member

PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Jackson

Professor

Software design, programming, systems

E dnj@csail.mit.edu

T 258-8471

Lead

Rethinking Software Design

Gitless: a simple version control system built on top of Git

Déjà Vu: Constructing Apps from Concepts

Security by Design for Cyberphysical Systems

Poirot: Secure Protocol Implementation by Design

An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Alloy

Wildcard

Member

Espalier

Computational Genomics Group

Wildcard

Software design, programming, systems

Konstantin Krismer

Graduate Student

E krismer@mit.edu

Member

Alexander Lenail

Graduate Student

E lenail@csail.mit.edu

Henry Lieberman

Research Scientist

Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, in AI and HCI.

E lieber@MEDIA.MIT.EDU

Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, in AI and HCI.

PI
Core/Dual

Albert R. Meyer

Professor Emeritus

Programming languages, theory, complexity, online education

E meyer@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6024

Programming languages, theory, complexity, online education

PI
Core/Dual

Rob Miller

Professor

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

E rcm@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6028

Lead

Wait-learning: Intelligent Systems for Making Productive Use of Wait Time

Usable Programming Group

CilkPride

Member

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

William Moses

Graduate Student

E wmoses@mit.edu

Lead

Tapir

Clement Pit-Claudel

Graduate Student

E cpitcla@mit.edu

Member

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Alexander Renda

Graduate Student

E renda@mit.edu

Lead

Member

Programming Systems Group

Program Performance Prediction with Deep Learning

PI
Core/Dual

Martin Rinard

Professor

Systems, programming languages and verification

E rinard@csail.mit.edu

T 258-6922

Lead

Member

Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)