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Algorithms & Theory

Foundational work that includes complexity, parallel computing and game theory

AI & ML

Spanning natural language processing, deep-learning, computer vision and more

Computational Biology

Understanding disease via epigenomics, gene regulation and bioinformatics

Computer Architecture

How CPUs, memory and other systems are designed and organized

Graphics & Vision

Teaching computers to interpret, create and animate visual data

Human-Computer Interaction

Software and hardware that let us naturally interact with technology

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

From compilers and verification to software design and engineering

Robotics

Vision, actuation, sensing and manipulation of machines

Security & Cryptography

Developing technologies to prevent and recover from cyber-attacks

Systems & Networking

From distributed systems and databases to wireless

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8 Group Results

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.
Regina Barzilay
Berger
Michael Carbin
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Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

AI & ML
Computational Biology
Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Education
Health Care

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Regina Barzilay
Berger
Michael Carbin
+6
 
Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

This community is interested in understanding and affecting the interaction between computing systems and society through engineering, computer science and public policy research, education, and public engagement.
Abelson
Berners-Lee
Brewer-headshot
+8
Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson
Berners-Lee
Brewer-headshot
+8
 
Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Community of Research

Vertical AI Community of Research

This CoR takes a unified approach to cover the full range of research areas required for success in artificial intelligence, including hardware, foundations, software systems, and applications.
Amarasinghe
Regina Barzilay
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+7
Rinard

Martin Rinard

Leads

Rinard

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Graphics & Vision
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Rinard

Martin Rinard

Amarasinghe
Regina Barzilay
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Rinard

Martin Rinard

13 Project Results

Project

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Computation Structures Group
Computational Cognitive Science Group
Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group
Our goal is to develop a socially intelligent team coacher agent that helps humans communicate, strategize, and work together efficiently.

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Williams

Brian Williams

Katz

Boris Katz

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Zhutian Yang

Research Areas

Computer Architecture
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics

Impact Areas

Health Care
Transportation
Wireless

Project

Automatic Speech Recognition

Spoken Language Systems Group
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a grand challenge machine learning problem for decades. Our ongoing research in this area examines the use of deep learning models for distant and noisy recording conditions, multilingual, and low-resource scenarios.
MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

Leads

MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
Entertainment
Health Care
Internet of Things
 
MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

Project

Reconstructing Neural Circuits from Mammalian Brain

Computational Connectomics Group
Theory of Computation Community of Research
We develop algorithms, systems and software architectures for automating reconstruction of accurate representations of neural tissue structures, such as nanometer-scale neurons' morphology and synaptic connections in the mammalian cortex.
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Yaron Meirovitch

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Nir Shavit

Leads

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Yaron Meirovitch

shavit-headshot

Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Computational Biology
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Health Care
 
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Yaron Meirovitch

shavit-headshot

Nir Shavit

Project

Solid: Social Linked Data

Decentralized Information Group
Cognitive AI Community of Research
Computing & Society Community of Research
Solid aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.
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Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

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Lalana Kagal

Leads

Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
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Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Project

Unsupervised Speech Processing

Spoken Language Systems Group
All humans process vast quantities of unannotated speech and manage to learn phonetic inventories, word boundaries, etc., and can use these abilities to acquire new word. Why can't ASR technology have similar capabilities? Our goal in this research project is to build speech technology using unannotated speech corpora.
Jim Glass
Yu-An Chung (Andy)

Yu-An Chung

MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Leads

Yu-An Chung (Andy)

Yu-An Chung

MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
Health Care
Jim Glass
 
Yu-An Chung (Andy)

Yu-An Chung

MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

11 People Results

Jim Glass

PI
Core/Dual

Jim Glass

Senior Research Scientist
speech and language processing
Jim Glass
T 253-1640
RM 32-G444

Lead

Spoken Language Systems Group
Designing Information-Rich Embedding Spaces
Unsupervised Learning of Interpretable Representations from Sequential Data
Fact-Checking and Reasoning
Speaker Verification and Diarization
Automatic Speech Recognition
Language and Dialect Identification

Member

Using Computers to Eat Healthier
Low-Power Speech Processing Circuits
Crossing the Vision-Language Boundary
Unsupervised Speech Processing
Arabic Language Processing
Health-related Biomarkers from Speech
Community Question Answering
Understanding Language Representations in Deep Learning Models
Embodied Intelligence Community of Research
speech and language processing
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Henry Lieberman

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

PI
Core/Dual

Daniela Rus

Director
CSAIL director, robotics, AI, data science, privacy
Rus
T 258-7567
RM 32/ 32-368/ 374

Lead

Distributed Robotics Laboratory
Social Network Extraction from GPS Datasets with Coresets
Safety Standards for Autonomous Vehicles
Soft Contact Modeling
Practical Secure Computation
Self-Driving Vehicles
Robust Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
Brain-Controlled Robots
Planning in Congestion for Autonomous Vehicles
Socially-Compliant Behavior for Autonomous Driving
Coresets for Machine Learning Algorithms
M-Blocks Modular Robotics
Robot Compiler
Distributed Robot Garden
Route and Motion Planning for Mobility-on-Demand with Rules of the Road

Member

Social Network Extraction from GPS Datasets with Coresets
Task-Driven Co-Optimization Of Articulated Robots
Wearable Blind Navigation
Drones that Drive
Better Models for Ride-Sharing
SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish
Controlling drones and other robots with gestures
Using Muscle Signals to Lift Objects with Robots
Embodied Intelligence Community of Research
Helping robots learn using demonstrations
CSAIL director, robotics, AI, data science, privacy
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Nouran Soliman

Graduate Student
Nouran is a PhD Student in EECS at MIT working with David Karger.
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Nouran is a PhD Student in EECS at MIT working with David Karger.

11 News Results

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Algorithms & Theory Systems & Networking Health Care

Removing health-care barriers and boundaries

MIT’s Amar Gupta and his wife Poonam were on a trip to Los Angeles in 2016 when she fell and broke both wrists. She was whisked by ambulance to a reputable hospital. But staff informed the couple that they couldn’t treat her there, nor could they find another local hospital that would do so. In the end, the couple was forced to take the hospital’s stunning advice: return to Boston for treatment.

Removing health-care barriers and boundaries

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AI & ML Systems & Networking Health Care

Using machine learning to improve patient care

Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these data for multiple patients while making real-time treatment decisions, especially when data is documented inconsistently across hospitals. In a new pair of papers, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) explore ways for computers to help doctors make better medical decisions.

Using machine learning to improve patient care

A prototype of a new speech-controlled nutrition-logging system allows users to verbally describe the contents of a meal. The system then parses the description and automatically retrieves the pertinent nutritional data.
AI & ML Human-Computer Interaction Health Care

Voice-controlled calorie counter

For people struggling with obesity, logging calorie counts and other nutritional information at every meal is a proven way to lose weight. The technique does require consistency and accuracy, however, and when it fails, it’s usually because people don't have the time to find and record all the information they need.A few years ago, a team of nutritionists from Tufts University who had been experimenting with mobile-phone apps for recording caloric intake approached members of the Spoken Language Systems Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with the idea of a spoken-language application that would make meal logging even easier.

Voice-controlled calorie counter