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Aleksander Madry

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40 Group Results

Research Group

Advanced Network Architecture Group

The challenge that motivates the ANA group is to foster a healthy future for the Internet. The interplay of private sector investment, public sector regulation and public interest advocacy, as well as the global diversity in drivers and aspirations, makes for an uncertain future.

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Leads

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

David Clark

Karen Sollins

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Research Group

Anyscale Learning for All ALFA

Our vision is data-driven machine learning systems that advance the quality of healthcare, the understanding of cyber arms races and the delivery of online education.

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

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

Computational Biology

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

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

Community of Research

Cognitive AI Community of Research

This CoR aims to develop AI technology that synthesizes symbolic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning for dealing with uncertainty in the world, and statistical methods for extracting and exploiting regularities in the world, into an integrated picture of intelligence that is informed by computational insights and by cognitive science.

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Howard Shrobe

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

Lead

Saman Amarasinghe

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

Lead

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

+21

Research Group

Computational Design and Fabrication Group

Our research centers on digital manufacturing, 3D printing and computer graphics, as well as computational photography and displays, and virtual humans and robotics.

Wojciech Matusik

Leads

Wojciech Matusik

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Wojciech Matusik

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

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.

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

Research Group

Cryptography and Information Security Group

We seek to develop techniques for securing tomorrow's global information infrastructure by exploring theoretical foundations, near-term practical applications, and long-range speculative research.

Leads

Shafi Goldwasser

Silvio Micali

Ronald Rivest

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Butler Lampson

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Shafi Goldwasser

Silvio Micali

Ronald Rivest

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Butler Lampson

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

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

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

We aim to develop the science of autonomy toward a future with robots and AI systems integrated into everyday life, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks.

+13

Daniela Rus

Leads

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniela Rus

+13

Daniela Rus

Community of Research

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Our goal is to understand the nature of intelligent behavior in the physical world, through the study of human intelligence and the design and implementation of intelligent robots.

+12

Leslie Kaelbling

Leads

Leslie Kaelbling

Research Areas

Lead

Leslie Kaelbling

+12

Leslie Kaelbling

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

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Interactive Robotics Group

The Interactive Robotics Group aims to imagine the future of work by designing collaborative robot teammates that enhance human capability.

Julie Shah

Leads

Julie Shah

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Julie Shah

Research Center

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Our mission is to work with policy makers and cybersecurity technologists to increase the trustworthiness and effectiveness of interconnected digital systems.

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

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

Learning and Intelligent Systems

We conduct interdisciplinary research aimed at discovering the principles underlying the design of artificially intelligent robots.

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leads

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Group

Lecturers

Lecturers in CSAIL

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Research Group

Marine Robotics Group

Our projects are centered around the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots operating in underwater and terrestrial environments.

John Leonard

Leads

John Leonard

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Energy

Lead

John Leonard

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

Computational Design and Fabrication Group

Internet of Things

Lead

Hal Abelson

119 Project Results

Project

3D-Printed Organic Solar Cells

Using our inkjet printer system, the goal of this project is to produce a light sensor / solar cell that is composed entirely of 3D printed materials.

James Minor

Leads

James Minor

Research Areas

Impact Areas

James Minor

Project

A new way of handling all-to-all broadcast

We design a new all-to-all broadcasts scheme with significantly less communication cost using aggregate signatures.

Alin Tomescu

Jun Wan

Leads

Jun Wan

Research Areas

Alin Tomescu

Jun Wan

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

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Charles E. Leiserson

Tao Schardl

Project

Active Learning of Models for Planning

Machine Learning

We aim to develop a systematic framework for robots to build models of the world and to use these to make effective and safe choices of actions to take in complex scenarios.

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leads

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Anyscale Learning for All ALFA

Entertainment

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Project

Adversarial Cyber Security

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Our goal is to understand the nature of cyber security arms races between malicious and bonafide parties. Our vision is autonomous cyber defenses that anticipate and take measures against counter attacks.

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

Una-May O'Reilly

Project

Alloy

Software Design Group

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

Computer-Aided Programming

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Software Design Group

Vertical AI Community of Research

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

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

Impact Areas

Interactive Robotics Group

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Project

Apprenticeship Scheduling: Learning to Schedule From Human Experts

Robot scheduling via learning from demonstration for tasks in medicine and more

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

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

Brian Williams

Boris Katz

Zhutian Yang

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Impact Areas

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Project

Automated Attack Tree Generation for Critical Infrastructure

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Using AI methods, we are developing an attack tree generator that automatically enumerates cyberattack vectors for industrial control systems in critical infrastructure (electric grids, water networks and transportation systems). The generator can quickly assess cyber risk for a system at scale.

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Howard Shrobe

Project

Basing Cryptography on Structured Hardness

Theory of Computation Community of Research

We aim to base a variety of cryptographic primitives on complexity theoretic assumptions. We focus on the assumption that there exist highly structured problems --- admitting so called "zero-knowledge" protocols --- that are nevertheless hard to compute

Leads

Research 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

Computational Biology

Mumin Jin

Aya G. Halawi

Jianhua Li

Project

Brain-Controlled Robots

This project aims to let people correct robot mistakes with nothing more than their brain signals - to allow robots to adapt to humans rather than the other way around

Frank H. Guenther

Daniela Rus

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Daniela Rus

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Frank H. Guenther

Daniela Rus

Joseph DelPreto

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

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

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

Programming Languages & Verification

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

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

Project

Computational Multicopter Design

Computer Graphics Group

A system that can help you to design our own drone!

Tao Du

Leads

Tao Du

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Energy

Tao Du

Project

Controlling drones and other robots with gestures

Interact with robots and other devices by gesturing, using wearable muscle and motion sensors

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Joseph DelPreto

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

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Project

Data Garbling: Computing on Encrypted Data

Theory of Computation Community of Research

We are investigating the limits of computing on encrypted data, with a focus on the private outsourcing of computation over sensitive data.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

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

Database Design

Data Systems Group

The conventional wisdom described in all text books for performing database design is never followed in practice.

Michael Stonebraker

Leads

Michael Stonebraker

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

Michael Stonebraker

79 People Results

Murad Abu-Khalaf

Program Manager, Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center

E murad@mit.edu

T 452-2859

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

Vertical AI Community of Research

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

Alexander Amini

Graduate Student

PhD Candidate. Deep Learning; Robotics

E Amini@mit.edu

Lead

Robust Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

Member

Self-Driving Vehicles

PhD Candidate. Deep Learning; Robotics

Brandon Araki

Graduate Student

E araki@csail.mit.edu

Anish Athalye

Graduate Student

PhD student in PDOS

E aathalye@mit.edu

RM 32-G978A

PhD student in PDOS

Noam Buckman

Graduate Student

PhD Candidate. Autonomous vehicles. Multi-robot systems.

E nbuckman@mit.edu

Member

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Self-Driving Vehicles

PhD Candidate. Autonomous vehicles. Multi-robot systems.

Richard Camilli

Research Affiliate

E romeo@mit.edu

Member

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

Vertical AI Community of Research

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

Programming languages and systems.

Tej Chajed

Graduate Student

PhD student in systems

E tchajed@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-G978B

Lead

FSCQ: File-system verification

Perennial

Member

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

PhD student in systems

Lillian Chin

Graduate Student

E ltchin@mit.edu

Lead

Sensorized Soft Electric Hands with Handed Shearing Auxetics

Member

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform

PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

E adamc@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8439

Lead

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming Languages & Verification

Hemiola: Structural Design and Proof of Cache-Coherence Protocols

Member

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming with spaces

FSCQ: File-system verification

Systems Community of Research

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

Stephen Chou

Graduate Student

E s3chou@csail.mit.edu

Member

Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler

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

David Clark

Senior Research Scientist

Internet architectures, communications policy, security

E ddc@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6003

Lead

Advanced Network Architecture Group

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Member

Computing & Society Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

Internet architectures, communications policy, security

PI
Core/Dual

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs

Assistant Professor

E henrycg@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0301

RM 32-G970A

Joseph DelPreto

Graduate Student

Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.

E delpreto@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-376A

Lead

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

Brain-Controlled Robots

Distributed Robot Garden

Robot Compiler

SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish

Soft Robotic Hand

Using Muscle Signals to Lift Objects with Robots

Controlling drones and other robots with gestures

Helping robots learn using demonstrations

Member

Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.

Peter Deutsch

Graduate Student

E pwd@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Srini Devadas

Professor

Architectures, security, computer-aided design

E devadas@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0454

Lead

Using Bitcoin to prevent identify theft

Secure Demand Paging for Trusted Execution Environments

Scaling strong anonymity

Return of the Byzantine Generals

Member

Sanctum Secure Processor

A new way of handling all-to-all broadcast

Architectures, security, computer-aided design

Mustafa Doga Dogan

Graduate Student

E doga@mit.edu

Member

HCI Engineering Group

Kevin Doherty

Graduate Student

E KDoherty@mit.edu

RM 32-235B

Tao Du

Graduate Student

CS PhD student

E taodu@csail.mit.edu

Lead

Computational Multicopter Design

CS PhD student

PI
Core/Dual

Fredo Durand

Professor

Vision, graphics, computational photography

E fredo@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7223

Lead

Computer Graphics Group