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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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21 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.
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Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Leads

Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

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+4
 
Clark

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

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
+6
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

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.
Daskalakis
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Rinard
+5
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Aleksander Madry

Leads

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Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Graphics & Vision
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Robotics
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity

Lead

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Aleksander Madry

Daskalakis
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Rinard
+5
 
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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.
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Randall Davis
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+6
Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Education

Lead

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

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Randall Davis
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+6
 
Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

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
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+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
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+8
 
Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

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.
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Leads

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Internet of Things
Transportation

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

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Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

The Systems CoR is focused on building and investigating large-scale software systems that power modern computers, phones, data centers, and networks, including operating systems, the Internet, wireless networks, databases, and other software infrastructure.
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Arvind
Hari Balakrishnan
+21
Madden

Sam Madden

Leads

Madden

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Computer Architecture
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Madden

Sam Madden

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Arvind
Hari Balakrishnan
+21
 
Madden

Sam Madden

Community of Research

Theory of Computation Community of Research

The goal of the Theory of Computation CoR is to study the fundamental strengths and limits of computation as well as how these interact with mathematics, computer science, and other disciplines.
Berger
Erik Demaine
Goemans
+20
Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Leads

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Computational Biology
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity

Lead

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Berger
Erik Demaine
Goemans
+20
 
Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

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

10 Project Results

Project

Alloy

Software Design Group
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
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.
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Daniel Jackson

Leads

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Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Education
Transportation
Wireless
 
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Daniel Jackson

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

Denial of Service Mitigation through Protocol Design

Advanced Network Architecture Group
Computing & Society Community of Research
We aim to better understand the features of network protocols that facilitate denial of service attacks, in order to design more robust protocols and architectures in the future and evaluate existing designs more accurately.
Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Leads

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
 
Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

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

Kagal-headshot

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

22 People Results

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PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor
Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems
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T 324-8439
RM 32-G842

Lead

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform
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
Computation Structures Group
FSCQ: File-system verification
Systems Community of Research
Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems
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R. David Edelman

Director, Project on Technology, Economy & National Security
Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance
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T 258-6389
Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance
Gregory Falco

Gregory Falco

Research Affiliate
Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.
Gregory Falco
Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.
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PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Jackson

Professor
Software design, programming, systems
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T 258-8471
RM 32-G704

Lead

Human-Computer Interaction
Software Design Group
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
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Systems Community of Research
Wildcard
Software design, programming, systems
Karger

PI
Core/Dual

David Karger

Professor
Helping people manage information
Karger
T 258-6167
RM 32-G592

Lead

Haystack Group
Human-Computer Interaction
Algorithms Group
Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML
Wikum: Bridging Discussion Systems and Wikis with Collective Summarization
Squadbox: Combating Online Harassment using Friendsourced Moderation
Eyebrowse: Social and Public Web Browsing
Talkademic: Motivating Online Academic Discourse

Member

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Theory of Computation Community of Research
Systems Community of Research
Helping people manage information
Madden

PI
Core/Dual

Sam Madden

Professor
Systems for processing and manipulating data
Madden
T 258-6643
RM 32-G938

Lead

Data Systems Group
Aurum: Large Scale Data Discovery
System that Learns From IoT
Data Civilizer
Autonomous Vehicle Databases
Building a Scalable Database for Autonomous Vehicles
Chameleon: Using Machine Learning to Make Databases Faster!
Data Discovery
Systems Community of Research
Video Data Querying
Starling: Query Optimization for Cloud Services

Member

Aurum: Large Scale Data Discovery
Computation Structures Group
Systems for processing and manipulating data
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

19 News Results

At the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present a new system for allocating bandwidth in data center networks.
Systems & Networking Internet of Things Wireless

Faster page loads

A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user’s home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest posts from the users’ friends; the associated images, links, and comments; notifications of pending messages and comments on the user’s own posts; a list of events; a list of topics currently driving online discussions; a list of games, some of which are flagged to indicate that it’s the user’s turn; and of course the all-important ads, which the site depends on for revenues.

Faster page loads

Left to right: PhD student Fadel Adib, PhD student Mingmin Zhao, and Professor Dina Katabi pose with their EQ-Radio device, which can detect emotion using wireless signals.
Systems & Networking Wireless

Detecting emotions with wireless signals

As many a relationship book can tell you, understanding someone else’s emotions can be a difficult task. Facial expressions aren’t always reliable: a smile can conceal frustration, while a poker face might mask a winning hand.But what if technology could tell us how someone is really feeling?Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed “EQ-Radio,” a device that can detect a person’s emotions using wireless signals.

Detecting emotions with wireless signals

Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.
Security & Cryptography Systems & Networking Cybersecurity

Crash-proof computer systems

In a computer operating system, the file system is the part that writes data to disk and tracks where the data is stored. If the computer crashes while it’s writing data, the file system’s records can become corrupt. Hours of work could be lost, or programs could stop working properly.At a symposium this fall, MIT researchers will present the first file system that is mathematically guaranteed not to lose track of data during crashes. Although the file system is slow by today’s standards, the techniques the researchers used to verify its performance can be extended to more sophisticated designs. Ultimately, formal verification could make it much easier to develop reliable, efficient file systems.

Crash-proof computer systems

Systems & Networking Wireless

Dina Katabi named Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of EECS

CSAIL researcher Dina Katabi has been selected for the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

In his announcement, EECS Department Head Anantha Chandraksan said that Katabi 'is an ideal candidate for this professorship, given her outstanding technical contributions and leadership in wired and wireless networks.'

Dina Katabi named Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of EECS