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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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20 Group Results

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

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.
Randall Davis
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+4
Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Education
Entertainment
Manufacturing

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Randall Davis
Fox 1
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+4
 
Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

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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+7
 
Rinard

Martin Rinard

26 Project Results

Project

Active Learning of Models for Planning

Learning and Intelligent Systems
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.
Kaelbling

Leslie Kaelbling

Lozano-Perez

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leads

Kaelbling

Leslie Kaelbling

Lozano-Perez

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
Entertainment
 
Kaelbling

Leslie Kaelbling

Lozano-Perez

Tomas Lozano-Perez

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

Jackson image

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

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

Changing Minds via Roleplay in Interactive Digital Media

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
We aim to study the impact of computer-supported roleplaying in changing social perspectives of digital media users. Such media could take the form of videogames, VR systems, training software, and other types of interactive narrative technology.
Pablo Ortiz

Pablo Jose Ortiz-Lampier

Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

Pablo Ortiz

Pablo Jose Ortiz-Lampier

Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Education
 
Pablo Ortiz

Pablo Jose Ortiz-Lampier

Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Culturally-Grounded Virtual Identities: A Case Study in a Qatari Context

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Mixed-methods qualitative (interviews and coding) and computational (AI) approach to understanding relationships between social identities, cultural values, and virtual identity technologies (e.g., online profiles and avatars).
Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Education
Entertainment
 
Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

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.
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Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Leads

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Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
 
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Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Project

PrivacyML - A Privacy Preserving Framework for Machine Learning

Decentralized Information Group
Cognitive AI Community of Research
Computing & Society Community of Research
We are developing a general framework that enforces privacy transparently enabling different kinds of machine learning to be developed that are automatically privacy preserving.
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Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Leads

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Research Areas

AI & ML
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Education
Energy
Entertainment
Health Care
Internet of Things
Manufacturing
Transportation
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Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

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

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Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Computational Biology
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Health Care
 
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Yaron Meirovitch

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Nir Shavit

Project

Robot Compiler

Distributed Robotics Laboratory
The Robot Compiler allows non-engineering users to rapidly fabricate customized robots, facilitating the proliferation of robots in everyday life. It thereby marks an important step towards the realization of personal robots that have captured imaginations for decades.
Joseph DelPreto

Joseph DelPreto

Rus

Daniela Rus

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Joseph DelPreto

Rus

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics

Impact Areas

Education
Internet of Things
 
Joseph DelPreto

Joseph DelPreto

Rus

Daniela Rus

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

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

21 People Results

Headshot - Dr. R. David Edelman

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
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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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
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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.

19 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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Algorithms & Theory Security & Cryptography Big Data Cybersecurity Education Entertainment Health Care Internet of Things Manufacturing

Goldwasser, Micali, and Rivest win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

This week it was announced that MIT professors and CSAIL principal investigators Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald Rivest, and former MIT professor Adi Shamir won this year’s BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in the Information and Communication Technologies category for their work in cryptography.

Goldwasser, Micali, and Rivest win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

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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

WaitSuite opens up new possibilities for "micro-learning," leveraging idle moments like when you're waiting to connect to WiFi or refresh your email.
AI & ML Human-Computer Interaction Education Internet of Things

Learn a language while you wait for WiFi

Hyper-connectivity has changed the way we communicate, wait, and productively use our time. Even in a world of 5G wireless and “instant” messaging, there are countless moments throughout the day when we’re waiting for messages, texts, and Snapchats to refresh. But our frustrations with waiting a few extra seconds for our emails to push through doesn’t mean we have to simply stand by.

Learn a language while you wait for WiFi

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

System that learns to distinguish words’ phonemes could aid development of speech-processing systems for under-studied languages
AI & ML Human-Computer Interaction Big Data Education Entertainment Internet of Things

Learning spoken language

Every language has its own collection of phonemes, or the basic phonetic units from which spoken words are composed. Depending on how you count, English has somewhere between 35 and 45. Knowing a language’s phonemes can make it much easier for automated systems to learn to interpret speech.In the 2015 volume of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, CSAIL researchers describe a new machine-learning system that, like several systems before it, can learn to distinguish spoken words. But unlike its predecessors, it can also learn to distinguish lower-level phonetic units, such as syllables and phonemes.

Learning spoken language