Research

Computational Biology

Impact Areas

Lead

Polina Golland

Research Group

Sensing, Learning and Inference

We develop scalable algorithms for analysis of complex, high-dimensional data.

John Fisher

Leads

John Fisher

Research Areas

Robotics

Impact Areas

Big Data

Energy

Internet of Things

Lead

John Fisher

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.

Martin Rinard

Leads

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Martin Rinard

Research Group

Vision Group

Our researchers create state-of-the-art systems to better recognize objects, people, scenes, behaviors and more, with applications in health-care, gaming, tagging systems and more.

Leads

Ted Adelson

Fredo Durand

John Fisher

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Eric Grimson

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Entertainment

Computational Cognitive Science Group

Transportation

Lead

Ted Adelson

Fredo Durand

John Fisher

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Eric Grimson

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

9 Project Results

Project

A Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Judgment

Cognitive AI Community of Research

We develop a computational model that explains how people make causal judgments in physical scenes by mentally simulating counterfactual outcomes and comparing those to what actually happened.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Education

Project

Cardiac MRI analysis

We develop image analysis algorithms for whole-heart cardiac MRI in patients with severe congenital heart disease.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

Project

Clinical Neuroimaging

We develop novel algorithms for neuroimage segmentation, registration, and joint modeling of brain structure with clinical and genetic data.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

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

Geometric Data Processing Group

Robotics

Impact Areas

Energy

Manufacturing

Transportation

Tao Du

Project

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

Computer Graphics Group

Developing state-of-the-art tools that process 3D surfaces and volumes

Justin Solomon

Leads

Justin Solomon

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Big Data

Justin Solomon

Project

Monitoring Fetal Health

We develop algorithms for fetal MRI interpretation, to enable noninvasive fetal monitoring from MRI.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

Project

Quantification of Pulmonary Edema in Chest Radiographs

We develop machine learning algorithms to automatically and quantitatively assess the severity of pulmonary edema from chest x-ray images.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Polina Golland

Project

Wearable Blind Navigation

We enable independent navigation for visually impaired users through a wearable feedback system using time-of-light sensors or depth cameras.

Leads

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Robotics

Impact Areas

Transportation

Project

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