Research

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Group

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Our main goal is developing a computationally based understanding of human intelligence and establishing an engineering practice based on that understanding.

Tomaso Poggio

Leads

Tomaso Poggio

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Tomaso Poggio

Research Group

Clinical Decision-Making Group

We focus on furthering the application of technology and artificial intelligence in medicine and health-care.

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Peter Szolovits

Leads

Peter Szolovits

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Peter Szolovits

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Peter Szolovits

Research Group

Clinical Machine Learning Group

Our group is interested in using machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform health care.

David Sontag

Leads

David Sontag

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

David Sontag

Research Group

Computational Biology Group

We seek to understand the mechanistic basis of human disease, using a combination of computational and experimental techniques.

Manolis Kellis

Leads

Manolis Kellis

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Manolis Kellis

Research Group

Computational Cognitive Science Group

We study the computational basis of human learning and inference.

Joshua Tenenbaum

Leads

Joshua Tenenbaum

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Joshua Tenenbaum

Research Group

Computational Genomics Group

We develop new machine learning techniques and algorithms to model the transcriptional regulatory networks that control gene expression programs in living cells.

Dave Gifford

Leads

Dave Gifford

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Dave Gifford

Research Group

Computational Perception & Cognition

We combine methods from computer science, neuroscience and cognitive science to explain and model how perception and cognition are realized in human and machine.

Aude Oliva

Leads

Aude Oliva

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Aude Oliva

Research Group

Computer Graphics Group

Our group focuses on synthetic image generation, computational photography, digital manufacturing, and geometry.

Leads

Fredo Durand

William Freeman

Wojciech Matusik

Justin Solomon

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Fredo Durand

William Freeman

Wojciech Matusik

Justin Solomon

Research Group

Data-Driven Inference Group

We use machine learning and computer vision to improve outcomes in medicine, finance, and sports

John Guttag

Leads

John Guttag

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

John Guttag

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.

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Daniela Rus

Leads

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniela Rus

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Daniela Rus

Research Group

Genesis Group

The Genesis Group focuses on developing an account of human intelligence with special
emphasis on developing computational models of how people tell, perceive and understand
stories.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

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

Research Group

HCI Engineering Group

We work at the intersection of human computer interaction and personal fabrication tools.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Randall Davis

Fredo Durand

Daniel Jackson

David Karger

Rob Miller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Lead

Randall Davis

Fredo Durand

Daniel Jackson

David Karger

Rob Miller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

We develop computing systems for creative expression, cultural analysis, and social change.

Peter Mawhorter

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

D. Fox Harrell

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 Group

Infolab

We investigate language in different contexts: from how it is learned, to how it is grounded in visual perception, all the way to how machines can readily interact with humans.

Boris Katz

Leads

Boris Katz

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Boris Katz

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

Machine Learning

We work on a variety of topics spanning theoretical foundations, algorithms, and applications.

Leads

Tamara Broderick

Tommi Jaakkola

Stefanie Jegelka

Leslie Kaelbling

David Sontag

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Tamara Broderick

Tommi Jaakkola

Stefanie Jegelka

Leslie Kaelbling

David Sontag

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

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

We are working to elevate robots from mechanical creations controlled by low-level scripts with a considerable amount of human guidance to truly cognitive robots.

Brian Williams

Leads

Brian Williams

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Brian Williams

Research Group

Multimodal Understanding Group

Our objective is to build techniques, software, and hardware that enable natural interaction with
computation.

Randall Davis

Leads

Randall Davis

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Randall Davis

308 Project Results matching all criteria

Project

Driver-Friendly Bilateral Control for Suppressing Traffic Instabilities

We are studying how best to implement bilateral control and make it acceptable to drivers

Berthold Horn

Leads

Berthold Horn

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Berthold Horn

Project

Computational Bounce Flash for Indoor Portraits

Computer Graphics Group

To achieve high-quality photo lighting in challenging environments, our prototype camera dynamically reconstructs a 3D scene model and directs a motor-controlled flash head at nearby walls and ceilings for soft indirect illumination.

Lukas Murmann

Leads

Lukas Murmann

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lukas Murmann

Project

Predictive Vision

We've developed an algorithm to anticipate visual events that may happen in the future

Leads

Research Areas

Project

Neural Physics Engine

Spoken Language Systems Group

We've developed an object-based neural network architecture for learning predictive models of intuitive physics that extrapolates to variable object count and variable scene configurations with only spatially and temporally local computation.

Leads

Project

Using Computers to Eat Healthier

Our goal is to build an AI-powered personal digital nutritionist that enables users to track the food they eat simply by speaking or typing natural English phrases.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Project

RADMAX

This project focuses on holistic decision making for network optimization.

Brian Williams

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Brian Williams

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Brian Williams

Howard Shrobe

Project

A Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Judgment

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

Project

Artificial Co-driver

Computer Graphics Group

By observing driver in real road situations, we learn a computer assistant that can make driving easier, safer and more enjoyable.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Natural Language Processing Group

Project

Aspect-Augmented Adversarial Networks for Domain Adaptation

Vertical AI Community of Research

We propose a novel aspect-augmented adversarial network for cross-aspect and cross-domain adaptation tasks. The effectiveness of our approach suggests the potential application of adversarial networks to a broader range of NLP tasks for improved representation learning, such as machine translation and language generation.

Regina Barzilay

Tommi Jaakkola

Leads

Regina Barzilay

Tommi Jaakkola

Research Areas

Regina Barzilay

Tommi Jaakkola

Project

SoundNet

This project focuses on learning sound representations from unlabeled video

Leads

Research Areas

Project

Where Are They Looking?

Our goal is to build a system that predicts where people are looking in images. Given an image and the location of a head, our approach follows the gaze of the person and identifies the object being looked at.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Predictive Modeling for Database Elasticity

This project shows that we can successfully use predictive modeling to enable a database cluster to elastically expand or contract in anticipation of changes in the workload.

Michael Stonebraker

Leads

Michael Stonebraker

Research Areas

Michael Stonebraker

Project

Covering All K-mers Using Joker Characters

Computation and Biology

We developed a new algorithm to generate compact sequence sets covering all k-mers using joker characters.

Bonnie Berger

Leads

Bonnie Berger

Research Areas

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Bonnie Berger

Project

Finite Approximations of Infinite Models

Machine Learning

Many modern Bayesian models involve infinitely many latent parameters. We seek to develop finite approximations which are more tractable for use in practice, and characterize their incurred error.

Leads

Project

Tractable Models of Sparse Networks

Machine Learning

Most popular, tractable statistical models for network data inherently assume the network is dense, although this is rarely true in practice; we propose a new modeling framework that correctly captures sparse networks.

Leads

Project

Geordi: A Driver's Assistant for Risk-bounded Maneuvering

Our goal is to create an online risk-aware planner for vehicle maneuvers that can make driving safer and less stressful through a “parallel” autonomous system that assists the driver by watching for risky situations, and by helping the driver take proactive, compensating actions before they become crises.

Brian Williams

Leads

Brian Williams

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

Brian Williams

Project

Noria: a new data-flow system for web applications

We're developing a flexible, high-performance storage architecture for database-backed applications, based on a dynamic set of queries specified by the developer which Soup automatically optimizes.

Jon Gjengset

Malte Schwarzkopf

Leads

Jon Gjengset

Malte Schwarzkopf

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Jon Gjengset

Malte Schwarzkopf

Project

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

We aim to understand 3D object structure from a single image. We propose an end-to-end framework which sequentially estimates 2D keypoint heatmaps and 3D object structure, by training it on both real 2D-annotated images and synthetic 3D data and by integrating a 3D-to-2D projection layer.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Project

Printable Hydraulics

Printable Hydraulics allows fluid-actuated robots to be automatically fabricated using 3D printers.

Youbin Kim

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Energy

Youbin Kim

Project

Matrix Permanents and Linear Optics

Complexity Theory Group

We use tools from quantum physics to prove new results in classical complexity.

Leads

Research Areas

Project

Visual Dynamics: Probabilistic Future Frame Synthesis via Cross Convolutional Networks

In our work we developed a model that is able to synthesize many probable future frames with just a single image as input.

Leads

Research Areas

Decentralized Information Group

Project

Solid: Social Linked Data

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

Lalana Kagal

Leads

Tim Berners-Lee

Lalana Kagal

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Tim Berners-Lee

Lalana Kagal

Project

AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins

Our goal is to develop an adaptive storage manager for analytical database workloads in a distributed setting. It works by partitioning datasets across a cluster and incrementally refining data partitioning as queries are run.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Wikum: Bridging Discussion Systems and Wikis with Collective Summarization

Haystack Group

We build tools to allow a community of people to collectively summarize large discussions online and manage knowledge embedded within these discussions.

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Internet Policy Research Initiative

David Karger

1257 People Results matching all criteria

Zachary Abel

Temporary Lecturer

E zabel@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Hal Abelson

Professor

Programming, privacy, App Inventor

E hal@mit.edu

T 253-5856

Lead

MIT App Inventor

Member

Computing & Society Community of Research

Programming, privacy, App Inventor

Maleen Abeydeera

Graduate Student

E maleen@csail.mit.edu

Member

Pervasive Parallelism with the Swarm Architecture

Nishant Abhangi

UROP

E abhangin@mit.edu

Madeline Abrahams

Super UROP

E maddyabr@MIT.EDU

Murad Abu-Khalaf

Program Manager, Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center

E murad@mit.edu

T 452-2859

Mazdak Abulnaga

Graduate Student

medical vision

E abulnaga@mit.edu

Member

Monitoring Fetal Health

Medical Vision Group

Geometric Data Processing Group

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

medical vision

Sara Achour

Graduate Student

E sachour@mit.edu

Kenneth Acquah

Super UROP

E kkacquah@mit.edu

Samuel Acquaviva

UROP

E samacqua@mit.edu

Ariana Adames

UROP

E aiadames@mit.edu

Ravichandra Addanki

Graduate Student

E addanki@mit.edu

Julius Adebayo

Graduate Student

E juliusad@MIT.EDU

RM 32-G528B

Thomas Adebiyi

UROP

E TADEBIYI@MIT.EDU

PI
Core/Dual

Ted Adelson

Professor

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

E adelson@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0645

Lead

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Blood Pressure Imager

Member

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

Teni Adeniyi

Human Resources Coordinator

E Tadeniyi@mit.edu

Aviv Adler

Graduate Student

E adlera@mit.edu

Iman Aganj

Research Affiliate

E iman@csail.mit.edu

Anant Agarwal

Professor

Systems, architecture, online learning, edX

E agarwal@edx.org

T 253-1448

Systems, architecture, online learning, edX

Raj Agrawal

Graduate Student

E rajisme@mit.edu

Monica Agrawal

Graduate Student

E magrawal@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Pulkit Agrawal

Assistant Professor

E PULKITAG@MIT.EDU

RM 32-386D

Leandro Agudelo

Research Scientist

Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology

E lagudelo@csail.mit.edu

Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology

Giovanni Ahern

UROP

E gahern@mit.edu

1652 News Results matching all criteria

April 12 '21

MIT launches new campus-wide data privacy-focused initiative

Future of Data, Trust, and Privacy initiative (FOD) aims to address AI-driven analytics and changing attitudes about personal data

MIT launches new campus-wide data privacy-focused initiative

April 08 '21

Robo-starfish aims to enable closer study of aquatic life

MIT researchers have created a new tool for simulating and fabricating a functional soft robot in a matter of hours.

Robo-starfish aims to enable closer study of aquatic life

How automatic-updating of websites could work

March 29 '21

Auto-updating websites when facts change

MIT researchers have used Wikipedia revisions to create automatic tools that help both humans and deep learning models in keeping up with the most recent news.

Auto-updating websites when facts change

March 29 '21

Major ML datasets have tens of thousands of errors

For 10 of the world’s most-cited ML datasets, over 3 percent of their data is inaccurate or mislabeled

Major ML datasets have tens of thousands of errors

March 24 '21

"Smart clothes" that can measure your movements

A CSAIL team's new set of custom-designed clothing use special tactile fibers to sense a person’s movement and determine things like if someone is sitting, walking, or doing particular poses.

"Smart clothes" that can measure your movements

AI & ML Robotics Systems & Networking

March 23 '21

More transparency and understanding into machine behaviors

A new tool helps humans better understand and develop artificial intelligence models by searching and highlighting representative scenarios.

More transparency and understanding into machine behaviors

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Systems & Networking Health Care

March 23 '21

System detects errors when medication is self-administered

Wireless sensing technology could help improve patients’ technique with inhalers and insulin pens.

System detects errors when medication is self-administered

algorithm designs soft robots that sense

AI & ML Robotics

March 22 '21

Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense

Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation.

Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense

March 22 '21

NFTs, explained

What are NFTs? We dig in.

NFTs, explained

March 10 '21

Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Ross Anderson

On March 10, 2021 Prof. Ross Anderson presented a Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture entitled 'Infrastructure – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Ross Anderson

AI & ML Graphics & Vision

March 10 '21

Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time

A new method called tensor holography could enable the creation of holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, medical imaging, and more — and it can run on a smartphone.

Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time

Almost 1/3 of all COVID charts on Twitter have come from right-wing media & anti-maskers. MIT scientists spent 6 months lurking in COVID-skeptic FB groups to learn more

March 04 '21

When more Covid-19 data doesn’t equal more understanding

Social media users share charts and graphs — often with the same underlying data — to advocate opposing approaches to the pandemic.

When more Covid-19 data doesn’t equal more understanding

A simulated soft robot controlled to reach the same target (red dot) while acting either soft (left) or stiff (right)

AI & ML Robotics

March 03 '21

Helping soft robots turn rigid on demand

New type of control system may broaden robots’ range of tasks and allow safer interactions with people.

Helping soft robots turn rigid on demand

Using computational tools, a research team was able to virtually unfold an unopened letter from 1697.

March 02 '21

Virtually opening sealed letters

Team uses computational tools to examine the contents of “locked” letters

Virtually opening sealed letters

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

March 01 '21

Creating your own programming language

CSAIL’s new tool makes it easy to write domain-specific languages (DSLs) and compilers

Creating your own programming language

February 24 '21

Hot Topics in Computing: Viral diagnostics for SARS-Cov-2: Setting up testing at massive scale, Dr. Stacey Gabriel

On February 24, 2021 Dr. Stacey Gabriel of the Broad Institute gave a talk entitled 'Viral diagnostics for SARS-Cov-2: Setting up testing at massive scale'

Hot Topics in Computing: Viral diagnostics for SARS-Cov-2: Setting up testing at massive scale, Dr. Stacey Gabriel

Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages & Software Engineering Big Data

February 22 '21

Helping data journalists create interactive graphics

Algorithms & Theory Programming Languages & Software Engineering Systems & Networking

February 22 '21

Researchers develop speedier network analysis for a range of computer hardware

The advance could boost recommendation algorithms and internet search.

Researchers develop speedier network analysis for a range of computer hardware

Graphics & Vision Human-Computer Interaction Entertainment Manufacturing

February 18 '21

Less-wasteful laser-cutting

Fabricaide, developed at MIT CSAIL, provides live design feedback to help users reduce leftover material.

Less-wasteful laser-cutting

AI & ML Computational Biology Graphics & Vision Health Care

February 16 '21

Golland named 2021 AIMBE Fellow

Dr. Polina Golland to be inducted into medical and biological engineering elite

Golland named 2021 AIMBE Fellow

Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

February 11 '21

Shafi Goldwasser named 2021 Laureate for North America in the 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards

Shafi Goldwasser, RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Photo credit and copyright Fondation L’Oréal.

Shafi Goldwasser named 2021 Laureate for North America in the 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards

Human-Computer Interaction Manufacturing

February 08 '21

Fabricating fully functional drones

CSAIL's “LaserFactory” system automates the full process for making functional devices in one system.

Fabricating fully functional drones

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML

January 28 '21

“Liquid” machine-learning system adapts to changing conditions

The new type of neural network could aid decision making in autonomous driving and medical diagnosis.

“Liquid” machine-learning system adapts to changing conditions

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Computational Biology Health Care

January 27 '21

Robust AI tools to predict future cancer

Researchers created a risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across datasets from US, Europe and Asia.

Robust AI tools to predict future cancer

78 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

Algorithms Group

We devise new mathematical tools to tackle the increasing difficulty and importance of problems we pose to computers.

Leads

Costis Daskalakis

Erik Demaine

Michael Goemans

Piotr Indyk

David Karger

Jonathan Kelner

Tom Leighton

Charles E. Leiserson

Aleksander Madry

Ankur Moitra

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Nir Shavit

Ryan Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Costis Daskalakis

Erik Demaine

Michael Goemans

Piotr Indyk

David Karger

Jonathan Kelner

Tom Leighton

Charles E. Leiserson

Aleksander Madry

Ankur Moitra

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Nir Shavit

Ryan Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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

Research Group

Applied Computing Group

We design software for high performance computing, develop algorithms for numerical linear algebra, and research random matrix theory and its applications.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Group

Broderick Lab

We work in the areas of statistics and machine learning.

Tamara Broderick

Leads

Tamara Broderick

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Tamara Broderick

Research Group

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Our main goal is developing a computationally based understanding of human intelligence and establishing an engineering practice based on that understanding.

Tomaso Poggio

Leads

Tomaso Poggio

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Tomaso Poggio

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

Research Group

Clinical Decision-Making Group

We focus on furthering the application of technology and artificial intelligence in medicine and health-care.

+10

Peter Szolovits

Leads

Peter Szolovits

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Peter Szolovits

+10

Peter Szolovits

Research Group

Clinical Machine Learning Group

Our group is interested in using machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform health care.

David Sontag

Leads

David Sontag

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

David Sontag

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Saman Amarasinghe

Research Group

Complexity Theory Group

Our interests span quantum complexity theory, barriers to solving P versus NP, theoretical computer science with a focus on probabilistically checkable proofs (PCP), pseudo-randomness, coding theory, and algorithms.

Leads

Shafi Goldwasser

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Michael Sipser

Ryan Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Shafi Goldwasser

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Michael Sipser

Ryan Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Research Group

Computation and Biology

Our lab focuses on designing algorithms to gain biological insights from advances in automated data collection and the subsequent large data sets drawn from them.

Bonnie Berger

Leads

Bonnie Berger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Bonnie Berger

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

+21

Research Group

Computational Biology Group

We seek to understand the mechanistic basis of human disease, using a combination of computational and experimental techniques.

Manolis Kellis

Leads

Manolis Kellis

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Manolis Kellis

Research Group

Computational Cognitive Science Group

We study the computational basis of human learning and inference.

Joshua Tenenbaum

Leads

Joshua Tenenbaum

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Joshua Tenenbaum

Research Group

Computational Connectomics Group

Our group’s goal is to create, based on such microscopic connectivity and functional data, new mathematical models explaining how neural tissue computes.

Nir Shavit

Leads

Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Nir Shavit

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

Computational Genomics Group

We develop new machine learning techniques and algorithms to model the transcriptional regulatory networks that control gene expression programs in living cells.

Dave Gifford

Leads

Dave Gifford

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Dave Gifford

Research Group

Computational Perception & Cognition

We combine methods from computer science, neuroscience and cognitive science to explain and model how perception and cognition are realized in human and machine.

Aude Oliva

Leads

Aude Oliva

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Aude Oliva

Research Group

Computer Graphics Group

Our group focuses on synthetic image generation, computational photography, digital manufacturing, and geometry.

Leads

Fredo Durand

William Freeman

Wojciech Matusik

Justin Solomon

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Fredo Durand

William Freeman

Wojciech Matusik

Justin Solomon

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

308 Project Results

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3D Generative Adversarial Networks

We study the problem of 3D object generation. We propose a novel framework, 3D Generative Adversarial Network (3D-GAN), leveraging recent advances in volumetric convolutional networks and generative adversarial nets.

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Computational Design and Fabrication Group

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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.

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Computation Structures Group

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[Inactive] T-1000: A Thousand-Core Coherent Shared Memory System

(This project is no longer active.) The T-1000, a prototype system of a thousand realistic processors embedded throughout an ensemble of interconnected FPGAs, seeks to demonstrate the scalability of timestamp-based cache coherence protocols on distributed shared memory systems.

Quan Nguyen

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Quan Nguyen

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Quan Nguyen

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A Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Judgment

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.

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Computation Structures Group

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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

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Jun Wan

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Alin Tomescu

Jun Wan

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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

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Charles E. Leiserson

Tao Schardl

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Learning and Intelligent Systems

Charles E. Leiserson

Tao Schardl

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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

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Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

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Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

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AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins

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Anyscale Learning for All ALFA

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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

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Una-May O'Reilly

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Networks and Mobile Systems

Una-May O'Reilly

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Aggregate Congestion Control

Develop a method for sending persistently backlogged traffic on the Internet while adapting to link conditions dynamically.

Akshay Narayan

Francis Cangialosi

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Akshay Narayan

Francis Cangialosi

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Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Akshay Narayan

Francis Cangialosi

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AIRvatar System: A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Identities

AIRvatar is a system that telemetrically collects and analyzes fine-grained data on users’ virtual identities and the process used to create them.

D. Fox Harrell

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D. Fox Harrell

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D. Fox Harrell

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Algebraic Techniques for Algorithm Design

We work on improving the algorithms for algebraic problems like matrix multiplication, and using these to design algorithms for fundamental non-algebraic problems.

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Algorithmic Aspects of Performance Engineering

Supertech Research Group

The project concerns algorithmic solutions for writing fast codes.

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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

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Daniel Jackson

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Daniel Jackson

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Amoeba: A shape changing storage system for big data

Amoeba is a distributed storage system that efficiently supports ad-hoc and exploratory analytics using adaptive data partitioning

Alekh Jindal

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Theory of Distributed Systems Group

Alekh Jindal

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An Algorithmic Theory of Brain Networks

We are developing an algorithmic theory for brain networks, based on simple synchronized stochastic graph-based neural network models.

Nancy Lynch

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Nancy Lynch

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Computer-Aided Programming

Nancy Lynch

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An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Software Design Group

Vertical AI 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

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Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

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Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

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Analyzing Player Profile Data

Developing new methods for analyzing large quantities of player profile data, such as hundreds of thousands of profile images or chat logs.

D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

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D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

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Interactive Robotics Group

D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

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Apprenticeship Scheduling: Learning to Schedule From Human Experts

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

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Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations

We propose efficient and effective algorithms to perform approximate string joins with abbreviations in database systems.

Wenbo Tao

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Wenbo Tao

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Wenbo Tao

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Approximating the diameter of a directed graph

There is a family of approximation algorithms for computing the diameter of an undirected graph that give a time/accuracy trade-off and our goal is to extend these results to directed graphs.

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Spoken Language Systems Group

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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Arabic Language Processing

The Arabic language is spoken by over one billion people around the world. Arabic presents a variety of challenges for speech and language processing technologies. In our group, we have several research topics examining Arabic, including dialect identification, speech recognition, machine translation, and language processing.

Mitra Mohtarami

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Mitra Mohtarami

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Mitra Mohtarami

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Artificial Co-driver

Computer Graphics Group

By observing driver in real road situations, we learn a computer assistant that can make driving easier, safer and more enjoyable.

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Computation Structures Group

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Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

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.

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Howard Shrobe

Brian Williams

Boris Katz

Zhutian Yang

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Internet Policy Research Initiative

1257 People Results

Zachary Abel

Temporary Lecturer

E zabel@mit.edu

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Core/Dual

Hal Abelson

Professor

Programming, privacy, App Inventor

E hal@mit.edu

T 253-5856

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MIT App Inventor

Member

Computing & Society Community of Research

Programming, privacy, App Inventor

Maleen Abeydeera

Graduate Student

E maleen@csail.mit.edu

Member

Pervasive Parallelism with the Swarm Architecture

Nishant Abhangi

UROP

E abhangin@mit.edu

Madeline Abrahams

Super UROP

E maddyabr@MIT.EDU

Murad Abu-Khalaf

Program Manager, Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center

E murad@mit.edu

T 452-2859

Mazdak Abulnaga

Graduate Student

medical vision

E abulnaga@mit.edu

Member

Monitoring Fetal Health

Medical Vision Group

Geometric Data Processing Group

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

medical vision

Sara Achour

Graduate Student

E sachour@mit.edu

Kenneth Acquah

Super UROP

E kkacquah@mit.edu

Samuel Acquaviva

UROP

E samacqua@mit.edu

Ariana Adames

UROP

E aiadames@mit.edu

Ravichandra Addanki

Graduate Student

E addanki@mit.edu

Julius Adebayo

Graduate Student

E juliusad@MIT.EDU

RM 32-G528B

Thomas Adebiyi

UROP

E TADEBIYI@MIT.EDU

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Core/Dual

Ted Adelson

Professor

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

E adelson@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0645

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