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Martin Rinard

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9 Group Results

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

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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

Applied Computing Group

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

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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

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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

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Impact Areas

Cybersecurity

Lead

Shafi Goldwasser

Silvio Micali

Ronald Rivest

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Butler Lampson

Research Group

Geometric Data Processing Group

Our group studies geometric problems in computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, and other disciplines.

Justin Solomon

Leads

Justin Solomon

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Lead

Justin Solomon

Research Group

Theory of Distributed Systems Group

We work on a wide range of problems in distributed computing theory. We study algorithms and lower bounds for typical problems that arise in distributed systems---like resource allocation, implementing shared memory abstractions, and reliable communication.

Nancy Lynch

Leads

Nancy Lynch

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Impact Areas

Lead

Nancy Lynch

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

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

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

Eric Grimson

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Entertainment

Health Care

Lead

Ted Adelson

Fredo Durand

John Fisher

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

Eric Grimson

Community of Research

Visual Computing Community of Research

The shared mission of Visual Computing is to connect images and computation, spanning topics such as image and video generation and analysis, photography, human perception, touch, applied geometry, and more.

+10

Ruth Rosenholtz

Leads

Ruth Rosenholtz

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Impact Areas

Entertainment

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Lead

Ruth Rosenholtz

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Ruth Rosenholtz

15 Project Results

Project

Algorithmic Aspects of Performance Engineering

Supertech Research Group

The project concerns algorithmic solutions for writing fast codes.

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Project

Artificial Co-driver

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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Project

Better Models for Ride-Sharing

Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: It’s also a public health hazard and bad news for the economy.

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Energy

Project

Characterizing the Sensitivity of Vision-in-the-Loop Driving Controllers Using CG

We work on understanding and improving vision algorithms used for self driving cars, by introducing synthetic data-sets to the loop.

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Project

Computational Multicopter Design

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

Tao Du

Leads

Tao Du

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Energy

Manufacturing

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Tao Du

Project

Deterministic Algorithms for Robotic Task and Motion Planning

Our goal is to investigate deterministic algorithms for robotic task and motion planning.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Manufacturing

Project

Distributed Co-prime Sampling Algorithms

To further parallelize co-prime sampling based sparse sensing, we introduce Diophantine Equation in different algebraic structures to build generalized lattice arrays.
With strong relationship to generalized Chinese Remainder Theorem, the geometry properties in the remainder code space, a special lattice space, are explored.

Hanshen Xiao

Leads

Hanshen Xiao

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Hanshen Xiao

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

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Impact Areas

Berthold Horn

Project

Drones that Drive

Multi-robot path planning for robot swarms that can both fly and drive

Leads

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Energy

Project

Peripheral Vision and Driver Behavior

Our goal is to understand what drivers can perceive when they are not attending to the road ahead and the consequences of their perceptions for safety.

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Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Optimization

To enable privacy preservation in decentralized optimization, differential privacy is the most commonly used approach. However, under such scenario, the trade-off between accuracy (even efficiency) and privacy is inevitable. In this project, distributed numerical optimization scheme incorporated with lightweight cryptographic information sharing are explored. The affect on the convergence rate from network topology is considered.

Hanshen Xiao

Leads

Hanshen Xiao

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity

Hanshen Xiao

Project

Safety Standards for Autonomous Vehicles

In this project, we aim to develop a framework that can ensure and certify the safety of an autonomous vehicle. By leveraging research from the area of formal verification, this framework aims to assess the safety, i.e., free of collisions, of a broad class of autonomous car controllers/planners for a given traffic model.

Leads

Lucas Liebenwein

Wilko Schwarting

Daniela Rus

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Impact Areas

Project

Starling: Query Optimization for Cloud Services

Data Systems Group

Starling is a scalable query execution engine built on cloud function services that computes at a fine granularity, helping people more easily match workload demand.

Sam Madden

Matthew Perron

Leads

Sam Madden

Matthew Perron

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Impact Areas

Sam Madden

Matthew Perron

Project

Video Data Querying

Data Systems Group

We are developing machine-learning technology to help users efficiently run data queries over large archives of raw video.

Sam Madden

Favyen Bastani

Leads

Sam Madden

Favyen Bastani

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Entertainment

Sam Madden

Favyen Bastani

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

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Health Care

15 People Results

PI
Core/Dual

Ted Adelson

Professor

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

E adelson@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0645

Lead

Blood Pressure Imager

Member

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

PI
Core/Dual

Fredo Durand

Professor

Vision, graphics, computational photography

E fredo@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7223

Lead

Computational Understanding of Visualizations and Graphic Designs

Member

Computational Bounce Flash for Indoor Portraits

Halide

Vision, graphics, computational photography

PI
Core/Dual

William Freeman

Professor

Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling

E billf@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8828

Lead

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

Member

Visual Dynamics: Probabilistic Future Frame Synthesis via Cross Convolutional Networks

Learning the Arrow of Time from Videos

3D Generative Adversarial Networks

Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling

PI
Core/Dual

Berthold Horn

Professor

Vision, computational imaging

E bkph@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5863

Lead

Driver-Friendly Bilateral Control for Suppressing Traffic Instabilities

Member

Vision, computational imaging

PI
Core/Dual

David Karger

Professor

Helping people manage information

E karger@csail.mit.edu

T 258-6167

Lead

Haystack Group

Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML

Algorithms Group

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

PI
Core/Dual

Dina Katabi

Professor

Wireless, networks, machine learning

E dina@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6027

Lead

Networks at MIT

EQ-Radio: Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals

Member

Vertical AI Community of Research

Wireless, networks, machine learning

PI
Core/Dual

John Leonard

Professor

Robotics, navigation/mapping, self-driving cars

E jleonard@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5305

Lead

Marine Robotics Group

Member

Safety Standards for Autonomous Vehicles

Robotics, navigation/mapping, self-driving cars

Lucas Liebenwein

Graduate Student

Student and Researcher | Robotics, AI | Advanced Autonomy

E lucasl@mit.edu

RM 32-376C

Lead

Member

Coresets for Machine Learning Algorithms

Student and Researcher | Robotics, AI | Advanced Autonomy

PI
Core/Dual

Ronald Rivest

Institute Professor

Cryptography, cybersecurity, RSA public-key encryption

E rivest@mit.edu

T 253-5880

Lead

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Member

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

Cryptography, cybersecurity, RSA public-key encryption

Wilko Schwarting

Graduate Student

E wilkos@mit.edu

Lead

Safety Standards for Autonomous Vehicles

Planning in Congestion for Autonomous Vehicles

Socially-Compliant Behavior for Autonomous Driving

Member

Localizing External Contact Using Proprioceptive Sensors

PI
Core/Dual

Russ Tedrake

Professor

Robotics, machine learning, motion planning and control

E russt@csail.mit.edu

T 253-1778

RM 32-380B

Lead

Robot Locomotion Group

Tactile and Physical Perception

Soft Contact Modeling

Tactile and Physical Perception

Member

Task-Driven Co-Optimization Of Articulated Robots

Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)

Computational Cognitive Science Group

Robotics, machine learning, motion planning and control

Joshua Tenenbaum

Professor

Computational cognitive science, machine learning

E jbt@csail.mit.edu

T 452-2010

RM 46-4015

Lead

Member

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

3D Generative Adversarial Networks

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Computational cognitive science, machine learning

PI
Core/Dual

Antonio Torralba

Professor

Vision, graphics, perception, machine learning

E torralba@csail.mit.edu

T 324-0900

RM 32-386G

Lead

Understanding Light via Deep Neural Networks

Understandable Deep Networks

Understanding Food images

Member

Predictive Vision

Where Are They Looking?

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

VirtualHome: Representing Activities as Programs

Places Database for Scene Recognition

Semantic Scene Understanding through ADE20K dataset

Crossing the Vision-Language Boundary

Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)