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Barbara Liskov 2

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Computational Biology Computer Architecture Graphics & Vision Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages & Software Engineering Robotics Security & Cryptography Systems & Networking Cybersecurity Education Energy Entertainment Health Care Manufacturing Transportation Wireless

June 27 '19

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

13 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.

+6

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

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.

+8

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Research Group

Geometric Data Processing Group

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

+6

Justin Solomon

Leads

Justin Solomon

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Lead

Justin Solomon

Justin Solomon

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.

+4

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Lecturers

Lecturers in CSAIL

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Research Group

MIT App Inventor

MIT App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone – even children – to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets.

Hal Abelson

Leads

Hal Abelson

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Hal Abelson

Hal Abelson

Research Group

Sussman Lab

We focus on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing educational methods.

Gerald Sussman

Leads

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

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.

+21

Sam Madden

Leads

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Sam Madden

Sam Madden

Research Group

Usable Programming Group

We design and study systems that improve the learnability, efficiency, and safety of software development.

Rob Miller

Leads

Rob Miller

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Rob Miller

Rob Miller

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.

+7

Martin Rinard

Leads

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Graphics & Vision

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Martin Rinard

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

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Lead

Ted Adelson

Fredo Durand

John Fisher

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Eric Grimson

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

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

William Freeman

Leads

William Freeman

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Lead

William Freeman

William Freeman

Research Group

Weiss Laboratory for Synthetic Biology

The Weiss Lab seeks to create integrated biological systems capable of autonomously performing useful tasks, and to elucidate the design principles underlying complex phenotypes.

Leads

Research Areas

Computational Biology

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

15 Project Results

Project

A Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Judgment

Computational Cognitive Science Group

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

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Project

Aggregate Congestion Control

Networks and Mobile Systems

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

Akshay Narayan

Francis Cangialosi

Leads

Akshay Narayan

Francis Cangialosi

Research Areas

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Akshay Narayan

Francis Cangialosi

Project

AIRvatar System: A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Identities

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

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

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Software Design Group

Computer-Aided Programming

Vertical AI Community of Research

Human-Computer Interaction 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

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

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

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Project

Better Models for Ride-Sharing

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

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

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Project

The Car Can Explain!

Decentralized Information Group

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

Developing techniques to allow self-driving cars and other AI-driven systems to explain behaviors and failures.

Gerald Sussman

Lalana Kagal

Leads

Gerald Sussman

Lalana Kagal

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Gerald Sussman

Lalana Kagal

Project

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

Computer Graphics Group

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

Leads

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

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

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Tao Du

Project

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

Computational Design and Fabrication Group

Our goal is to develop new applications and algorithms that leverage the skills of distributed crowdworkers, notably for image and video processing applications.

Alexandre Kaspar

Leads

Alexandre Kaspar

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Alexandre Kaspar

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

Graphics & Vision

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Berthold Horn

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.

Leads

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

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

Algorithms & Theory

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Sam Madden

Favyen Bastani

Project

Wearable Blind Navigation

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

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

Leads

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact 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

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

17 People Results

PI
Core/Dual

Ted Adelson

Professor

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

E adelson@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0645

RM

Lead

Blood Pressure Imager

Member

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

Jonathan Behrens

Graduate Student

E behrensj@mit.edu

RM 32-G978B

Member

Noria: a new data-flow system for web applications

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

Mustafa Doga Dogan

Graduate Student

E doga@mit.edu

RM

Member

HCI Engineering Group

PI
Core/Dual

Fredo Durand

Professor

Vision, graphics, computational photography

E fredo@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7223

RM

Lead

Computer Graphics Group

Human-Computer Interaction

Computational Understanding of Visualizations and Graphic Designs

Member

Computational Bounce Flash for Indoor Portraits

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, graphics, computational photography

Gregory Falco

Research Affiliate

Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.

E gfalco@mit.edu

Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.

PI
Core/Dual

William Freeman

Professor

Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling

E billf@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8828

RM

Lead

Computer Graphics Group

Visual Computing Community of Research

Member

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

Visual Dynamics: Probabilistic Future Frame Synthesis via Cross Convolutional Networks

Learning the Arrow of Time from Videos

3D Generative Adversarial Networks

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling

PI
Core/Dual

Berthold Horn

Professor

Vision, computational imaging

E bkph@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5863

RM

Lead

Driver-Friendly Bilateral Control for Suppressing Traffic Instabilities

Member

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, computational imaging

PI
Core/Dual

David Karger

Professor

Helping people manage information

E karger@csail.mit.edu

T 258-6167

RM

Lead

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

PI
Core/Dual

Dina Katabi

Professor

Wireless, networks, machine learning

E dina@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6027

RM

Lead

Networks at MIT

EQ-Radio: Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals

Member

Vertical AI Community of Research

Wireless, networks, machine learning

Fern Keniston

Senior Administrative Assistant

Research and Education Support

E fern@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5860

RM 32/ 32-250A/ 391

Member

Clinical Decision-Making Group

Research and Education Support

PI
Core/Dual

John Leonard

Professor

Robotics, navigation/mapping, self-driving cars

E jleonard@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5305

RM

Lead

Marine Robotics Group

Self-Driving Vehicles

Member

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Robotics, navigation/mapping, self-driving cars

PI
Core/Dual

Daniela Rus

Director

CSAIL director, robotics, AI, data science, privacy

E rus@csail.mit.edu

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

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

Joshua Tenenbaum

Professor

Computational cognitive science, machine learning

E jbt@csail.mit.edu

T 452-2010

RM 46-4015

Lead

Computational Cognitive Science Group

Member

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

3D Generative Adversarial Networks

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Visual Computing 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)

Visual Computing Community of Research

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Vision, graphics, perception, machine learning

Dishita Turakhia

Graduate Student

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

E dishita@mit.edu

RM

Member

HCI Engineering Group

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

Yu Wang

Graduate Student

E wangyu9@mit.edu

RM 32-D475A

Member

Geometric Data Processing Group

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Weitzner

Principal Research Scientist

Web policy, cybersecurity, web architecture

E djweitzner@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8036

RM

Lead

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Keys Under Doormats

Computing & Society Community of Research

Member

Data Systems Group

Web policy, cybersecurity, web architecture

10 News Results

point cloud 1

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Big Data Transportation

October 29 '19

Deep learning with point clouds

Research aims to make it easier for self-driving cars, robotics, and other applications to understand the 3D world.

Deep learning with point clouds

Barbara Liskov 2

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Computational Biology Computer Architecture Graphics & Vision Human-Computer Interaction Programming Languages & Software Engineering Robotics Security & Cryptography Systems & Networking Cybersecurity Education Energy Entertainment Health Care Manufacturing Transportation Wireless

June 27 '19

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

3d printed mosculp

Graphics & Vision Education Entertainment

September 19 '18

Creating 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” from 2-D videos

CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move

Creating 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” from 2-D videos

Given an image of someone doing yoga, the system can generate an image of them doing golf (and vice versa)

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Education

June 18 '18

Put any person in any pose

MIT CSAIL neural network could be used by coaches to help players see themselves using the correct form

Put any person in any pose

self driving

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Robotics Transportation

May 07 '18

Self-driving cars for country roads

For all the progress made in self-driving technologies, there still aren’t many places where they can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their fleets in major cities where they’ve spent countless hours meticulously labeling the exact 3-D positions of lanes, curbs, off-ramps, and stop signs.

Self-driving cars for country roads

Amy zhang

Programming Languages & Software Engineering Systems & Networking Education

April 05 '18

Using friends to fight online harassment

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

Using friends to fight online harassment

Professor Berthold Horn and postdoctoral associate Liang Wang

Algorithms & Theory Graphics & Vision Transportation

December 14 '17

Improving traffic - by tailgating less

New CSAIL work shows that traffic would flow faster if drivers kept an equal distance between cars

Improving traffic - by tailgating less

A new system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory works by analyzing light at the edge of walls, which is impacted by the reflections of objects around the corner from the camera.

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Transportation

October 09 '17

An algorithm for your blind spot

Light lets us see the things that surround us, but what if we could also use it to see things hidden around corners? It sounds like science fiction, but that’s the idea behind a new algorithm out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) — and its discovery has implications for everything from emergency response to self-driving cars.

An algorithm for your blind spot

System directs camera-equipped drones to maintain framing of an aerial shot.

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Robotics Entertainment Transportation

May 17 '17

Cinematography on the fly

In recent years, a host of Hollywood blockbusters — including “The Fast and the Furious 7,” “Jurassic World,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” — have included aerial tracking shots provided by drone helicopters outfitted with cameras. Those shots required separate operators for the drones and the cameras, and careful planning to avoid collisions. But a team of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and ETH Zurich hope to make drone cinematography more accessible, simple, and reliable.

Cinematography on the fly

Systems & Networking Education

October 09 '14

MOOCS - who is likely to drop out and why?

By crunching 130 million mouse-clicks, two CSAIL researchers have developed a machine-learning model that can predict with surprising accuracy whether or not a MOOC student will drop out of a given course.

MOOCS - who is likely to drop out and why?