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June 27 '19

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

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

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

30 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

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

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.

+1

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

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.

+6

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Computational Biology

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

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.

+5

Aleksander Madry

Leads

Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Lead

Aleksander Madry

Aleksander Madry

Research Group

Clinical Decision-Making Group

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

+11

Peter Szolovits

Leads

Peter Szolovits

Research Areas

Computational Biology

Impact Areas

Lead

Peter Szolovits

Peter Szolovits

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

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

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Lead

Shafi Goldwasser

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Michael Sipser

Ryan Williams

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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

Computer Architecture

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Srini Devadas

Daniel Sanchez

Armando Solar-Lezama

Arvind

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

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

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Lead

Shafi Goldwasser

Silvio Micali

Ronald Rivest

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Butler Lampson

Research Group

Data Systems Group

We conduct research on all areas of database systems and information management.

+15

Leads

Sam Madden

Michael Stonebraker

Tim Kraska

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Sam Madden

Michael Stonebraker

Tim Kraska

Research Group

Decentralized Information Group

We are investigating decentralized technologies that affect social change.

+5

Lalana Kagal

Tim Berners-Lee

Leads

Lalana Kagal

Tim Berners-Lee

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

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.

+12

Daniela Rus

Leads

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus

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

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

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

Peter Mawhorter

+1

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Lead

D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

D. Fox Harrell

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.

+2

Boris Katz

Leads

Boris Katz

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Boris Katz

Boris Katz

Research Center

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Our mission is to work with policy makers and cybersecurity technologists to increase the trustworthiness and effectiveness of interconnected digital systems.

+2

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Research Group

Lecturers

Lecturers in CSAIL

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Research Group

Multicore Algorithmics

We develop techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessor algorithms, in particular concurrent data structures for multicore machines and the mathematical foundations of the computation models that govern their behavior.

Nir Shavit

Leads

Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Nir Shavit

Nir Shavit

Research Group

Programming Languages and Software Engineering

We research programming languages, software engineering, and related work in human-computer interaction.

Leads

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Research Group

Quantum Information Science Group

Our research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and computational complexity theory more generally.

Peter Shor

Leads

Peter Shor

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Lead

Peter Shor

Peter Shor

Research Group

Software Design Group

Our goal is to find better ways to make software, and ways to make software better.

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Jackson

Daniel Jackson

Research Group

Spoken Language Systems Group

Our goal is to create technology that makes it possible for everyone in the world to interact with with computers via natural spoken language.

+7

Jim Glass

Leads

Jim Glass

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

33 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.

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leads

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Project

Adversarial Cyber Security

Anyscale Learning for All ALFA

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

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Una-May O'Reilly

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.

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

Automated Attack Tree Generation for Critical Infrastructure

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Using AI methods, we are developing an attack tree generator that automatically enumerates cyberattack vectors for industrial control systems in critical infrastructure (electric grids, water networks and transportation systems). The generator can quickly assess cyber risk for a system at scale.

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Howard Shrobe

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.

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Leads

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

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

Data Civilizer

Data Systems Group

Data scientists universally report that they spend at least 80% of their time finding data sets of interest, accessing them, cleaning them and assembling them into a unified whole.

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Leads

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Michael Stonebraker

Sam Madden

Project

Data Garbling: Computing on Encrypted Data

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Theory of Computation Community of Research

We are investigating the limits of computing on encrypted data, with a focus on the private outsourcing of computation over sensitive data.

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Project

Denial of Service Mitigation through Protocol Design

Advanced Network Architecture Group

Computing & Society Community of Research

We aim to better understand the features of network protocols that facilitate denial of service attacks, in order to design more robust protocols and architectures in the future and evaluate existing designs more accurately.

Karen Sollins

Leads

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Karen Sollins

Project

Distributed Robot Garden

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

The robot garden provides an aesthetically pleasing educational platform that can visualize computer science concepts and encourage young students to pursue programming and robotics.

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Lindsay Sanneman

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Project

EQ-Radio: Emotion Recognition using Wireless Signals

Networks at MIT

Vertical AI Community of Research

EQ-Radio can infer a person’s emotions using wireless signals. It transmits an RF signal and analyzes its reflections off a person’s body to recognize his emotional state (happy, sad, etc.).

Dina Katabi

Leads

Dina Katabi

Research Areas

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Dina Katabi

Project

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform

Programming Languages & Verification

A framework to support implementing, specifying, verifying, and compiling hardware designs, modularly

Adam Chlipala

Leads

Adam Chlipala

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Adam Chlipala

Project

Keeping America Safe: Toward More Secure Networks for Critical Sectors

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Computing & Society Community of Research

Report warns of hacking risk to electric grid, oil pipelines, and other critical infrastructure

Leads

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Project

Keys Under Doormats

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Computing & Society Community of Research

Our report argues that giving the government special access to data poses major security risks

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Daniel Weitzner

Project

OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning

OpenTuner is a new framework for building domain-specific multi-objective program autotuners.

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Project

Poirot: Secure Protocol Implementation by Design

Software Design Group

Even formally verified protocols that have been faithfully implemented have been found to have security vulnerabilities. A new framework eliminates such vulnerabilities by design.

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

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

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Hanshen Xiao

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.

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Leads

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Project

Random Graph with Applications in MPC

To explore how randomness in connectivity can improve the performance of secure multi-party computation (MPC) and the properties of communication graph to support MPC.

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Project

Reliable and Robust Machine Learning

Algorithms Group

We work towards a principled understanding of the current machine learning toolkit and making this toolkit be robust and reliable.

+4

Aleksander Madry

Leads

Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Graphics & Vision

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Aleksander Madry

Project

Robots Adapting to Human Intent

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Our goal is to develop algorithms for allowing robots to adapt intelligently to humans when they are working together as a team.

Brian Williams

Leads

Brian Williams

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Brian Williams

Project

Robust Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Mining

Machine Learning

Many optimization problems in machine learning rely on noisy, estimated parameters. Neglecting this uncertainty can lead to great fluctuations in performance. We are developing algorithms for these already nonconvex problems that are robust to such errors.

Stefanie Jegelka

Leads

Stefanie Jegelka

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Stefanie Jegelka

Project

Secure Public-Key Distribution

Computation Structures Group

Our work aims to ensure nobody's listening in on your online activities, whether you are doing online banking or texting your friends via WhatsApp.

Leads

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Project

Securing IoT

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Cognitive AI Community of Research

IoT devices primarily use free embedded Linux which has many security flaws. We are conducting penetration tests on IoT and developing a secure version of embedded Linux.

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Howard Shrobe

39 People Results

PI
Core/Dual

Saman Amarasinghe

Professor

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

E saman@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8879

RM

Lead

Tiramisu Compiler

Member

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

Taco: The Tensor Algebra Compiler

OpenTuner: An Extensible Framework for Program Autotuning

Program Performance Prediction with Deep Learning

Vertical AI Community of Research

Compilers, architectures, software engineering

PI
Core/Dual

Michael Carbin

Assistant Professor

Programming languages and systems.

E mcarbin@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5881

RM

Lead

Programming Systems Group

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Member

Programming with spaces

Program Performance Prediction with Deep Learning

Vertical AI Community of Research

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

Programming languages and systems.

Tej Chajed

Graduate Student

PhD student in systems

E tchajed@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-G978B

Lead

FSCQ: File-system verification

Member

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

PhD student in systems

PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

E adamc@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8439

RM

Lead

Kami: A Modular Deductive Hardware Verification Platform

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming Languages & Verification

Hemiola: Structural Design and Proof of Cache-Coherence Protocols

Member

Compilation Using Correct-by-Construction Program Synthesis

Programming with spaces

Computation Structures Group

FSCQ: File-system verification

Systems Community of Research

Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems

PI
Core/Dual

David Clark

Senior Research Scientist

Internet architectures, communications policy, security

E ddc@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6003

RM

Lead

Advanced Network Architecture Group

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Member

Computing & Society Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

Internet architectures, communications policy, security

PI
Core/Dual

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs

Assistant Professor

E henrycg@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0301

RM 32-G970A

Peter Deutsch

Graduate Student

E pwd@mit.edu

PI
Core/Dual

Srini Devadas

Professor

Architectures, security, computer-aided design

E devadas@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0454

RM

Lead

Computation Structures Group

Using Bitcoin to prevent identify theft

Secure Demand Paging for Trusted Execution Environments

Scaling strong anonymity

Return of the Byzantine Generals

Member

Sanctum Secure Processor

A new way of handling all-to-all broadcast

Architectures, security, computer-aided design

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

R. David Edelman

Director, Project on Technology, Economy & National Security

Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance

E rde@mit.edu

T 258-6389

Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance

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.

Michael Foshey

Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager

Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Digital Fabrication

E mfoshey@mit.edu

RM

Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Digital Fabrication

PI
Core/Dual

William Freeman

Professor

Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling

E billf@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8828

RM

Lead

Computer Graphics Group

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

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling

PI
Core/Dual

Jim Glass

Senior Research Scientist

speech and language processing

E glass@mit.edu

T 253-1640

RM

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

PI
Core/Dual

Shafi Goldwasser

Professor

Theory, cryptography, cybersecurity, complexity

E shafi@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5914

RM

Lead

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Complexity Theory Group

Member

Computation Structures Group

Computational Connectomics Group

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Theory, cryptography, cybersecurity, complexity

PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Jackson

Professor

Software design, programming, systems

E dnj@csail.mit.edu

T 258-8471

RM

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

Member

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

Software design, programming, systems

PI
Core/Dual

Frans Kaashoek

Professor

Systems, networks, architectures

E kaashoek@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7149

RM

Lead

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems

Scaling Filesystems To Many Cores

Member

Noria: a new data-flow system for web applications

Computation Structures Group

FSCQ: File-system verification

Systems Community of Research

Systems, networks, architectures

PI
Core/Dual

Lalana Kagal

Principal Research Scientist

Privacy, web decentralization, distributed data

E lkagal@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5845

RM

Lead

Decentralized Information Group

The Car Can Explain!

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Solid: Social Linked Data

PrivacyML - A Privacy Preserving Framework for Machine Learning

Member

Computing & Society Community of Research

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Privacy, web decentralization, distributed data

Alexandre Kaspar

Graduate Student

Graphics, crowdsourcing and hybrid fabrication.

E akaspar@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

Computational Knitting: Patterning and Shaping for Everyone

Graphics, crowdsourcing and hybrid fabrication.

PI
Core/Dual

Boris Katz

Principal Research Scientist

Natural language processing

E boris@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6032

RM

Lead

Semantic Parsing using Vision

Generating Plans for Agents using Video and Language

Inferring “Theory of Mind” with vision and language

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Member

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Natural language processing

PI
Core/Dual

Wojciech Matusik

Professor

Graphics, vision, fabrication, robotics, hci

E wojciech@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8432

Lead

Computational Design and Fabrication Group

Computer Graphics Group

Member

Computational Multicopter Design

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

InstantCAD: Interactive Design Exploration/Optimization for CAD Models

Visual Computing Community of Research

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Graphics, vision, fabrication, robotics, hci

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Graduate Student

Privacy and Big Data

E vaik@mit.edu

RM

Lead

PrivacyML - A Privacy Preserving Framework for Machine Learning

Member

Decentralized Information Group

Privacy and Big Data

PI
Core/Dual

Una-May O'Reilly

Principal Research Scientist

Applied AI and ML in cybersecurity, healthcare, education

E unamay@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6437

RM

Lead

Anyscale Learning for All ALFA

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Adversarial Cyber Security

GIGABEATS: Data science for medical sensor data

MOOC Learner Project: Data science for e-learning

Member

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Applied AI and ML in cybersecurity, healthcare, education

41 News Results

Shafi Goldwasser

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

AI/art

Algorithms & Theory Entertainment

July 29 '20

Algorithm finds hidden connections between paintings at the Met

A team from MIT helped create an image retrieval system to find the closest matches of paintings from different artists and cultures.

Algorithm finds hidden connections between paintings at the Met

Cameron Hamilton 2

AI & ML Entertainment Health Care

April 02 '20

MIT talks with Love is Blind’s AI/data scientist Cameron Hamilton

MIT talks with Love is Blind’s AI/data scientist Cameron Hamilton

MIT talks with Love is Blind’s AI/data scientist Cameron Hamilton

Metadata/survail.

Algorithms & Theory Cybersecurity

February 26 '20

Protecting sensitive metadata so it can’t be used for surveillance

System ensures hackers eavesdropping on large networks can’t find out who’s communicating and when they’re doing so.

Protecting sensitive metadata so it can’t be used for surveillance

AI & ML Robotics Cybersecurity Internet of Things Transportation

January 13 '20

WaPo op-ed: how to regulate AI properly

In a Washington Post op-ed, CSAIL's R. David Edelman outlines how to regulate AI properly

WaPo op-ed: how to regulate AI properly

An MIT-invented algorithm automatically produces a “portamento” effect — a pitch sliding from one note to another — between any two audio signals in real time. The algorithm finds the optimal way to move pitches from one signal into another to produce a smooth transition between sounds (shown here).

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Systems & Networking Entertainment

September 27 '19

Using math to blend musical notes seamlessly

Algorithm enables one audio signal to glide into another, recreating the “portamento” effect of some musical instruments.

Using math to blend musical notes seamlessly

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Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Programming Languages & Software Engineering Systems & Networking Entertainment Manufacturing

August 05 '19

Computer-aided knitting

New CSAIL research uses machine learning to customize clothing designs

Computer-aided knitting

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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

Riverbed image

Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

February 20 '19

Platform ensures that web services adhere to users' privacy preferences

New MIT/Harvard platform acts as gatekeeper to ensure web services adhere to data restrictions

Platform ensures that web services adhere to users' privacy preferences

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Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Cybersecurity Health Care Internet of Things Manufacturing Transportation Wireless

February 12 '19

MIT CSAIL holds trustworthy AI event with Microsoft

Workshop explores technical directions for making AI safe, fair, and understandable

MIT CSAIL holds trustworthy AI event with Microsoft

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Algorithms & Theory Computer Architecture Big Data Cybersecurity Health Care Internet of Things Manufacturing

January 31 '19

MIT hosts workshop on theoretical foundations of deep learning

Last week MIT’s Institute for Foundations of Data Science (MIFODS) held an interdisciplinary workshop aimed at tackling the underlying theory behind deep learning. Led by MIT professor Aleksander Madry, the event focused on a number of research discussions at the intersection of math, statistics, and theoretical computer science.

MIT hosts workshop on theoretical foundations of deep learning

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Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Energy Entertainment Manufacturing

December 10 '18

Teaching machines to see in 3-D

CSAIL’s approach uses algorithms and “2.5-D” sketches to let computers visualize images from any perspective

Teaching machines to see in 3-D

Thomas Bourgeat, Andrew Wright, Arvind and Sizhou Zhang

Computer Architecture Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity Energy

October 22 '18

Opening up open-source to design better chips

MIT CSAIL system lets users change one part of a processor’s design without impacting the others

Opening up open-source to design better chips

mit pharma

AI & ML Computational Biology Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity Health Care

October 18 '18

Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discovery

Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data.

Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discovery

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AI & ML Education Entertainment

October 04 '18

Detecting fake news at its source

Machine learning system aims to determine if an information outlet is accurate or biased.

Detecting fake news at its source

AI & ML Education Entertainment

September 17 '18

“Hot Topics in Computing” series covers the spread of information and fake news

MIT professor Daniela Rus speaks on social media and misinformation spurred by global disasters with University of Washington professor Kate Starbird

“Hot Topics in Computing” series covers the spread of information and fake news

sketches

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Entertainment

September 11 '18

Smoothing out sketches’ rough edges

MIT-developed tool improves automated image vectorization, saving digital artists time and effort.

Smoothing out sketches’ rough edges

Dani & Shafi

Algorithms & Theory Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

August 08 '18

Holding law-enforcement accountable for electronic surveillance

CSAIL system encourages government transparency using cryptography on a public log of wiretap requests.

Holding law-enforcement accountable for electronic surveillance

Sound of pixels

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Entertainment

July 05 '18

An AI for editing music in videos

Given a video of a musical performance, CSAIL system can make specific instruments louder or softer

An AI for editing music in videos

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Algorithms & Theory Entertainment Health Care Manufacturing Transportation

May 25 '18

Demaine gives Congressional briefing on intersection of origami and computer science

MIT professor discusses using paper-folding for applications in manufacturing, medicine, and robotics

Demaine gives Congressional briefing on intersection of origami and computer science

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Computational Biology Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity Health Care

May 10 '18

Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical research.

Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

gtown law2

Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

April 24 '18

MIT engineering students team up with Georgetown lawyers-in-training on internet privacy legislation

Every spring, engineering students from MIT and law students from Georgetown University overcome the distance between their institutions and disciplines in a semester-long flurry of virtual classroom meetings and late-night Google hangout sessions, culminating in presentations to policy experts in DC.

MIT engineering students team up with Georgetown lawyers-in-training on internet privacy legislation

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Human-Computer Interaction Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

April 13 '18

MIT experts discuss online security and protecting data in a “public-private” Internet age

Last week CSAIL hosted the fourth “Hot Topics in Computing” speaker series, a monthly forum where experts hold discussions with community members on various hot-button tech topics.

MIT experts discuss online security and protecting data in a “public-private” Internet age

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Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

February 23 '18

Private browsing gets more private

New system patches security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing functions.

Private browsing gets more private