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Algorithms & Theory

Foundational work that includes complexity, parallel computing and game theory

AI & ML

Spanning natural language processing, deep-learning, computer vision and more

Computational Biology

Understanding disease via epigenomics, gene regulation and bioinformatics

Computer Architecture

How CPUs, memory and other systems are designed and organized

Graphics & Vision

Teaching computers to interpret, create and animate visual data

Human-Computer Interaction

Software and hardware that let us naturally interact with technology

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

From compilers and verification to software design and engineering

Robotics

Vision, actuation, sensing and manipulation of machines

Security & Cryptography

Developing technologies to prevent and recover from cyber-attacks

Systems & Networking

From distributed systems and databases to wireless

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21 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

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine

Goemans

Michael Goemans

Indyk

Piotr Indyk

Karger

David Karger

Jonathan Kelner

Jonathan Kelner

Leighton

Tom Leighton

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

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Aleksander Madry

Moitra-headshot

Ankur Moitra

Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld

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Nir Shavit

RWilliams-headshot

Ryan Williams

VWilliams-headshot

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Energy
Wireless

Lead

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine

Goemans

Michael Goemans

Indyk

Piotr Indyk

Karger

David Karger

Jonathan Kelner

Jonathan Kelner

Leighton

Tom Leighton

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Madry-headshot

Aleksander Madry

Moitra-headshot

Ankur Moitra

Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld

shavit-headshot

Nir Shavit

RWilliams-headshot

Ryan Williams

VWilliams-headshot

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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.
Daskalakis
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Rinard
+5
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Aleksander Madry

Leads

Madry-headshot

Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Graphics & Vision
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Robotics
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity

Lead

Madry-headshot

Aleksander Madry

Daskalakis
Moitra-headshot
Rinard
+5
 
Madry-headshot

Aleksander Madry

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.
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Randall Davis
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+6
Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Education

Lead

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Brewer-headshot
Randall Davis
Kagal-headshot
+6
 
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

Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Sipser

Michael Sipser

RWilliams-headshot

Ryan Williams

VWilliams-headshot

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity

Lead

Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Rubinfeld

Ronitt Rubinfeld

Sipser

Michael Sipser

RWilliams-headshot

Ryan Williams

VWilliams-headshot

Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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.
Abelson
Berners-Lee
Brewer-headshot
+8
Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson
Berners-Lee
Brewer-headshot
+8
 
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

Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali

Rivest

Ronald Rivest

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Lampson

Butler Lampson

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Wireless

Lead

Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali

Rivest

Ronald Rivest

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Lampson

Butler Lampson

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.
Randall Davis
Fox 1
Jackson image
+4
Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Education
Entertainment
Manufacturing

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Randall Davis
Fox 1
Jackson image
+4
 
Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Community of Research

Theory of Computation Community of Research

The goal of the Theory of Computation CoR is to study the fundamental strengths and limits of computation as well as how these interact with mathematics, computer science, and other disciplines.
Berger
Erik Demaine
Goemans
+20
Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Leads

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Computational Biology
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity

Lead

Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

Berger
Erik Demaine
Goemans
+20
 
Daskalakis

Costis Daskalakis

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.
Amarasinghe
Regina Barzilay
Broderick-headshot
+7
Rinard

Martin Rinard

Leads

Rinard

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Graphics & Vision
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Health Care
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Rinard

Martin Rinard

Amarasinghe
Regina Barzilay
Broderick-headshot
+7
 
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

Ted Adelson

Durand

Fredo Durand

John W. Fisher III

John Fisher

Freeman

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Polina Golland

Grimson

Eric Grimson

Horn

Berthold Horn

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Aude Oliva

Torralba

Antonio Torralba

Research Areas

AI & ML
Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Entertainment
Health Care
Transportation

Lead

Ted Adelson

Ted Adelson

Durand

Fredo Durand

John W. Fisher III

John Fisher

Freeman

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Polina Golland

Grimson

Eric Grimson

Horn

Berthold Horn

oliva-headshot

Aude Oliva

Torralba

Antonio Torralba

22 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.
Kaelbling

Leslie Kaelbling

Lozano-Perez

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Leads

Kaelbling

Leslie Kaelbling

Lozano-Perez

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
Entertainment
 
Kaelbling

Leslie Kaelbling

Lozano-Perez

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Project

Computational Knitting: Patterning and Shaping for Everyone

Computational Design and Fabrication Group
Knitting is the new 3d printing. It has become popular again with the widespread availability of patterns and templates, together with the maker movements. Lower-cost industrial knitting machines are starting to emerge, but we are still missing the corresponding design tools. Our goal is to fill this gap.
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Alexandre Kaspar

Leads

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Alexandre Kaspar

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision
Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Entertainment
Manufacturing
 
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Alexandre Kaspar

Project

Determining Wikipedia's Influence on Science

Supertech Research Group
Wikipedia is one of the most widely accessed encyclopedia sites in the world, including by scientists. Our project aims to investigate just how far Wikipedia’s influence goes in shaping science.
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Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Leads

Neil Thompson Headshot

Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
 
Neil Thompson Headshot

Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

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.
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Hanshen Xiao

Leads

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Hanshen Xiao

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Wireless
 
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Hanshen Xiao

21 People Results

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Michael Foshey

Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager
Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Digital Fabrication
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RM 32-321
Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Digital Fabrication
Freeman

PI
Core/Dual

William Freeman

Professor
Vision, machine learning, Bayesian modeling
Freeman
T 253-8828
RM 32-D476

Lead

Vision Group
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
Karger

PI
Core/Dual

David Karger

Professor
Helping people manage information
Karger
T 258-6167
RM 32-G592

Lead

Haystack Group
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
Rus

PI
Core/Dual

Daniela Rus

Director
CSAIL director, robotics, AI, data science, privacy
Rus
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
Robot Compiler
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
solomon-headshot

PI
Core/Dual

Justin Solomon

Assistant Professor
Geometry, graphics, vision, machine learning, optimization.
solomon-headshot
RM 32-D460

Lead

Computer Graphics Group
Geometric Data Processing Group
Geometry in Large-Scale Machine Learning
Political Geometry: Establishing Fair Mathematical Standards for Political Redistricting
Sensible Deep Learning for 3D Data
Optimal transport for statistics and machine learning
Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

Member

Visual Computing Community of Research
Geometry, graphics, vision, machine learning, optimization.
Torralba

PI
Core/Dual

Antonio Torralba

Professor
Vision, graphics, perception, machine learning
Torralba
T 324-0900
RM 32-386G

Lead

Vision Group
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

22 News Results

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

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 Security & Cryptography Big Data Cybersecurity Education Entertainment Health Care Internet of Things Manufacturing

Goldwasser, Micali, and Rivest win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

This week it was announced that MIT professors and CSAIL principal investigators Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald Rivest, and former MIT professor Adi Shamir won this year’s BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in the Information and Communication Technologies category for their work in cryptography.

Goldwasser, Micali, and Rivest win BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

Daniel Jackson was awarded the Outstanding Research Award and Impact Paper Award (photo credit Sharona Jacobs)
Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Big Data Cybersecurity

CSAIL's Daniel Jackson receives two ACM awards

This week the Association for Computer Machinery presented CSAIL principal investigator Daniel Jackson with the 2017 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for his pioneering work in software engineering. (This fall he also received the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for his research method for finding bugs in code.)An EECS professor and associate director of CSAIL, Jackson was given the Outstanding Research Award for his “foundational contributions to software modeling, the creation of the modeling language Alloy, and the development of a widely used tool supporting model verification.”

CSAIL's Daniel Jackson receives two ACM awards

System directs camera-equipped drones to maintain framing of an aerial shot.
Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Robotics Entertainment Transportation

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