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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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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

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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

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Aleksander Madry

Daskalakis
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Rinard
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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

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Randall Davis
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+6
 
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.
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
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+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
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+4
 
Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

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.
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Leads

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

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Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Internet of Things
Transportation

Lead

Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

Abelson

Hal Abelson

Clark

David Clark

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Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

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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.
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Arvind
Hari Balakrishnan
+21
Madden

Sam Madden

Leads

Madden

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Computer Architecture
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Internet of Things
Transportation
Wireless

Lead

Madden

Sam Madden

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Arvind
Hari Balakrishnan
+21
 
Madden

Sam Madden

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
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+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
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+7
 
Rinard

Martin Rinard

34 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

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.
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Daniel Jackson

Leads

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Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Programming Languages & Software Engineering
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Education
Transportation
Wireless
 
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Daniel Jackson

Project

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Computation Structures Group
Computational Cognitive Science Group
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.

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Williams

Brian Williams

Katz

Boris Katz

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Zhutian Yang

Research Areas

Computer Architecture
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics

Impact Areas

Health Care
Transportation
Wireless

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

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
 
Howard Shrobe

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.
MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

Leads

MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

Research Areas

AI & ML
Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Big Data
Education
Entertainment
Health Care
Internet of Things
 
MIT CSAIL Spoken Language Systems PhD student

Sameer Khurana

Jim Glass

Jim Glass

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

Culturally-Grounded Virtual Identities: A Case Study in a Qatari Context

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Mixed-methods qualitative (interviews and coding) and computational (AI) approach to understanding relationships between social identities, cultural values, and virtual identity technologies (e.g., online profiles and avatars).
Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Education
Entertainment
 
Fox 1

D. Fox Harrell

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

Karen Sollins

Leads

Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
 
Karen Sollins

Karen Sollins

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

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.
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Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Leads

Kagal-headshot

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Research Areas

AI & ML
Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Big Data
Cybersecurity
Education
Energy
Entertainment
Health Care
Internet of Things
Manufacturing
Transportation
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Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

31 People Results

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PI
Core/Dual

Adam Chlipala

Associate Professor
Programming languages, formal methods, security & privacy, systems
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T 324-8439
RM 32-G842

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
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R. David Edelman

Director, Project on Technology, Economy & National Security
Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance
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T 258-6389
Machine learning, cybersecurity, governance
Gregory Falco

Gregory Falco

Research Affiliate
Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.
Gregory Falco
Dr. Falco is a hacker and expert in IoT and IIoT cybersecurity.
Jim Glass

PI
Core/Dual

Jim Glass

Senior Research Scientist
speech and language processing
Jim Glass
T 253-1640
RM 32-G444

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
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PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Jackson

Professor
Software design, programming, systems
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T 258-8471
RM 32-G704

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
Alloy
Wildcard

Member

Espalier
Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research
Systems Community of Research
Wildcard
Software design, programming, systems
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Henry Lieberman

Research Scientist
Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, in AI and HCI.
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Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, in AI and HCI.
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Taylor Reynolds

Technology Policy Director
Technology Policy Director - Internet Policy Research Initiative
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RM 32-G534
Technology Policy Director - Internet Policy Research Initiative
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
Howard Shrobe

PI
Core/Dual

Howard Shrobe

Principal Research Scientist
Architectures, cybersecurity, web policy
Howard Shrobe
T 253-7877
RM 32-225

Lead

RADMAX
Risk-aware Network Resource Allocation
Automated Attack Tree Generation for Critical Infrastructure
Securing IoT
Cognitive AI Community of Research
Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)
Uhura: Personal Assistant that Manages Risk

Member

Computation Structures Group
Computing & Society Community of Research
Architectures, cybersecurity, web policy
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Nouran Soliman

Graduate Student
Nouran is a PhD Student in EECS at MIT working with David Karger.
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Nouran is a PhD Student in EECS at MIT working with David Karger.

27 News Results

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Security & Cryptography Cybersecurity

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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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

PhD student Danielle Olson believes we can make digital information-sharing more natural and interpersonal, by creating immersive media to better understand each other’s feelings and backgrounds.
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Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art

Communicating through computers has become an extension of our daily reality. But as speaking via screens has become commonplace, our exchanges are losing inflection, body language, and empathy. Danielle Olson ’14, a first-year PhD student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), believes we can make digital information-sharing more natural and interpersonal, by creating immersive media to better understand each other’s feelings and backgrounds.

Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art

A prototype of a new speech-controlled nutrition-logging system allows users to verbally describe the contents of a meal. The system then parses the description and automatically retrieves the pertinent nutritional data.
AI & ML Human-Computer Interaction Health Care

Voice-controlled calorie counter

For people struggling with obesity, logging calorie counts and other nutritional information at every meal is a proven way to lose weight. The technique does require consistency and accuracy, however, and when it fails, it’s usually because people don't have the time to find and record all the information they need.A few years ago, a team of nutritionists from Tufts University who had been experimenting with mobile-phone apps for recording caloric intake approached members of the Spoken Language Systems Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), with the idea of a spoken-language application that would make meal logging even easier.

Voice-controlled calorie counter