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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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23 Group Results

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.
Regina Barzilay
Berger
Michael Carbin
+6
Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Leads

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Research Areas

AI & ML
Computational Biology
Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Cybersecurity
Education
Health Care

Lead

Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

Regina Barzilay
Berger
Michael Carbin
+6
 
Una-May O'Reilly

Una-May O'Reilly

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
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+8
 
Weitzner

Daniel Weitzner

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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+2

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

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

23 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

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

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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
 
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Neil Thompson

Professor Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

Project

Flexible cellular platforms for reconfigurable biocircuits

Weiss Laboratory for Synthetic Biology
Existing methods for cloning and recombination of DNA enable construction of arbitrary sequences. However, the sequential nature of these techniques makes them time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, while the transformation of an existing plasmid into a host strain can be reliable when a selection marker is used, there are many current limitations: the number of different plasmids that can be co-transformed is limited by the choice of markers and compatible origins of replication; plasmids are less stable than chromosomal DNA and are difficult to maintain indefinitely without mutation; and cistronic interactions cannot be designed since each new nucleotide sequence added is on an unconnected DNA molecule. To overcome these limitations, we are designing reconfigurable chromosomes consisting of both fixed and variable regions. While the fixed region is carefully optimized and tuned ahead of time, the variable region can be modified in the field, at the point-of-use, leading to rapid and on-demand realization of novel biocircuits with many different phenotypes.

Leads

Research Areas

Computational Biology

Impact Areas

Health Care

Project

Predicting Adverse Events Across Changing Electronic Health Record Systems

Data-Driven Inference Group
Cognitive AI Community of Research
Applied Machine Learning Community of Research
Transitioning machine learning models across electronic health record (EHR) versions can be improved by mapping different EHR encodings to a common vocabulary.
Guttag

John Guttag

Szolovits

Peter Szolovits

Leads

Guttag

John Guttag

Szolovits

Peter Szolovits

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
AI & ML

Impact Areas

Health Care
 
Guttag

John Guttag

Szolovits

Peter Szolovits

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

Project

Reconstructing Neural Circuits from Mammalian Brain

Computational Connectomics Group
Theory of Computation Community of Research
We develop algorithms, systems and software architectures for automating reconstruction of accurate representations of neural tissue structures, such as nanometer-scale neurons' morphology and synaptic connections in the mammalian cortex.
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Yaron Meirovitch

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Nir Shavit

Leads

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Yaron Meirovitch

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Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory
Computational Biology
Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Health Care
 
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Yaron Meirovitch

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Nir Shavit

19 People Results

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Leandro Agudelo

Research Scientist
Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology
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Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology
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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.
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

32 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