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Barbara Liskov 2

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

June 27 '19

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

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

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

20 Group Results

Research Group

Advanced Network Architecture Group

The challenge that motivates the ANA group is to foster a healthy future for the Internet. The interplay of private sector investment, public sector regulation and public interest advocacy, as well as the global diversity in drivers and aspirations, makes for an uncertain future.

+4

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Leads

David Clark

Karen Sollins

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

David Clark

Karen Sollins

David Clark

Karen Sollins

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

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

Commit Group

We focus on finding novel approaches to improve the performance of modern computer systems without unduly increasing the complexity faced by application developers, compiler writers, or computer architects.

Saman Amarasinghe

Leads

Saman Amarasinghe

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Lead

Saman Amarasinghe

Saman Amarasinghe

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

Haystack Group

We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers blending approaches from human-computer interaction, social computing, databases, information management, and databases.

Lea Verou

+2

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

David Karger

Lea Verou

David Karger

Community of Research

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

The focus of the HCI CoR is inventing new systems and technology that lie at the interface between people and computation, and understanding their design, implementation, and societal impact.

+4

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Lecturers

Lecturers in CSAIL

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Research Group

MIT App Inventor

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

Hal Abelson

Leads

Hal Abelson

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Hal Abelson

Hal Abelson

Research Group

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

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

Sussman Lab

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

Gerald Sussman

Leads

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman

Community of Research

Systems Community of Research

The Systems CoR is focused on building and investigating large-scale software systems that power modern computers, phones, data centers, and networks, including operating systems, the Internet, wireless networks, databases, and other software infrastructure.

+21

Sam Madden

Leads

Sam Madden

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Sam Madden

Sam Madden

Research Group

Usable Programming Group

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

Rob Miller

Leads

Rob Miller

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Lead

Rob Miller

Rob Miller

Community of Research

Vertical AI Community of Research

This CoR takes a unified approach to cover the full range of research areas required for success in artificial intelligence, including hardware, foundations, software systems, and applications.

+7

Martin Rinard

Leads

Martin Rinard

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Graphics & Vision

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Cryptography

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

Martin Rinard

Martin Rinard

Research Group

Visualization Group

We use visualization as a petri dish to study intelligence augmentation, or how can computational representations and software systems help amplify our cognition and creativity, while respecting our agency?

+3

Arvind Satyanarayan

Leads

Arvind Satyanarayan

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Lead

Arvind Satyanarayan

Arvind Satyanarayan

16 Project Results

Project

A Counterfactual Simulation Model of Causal Judgment

Computational Cognitive Science Group

Cognitive AI Community of Research

We develop a computational model that explains how people make causal judgments in physical scenes by mentally simulating counterfactual outcomes and comparing those to what actually happened.

Leads

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Project

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

AIRvatar System: A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Identities

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

AIRvatar is a system that telemetrically collects and analyzes fine-grained data on users’ virtual identities and the process used to create them.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

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

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

Brian Williams

Boris Katz

Zhutian Yang

Research Areas

Computer Architecture

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Project

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

Computational Design and Fabrication Group

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

Alexandre Kaspar

Leads

Alexandre Kaspar

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Alexandre Kaspar

Project

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.

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

Leads

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Impact Areas

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

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

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

Robot Compiler

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

The Robot Compiler allows non-engineering users to rapidly fabricate customized robots, facilitating the proliferation of robots in everyday life. It thereby marks an important step towards the realization of personal robots that have captured imaginations for decades.

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Andrew Spielberg

Daniela Rus

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

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

Sensorized Soft Electric Hands with Handed Shearing Auxetics

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Putting a twist on traditional pneumatic soft robots via handed shearing auxetics

Lillian Chin

Leads

Lillian Chin

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lillian Chin

Project

Starling: Query Optimization for Cloud Services

Data Systems Group

Starling is a scalable query execution engine built on cloud function services that computes at a fine granularity, helping people more easily match workload demand.

Sam Madden

Matthew Perron

Leads

Sam Madden

Matthew Perron

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Computer Architecture

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Sam Madden

Matthew Perron

Project

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

What if we could control robots more intuitively, using just hand gestures and brainwaves?

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Joseph DelPreto

Project

Where Are They Looking?

Our goal is to build a system that predicts where people are looking in images. Given an image and the location of a head, our approach follows the gaze of the person and identifies the object being looked at.

Leads

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

16 People Results

Noam Buckman

Graduate Student

PhD Candidate. Autonomous vehicles. Multi-robot systems.

E nbuckman@mit.edu

RM

Member

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Self-Driving Vehicles

PhD Candidate. Autonomous vehicles. Multi-robot systems.

Mustafa Doga Dogan

Graduate Student

E doga@mit.edu

RM

Member

HCI Engineering Group

PI
Core/Dual

Fredo Durand

Professor

Vision, graphics, computational photography

E fredo@csail.mit.edu

T 253-7223

RM

Lead

Computer Graphics Group

Human-Computer Interaction

Computational Understanding of Visualizations and Graphic Designs

Member

Computational Bounce Flash for Indoor Portraits

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, graphics, computational photography

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

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

Fern Keniston

Senior Administrative Assistant

Research and Education Support

E fern@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5860

RM 32/ 32-250A/ 391

Member

Clinical Decision-Making Group

Research and Education Support

Henry Lieberman

Research Scientist

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

E lieber@MEDIA.MIT.EDU

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

PI
Core/Dual

Albert R. Meyer

Professor Emeritus

Programming languages, theory, complexity, online education

E meyer@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6024

RM

Programming languages, theory, complexity, online education

PI
Core/Dual

Rob Miller

Professor

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

E rcm@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6028

RM

Lead

Human-Computer Interaction

Usable Programming Group

Wait-learning: Intelligent Systems for Making Productive Use of Wait Time

Member

Human-Computer Interaction Community of Research

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

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

PI
Core/Dual

Ronald Rivest

Institute Professor

Cryptography, cybersecurity, RSA public-key encryption

E rivest@mit.edu

T 253-5880

RM

Lead

Cryptography and Information Security Group

Member

Theory of Computation Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

Cryptography, cybersecurity, RSA public-key encryption

PI
Core/Dual

Gerald Sussman

Professor

Artificial intelligence, supercomputers

E gjs@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5874

RM 32/ 32-G508/ G514

Lead

The Car Can Explain!

Internet Policy Research Initiative

Member

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

Artificial intelligence, supercomputers

Dishita Turakhia

Graduate Student

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

E dishita@mit.edu

RM

Member

HCI Engineering Group

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

Yu Wang

Graduate Student

E wangyu9@mit.edu

RM 32-D475A

Member

Geometric Data Processing Group

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

Hanshen Xiao

Graduate Student

E hsxiao@MIT.EDU

RM

Lead

Distributed Co-prime Sampling Algorithms

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Optimization

Victor Ying

Graduate Student

Computer architecture, parallel computing, programming models

E victory@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Pervasive Parallelism with the Swarm Architecture

Computer architecture, parallel computing, programming models

6 News Results

Barbara Liskov 2

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

June 27 '19

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

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

CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT

3d printed mosculp

Graphics & Vision Education Entertainment

September 19 '18

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

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

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

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

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Education

June 18 '18

Put any person in any pose

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

Put any person in any pose

Amy zhang

Programming Languages & Software Engineering Systems & Networking Education

April 05 '18

Using friends to fight online harassment

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

Using friends to fight online harassment

F. Harrell

AI & ML Programming Languages & Software Engineering Education Entertainment

January 31 '18

3Q: D. Fox Harrell on his video game for the #MeToo era

The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has released a new video game called Grayscale, which is designed to sensitize players to problems of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in the workplace.

3Q: D. Fox Harrell on his video game for the #MeToo era

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

January 16 '18

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