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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

13 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

Research Group

Computation and Biology

Our lab focuses on designing algorithms to gain biological insights from advances in automated data collection and the subsequent large data sets drawn from them.

Bonnie Berger

Leads

Bonnie Berger

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Computational Biology

Impact Areas

Lead

Bonnie Berger

Bonnie Berger

Research Group

Computational Connectomics Group

Our group’s goal is to create, based on such microscopic connectivity and functional data, new mathematical models explaining how neural tissue computes.

Nir Shavit

Leads

Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Computational Biology

Impact Areas

Lead

Nir Shavit

Nir Shavit

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

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

Medical Vision Group

We develop new algorithms for medical image analysis and visualization of medical imagery.

+9

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Computational Biology

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Lead

Polina Golland

Polina Golland

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

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

Sensing, Learning and Inference

We develop scalable algorithms for analysis of complex, high-dimensional data.

+6

John Fisher

Leads

John Fisher

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

John Fisher

John Fisher

Research Group

Theory of Distributed Systems Group

We work on a wide range of problems in distributed computing theory. We study algorithms and lower bounds for typical problems that arise in distributed systems---like resource allocation, implementing shared memory abstractions, and reliable communication.

Nancy Lynch

Leads

Nancy Lynch

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Lead

Nancy Lynch

Nancy Lynch

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

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

Fredo Durand

John Fisher

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

Eric Grimson

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Lead

Ted Adelson

Fredo Durand

John Fisher

William Freeman

Polina Golland

Berthold Horn

Aude Oliva

Antonio Torralba

Eric Grimson

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

Better Models for Ride-Sharing

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: It’s also a public health hazard and bad news for the economy.

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Project

Cardiac MRI analysis

Medical Vision Group

We develop image analysis algorithms for whole-heart cardiac MRI in patients with severe congenital heart disease.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

Project

Clinical Neuroimaging

Medical Vision Group

We develop novel algorithms for neuroimage segmentation, registration, and joint modeling of brain structure with clinical and genetic data.

+2

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

Project

Computational Multicopter Design

Computer Graphics Group

A system that can help you to design our own drone!

Tao Du

Leads

Tao Du

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Tao Du

Project

Drones that Drive

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

Multi-robot path planning for robot swarms that can both fly and drive

Leads

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Project

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

Geometric Data Processing Group

Computer Graphics Group

Developing state-of-the-art tools that process 3D surfaces and volumes

+1

Justin Solomon

Leads

Justin Solomon

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Justin Solomon

Project

Hidden Influencers, Risk and Causes of Infection

Data-Driven Inference Group

We aim to study the causes and transmission modes of infectious diseases among members of a community in the presence of hidden, asymptomatic spreaders of the pathogen.

Maggie Makar

John Guttag

Leads

Maggie Makar

John Guttag

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

Maggie Makar

John Guttag

Project

Monitoring Fetal Health

Medical Vision Group

We develop algorithms for fetal MRI interpretation, to enable noninvasive fetal monitoring from MRI.

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

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.

John Guttag

Peter Szolovits

Leads

John Guttag

Peter Szolovits

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Impact Areas

John Guttag

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.

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Leads

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Research Areas

Security & Cryptography

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lalana Kagal

Vaikkunth Mugunthan

Project

Quantification of Pulmonary Edema in Chest Radiographs

Medical Vision Group

We develop machine learning algorithms to automatically and quantitatively assess the severity of pulmonary edema from chest x-ray images.

+1

Polina Golland

Leads

Polina Golland

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Impact Areas

Polina Golland

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.

Yaron Meirovitch

Nir Shavit

Leads

Yaron Meirovitch

Nir Shavit

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Computational Biology

Systems & Networking

Impact Areas

Yaron Meirovitch

Nir Shavit

Project

Uhura: Personal Assistant that Manages Risk

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

Computation Structures Group

Uhura is an autonomous system that collaborates with humans in planning and executing complex tasks, especially under over-subscribed and risky situations.

Leads

Yuening Zhang

Brian Williams

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Algorithms & Theory

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

Project

Wearable Blind Navigation

Distributed Robotics Laboratory

We enable independent navigation for visually impaired users through a wearable feedback system using time-of-light sensors or depth cameras.

Leads

Research Areas

Graphics & Vision

Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Areas

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

21 People Results

Mazdak Abulnaga

Graduate Student

medical vision

E abulnaga@mit.edu

RM

Member

Monitoring Fetal Health

Medical Vision Group

Geometric Data Processing Group

Geometry and topology for scientific computing and shape analysis

medical vision

PI
Core/Dual

Ted Adelson

Professor

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

E adelson@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0645

RM

Lead

Blood Pressure Imager

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Member

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, touch sensing, robotics

Leandro Agudelo

Research Scientist

Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology

E lagudelo@csail.mit.edu

Systems Genomics, CompBio, Topological Integrative Biology, Biology

PI
Core/Dual

Regina Barzilay

Professor

Natural language processing, machine learning

E regina@csail.mit.edu

T 258-5706

RM

Lead

Natural Language Processing Group

Aspect-Augmented Adversarial Networks for Domain Adaptation

Member

Vertical AI Community of Research

Applied Machine Learning Community of Research

Natural language processing, machine learning

Yu-An Chung

Graduate Student

Speech and language processing, machine learning

E andyyuan@mit.edu

RM

Lead

Unsupervised Speech Processing

Member

Spoken Language Systems Group

Speech and language processing, machine learning

Adrian Dalca

Research Scientist

E adalca@csail.mit.edu

Member

Medical Vision Group

Clinical Neuroimaging

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

Barış Ekim

Graduate Student

E ekim@csail.mit.edu

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.

PI
Core/Dual

John Fisher

Senior Research Scientist

Vision, machine learning, signal processing

E fisher@csail.mit.edu

T 253-0788

RM

Lead

Sensing, Learning and Inference

Member

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, machine learning, signal processing

Michael Foshey

Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager

Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Digital Fabrication

E mfoshey@mit.edu

RM

Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, Digital Fabrication

PI
Core/Dual

Polina Golland

Professor

Vision, medical imaging, statistical inference

E polina@csail.mit.edu

T 253-8005

RM

Lead

Medical Vision Group

Monitoring Fetal Health

Cardiac MRI analysis

Clinical Neuroimaging

Quantification of Pulmonary Edema in Chest Radiographs

Member

Visual Computing Community of Research

Vision, medical imaging, statistical inference

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

Ruizhi Liao

Graduate Student

E ruizhi@mit.edu

RM

Member

Monitoring Fetal Health

Medical Vision Group

Quantification of Pulmonary Edema in Chest Radiographs

Razvan Marinescu

Postdoctoral Associate

Postdoctoral Associate working with Polina Golland on neuroimaging.

E razvan@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-D475B

Member

Clinical Neuroimaging

Medical Vision Group

Postdoctoral Associate working with Polina Golland on neuroimaging.

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

Daniela Rus

Director

CSAIL director, robotics, AI, data science, privacy

E rus@csail.mit.edu

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

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

Nalini Singh

Graduate Student

E nmsingh@mit.edu

RM 32-D475B

Member

Monitoring Fetal Health

Medical Vision Group

Samuel Sledzieski

Graduate Student

E samsl@csail.mit.edu

Joshua Tenenbaum

Professor

Computational cognitive science, machine learning

E jbt@csail.mit.edu

T 452-2010

RM 46-4015

Lead

Computational Cognitive Science Group

Member

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Single-Image 3D Interpreter Network

3D Generative Adversarial Networks

Embodied Intelligence Community of Research

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Visual Computing Community of Research

Computational cognitive science, machine learning

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

33 News Results

Polina Golland

AI & ML Computational Biology Graphics & Vision Health Care

February 16 '21

Golland named 2021 AIMBE Fellow

Dr. Polina Golland to be inducted into medical and biological engineering elite

Golland named 2021 AIMBE Fellow

Mirai

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Computational Biology Health Care

January 27 '21

Robust AI tools to predict future cancer

Researchers created a risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across datasets from US, Europe and Asia.

Robust AI tools to predict future cancer

UTI 1

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Computational Biology Health Care

November 04 '20

Algorithm reduces unnecessary use of antibiotics for UTIs

Machine learning model predicts probability that a patient’s UTI can be treated by various antibiotics

Algorithm reduces unnecessary use of antibiotics for UTIs

Sleeping position

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Health Care

September 17 '20

Monitoring sleep positions for a healthy rest

Wireless device captures sleep data without using cameras or body sensors; could aid patients with Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, or bedsores.

Monitoring sleep positions for a healthy rest

Deep learning

Algorithms & Theory Programming Languages & Software Engineering Energy

August 12 '20

Shrinking deep learning’s carbon footprint

Through innovation in software and hardware, researchers move to reduce the financial and environmental costs of modern artificial intelligence.

Shrinking deep learning’s carbon footprint

COVID-19 breathing

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Health Care Wireless

April 14 '20

CSAIL device lets doctors monitor COVID-19 patients from a distance

Wireless system helps Boston retirement home care for COVID patients while reducing risk of contagion

CSAIL device lets doctors monitor COVID-19 patients from a distance

Bluetooth sharing

AI & ML Security & Cryptography Systems & Networking Health Care

April 09 '20

Automated Covid-19 contact tracing - while preserving privacy

New system uses Bluetooth signals from your smartphone, with the goal of automating Covid-19 contact tracing while preserving privacy

Automated Covid-19 contact tracing - while preserving privacy

ipad

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Health Care

January 10 '20

How well can computers connect symptoms to diseases?

A new MIT study finds “health knowledge graphs,” which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with clinical diagnosis, can fall short for certain conditions and patient populations. The results also suggest ways to boost their performance.

How well can computers connect symptoms to diseases?

“Lost dimensions” of images and video 2

Algorithms & Theory Health Care

October 29 '19

Recovering “lost dimensions” of images and video

Model could recreate video from motion-blurred images and “corner cameras,” may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images.

Recovering “lost dimensions” of images and video

Maz

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Health Care

October 02 '19

Better fetal health - by building a map of the placenta

New technique stretches out MRI scans of placentas so they can be more accurately analyzed, and shows the potential of MRI for pregnancy monitoring.

Better fetal health - by building a map of the placenta

Datacenters 1

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Energy

August 28 '19

Artificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficiently

MIT system “learns” how to optimally allocate workloads across thousands of servers to cut costs, save energy.

Artificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficiently

drag&drop2

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Health Care

June 27 '19

Drag-and-drop data analytics

System lets nonspecialists use machine-learning models to make predictions for medical research, sales, and more.

Drag-and-drop data analytics

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

brain scan

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Health Care

June 25 '19

From one brain scan, more information for medical artificial intelligence

System helps machine-learning models glean training information for diagnosing and treating brain conditions Home Node From one brain scan, more information for medical artificial intelligence

From one brain scan, more information for medical artificial intelligence

Yunzhu Li 2

AI & ML Graphics & Vision Systems & Networking Health Care Manufacturing

June 18 '19

Teaching artificial intelligence to connect senses like vision and touch

MIT CSAIL system can learn to see by touching and feel by seeing, suggesting future where robots can more easily grasp and recognize objects.

Teaching artificial intelligence to connect senses like vision and touch

Flash 1

Algorithms & Theory Energy

April 02 '19

Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers

New architecture promises to cut in half the energy and physical space required to store and manage user data.

Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers

protein

Algorithms & Theory Computational Biology Health Care

March 26 '19

Model learns how individual amino acids determine protein function

Technique could improve machine-learning tasks in protein design, drug testing, and other applications.

Model learns how individual amino acids determine protein function

Trustworthy AI 2

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

CSAIL1

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

3-d shapes 1

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

high res model

Algorithms & Theory Graphics & Vision Systems & Networking Health Care

November 29 '18

Higher-res models for creating structures with complex features

Computer scientists often develop mathematical models to understand how animals move, enabling breakthroughs in designing things like microrobotic wings and artificial bone structures.

Higher-res models for creating structures with complex features

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

speech & object recognition 1

Algorithms & Theory AI & ML Graphics & Vision Health Care

September 19 '18

Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once

Model learns to pick out objects within an image, using spoken descriptions.

Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once