Research

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

David Karger

Lea Verou

David Karger

Research Group

HCI Engineering Group

We work at the intersection of human computer interaction and personal fabrication tools.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Randall Davis

Fredo Durand

Daniel Jackson

David Karger

Rob Miller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Lead

Randall Davis

Fredo Durand

Daniel Jackson

David Karger

Rob Miller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

We develop computing systems for creative expression, cultural analysis, and social change.

Peter Mawhorter

James Bowie Wilson

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

James Bowie Wilson

D. Fox Harrell

Research Group

Infolab

We investigate language in different contexts: from how it is learned, to how it is grounded in visual perception, all the way to how machines can readily interact with humans.

Boris Katz

Leads

Boris Katz

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Boris Katz

Research Group

Multimodal Understanding Group

Our objective is to build techniques, software, and hardware that enable natural interaction with
computation.

Randall Davis

Leads

Randall Davis

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Randall Davis

Research Group

Spoken Language Systems Group

Our goal is to create technology that makes it possible for everyone in the world to interact with with computers via natural spoken language.

+13

Jim Glass

Leads

Jim Glass

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Jim Glass

+13

Jim Glass

Research Group

Led by Web inventor and Director, Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeff Jaffe, the W3C focus is on leading the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing standards, protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web

Leads

Tim Berners-Lee

Jeffrey Jaffe

Judy Brewer

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Wireless

Lead

Tim Berners-Lee

Jeffrey Jaffe

Judy Brewer

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Jackson

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Rob Miller

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.

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

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.

Aleksander Madry

Leads

Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

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.

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

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.

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

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.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

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?

Arvind Satyanarayan

Leads

Arvind Satyanarayan

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Arvind Satyanarayan

46 Project Results matching all criteria

Project

Wikum: Bridging Discussion Systems and Wikis with Collective Summarization

We build tools to allow a community of people to collectively summarize large discussions online and manage knowledge embedded within these discussions.

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

David Karger

Project

Squadbox: Combating Online Harassment using Friendsourced Moderation

Fight back against online harassment with a squad of friends.

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

David Karger

Project

Developing the Impacts of Virtual Identity on Computational Learning Environments

Our goal is to develop an understanding of the impacts of virtual identities on users in educational environments.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

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

Wait-learning makes it easier for busy people to learn informally, by automatically detecting when they are waiting and delivering optional learning exercises that can be completed during wait time.

Rob Miller

Leads

Rob Miller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Rob Miller

Project

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

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

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Alexandre Kaspar

Project

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

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).

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

D. Fox Harrell

Project

AIRvatar System: A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Identities

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

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Narra Ludens: Explaining Video Game Engagement Through Textual Analysis

This study aims to understand the behaviors, motivations, and gameplay types of videogame players through topic modelling, sentiment clusters, and valence analysis of videogame reviews.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Changing Minds via Roleplay in Interactive Digital Media

We aim to study the impact of computer-supported roleplaying in changing social perspectives of digital media users. Such media could take the form of videogames, VR systems, training software, and other types of interactive narrative technology.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Uhura: Personal Assistant that Manages Risk

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

Nikhil Bhargava

Yuening Zhang

Brian Williams

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Decentralized Information Group

Project

The Car Can Explain!

Developing techniques to allow self-driving cars and other AI-driven systems to explain behaviors and failures.

Leads

Gerald Sussman

Lalana Kagal

Leilani Gilpin

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Project

Active Learning of Models for Planning

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.

Leads

Zi Wang

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Rethinking Software Design

What is design thinking in the context of software? We're developing a new approach to software design that achieves usability and robustness by going deeper than the user interface.

Daniel Jackson

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Research Areas

Daniel Jackson

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Project

Gitless: a simple version control system built on top of Git

Gitless is a conceptual redesign of Git which attempts to make Git easier to learn and use

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Project

Déjà Vu: Constructing Apps from Concepts

Déjà Vu is a new platform for end-user development of apps with rich functionality. It features a novel theory of modularity for binding concepts; an extensive library of reusable concepts; and a WYSIWYG tool for specifying bindings and customizing visual layout

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Project

New Interaction Models for Personal Fabrication Interfaces

Inspired by the history of the user interface for personal computing, we are developing new interaction models for personal fabrication.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Stefanie Mueller

Project

SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish

Exploration of underwater life with an acoustically controlled soft robotic fish

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Joseph DelPreto

Project

Wearable Blind Navigation

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

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

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

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Joseph DelPreto

Project

Wearable Ultrasonic Echolocation

Vision Group

The goal of this project is to develop and test a wearable ultrasonic echolocation aid for people who are blind and visually impaired. We combine concepts from engineering, acoustic physics, and neuroscience to make echolocation accessible as a research tool and mobility aid.

Santani Teng

Leads

Santani Teng

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Santani Teng

Project

InstantCAD: Interactive Design Exploration/Optimization for CAD Models

Almost every object we use is developed with computer-aided design (CAD). While CAD programs are good for creating designs, using them to actually improve existing designs can be difficult and time-consuming.

Leads

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

CilkPride

CilkPride is a programming environment that aims to make performance and safety information always available and appropriately visible to the programmer.

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Leads

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Research Areas

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Project

Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML

Mavo is a language that lets anyone turn a static HTML document into a fully functioning reactive web application with data presentation, editing, storage and lightweight computation, all without writing a single line of Javascript or other programming code.

David Karger

Lea Verou

Leads

David Karger

Lea Verou

Research Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

David Karger

Lea Verou

Project

Enriching Virtual Reality (VR) Narratives with Embodied and Gestural Interaction

Building embodied and gestural interfaces to enrich interaction in VR narratives.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

D. Fox Harrell

29 People Results matching all criteria

Murad Abu-Khalaf

Program Manager, Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center

E murad@mit.edu

T 452-2859

PI
Core/Dual

Randall Davis

Professor

Human-computer interaction, systems, classic AI

E davis@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5879

Lead

Multimodal Understanding Group

Member

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

Human-computer interaction, systems, classic AI

Joseph DelPreto

Graduate Student

Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.

E delpreto@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-376A

Lead

Brain-Controlled Robots

Distributed Robot Garden

Robot Compiler

SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish

Soft Robotic Hand

Using Muscle Signals to Lift Objects with Robots

Controlling drones and other robots with gestures

Helping robots learn using demonstrations

Member

Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.

Mustafa Doga Dogan

Graduate Student

E doga@mit.edu

Member

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

Sue Felshin

Research Scientist

E sfelshin@csail.mit.edu

T 253-2965

Lead

Member

PI
Core/Dual

Jim Glass

Senior Research Scientist

speech and language processing

E glass@mit.edu

T 253-1640

Lead

Designing Information-Rich Embedding Spaces

Unsupervised Learning of Interpretable Representations from Sequential Data

Fact-Checking and Reasoning

Speaker Verification and Diarization

Using Computers to Eat Healthier

Member

Low-Power Speech Processing Circuits

Arabic Language Processing

Health-related Biomarkers from Speech

Community Question Answering

Understanding Language Representations in Deep Learning Models

speech and language processing

David Harwath

Research Scientist

E dharwath@csail.MIT.EDU

Lead

Member

PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Jackson

Professor

Software design, programming, systems

E dnj@csail.mit.edu

T 258-8471

Lead

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

Member

Espalier

Software design, programming, systems

PI
Core/Dual

David Karger

Professor

Helping people manage information

E karger@csail.mit.edu

T 258-6167

Lead

Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML

Algorithms Group

Wikum: Bridging Discussion Systems and Wikis with Collective Summarization

Squadbox: Combating Online Harassment using Friendsourced Moderation

Eyebrowse: Social and Public Web Browsing

Member

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

Helping people manage information

Alexandre Kaspar

Graduate Student

Graphics, crowdsourcing and hybrid fabrication.

E akaspar@mit.edu

Lead

Computational Knitting: Patterning and Shaping for Everyone

Graphics, crowdsourcing and hybrid fabrication.

PI
Core/Dual

Boris Katz

Principal Research Scientist

Natural language processing

E boris@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6032

Lead

Semantic Parsing using Vision

Generating Plans for Agents using Video and Language

Inferring “Theory of Mind” with vision and language

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Member

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Natural language processing

Sameer Khurana

Graduate Student

unsupervised speech processing, automatic speech recognition

E skhurana@mit.edu

Lead

Member

unsupervised speech processing, automatic speech recognition

Kimberle Koile

Research Scientist

E kkoile@csail.mit.edu

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.

Jamie Macbeth

Research Affiliate

In-Depth Natural Language Understanding, Human-Computer Interaction

E jmacbeth@mit.edu

In-Depth Natural Language Understanding, Human-Computer Interaction

PI
Core/Dual

Wojciech Matusik

Professor

Graphics, vision, fabrication, robotics, hci

E wojciech@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8432

Lead

Computational Multicopter Design

Computer Graphics Group

Member

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

InstantCAD: Interactive Design Exploration/Optimization for CAD Models

Visual Computing Community of Research

Graphics, vision, fabrication, robotics, hci

PI
Core/Dual

Rob Miller

Professor

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

E rcm@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6028

Lead

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

CilkPride

Member

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

PI
Core/Dual

Stefanie Mueller

Assistant Professor

Human-computer interaction, fabrication, hardware, robotics.

E stefanie.mueller@mit.edu

T 715-5831

Lead

New Interaction Models for Personal Fabrication Interfaces

Human-computer interaction, fabrication, hardware, robotics.

Martin Nisser

Graduate Student

E nisser@mit.edu

Member

Soyun Park

Graduate Student

Human-Computer Interaction(HCI), personal information retrieval

E soya@mit.edu

Member

Human-Computer Interaction(HCI), personal information retrieval

PI
Core/Dual

Arvind Satyanarayan

Assistant Professor

E arvindsatya@mit.edu

Lead

Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)

Member

Dishita Turakhia

Graduate Student

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

E dishita@mit.edu

Member

Efficient Communication for Human-Machine Teams

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

Vaibhav V. Unhelkar

Graduate Student

E vaibhav.unhelkar@gmail.com

Lead

2 News Results matching all criteria

Human-Computer Interaction

September 12 '18

Muddied Waters: Online Disinformation During Crisis Events

September 12, 2018 - Kate Starbird of the University of Washington gave a Hot Topics in Computing Lecture titled "Muddied Waters: Online Disinformation During Crisis Events."

Muddied Waters: Online Disinformation During Crisis Events

Human-Computer Interaction Education Health Care

February 08 '17

Frugal Innovations for a Developing World

February 8, 2017 - Bill Thies of Microsoft Research India gave a Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture titled "Frugal Innovations for a Developing World."

Frugal Innovations for a Developing World

16 Group Results

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.

Aleksander Madry

Leads

Aleksander Madry

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Aleksander Madry

Community of Research

Cognitive AI Community of Research

Howard Shrobe

Leads

Howard Shrobe

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Howard Shrobe

Community of Research

Computing & Society Community of Research

Daniel Weitzner

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

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

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Internet of Things

Lead

David Karger

Lea Verou

David Karger

Research Group

HCI Engineering Group

We work at the intersection of human computer interaction and personal fabrication tools.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

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.

Stefanie Mueller

Leads

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Human-Computer Interaction

HCI faculty and researchers in CSAIL.

Leads

Randall Davis

Fredo Durand

Daniel Jackson

David Karger

Rob Miller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Areas

Lead

Randall Davis

Fredo Durand

Daniel Jackson

David Karger

Rob Miller

Stefanie Mueller

Research Group

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

We develop computing systems for creative expression, cultural analysis, and social change.

Peter Mawhorter

James Bowie Wilson

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

D. Fox Harrell

Peter Mawhorter

James Bowie Wilson

D. Fox Harrell

Research Group

Infolab

We investigate language in different contexts: from how it is learned, to how it is grounded in visual perception, all the way to how machines can readily interact with humans.

Boris Katz

Leads

Boris Katz

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Boris Katz

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.

Leads

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Weitzner

Hal Abelson

David Clark

Lalana Kagal

Karen Sollins

Gerald Sussman

Research Group

Multimodal Understanding Group

Our objective is to build techniques, software, and hardware that enable natural interaction with
computation.

Randall Davis

Leads

Randall Davis

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Randall Davis

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Daniel Jackson

Research Group

Spoken Language Systems Group

Our goal is to create technology that makes it possible for everyone in the world to interact with with computers via natural spoken language.

+13

Jim Glass

Leads

Jim Glass

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Jim Glass

+13

Jim Glass

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

Impact Areas

Lead

Rob Miller

Research Group

Visualization Group

Arvind Satyanarayan

Leads

Arvind Satyanarayan

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Lead

Arvind Satyanarayan

Research Group

World Wide Web Consortium

Leads

Tim Berners-Lee

Jeffrey Jaffe

Judy Brewer

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Learning and Intelligent Systems

Wireless

Lead

Tim Berners-Lee

Jeffrey Jaffe

Judy Brewer

46 Project Results

Project

Active Learning of Models for Planning

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.

Leads

Zi Wang

Leslie Kaelbling

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Project

AIRvatar System: A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Identities

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

Impact Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Alloy

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

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Project

An Interlock for Self Driving Cars

Computer-Aided Programming

Vertical AI Community of Research

Self-driving cars are likely to be safer, on average, than human-driven cars. But they may fail in new and catastrophic ways that a human driver could prevent. This project is designing a new architecture for a highly dependable self-driving car.

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Leads

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Daniel Jackson

Armando Solar-Lezama

Project

Arabic Language Processing

The Arabic language is spoken by over one billion people around the world. Arabic presents a variety of challenges for speech and language processing technologies. In our group, we have several research topics examining Arabic, including dialect identification, speech recognition, machine translation, and language processing.

Leads

Ramy Baly

Yonatan Belinkov

Mitra Mohtarami

Research Areas

Computation Structures Group

Project

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

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

Impact Areas

Wireless

Project

Automatic Speech Recognition

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.

Leads

Hao Tang

Wei-Ning Hsu

David Harwath

Sameer Khurana

Di-Chia Chueh

Jim Glass

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Project

Brain-Controlled Robots

This project aims to let people correct robot mistakes with nothing more than their brain signals - to allow robots to adapt to humans rather than the other way around

Frank H. Guenther

Daniela Rus

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Daniela Rus

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Decentralized Information Group

Frank H. Guenther

Daniela Rus

Joseph DelPreto

Project

The Car Can Explain!

Developing techniques to allow self-driving cars and other AI-driven systems to explain behaviors and failures.

Leads

Gerald Sussman

Lalana Kagal

Leilani Gilpin

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Project

Changing Minds via Roleplay in Interactive Digital Media

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

CilkPride

CilkPride is a programming environment that aims to make performance and safety information always available and appropriately visible to the programmer.

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Leads

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Research Areas

Charles E. Leiserson

Rob Miller

Project

Computational Knitting: Patterning and Shaping for Everyone

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.

Alexandre Kaspar

Leads

Alexandre Kaspar

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Alexandre Kaspar

Project

Controlling drones and other robots with gestures

Interact with robots and other devices by gesturing, using wearable muscle and motion sensors

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Joseph DelPreto

Project

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

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

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Alexandre Kaspar

Project

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

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

Impact Areas

D. Fox Harrell

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

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

Neil Thompson

Charles E. Leiserson

Project

Developing the Impacts of Virtual Identity on Computational Learning Environments

Our goal is to develop an understanding of the impacts of virtual identities on users in educational environments.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Distributed Robot Garden

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

Impact Areas

Project

Déjà Vu: Constructing Apps from Concepts

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Interactive Robotics Group

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Project

Efficient Communication for Human-Machine Teams

Our goal is to develop collaborative agents (software or robots) that can efficiently communicate with their human teammates. Key threads involve designing algorithms for inferring human behavior and for decision-making under uncertainty.

X. Jessie Yang

Vaibhav V. Unhelkar

Julie Shah

Leads

Vaibhav V. Unhelkar

Julie Shah

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab)

X. Jessie Yang

Vaibhav V. Unhelkar

Julie Shah

Project

Enriching Virtual Reality (VR) Narratives with Embodied and Gestural Interaction

Building embodied and gestural interfaces to enrich interaction in VR narratives.

D. Fox Harrell

Leads

D. Fox Harrell

Research Areas

D. Fox Harrell

Project

Eyebrowse: Social and Public Web Browsing

Eyebrowse aims to create a social outdoors for your web browsing.

David Karger

Leads

David Karger

Research Areas

Impact Areas

David Karger

Project

Gitless: a simple version control system built on top of Git

Gitless is a conceptual redesign of Git which attempts to make Git easier to learn and use

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Leads

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Research Areas

Santiago Perez De Rosso

Daniel Jackson

Project

Helping robots learn using demonstrations

Help robots learn faster by providing demonstrations when they need help

Joseph DelPreto

Leads

Joseph DelPreto

Research Areas

Impact Areas

Joseph DelPreto

29 People Results

Murad Abu-Khalaf

Program Manager, Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center

E murad@mit.edu

T 452-2859

PI
Core/Dual

Randall Davis

Professor

Human-computer interaction, systems, classic AI

E davis@csail.mit.edu

T 253-5879

Lead

Multimodal Understanding Group

Member

Supervising Robots with Muscle and Brain Signals

Human-computer interaction, systems, classic AI

Joseph DelPreto

Graduate Student

Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.

E delpreto@csail.mit.edu

RM 32-376A

Lead

Brain-Controlled Robots

Distributed Robot Garden

Robot Compiler

SoFi - The Soft Robotic Fish

Soft Robotic Hand

Using Muscle Signals to Lift Objects with Robots

Controlling drones and other robots with gestures

Helping robots learn using demonstrations

Member

Works on human-robot interaction using muscle and brain signals.

Mustafa Doga Dogan

Graduate Student

E doga@mit.edu

Member

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

Sue Felshin

Research Scientist

E sfelshin@csail.mit.edu

T 253-2965

Lead

Member

PI
Core/Dual

Jim Glass

Senior Research Scientist

speech and language processing

E glass@mit.edu

T 253-1640

Lead

Designing Information-Rich Embedding Spaces

Unsupervised Learning of Interpretable Representations from Sequential Data

Fact-Checking and Reasoning

Speaker Verification and Diarization

Using Computers to Eat Healthier

Member

Low-Power Speech Processing Circuits

Arabic Language Processing

Health-related Biomarkers from Speech

Community Question Answering

Understanding Language Representations in Deep Learning Models

speech and language processing

David Harwath

Research Scientist

E dharwath@csail.MIT.EDU

Lead

Member

PI
Core/Dual

Daniel Jackson

Professor

Software design, programming, systems

E dnj@csail.mit.edu

T 258-8471

Lead

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

Member

Espalier

Software design, programming, systems

PI
Core/Dual

David Karger

Professor

Helping people manage information

E karger@csail.mit.edu

T 258-6167

Lead

Mavo: Creating Interactive Data-Driven Web Applications by Authoring HTML

Algorithms Group

Wikum: Bridging Discussion Systems and Wikis with Collective Summarization

Squadbox: Combating Online Harassment using Friendsourced Moderation

Eyebrowse: Social and Public Web Browsing

Member

Crowdsourcing in Graphics and Vision

Helping people manage information

Alexandre Kaspar

Graduate Student

Graphics, crowdsourcing and hybrid fabrication.

E akaspar@mit.edu

Lead

Computational Knitting: Patterning and Shaping for Everyone

Graphics, crowdsourcing and hybrid fabrication.

PI
Core/Dual

Boris Katz

Principal Research Scientist

Natural language processing

E boris@csail.mit.edu

T 253-6032

Lead

Semantic Parsing using Vision

Generating Plans for Agents using Video and Language

Inferring “Theory of Mind” with vision and language

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)

Member

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines

Natural language processing

Sameer Khurana

Graduate Student

unsupervised speech processing, automatic speech recognition

E skhurana@mit.edu

Lead

Member

unsupervised speech processing, automatic speech recognition

Kimberle Koile

Research Scientist

E kkoile@csail.mit.edu

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.

Jamie Macbeth

Research Affiliate

In-Depth Natural Language Understanding, Human-Computer Interaction

E jmacbeth@mit.edu

In-Depth Natural Language Understanding, Human-Computer Interaction

PI
Core/Dual

Wojciech Matusik

Professor

Graphics, vision, fabrication, robotics, hci

E wojciech@csail.mit.edu

T 324-8432

Lead

Computational Multicopter Design

Computer Graphics Group

Member

Simit: A Language for Computing on Sparse Systems

InstantCAD: Interactive Design Exploration/Optimization for CAD Models

Visual Computing Community of Research

Graphics, vision, fabrication, robotics, hci

PI
Core/Dual

Rob Miller

Professor

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

E rcm@csail.mit.edu

T 324-6028

Lead

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

CilkPride

Member

Human-computer interaction, online education, software development

PI
Core/Dual

Stefanie Mueller

Assistant Professor

Human-computer interaction, fabrication, hardware, robotics.

E stefanie.mueller@mit.edu

T 715-5831

Lead

New Interaction Models for Personal Fabrication Interfaces

Human-computer interaction, fabrication, hardware, robotics.

Martin Nisser

Graduate Student

E nisser@mit.edu

Member

Soyun Park

Graduate Student

Human-Computer Interaction(HCI), personal information retrieval

E soya@mit.edu

Member

Human-Computer Interaction(HCI), personal information retrieval

PI
Core/Dual

Arvind Satyanarayan

Assistant Professor

E arvindsatya@mit.edu

Lead

Center for Deployable Machine Learning (CDML)

Member

Dishita Turakhia

Graduate Student

PhD student in HCIE group at CSAIL

E dishita@mit.edu

Member