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Artificial Intelligence Awards, honors and fellowships Civil and environmental engineering Computer modeling Education, teaching, academics Faculty K-12 education Mechanical engineering MIT Schwarzman College of Computing School of Engineering

Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.

Algorithms Alumni/ae Artificial Intelligence Biological engineering Disease Faculty health Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Medicine MIT intellectual property School of Engineering Startups

MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease

ReviveMed uses AI to gather large-scale data on metabolites — molecules like lipids, cholesterol, and sugar — to match patients with therapeutics.

Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Computer science and technology Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Profile School of Engineering

Creating a common language

New faculty member Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields and fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines.

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) Algorithms Animals Artificial Intelligence computer-vision Data Ecology Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Environment Faculty Food machine learning Research School of Engineering Sustainability

Streamlining data collection for improved salmon population management

Assistant Professor Sara Beery is using automation to improve monitoring of migrating salmon in the Pacific Northwest.

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Automation Autonomous vehicles computer-vision Drones Faculty Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Profile Robotics School of Engineering Software

Expanding robot perception

Associate Professor Luca Carlone is working to give robots a more human-like awareness of their environment.

Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Computer science and technology Data Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty Health Care Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT Sloan School of Management Profile School of Engineering social media Technology and society

Algorithms and AI for a better world

Assistant Professor Manish Raghavan wants computational techniques to help solve societal problems.

Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Computer science and technology Data Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty Health Care Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT Sloan School of Management Profile School of Engineering social media Technology and society

Algorithms and AI for a better world

Assistant Professor Manish Raghavan wants computational techniques to help solve societal problems.

Artificial Intelligence Energy Faculty Heat machine learning Nuclear power and reactors Nuclear science and engineering Profile School of Engineering Sustainability

Unlocking the hidden power of boiling — for energy, space, and beyond

Associate Professor Matteo Bucci’s research sheds new light on an ancient process, to improve the efficiency of heat transfer in many industrial systems.

Alumni/ae Artificial Intelligence Awards, honors and fellowships Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Economics Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty IDSS Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) Jameel Clinic Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) MIT Schwarzman College of Computing School of Engineering School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellows

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Autonomous vehicles Awards, honors and fellowships Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Computer science and technology Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty Human-computer interaction MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Robotics School of Engineering

Daniela Rus wins John Scott Award

MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be.