Faculty
Faculty

Building AI models that understand chemical principles

Connor Coley works at the interface of chemistry and machine learning, to discover and design new drug compounds.

Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education

MIT faculty member in electrical engineering and computer science to focus on innovation in engineering education and new pedagogical approaches.

Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning

Dimitris Bertsimas and Megan Mitchell discuss the motivation behind Universal Learning, and what sets the new MIT Open Learning educational initiative apart.

Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI

Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.

Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.

Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision.

On algorithms, life, and learning

Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.

3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences

Professor Jesse Thaler describes a vision for a two-way bridge between artificial intelligence and the mathematical and physical sciences — one that promises to advance both.

3 Questions: Building predictive models to characterize tumor progression

Assistant Professor Matthew Jones is working to decode molecular processes on the genetic, epigenetic, and microenvironment levels to anticipate how and when tumors evolve to resist treatment.