Faculty
Faculty

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.

A data designer driven to collaborate with communities

Associate Professor Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data — and why we lack it for many things.

Improving health, one machine learning system at a time

Marzyeh Ghassemi works to ensure health-care models are trained to be robust and fair.

Ensuring a durable transition

Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.

Modeling relationships to solve complex problems efficiently

Associate Professor Julian Shun develops high-performance algorithms and frameworks for large-scale graph processing.

Dimitris Bertsimas named vice provost for open learning

Leveraging more than 35 years of experience at MIT, Bertsimas will work with partners across the Institute to transform teaching and learning on and off campus.

MIT-Takeda Program wraps up with 16 publications, a patent, and nearly two dozen projects completed

The program focused on AI in health care, drawing on Takeda’s R&D experience in drug development and MIT’s deep expertise in AI.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments.

Creating bespoke programming languages for efficient visual AI systems

Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley optimizes how computer graphics and images are processed for the hardware of today and tomorrow.

MIT faculty, instructors, students experiment with generative AI in teaching and learning

At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, panelists stressed the importance of developing critical thinking skills while leveraging technologies like generative AI.