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.
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.