PEOPLE

Meet our interdisciplinary team

Leadership

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Jesús del Alamo

Program co-Lead

Donner Professor, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mac Vicar Faculty Fellow

MIT Researcher Aude Oliva

Aude Oliva

Program co-Lead

Director of Strategic Industry Engagement, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; CSAIL Senior Research Scientist

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Anantha Chandrakasan

Chair

Inaugural MIT Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer; Dean, MIT School of Engineering, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Faculty Advisory Group

Tomás Palacios

Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Vivienne Sze

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Carl Thompson

Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

MIT Professor Bilge Yildiz

Bilge Yildiz

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Principal Investigators

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Iwnetim "Tim" Abate

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Materials design, Electrochemical characterization

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Pulkit Agrawal

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Hybrid-cloud high computing efficiency

Mohammad Alizadeh

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computer networks, Cloud computing systems

Navid Azizan

Navid Azizan

Edgerton Career Development Chair, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computing

Hardware-efficient machine learning and optimization

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Hari Balakrishnan

Fujitsu Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Network communications, Wireless, Sensors

Marc Baldo

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Optoelectronics, Digital logic, Nanostructured electronics

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Martin Bazant

E. G. Roos Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Mathematics

transport phenomena, applied mathematics

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Sara Beery

Homer A. Burnell Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Sustainable technology, Computer vision

Karl Berggren

Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Deep learning, Superconducting quantum circuits

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Duane Boning

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Manufacturing, MEMS processes, Devices, and Circuits

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Vladimir Bulović

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Composite materials, Novel nanostructured devices

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Tonio Buonassisi

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Machine learning and hardware, Novel materials

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Markus Buehler

Jerry McAfee Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Transformer-based models, Materials discovery

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Michael Cafarella

Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Database and AI systems

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Paola Cappellaro

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Professor of Physics

Nuclear magnetic resonance, Quantum information science

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Michael Carbin

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computer language engineering, Energy efficient neural networks

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Anantha Chandrakasan

Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Energy efficient wireless sensors, circuits, and architectures

Suraj Cheema

Assistant Professor of Materials Science Electrical Engr & Computer Science

Energy-efficient computing, Sustainable microelectronics

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Kevin Chen

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Millimeter-scaled biomechanics, Novel soft actuators

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Soonwon Choi

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

Quantum Information Science, Atomic Physics

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Jesús del Alamo

Donner Professor, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nanoscale synaptic devices: physics, technology, modeling

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Srini Devadas

Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computer-Aided Design and architecture, Edge security

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Joel Emer

Professor of the Practice, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Deep learning architectures, and Micro-architecture

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Dirk Englund

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Photonic neural networks and circuits, Quantum photonics

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Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Nanophotonics, Acoustic metamaterials, Devices

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Michale Fee

Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor of Neuroscience

Complex learned and sequential behaviors

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Benoit Forget

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Computational physics, High performance computing

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William Freeman

Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Mid-level vision, Computational photography

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Manya Ghobadi

TIBCO Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Large scale efficient infrastructure for AI

James Glass

Senior Research Scientist at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Speech recognition, ML spoken language understanding

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Ruonan Han

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Microelectronic circuits and systems, Solid-state electronics

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Song Han

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Efficient hardware for computation-intensive AI

Phillip Harris

Assistant Professor of Physics

Particle physics, Deep learning, Machine learning

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Juejun Hu

John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Novel materials, Nanotechnology, and Semiconductors

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Phillip Isola

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Deep representation learning, Computer vision

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Patrick Jaillet

Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Machine learning, Optimization, and Decision-making

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Rafael Jaramillo

Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Electronic Materials, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors

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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Cecil and Ida Green Professor in the Department of Physics

Quantum nanoelectronics, Graphene

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Frans Kaashoek

Charles Piper Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computer systems, Networking, Computer architecture

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Sertac Karaman

Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Robotics and control theory, Cyber-physical systems

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Dina Katabi

Pham Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Wireless networks, Network security

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Jeehwan Kim

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Nanotechnology, Neuromorphic computing

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Yoon Kim

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Natural language processing, Machine learning

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Rabia Yazicigil Kirby

Visiting Fellow at MIT MTL, Assistant Professor at Boston University

Energy-efficient circuits, Wireless, Security, IoT

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Mina Konaković Luković

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computational fabrication, Smart materials

Jing Kong

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nanotube electronic devices, Semiconductor nanowires

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Hae-Seung (Harry) Lee

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Analog-to-digital converters, CMOS technologies

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Ju Li

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Electrochemical materials, Nano-electronics, Neuromorphic

Mingda Li

Rasmussen Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Materials science, Quantum theory

Paul Liang

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and of Media Arts, & Sciences

Multisensory artificial intelligence

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Luqiao Liu

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Non-volatile analog magnetic memory, Nanoscale materials

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Vikash Mansinghkha

Principal Research Scientist, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Probability and randomness in software and hardware

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Wojciech Matusik

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Tactile sensing, Holography, Accelerated graphics

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Rahul Mazumder

NTU Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics

Statistical machine learning, System optimization

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Muriel Medard

NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering

Optical and wireless network coding and communication

Rachit Nigam

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Hardware accelerators, Computer-aided design, Systems

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Farnaz Niroui

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nanoscale engineering, Quantum, Materials

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Jelena Notaros

Shillman Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Silicon photonics for displays, sensing, comms, and quantum

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Kevin O'Brien

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nonlinear optics, Metamaterials, Quantum engineering

Una-May O'Reilly

Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Scalable machine learning, Adversarial AI, Cybersecurity

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Aude Oliva

Senior Research Scientist at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Energy efficient deep learning, and Computer vision

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Elsa Olivetti

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Sustainable materials design, Efficient computing

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William Oliver

Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Physics

Materials, Quantum and classical high-performance computing

Tomás Palacios

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Materials graphene, Biosensors and Nanotechnologies

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David Perreault

Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Power generation and management, Energy harvesting

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Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

Edgerton Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Efficient computer graphics, Architecture and compilers

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Rajeev Ram

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Photonics and electronics for energy, and sensing

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Negar Reiskarimian

X-Window Consortium Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Integrated circuits and systems, and Internet of Things (IoT)

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Giuseppe Romano

Research Scientist, MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology

Energy Harvesting Materials, Topology optimization

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Frances Ross

Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Nanoscale materials, Electron microscope technology

Daniela Rus

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Networked and distributed robotics, Mobile computing

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Daniel Sanchez

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computer Architecture, Systems and Networking, Big Data

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Deblina Sarkar

AT&T Career Development Chair Professor, MIT Media Lab

Nanotechnology, Synthetic biology

Phiala Shanahan

Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics

Theoretical nuclear and particle physics, Machine learning

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Yang Shao-Horn

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Battery-like memristors, and Electrochemistry

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Nir Shavit

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Multiprocessor algorithms, Neural computation

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Max Shulaker

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nanotechnologies, systems, and devices

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Julian Shun

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

High performance computation, Efficient AI

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Vincent Sitzmann

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Machine learning for graphics, computer vision, robotics

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Tess Smidt

X-Window Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Machine learning for quantum computing

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Marin Soljačić

Professor in the Department of Physics, MacArthur Fellow

Nanophotonics, Optical nanostructure materials

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Justin Solomon

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Applied geometry, High-performance computation

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Vivienne Sze

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Energy-efficient deep learning architectures and circuits

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Neil Thompson

Director of FutureTech, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Computer performance, Tech innovation and economics

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Antonio Torralba

T. & G. Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Machine learning, Intelligent sensors

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Harry Tuller

R.P. Simmons Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials

Ceramics, Electrochemistry, Environment, Materials chemistry

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Cryptography, Secure AI, Computer science theory

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Cardinal Warde

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Novel architectures, systems, and circuits

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Gregory Wornell

Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor of Engineering

Signal processing, Information theory, Statistical inference

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Mengjia Yan

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Edge security, Computer architecture

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Bilge Yildiz

Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Electrochemical materials, High-efficiency devices

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Nickolai Zeldovich

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Secure systems, Cryptography

Team

Emily Goldman

Program Manager

Maria Markulis

Administrative Assistant

Samantha Smiley

Administrative Assistant

Liz McShane

Program Coordinator

Liz McShane

Program Coordinator

Samantha Smiley

Administrative Assistant