EECS Department Research Supervisors

Three lists are maintained by the EECS Graduate Office, to help department graduate students and undergraduates who are seeking:

    • thesis supervision
    • a UROP project
    • 6.100 Independent Project Laboratory
    • 6.UAP Undergraduate Advanced Project
    • 6.910 Independent Reading
    • other independent research experience.
Most theses and projects are supervised by a member of the EECS faculty. Faculty in other departments may supervise EECS theses. Others at MIT whose names appear on these lists are authorized to supervise theses and projects depending on the level of the thesis or project. The three lists are:
  1. EECS Faculty Research Supervisors. This list includes active EECS faculty members, and describes their interests. Everyone on this list is authorized to supervise theses and projects at any level. (A more complete list of all EECS faculty includes inactive faculty such as emeritus faculty.)
  2. Nonfaculty Doctor's Thesis Supervisors. This list includes MIT research staff who are authorized to supervise doctor's theses, master's theses, and undergraduate projects. Special approval of the department Committee on Graduate Students is required for doctoral thesis supervision by people not on this list other than MIT faculty. Requests for such approval should be made to the appropriate Area Chairman before beginning thesis research. Each doctoral thesis committee must include at least two EECS faculty members. For more information, contact the EECS Graduate Office.
  3. Nonfaculty Master's Thesis Supervisors. This list includes MIT research staff who are authorized to supervise master's theses and undergraduate projects. Supervision by others is possible only with special approval. For more information, contact the EECS Graduate Office (S.M. students) or Undergraduate Office (M.Eng. students).
Undergraduate Projects. These three lists may be used by those seeking supervision of undergraduate projects of various kinds, including AUP and UROP. Supervision by others is possible with special approval. For more information, contact the EECS Undergraduate Office.

Graduate Areas. For purposes of administering the department doctoral program, faculty are loosely affiliated with one or more of six graduate areas. The Areas, the chairs and links to a list of the associated faculty members follow:

Area Area Title Chair Faculty Members List
Area I EECS research area I: Systems, Communication, Control and Signal Processing Professor M.A. Dahleh Area I faculty members
Area II EECS Area II: Computer Science Professor R. Davis Area II faculty members
Area III EECS Area III: Electronics, Computers and Systems Professor D.J. Perreault Area III faculty members
Area IV EECS research Area IV: Energy and Electromagnetic Systems Professor L.A. Kolodziejski Area IV faculty members
Area V EECS research Area V: Materials and Devices Professor L.A. Kolodziejski Area V faculty members
Area VII EECS research Area 7: Bioelectrical Engineering Professor L. D. Braida Area VII faculty members
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