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Regina Barzilay, other MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2023

February 14, 2023

Seven researchers, along with 14 additional MIT alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education.

Connor Coley, Dylan Hadfield-Menell named AI2050 Early Career Fellows

February 13, 2023

Department of EECS Assistant Professors Connor Coley and Dylan Hadfield-Menell have been named to the inaugural cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative from Eric and Wendy Schmidt aimed at helping to solve hard problems in AI.

The headshots of all six MIT-related Fellows for ACM 2022.

Six With Ties to MIT Honored as ACM Fellows

January 27, 2023

Six distinguished scientists with ties to MIT were recognized “for significant contributions in areas including cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, and recommender systems among many other areas.”

Top row, left to right: Alfred Spector, Jeannette Wing Bottom row, left to right: Chris Wiggins, Peter Norvig

Big Data, Bigger Ideas: the four coauthors of “Data Science In Context” share their perspectives on a growing field.

December 13, 2022

As the pioneers of a developing field, data scientists often have to deal with a frustratingly slippery question: what is data science, precisely, and what is it good

Three from MIT named 2023 Rhodes Scholars

November 14, 2022

Jack Cook, Matthew Kearney, and Jupneet Singh will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.

Expanding the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab’s network of neurons

October 27, 2022

On October 6, nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs, primarily from MIT, attended the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab’s networking event. The goal was to connect young

A collage of professional headshots includes Phillip Isola, Will Oliver, Costis Daskalakis, Manish Raghavan, Stefanie Mueller, Martin Wainwright, Muriel Médard, Martha Gray, Polina Golland, and David Perreault.

Recent chair announcements within EECS

October 25, 2022

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) recently announced the following crop of chair appointments, all effective July 1, 2022. Karl Berggren has been named the

Clockwise from top left: MIT NIH New Innovator Award winners Lindsay Case, Siniša Hrvatin, Caroline Uhler, and Deblina Sarkar.

Four from MIT receive NIH New Innovator Awards for 2022

October 6, 2022

Awards support high-risk, high-impact research from early-career investigators.

A diagram of wireless signals emanating from a small device mounted on a wall. The wireless signal expands to encompass a person walking with a shuffling gait.

In-home wireless device tracks disease progression in Parkinson’s patients

September 22, 2022

By continuously monitoring a patient’s gait speed, the system can assess the condition’s severity between visits to the doctor’s office.

Artificial intelligence model finds potential drug molecules a thousand times faster

July 15, 2022

A geometric deep-learning model is faster and more accurate than state-of-the-art computational models, reducing the chances and costs of drug trial failures.