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Doctoral Thesis: Electrochemical modulation of peripheral nerves using ion-selective electrodes

RLE
Doctoral Thesis: Democratizing Details-on-Demand Data Visualizations at Scale

CSAIL
Doctoral Thesis: Miniaturizing High Step-Down, High Output Current Power Converters

RLE
Doctoral Thesis: Social Modeling in Computational Simulations: Racial and Ethnic Representation in Videogames and Virtual Reality Systems

CSAIL
Doctoral Thesis: Practical Methods for Scalable Bayesian and Causal Inference with Provable Quality Guarantees

CSAIL
Three EECS professors awarded 2021 Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships (FRIFs)

The Department of EECS has awarded three Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships (FRIFs) to Professor Aleksander Madry, Associate Professor William Oliver, and Professor Ryan Williams.

CSAIL, RLE
Seeking the cellular mechanisms of disease, with help from machine learning

Caroline Uhler blends machine learning, statistics, and biology to understand how our bodies respond to illness.

LIDS, Biomed, bio-EECS
A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

Encapsulating modified bacteria in tough hydrogel spheres prevents them from spreading genes to other microbes.

bio-EECS
Chai Awarded Adobe Research Fellowship

The 3rd year PhD student is conducting research in image synthesis, specifically the use of AI models to generate images.

CSAIL, AI
Doğan awarded Adobe Research Fellowship

Mustafa Doğa Doğan is a 3rd year PhD student working with Prof. Stefanie Mueller’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Engineering Group at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

CSAIL
The physicist and the hospital

EECS Associate Professor Thomas Heldt finds inspiration where fundamental physical principles intersect with human health.

Biomed, bio-EECS
More transparency and understanding into machine behaviors

A new tool helps humans better understand and develop artificial intelligence models by searching and highlighting representative scenarios.

CSAIL, AI, Big Data
Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense

Deep-learning technique optimizes the arrangement of sensors on a robot’s body to ensure efficient operation.

CSAIL, Robotics
3 Questions: Artificial intelligence for health care equity

Regina Barzilay, Fotini Christia, and Collin Stultz describe how artificial intelligence and machine learning can support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness in health care.

CSAIL, Biomed, AI, bio-EECS
Researchers virtually open and read sealed historic letters

History unfolds as an interdisciplinary research team uses computational tools to examine the contents of “locked” letters.

CSAIL
Microsystems Annual Research Conference goes virtual, preserves human touch

Student committee delivers interactive conference on microsystems and nanoscience.

CSAIL, AI, Nanotech
Retrofitting MIT’s deep learning “boot camp” for the virtual world

With technology new and old, instructors try to recreate the interactivity of their pre-Covid classroom.

AI
Helping soft robots turn rigid on demand

New type of control system may broaden robots’ range of tasks and allow safer interactions with people.

CSAIL, AI, Robotics
When more Covid-19 data doesn’t equal more understanding

Social media users share charts and graphs — often with the same underlying data — to advocate opposing approaches to the pandemic.

CSAIL, AI
A language learning system that pays attention — more efficiently than ever before

MIT researchers’ new hardware and software system streamlines state-of-the-art sentence analysis.

AI
Nanowire could provide a stable, easy-to-make superconducting transistor

Inspired by decades-old MIT research, the new technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.

RLE, Nanotech
Less-wasteful laser-cutting

Fabricaide, developed at MIT CSAIL, provides live design feedback to help users reduce leftover material.

CSAIL, AI
Researchers develop speedier network analysis for a range of computer hardware

The advance could boost recommendation algorithms and internet search.

CSAIL, AI
Shafi Goldwasser named 2021 Laureate for North America in the 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards

The award celebrates Professor Goldwasser’s groundbreaking work in cryptography, which has enabled secure communication and verification over the internet and collaborative computation on private data.

CSAIL
“I know what you bought at Chipotle”

A new algorithm offers insights into consumer spending by identifying what someone purchased from only the bill total.

LIDS, InfoSys, Big Data