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Biomedical Sciences & Engineering
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Working at the cutting edge of engineering and medicine, our goal is to understand complex biological systems and engineer systems that solve important biological problems.
Biomedical Sciences and Engineering -
Associate professor Vivienne Sze's research focuses on more-efficient deep neural networks to process video, and more-efficient hardware to run applications. -
Caroline Uhler blends machine learning, statistics, and biology to understand how our bodies respond to illness. -
EECS Associate Professor Thomas Heldt finds inspiration where fundamental physical principles intersect with human health. -
Regina Barzilay, Fotini Christia, and Collin Stultz describe how artificial intelligence and machine learning can support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness in health care. -
Analysis reveals genetic control elements that are linked to hundreds of human traits. -
Biological sensors developed by MIT spinout Glympse Bio could help clinicians make decisions for individual patients. -
Thomas Shi-Tao Huang SM ’60, ScD ’63, a former professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, passed away on April 25, 2020, three months after the death of his beloved wife Margaret. A pioneer in image processing and compression, computer vision, pattern recognition, multimedia retrieval, and human-computer interaction, Huang’s breadth and depth of scholarship was informed by a wide-ranging appetite for music and art. -
M-CELS are purpose-driven living systems with multiple interacting living components. -
Machine learning model predicts probability that a particular urinary tract infection can be treated by specific antibiotics. -
MIT conference illustrates technologies developed in response to the pandemic and new opportunities for AI solutions for clinical management. -
Computational method for screening drug compounds can help predict which ones will work best against tuberculosis or other diseases. -
This summer has seen three new career development chairs appointed within the EECS faculty: Kevin Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Mengjia Yan. Meet the new chairs here. -
July saw two new chair appointments within the department’s leadership. Please join us in congratulating Asu Ozdaglar and Joel Voldman on their accomplishments, and learn more about the new chairs here.MTL, RLE, InfoSys, ApplPhysDev, Biomed, Systems, Theory, bio-EECS, Connections, Multicore -
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Murray Eden, Emeritus Professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT, passed away on August 9, 2020, in Tucson, AZ. He was one week shy of his 100th birthday. -
Specialized nanoparticles create a “breath signal” that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases. -
PhD student Geeticka Chauhan draws on her experiences as an international student to strengthen the bonds of her MIT community. -
Engineers design nanoparticles that stimulate the immune system, helping it to attack tumors. -
The new technique could help doctors determine whether patients are at risk from elevated pressure. -
Thanks to their work, doctors can now look at living tissue in new ways to diagnose eye disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses faster and more accurately. -
Ingestible electronic devices could monitor physiological conditions or deliver drugs. -
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research. -
Measuring enzyme levels could help doctors select appropriate treatments. -
New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted. -
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.
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