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Caption:The “steerable scene generation” system creates digital scenes of things like kitchens, living rooms, and restaurants that engineers can use to simulate lots of real-world robot interactions and scenarios.
October 15, 2025

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

New tool from MIT CSAIL creates realistic virtual kitchens and living rooms where simulated robots can interact with models of real-world objects, scaling up training data for robot foundation models.

October 15, 2025

Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code

Co-founded by an EECS alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology.

October 8, 2025

Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

Assistant Professor Priya Donti’s research applies machine learning to optimize renewable energy.

MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

🥳 You’re invited – please join us on Friday, October 17 for our MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration!  📅 Friday, October 17 📍 Broad Institute – 300 Binney St. (2110 – Charles) ✍️ Register

September 10, 2025

A human-centered approach to data visualization

Balancing automation and agency, Associate Professor Arvind Satyanarayan develops interactive data visualizations that amplify human creativity and cognition.

Mitchell Gordon

KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology, Assistant Professor [CS]

mlgordon@mit.edu

Office: G-718

Brian Hedden

Professor, shared appointment with Department of Linguistics and Philosophy [AI+D]

bhedden@mit.edu

Office: 32-D926

Schmidt Center – MIT EECS Colloquium: Context in AI Research: Focus on Healthcare by Katherine Heller

Schmidt Center – MIT EECS Colloquium: Context in AI Research: Focus on Healthcare by Katherine Heller Tuesday, September 9, 20254:00 – 5:00 pm (refreshments at 3:30 pm)Broad Institute (Merkin Building,

Ben Lindquist

Assistant Professor, Leo Marx Career Development Professor in the History and Culture of Science and Technology, shared appointment with Department of History, [CS]

bclind@mit.edu

Office: E51-288

Bailey Flanigan

Assistant Professor, shared appointment with Political Science, Theodore T. Miller (1922) Career Development Professor [CS]

baileyf@mit.edu

Office: 53-437 and 45-501C