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February 18, 2026

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026

Seven faculty members, along with 12 additional alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education.

Doctoral thesis: On Structure, Parallelism, and Approximation in Modern Neural Sequence Modeling

Doctoral Thesis Title: On Structure, Parallelism, and Approximation in Modern Neural Sequence Modeling Presenter: Morris Yau  Presenter’s Affiliation (CSAIL, RLE, LIDS, MTL, etc.): CSAIL Thesis Supervisor(s): Jacob Andreas,

Doctoral thesis: Performance Portable Scientific Computing through Multi-Level Compiler Optimizations

Location: Room 34-401A (Grier Room A) Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93930155446?pwd=deWNA2lxU0KrlsNsIqc9g44TxtJtDM.1 Presenter: Avik Pal Thesis Title: Performance Portable Scientific Computing through Multi-Level Compiler Optimizations Thesis Abstract: Scientific computing faces a trade-off between

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

August 11, 2025

Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution

Storage systems from Cloudian, co-founded by an MIT alumnus, are helping businesses feed data-hungry AI models and agents at scale.

Ankur Moitra

Associate Director of the Institute for Data Systems & Society; Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics; joint appointment in EECS, [CS]

moitra@mit.edu

Office: 2-472 (default) and 32-G594

Thesis defense: Khashayar Gatmiry

Thesis Defense: New Techniques in Non-convex and Non-smooth Machine Learning Speaker: Khashayar GatmirySpeaker Affiliation: MIT CSAILHost: Stefanie JegelkaHost Affiliation: MIT CSAIL Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025Time: 2:00 PM

William Leiserson

Lecturer, [CS]

willtor@mit.edu

Office: 24-322

April 23, 2025

“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery

Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones.

March 18, 2025

Department of EECS announces 2025 promotions and appointments

All promotions and appointments will take effect July 1, 2025.