School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

The Faculty of Engineering welcomes 15 new school members throughout six of its educational departments. This new cohort of college members, who’ve both just lately began their roles at MIT or will begin throughout the subsequent 12 months, conduct analysis throughout a various vary of disciplines.

Many of those new school concentrate on analysis that intersects with a number of fields. Along with positions within the Faculty of Engineering, a variety of these school have positions at different models throughout MIT. College with appointments within the Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science (EECS) report into each the Faculty of Engineering and the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman Faculty of Computing. This 12 months, new school even have joint appointments between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science.

“I’m delighted to welcome this cohort of proficient new school to the Faculty of Engineering,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, chief innovation and technique officer, dean of engineering, and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science. “I’m significantly struck by the interdisciplinary strategy many of those new school take of their analysis. They’re working in areas which are poised to have super influence. I look ahead to seeing them develop as researchers and educators.”

The brand new engineering school embody:

Stephen Bates joined the Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science as an assistant professor in September 2023. He’s additionally a member of the Laboratory for Data and Resolution Methods (LIDS). Bates makes use of information and AI for dependable decision-making within the presence of uncertainty. Particularly, he develops instruments for statistical inference with AI fashions, information impacted by strategic conduct, and settings with distribution shift. Bates additionally works on purposes in life sciences and sustainability. He beforehand labored as a postdoc within the Statistics and EECS departments on the College of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Bates acquired a BS in statistics and arithmetic at Harvard College and a PhD from Stanford College.

Abigail Bodner joined the Division of EECS and Division of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor in January. She can be a member of the LIDS. Bodner’s analysis pursuits span local weather, bodily oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and turbulence. Beforehand, she labored as a Simons Junior Fellow on the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York College. Bodner acquired her BS in geophysics and arithmetic and MS in geophysics from Tel Aviv College, and her SM in utilized arithmetic and PhD from Brown College.

Andreea Bobu ’17 will be part of the Division of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an assistant professor in July. Her analysis sits on the intersection of robotics, mathematical human modeling, and deep studying. Beforehand, she was a analysis scientist on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, specializing in how robots and people can effectively arrive at shared representations of their duties for extra seamless and dependable interactions. Bobu earned a BS in laptop science and engineering from MIT and a PhD in electrical engineering and laptop science from UC Berkeley.

Suraj Cheema will be part of the Division of Supplies Science and Engineering, with a joint appointment within the Division of EECS, as an assistant professor in July. His analysis explores atomic-scale engineering of digital supplies to sort out challenges associated to power consumption, storage, and era, aiming for extra sustainable microelectronics. This spans computing and power applied sciences by way of built-in ferroelectric units. He beforehand labored as a postdoc at UC Berkeley. Cheema earned a BS in utilized physics and utilized arithmetic from Columbia College and a PhD in supplies science and engineering from UC Berkeley.

Samantha Coday joins the Division of EECS as an assistant professor in July. She will even be a member of the MIT Analysis Laboratory of Electronics. Her analysis pursuits embody ultra-dense energy converters enabling renewable power integration, hybrid electrical plane and future area exploration. To allow high-performance converters for these vital purposes her analysis focuses on the optimization, design, and management of hybrid switched-capacitor converters. Coday earned a BS in electrical engineering and arithmetic from Southern Methodist College and an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering and laptop science from UC Berkeley.

Mitchell Gordon will be part of the Division of EECS as an assistant professor in July. He will even be a member of the MIT Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory. In his analysis, Gordon designs interactive methods and analysis approaches that bridge rules of human-computer interplay with the realities of machine studying. He at present works as a postdoc on the College of Washington. Gordon acquired a BS from the College of Rochester, and MS and PhD from Stanford College, all in laptop science.

Kaiming He joined the Division of EECS as an affiliate professor in February. He will even be a member of the MIT Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His analysis pursuits cowl a variety of subjects in laptop imaginative and prescient and deep studying. He’s at present centered on constructing laptop fashions that may study representations and develop intelligence from and for the complicated world. Long run, he hopes to enhance human intelligence with improved synthetic intelligence. Earlier than becoming a member of MIT, He was a analysis scientist at Fb AI. He earned a BS from Tsinghua College and a PhD from the Chinese language College of Hong Kong.

Anna Huang SM ’08 will be part of the departments of EECS and Music and Theater Arts as assistant professor in September. She’s going to assist develop graduate programming centered on music expertise. Beforehand, she spent eight years with Magenta at Google Mind and DeepMind, spearheading efforts in generative modeling, reinforcement studying, and human-computer interplay to help human-AI partnerships in music-making. She is the creator of Music Transformer and Coconet (which powered the Bach Google Doodle). She was a choose and organizer for the AI Track Contest. Anna holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila, a BM in music composition, and BS in laptop science from the College of Southern California, an MS from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD from Harvard College.

Yael Kalai PhD ’06 will be part of the Division of EECS as a professor in September. She can be a member of CSAIL. Her analysis pursuits embody cryptography, the speculation of computation, and safety and privateness. Kalai at present focuses on each the theoretical and real-world purposes of cryptography, together with work on succinct and simply verifiable non-interactive proofs. She acquired her bachelor’s diploma from the Hebrew College of Jerusalem, a grasp’s diploma on the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a PhD from MIT.

Sendhil Mullainathan will be part of the departments of EECS and Economics as a professor in July. His analysis makes use of machine studying to know complicated issues in human conduct, social coverage, and medication. Beforehand, Mullainathan spent 5 years at MIT earlier than becoming a member of the college at Harvard in 2004, after which the College of Chicago in 2018. He acquired his BA in laptop science, arithmetic, and economics from Cornell College and his PhD from Harvard College.

Alex Rives will be part of the Division of EECS as an assistant professor in September, with a core membership within the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In his analysis, Rives is concentrated on AI for scientific understanding, discovery, and design for biology. Rives labored with Meta as a New York College graduate scholar, the place he based and led the Evolutionary Scale Modeling crew that developed giant language fashions for proteins. Rives acquired his BS in philosophy and biology from Yale College and is finishing his PhD in laptop science at NYU.

Sungho Shin will be part of the Division of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor in July. His analysis pursuits embody management idea, optimization algorithms, high-performance computing, and their purposes to decision-making in complicated methods, similar to power infrastructures. Shin is a postdoc on the Arithmetic and Laptop Science Division at Argonne Nationwide Laboratory. He acquired a BS in arithmetic and chemical engineering from Seoul Nationwide College and a PhD in chemical engineering from the College of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jessica Stark joined the Division of Organic Engineering as an assistant professor in January. In her analysis, Stark is growing applied sciences to comprehend the largely untapped potential of cell-surface sugars, referred to as glycans, for immunological discovery and immunotherapy. Beforehand, Stark was an American Most cancers Society postdoc at Stanford College. She earned a BS in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Cornell College and a PhD in chemical and organic engineering at Northwestern College.

Thomas John “T.J.” Wallin joined the Division of Supplies Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in January. As a researcher, Wallin’s pursuits lay in superior manufacturing of purposeful tender matter, with an emphasis on tender wearable applied sciences and their purposes in human-computer interfaces. Beforehand, he was a analysis scientist at Meta’s Actuality Labs Analysis working of their haptic interplay crew. Wallin earned a BS in physics and chemistry from the Faculty of William and Mary, and an MS and PhD in supplies science and engineering from Cornell College.

Gioele Zardini joined the Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor in September. He will even be part of LIDS and the Institute for Knowledge, Methods, and Society. Pushed by societal challenges, Zardini’s analysis pursuits embody the co-design of sociotechnical methods, compositionality in engineering, utilized class idea, choice and management, optimization, and recreation idea, with society-critical purposes to clever transportation methods, autonomy, and complicated networks and infrastructures. He acquired his BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering with a deal with robotics, methods, and management from ETH Zurich, and frolicked at MIT, Stanford College, and Motional.