Associate professor's research focuses on statistics, machine learning and computational biology, in particular on graphical models, causal inference, algebraic statistics, and applications to genomics. SHARE: View All. Muriel Medard has collaborated with several colleagues to examine the use of two dominating information theories used in today's vast and growing transmission of data while both avoiding noise and demonstrating how to determine the capacities of networks. Hydrogen Defects in Tetragonal ZrO 2 Studied Using Density Functional Theory M. Youssef and B. Yildiz Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16 4, 1354-1365, 2014. 2020 has seen the addition of many new faculty members, including five recent hires within EECS. MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Nanotechnology & Quantum Information Processing, Method finds hidden warning signals in measurements collected over time, Faculty receive funding to develop artificial intelligence techniques to combat Covid-19, Yury Polyanskiy wins the 2020 James L. Massey Award, Professor Emeritus Michael Athans, pioneer in control theory, dies at 83, Three EECS professors receive fellowships for early stage research, Five EECS faculty members named to career development chairs, EECS faculty member Caroline Uhler receives tenure, Roundup: EECS student honors and awards, 2019-2020, Making wireless communication more energy efficient, Professor Alan Willsky to be honored for achievements in signal processing, EECS faculty members receive INFORMS John Von Neumann Theory Prize, Asu Ozdaglar named as School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Pablo Parrilo named to Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professorship, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society to launch new MicroMasters and PhD programs, Pablo Parrilo becomes a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Devavrat Shah, Nickolai Zeldovich receive Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships, Professor Asu Ozdaglar named head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS presents awards for outstanding PhD and SM theses. Interdisciplinary doctoral program in statistics and online MicroMasters program in statistics and data science begin this fall. Current and former EECS students were honored at a recent luncheon. Murray Eden, Emeritus Professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT, passed away on August 9, 2020, in Tucson, AZ. A new algorithm offers insights into consumer spending by identifying what someone purchased from only the bill total. Read more. A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs. Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering including five EECS faculty members Five members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of a total of eight MIT faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering including Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Anantha Chandrakasan, L. Rafael Reif and Daniela Rus. Indyk/Katabi's sparse Fourier transform (SFT) has been named to MIT Technology Review’s 2012 list of the world’s 10 most important emerging technologies. EECS Celebrates Awards; Closing the GAAP: a new mentorship program encourages underrepresented students in the final stretch of their academic marathon. As a prospective MIT EECS graduate student, you can explore on this website the depth and breadth of research carried out by our world-class faculty and research … DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2014.8. MIT ACM/IEEE plans different events and activities for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, better known as Course VI. Invited article, Materials Research Society Bulletin issue on Elastic Strain Engineering, 39 2, 147-156, 2014. While at MIT, Omer Tanovic PhD '19 focused on work that he hopes "will help to solve real-world problems.". Our graduates change the world. Research. Medard, California Institute of Technology's Michelle Effros and the late Ralf Koetter of the University of Technology in Munich have addressed some of the toughest issues in a two part paper published recently in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Clockwise from top left: Professors Andreas, Belay, O'Brien, Agrawal, and Reiskarimian. Eden was associated with MIT from 1959 until 1979; his groundbreaking body of work was split between MIT, Harvard Medical School, the National Institutes of Health, and the World Health Organization, and focused on pattern recognition and its application in medical image processing. We combine fundamental science with the excitement of discovery. The appointment recognizes foundational research and accomplishments in teaching and service. ​. CSAIL , Biomed , AI , bio-EECS Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile She succeeds Anantha Chandrakasan, who was named dean of engineering, as leader of MIT’s largest academic department. C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards $5.4 million to top researchers to steer how society responds to the pandemic. The EECS faculty member is among 28 members of the SIAM Class of 2018. The MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department held a reception, October 18, to celebrate the official launch of the new SuperUROP undergraduate research program. The award covers tuition and fees for up to two years and includes a generous stipend. Professors Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis are honored for “tremendous impact” of their work in operations research and the management sciences. Read more. Labs. A new deep-learning algorithm could provide advanced notice when systems — from satellites to data centers — are falling out of whack. MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Room 38-401  |  77 Massachusetts Avenue  | Cambridge, MA 02139. MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Room 38-401  |  77 Massachusetts Avenue  | Cambridge, MA 02139. EECS Alliance; MIT SuperUROP; VI-A MEng. Longtime professor of electrical engineering was also a transformative director of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems. Key Data 2008-2013 Cristina Pereira Bertrand Meyer Enrico Nardelli Hannes Werthner Informatics Education in Europe: Institutions, Degrees, Students, Positions, Salaries. DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54153C. Thesis Program; MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) EECS International; Women's Technology Program ; EECS Masterworks; EECS Rising Stars; Career Opportunities; Sections. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Nanotechnology & Quantum Information Processing, EECS Welcomes Five New Faculty Members in 2020, The launch of SuperUROP is celebrated Oct. 18, 2012, Berggren teams to create self-assembling 3D micro structures, Sparse Fourier transform named one of 10 most important emerging technologies, Medard, colleagues address network capacity, Arvind makes multicore chip design more reliable, Verghese teams to develop brain monitoring system avoiding unneeded surgery, Davis, Multimodal Understanding Group build gesture-control system to land robotic planes, Devadas' Hornet promises new accuracy in testing multi-core chip designs, Aaronson wins NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award, Hoyt, del Alamo and Palacios weigh in on transistors and U.S. production, Barbara Liskov named to National Inventors Hall of Fame, Bhatia teams to improve diagnostics for Sickle Cell Anemia, Stojanovich, Ram & Watts advance future of US optoelectronic chip production, Wornell teams to create fast, reliable 'rateless' error-correcting codes for unpredictable wireless channels, Dennis Selected for ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame, Verghese named Henry Ellis Warren Professor of Electrical Engineering, Weinstein, recipient of NSF Early Career Award, Kirtley, students & Masdar Institute colleague featured by MITEI for microgrid study, Tim Lu named for the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization, Katabi, Indyk speed up the Fast Fourier Transform, Golland's role as medical mathematician is featured by the MIT News Office. Professor Ruonan Han joined the EECS department at MIT as an assistant professor in July 2014. EECS awarded Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships to (from left) Professors Wojciech Matusik, Tomas Palacios, and Armando Solar-Lezama. Automated data science tools developed by MIT and Feature Labs (co-founded by two EECS alums) deliver their first AI product.