People
People at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 10 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Alex Rives
Assistant Professor in EECS
Head of Science at Biohub; founder and former chief scientist of EvolutionaryScale, developer of ESM3
Alexander Amini
AI scientist; lead organizer and lecturer of MIT 6.S191 Introduction to Deep Learning
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Liquid AI; lead organizer of MIT 6.S191 Intro to Deep Learning
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor
MIT associate professor in EECS and CSAIL studying language learning and how neural models represent meaning
Kaiming He
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of EECS
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Mathias Lechner
Research Affiliate
Co-founder and CTO of Liquid AI; first author of the Neural Circuit Policies paper
Michael Carbin
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Head, Programming Systems Group (CSAIL)
MIT associate professor heading the Programming Systems Group; co-author of the lottery ticket hypothesis
Omar Khattab
Assistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab)
First author of DSPy and ColBERT; Assistant Professor at MIT EECS, where Khattab leads the OASYS lab
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor in EECS; member of CSAIL
MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision
Ramin Hasani
Machine learning scientist; previously a postdoctoral associate and research affiliate
Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI; first author of the Liquid Time-constant Networks paper
Song Han
Associate Professor with tenure, EECS
MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director; co-author of AWQ, SmoothQuant and StreamingLLM
Bill Dally
Led the team that built the J-Machine and M-Machine (1986–1997) (earlier role)
Chief scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA; co-author of Deep Compression; former Stanford CS chair
David Harwath
Research scientist (2018–2020) (earlier role)
UT Austin assistant professor who leads the SALT Lab; former MIT CSAIL research scientist
Jonathan Frankle
PhD student in computer science (completed 2023) (earlier role)
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; first author of the lottery ticket hypothesis paper; MosaicML founding team
Josef Sivic
Postdoc with William Freeman (earlier role)
Professor at CIIRC, Czech Technical University, and head of the IMPACT group; consults for Adobe Research
Joy Buolamwini
Past member (researcher on the Gender Shades project) (earlier role)
Founder and President of the Algorithmic Justice League; author of Unmasking AI and a newsletter
Jun-Yan Zhu
Postdoc, working with William T. Freeman, Josh Tenenbaum, and Antonio Torralba (earlier role)
CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix
Karen Livescu
Post-doctoral lecturer (2005–2007) (earlier role)
Professor at TTI-Chicago working on speech and language processing; former MIT EECS post-doctoral lecturer
Krste Asanović
Faculty member, receiving tenure in 2005, before returning to Berkeley in 2007 (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief Architect of SiFive; RISC-V co-creator and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
Marc Raibert
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science (earlier role)
Founder of Boston Dynamics and executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute
Michael Collins
Assistant/associate professor (January 2003 – December 2010) (earlier role)
Natural language processing researcher and research scientist at Google; former MIT faculty member
Michael I. Jordan
Professor (1988–1998) (earlier role)
Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Miika Aittala
Postdoctoral researcher, working with Frédo Durand (earlier role)
Member of NVIDIA Research; co-author of the StyleGAN3, EDM, and EDM2 generative model papers
Saadia Gabriel
CSAIL Postdoctoral Fellow (earlier role)
UCLA assistant professor studying factuality, intent, and harm in language; former NYU and MIT fellow
Trevor Darrell
Faculty, MIT EECS (1999–2008), directing the Vision Interface Group (earlier role)
UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI
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