MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomes seven new faculty for 2026
Faculty members serve in core computing and shared roles, bringing a wide range of experiences and areas of expertise to the MIT community.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2026
The newest MIT engineering faculty are conducting research across a diverse range of subject areas.
MIT-led team receives funding to develop next-generation alternatives to modern weed killers
With up to $53 million from ARPA-H, the researchers will use AI to generate safer herbicides that reduce dependence on imports and improve the security of the U.S. food supply.
A single AI model simulates the behavior of many substances, from sliding sand to folding proteins
By learning how matter moves, the WorldParticle system could assist with developing soft robots, medicines, and more.
Scene at MIT: Beautiful, intricate, creative quilts
The MIT Quilt Show, featuring more than 40 quilted projects from 20 members of the MIT community, drew almost 1,000 visitors over three days.
Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory
A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.
MIT-led team receives funding to develop a wearable monitor for early disease detection
Awarded up to $38 million from ARPA-H, the team aims to create a low-power, noninvasive sensor patch that measures heart failure and sepsis biomarkers in real-time.
Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery
The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
New system gives users more control over their online experience
The Social.Wiki framework enables anyone to easily edit social websites within the system, while allowing them to choose the content they see.
Making machines that can listen
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
Gunter Stein, control systems and theory expert, dies at 84
Longtime EECS adjunct professor and LIDS researcher was known for an influential essay on the need for engineers to “respect the unstable.”
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
MIT student team CERBERUZ wins NASA LunaRecycle Centennial Challenge, turning lunar trash into tools
The team took first prize in both the Prototype and Digital Twin tracks for its lunar waste recycling system.