Studying floods to better predict their dangers
A fourth-generation civil engineer, graduate student Katerina Boukin researches the growing yet misunderstood threat of pluvial flooding, including flash floods.
A fourth-generation civil engineer, graduate student Katerina Boukin researches the growing yet misunderstood threat of pluvial flooding, including flash floods.
Amelia Trainer’s work is fundamental to understanding how nuclear reactors operate. A passion for computer modeling and poetry have stood her in good stead through her research career.
Guy Bresler builds mathematical models to understand multifaceted, interdisciplinary engineering problems that have far-reaching applications.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
On its own, a new machine-learning model discovers linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts.
Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center dataset aims to accelerate AI research into managing and optimizing high-performance computing systems.
Mathematical modeling speeds up the process of programming bacterial systems to self-assemble into desired 2D shapes.
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability — a project supported by Community Jameel — will study the implications of climate change on food security as they relate to trade.
A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.
A new computational model could explain differences in recognizing facial emotions.
Pinpointing risks can also help businesses save money as they become more resilient.
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.
MIT research highlights the opportunity to rethink global air quality guidelines.
By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are helping to solve one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.
The grants total over $1 million in support of research that addresses issues in the water and food sectors.