Chari, Hoburg, and Moghbeli, all with ties to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, represent a quarter of NASA's astronaut candidate Class of 2017.
"One of today’s great challenges is how to help society navigate the unintended impact of technology itself," Reif tells more than 2,800 new graduates.
Innovative MIT research focuses on developing systems to perceive and identify objects in their environment and understand social interactions in traffic.