From “cheetah-noids” to humanoids
Benjamin Katz '16, SM '18 is applying the skills he gained working on MIT's mini cheetah robot to the ATLAS project at Boston Dynamics.
Benjamin Katz '16, SM '18 is applying the skills he gained working on MIT's mini cheetah robot to the ATLAS project at Boston Dynamics.
MIT philosopher Justin Khoo explores tensions in the ways we use language, seek truth, and communicate about the world.
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
Sihao Huang, William Kuhl, Tingyu Li, Giramnah Peña-Alcántara, Sreya Vangara, and Kelly Wu will pursue graduate studies in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society.
Managing director of environment, health, and safety programs discusses MIT's resources for helping researchers and students operate safely in the lab.
Senior Max Williamson uses his background in computer science to tackle public policy issues in his home state and on a global scale.
Nikos Trichakis applies the tools of operations research to a wide range of problems, from medicine to corporate finance.
MIT visiting scholar is motivated by foundational science at the edges of the periodic table.
Senior Desmond Edwards has an insatiable curiosity about how the human body works — and how diseases stop it from working.
Ruonan Han seeks to develop next-generation electronic devices by harnessing terahertz waves.
Professor Bilge Yildiz finds patterns in the behavior of ions across applications.
Senior Ana Reyes Sanchez has long been drawn to problems involving ethics, decision-making, and rationality.
Dana Al-Sulaiman, a recent postdoc with MIT’s Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, has developed a cheap, minimally invasive diagnostic test for cancer.
“In astrophysics, we have only this one universe which we can observe,” the physics professor says. “With a computer, we can create different universes, which we can check.”