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To improve artificial perception, Professor Paris Smaragdis seeks to make machines that can hear and understand sound even better than humans.

Making machines that can listen

“Designing infrastructure is a highly transdisciplinary, sociotechnical endeavor, involving social, technical, and economic considerations. Understanding how these systems are designed is increasingly important because they are becoming more complex, making decision-making particularly difficult,” says Ali Jadbabaie, JR East Professor and head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era

Professor Michael Yaffe, seen here in the Koch Institute Public Galleries, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, along with six MIT alumni.

Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2026

The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be coated with cancer antigens.

MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines

Social.Wiki employs a decentralized infrastructure that allows users to retain ownership of their data as they create, edit, and navigate social websites within the platform.

New system gives users more control over their online experience

Gunter Stein was a valued adjunct professor of EECS and researcher within LIDS, while he also worked at Honeywell Labs.

Gunter Stein, control systems and theory expert, dies at 84