Stephen Bates joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in September 2023. Bates uses data and AI for reliable decision-making in the presence of uncertainty. In particular, he develops tools for statistical inference with AI models, data impacted by strategic behavior, and settings with distribution shift. Bates also works on applications in life sciences and sustainability. He previously worked as a postdoc in the departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California,Berkeley. Bates earned a BS in statistics and mathematics from Harvard University and a PhD from Stanford University.

Andreea Bobu ’17 will join the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an assistant professor in July 2024. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics, mathematical human modeling, and deep learning. Previously, she was a research scientist at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, focusing on how robots and humans can efficiently arrive at shared representations of their tasks for more seamless and reliable interactions. Bobu earned an SB in computer science and engineering from MIT and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Abigail Bodner joined the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor in January 2024. Bodner’s research interests span climate, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and turbulence. Previously, she worked as a Simons Junior Fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Bodner earned a BS in geophysics and mathematics and an MS in geophysics from Tel Aviv University, and an SM in applied mathematics and PhD from Brown University.

Suraj Cheema will join the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in July 2024. His research explores atomic-scale engineering of electronic materials to tackle energy consumption, storage, and generation challenges, aiming for more sustainable microelectronics. This work spans computing and energy technologies via integrated ferroelectric devices. He previously worked as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. Cheema earned a BS in applied physics and applied mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Samantha Coday joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in July 2024. Her research interests include ultra-dense power converters enabling renewable energy integration, hybrid electric aircraft, and future space exploration. Coday’s research focuses on optimizing, designing, and controlling hybrid switched-capacitor converters to enable high-performance converters for these critical applications. She earned a BS in electrical engineering and mathematics from Southern Methodist University and an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mitchell Gordon joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in July 2024. In his research, Gordon designs interactive systems and evaluation approaches that bridge principles of human-computer interaction with the realities of machine learning. He currently works as a postdoc at the University of Washington. Gordon earned a BS from the University of Rochester and an MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in computer science.

Kaiming He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an associate professor in February 2024. His research interests cover a wide range of topics in computer vision and deep learning. He is currently focused on building computer models that can learn representations and develop intelligence from and for the complex world. In the long term, he aims to augment human intelligence with improved AI. Before joining MIT, he was a research scientist at Facebook AI. He earned a BS from Tsinghua University and a PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Anna Huang SM ’08 joined the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Music and Theater Arts as an assistant professor in September 2024. She will help develop a graduate program focused on music technology. Previously, she spent eight years with Magenta at Google Brain and DeepMind, spearheading efforts in generative modeling, reinforcement learning, and human-computer interaction to support human-AI partnerships in music making. She created Music Transformer and Coconet, which powered the Bach Google Doodle. Huang holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila. She earned a BM in music composition and BS in computer science from the University of Southern California, an SM from MIT, and a PhD from Harvard University.

Yael Kalai PhD ’06 joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a professor in September 2024. Her research interests include cryptography, the theory of computation, and security and privacy. Kalai currently focuses on both the theoretical and real-world applications of cryptography, including work on succinct and easily verifiable noninteractive proofs. She earned a BS from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MS from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a PhD from MIT.

Sendhil Mullainathan will joined the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Economics as a professor in July 2024. His research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior, social policy, and medicine. Previously, Mullainathan spent five years at MIT before joining the faculty at Harvard in 2004, and then the University of Chicago in 2018. He earned his BA in computer science, mathematics, and economics from Cornell University and his PhD from Harvard University.

Alex Rives joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in September 2024, with a core membership at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In his research, Rives focuses on AI for scientific understanding, discovery, and design for biology. As a graduate student, Rives worked with Meta, leading the Evolutionary Scale Modeling Team that developed large language models for proteins. Rives received his BS in philosophy and biology from Yale University and is completing his PhD in computer science at New York University.

Sungho Shin joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor in July 2023. His research interests include control theory, optimization algorithms, high-performance computing, and their applications to decision-making in complex systems, such as energy infrastructures. Shin is currently a postdoc at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received a BS in mathematics and chemical engineering from Seoul National University and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jessica Stark joined the Department of Biological Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2024. In her research, Stark develops technologies to realize the largely untapped potential of cell-surface sugars, called glycans, for immunological discovery and immunotherapy. Previously, Stark was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. She earned a BS in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University.

Thomas John “T.J.” Wallin joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2024. As a researcher, Wallin’s interests lie in advanced manufacturing of functional soft matter, emphasizing soft wearable technologies and their applications in human-computer interfaces. Previously, he was a research scientist at Meta’s Reality Labs Research, working on their haptic interaction team. Wallin earned a BS in physics and chemistry from the College of William and Mary and an MS and PhD in materials science and engineering from Cornell University.

Gioele Zardini joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor in September 2024. Driven by societal challenges, Zardini’s research interests include the codesign of sociotechnical systems, compositionality in engineering, applied category theory, decision and control, optimization, and game theory, with society-critical applications to intelligent transportation systems, autonomy, and complex networks and infrastructures. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering, focusing on robotics, systems, and control from ETH Zurich.