Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA·Private
25 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.1B a year on research and awards 692 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 12,915: 4,788 undergraduates, 8,127 graduate
- Postdocs
- 1,452
- Faculty
- 1,391 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Hari Balakrishnan
Computer Science
Test whether AI agents built on large language models can discover better decision rules, or heuristics, for networked systems in settings where goals are measurable, using concrete case studies and benchmark evaluation.
William Minicozzi
Mathematics & Statistics
Establish gradient estimates and monotonicity formulas for harmonic functions and heat equation solutions, clarifying how they depend on dimension and how elliptic and parabolic behavior relate.
Jesse Thaler
Physics
Develop "ab initio AI" methods that build first principles of fundamental physics into machine learning, to make intractable theoretical physics calculations, such as precision structure-of-matter predictions, feasible.
Navid Azizan Ruhi
Engineering·Early-career
Develop Hard-Constrained Neural Networks (HardNet), which use a differentiable projection layer to guarantee input-dependent constraints, and embed them in reinforcement learning to produce certifiably safe policies.
Bradley Olsen
Materials Science
Extend the CRIPT polymer data platform into CRIMaC, a broader chemistry and materials data system, by expanding BigSMILES notation to biochemistry, simulation data and hybrid organic–inorganic materials.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.