MIT EECS

Marzyeh Ghassemi, the Germeshausen Career Development Professor at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is a finalist in the MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative prize competition, which supports biotech innovators and faculty entrepreneurs interested in commercializing their solutions. Ghassemi is creating a new layer of data-centric safety infrastructure that helps ensure AI systems remain reliable in high-stakes settings such as healthcare, finance, and public services by identifying out-of-distribution or corrupted inputs before they reach a model. https://lnkd.in/eMNJrfhD

📣 New Podcast Episode! Why AI Still Can't Load the Dishwasher 🤖 🫧 When The Jetsons imagined life in 2062, Rosey the robot maid seemed like pure science fiction. Today, chatbots can answer questions, analyze data and even crack jokes. But they still can't load the dishwasher. In this episode of Building 32, MIT CSAIL and MIT EECS Associate Professor Vincent Sitzmann explains why building AI that understands and interacts with the physical world is a fundamentally different challenge. Sitzmann explains why today's AI still struggles with seemingly simple physical tasks and how researchers are teaching machines to see, predict, and interact with the world around them. https://bit.ly/45jaxNS Host: Karen Given Producer & Audio: Tina Tobey Mack

📣 Calling all companies: recruit MIT EECS talent @ 2026 EECS Career Fair Every fall, the MIT EECS Career Fair connects companies with hundreds of Course 6 students and researchers — candidates in AI, machine learning, systems, hardware, and robotics seeking full-time and internship roles. Company registration is now open. The fair is a benefit of EECS Alliance membership, which offers companies year-round engagement with MIT EECS. Already a member? Register below. Interested in joining? The same page shows you how. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eauiz_WJ 📅 Sept 24, 2026 | 🕓 4–7 PM | 📍 MIT Campus (location TBA) 🎓 Students: no action needed yet — student registration opens in September. Watch this page. #MITEECS #TechRecruiting #CareerFair #Hiring #AI #Engineering

Prof. Jelena Notaros, her research group of graduate students, and her UROP (undergraduate researcher) students hosted around 300 curious high schoolers from this year's MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in a hybrid virtual/in-person tour of the photonics lab!

Lecturer Gim Hom recently taught a "last class" in the Cypress Engineering Design Studio here at EECS. His students for this special class? Fifteen of his classmates from the class of 1971. https://lnkd.in/esuRYMYD

“It’s definitely an overloaded term,” Vincent Sitzmann says of the term "world model" in this fascinating feature at Ars Technica. Is a true world model even achievable? Is it a branding term more than an actual descriptor? Read more:

In the early months of a PhD program, everything can feel urgent. Ideas move quickly, expectations feel high, and timelines, especially initial deadlines, may become heavy. In those moments, Professor Anantha P. Chandrakasan (honored this year with the Committed to Caring award) is there for his students, armed with steady mentorship and clear guidance to help them regain perspective and move forward with confidence: https://lnkd.in/g63_V-YP

Alex L. Zhang was 13 years old when he published a video game that went viral. Now a graduate student working with Omar K. and Tim Kraska on AI, he's still making waves: this time, for his work to combat "context rot" in large language models. https://lnkd.in/gZxrQ-sn