Deblina Sarkar is recognized as one of the eight scientists leading next generation research by United For Medical Research.

The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation.

DCI director Neha Narula has been honored with the Alumni Trailblazers Award this year.

Congratulations to Media Lab professor Cynthia Breazeal on her joint appointment as senior associate dean of MIT Open Learning.

The LEGO Prize is presented to individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children.

Under Dr. Wood's leadership, the program will move forward with the NASA Astrobee robotic system as its new in-space robotic platform.

iCANX is a global innovation center aiming to disseminate cutting-edge technological innovation, and tap and train top innovative talents.

Danielle Wood joins Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts: a global community of public and private sector innovators and entrepreneurs.

Cynthia Breazeal has been chosen as one of two recipients of this award for the paper, "Emotion and Sociable Humanoid Robots."

Each new fellow continues to enhance the ISC’s focus on enabling the growth of resilient space commerce in the post-Covid world.

The award is given to a member of the electronic imaging community who has made significant and substantial contributions to the field.

The awards will support Dagdeviren's research in the emerging field of widely deployed biosensing tools.

The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard and alum Fernanda Viégas are elected to the SIGCHI Academy as part of the 2021 SIGCHI Awards.

Congratulations to Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib, who has received a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science.

FG is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition.

FlowIO is a project led by Responsive Environments PhD student Ali Shtarbanov that redesigns the role of pneumatics in soft robotics.

“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."

Nine Graduate Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholars have been chosen by MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.

Tree Clocks was selected as the winning project at the Code Cypher hosted by MIT CAST.

A research team including Fluid Interfaces group members Nataliya Kosmyna and Pattie Maes received the Best Poster Award at IEEE BSN 2021.

Safinah Ali, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among the recipients of the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2022.

"FlowIO represents a brilliantly thought-out system for creating pneumatic prototypes."

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

For the paper, “Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots"

The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science

For the paper titled: Dynamic Urban Planning: An Agent-based model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use Case Kendall Square.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's competitive fellowships administered by the MIT Office of Graduate Education (OGE).

Ufuoma Ovienmhada received two MIT RISE Awards this spring for her "work with diversity, inclusion and social justice on and off campus."

These awards recognize students who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers.

Shtarbanov won with his project "FlowIO Development Platform—the Pneumatic 'Raspberry Pi' for Soft Robotics."

Congratulations to the winners of this year's A'Design Awards, including Media Lab researchers Jack Forman, Ali Shtarbanov, and Hila Mor!

For the paper, "Improving Context-aware Habit-support Interventions using Egocentric Visual Contexts."

The RISE LBGTQ+ Pride Award recognizes staff and students who have made significant contributions to creating an inclusive community.

This year, among student winners of the Challenge, Personal Robots PhD candidate Randi Williams was honored as the 2021 Curious Scientist.

These awards recognize technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact.

The Fellowship program provides awards to PhD candidates conducting research on important topics across computer science and engineering.

The project has won a bronze award under the Personal Technology: Design Enhancements category of the 2021 Edison Best New Product Awards.

Women in Innovation and STEM Database at MIT (WISDM) announces fellowship program dedicated to promoting the visibility of women at MIT.

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos has been named as a One Young World Scholar by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) for 2020/2021.

A multi-institutional team, including members of the Camera Culture research group, has won the Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS-SpicyFL'20

Farita Tasnim from the Conformable Decoders group has been named as one of 48 finalists for the 2021 Hertz Fellowships.

Irmandy Wicaksono, PhD student in the Responsive Environments group, has been chosen as one of six finalists in the 2021 Lexus Design Award.

Randi Williams from the Personal Robots research group is among ten students who have received the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2021.

Media Lab alum Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao has earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award for on-skin interfaces.

The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list honors "bold risk-takers putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade" + includes a few Media Labbers.

Xiao Xiao, an alum and research affiliate of the Tangible Media group, recognized for her project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin

Design by Decay, by alum Andrea Ling, has been chosen as a winner in the Science in the Arts category at the 2020 Falling Walls conference.

Spinoff Graviky Labs has been listed as a winner in the Science Start-Ups category of this year's Falling Walls Science Summit.

Spinoff DeepCure, co-founded by Molecular Machines head Joe Jacobson and alumni Kfir Schreiber and Thrasyvoulos Karydis, raised $40 million

Nakagaki is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he's launching his own lab, the Actuated Experience Lab.

Wise Systems’ real-time, automated system powers delivery and service operations with drivers worldwide across the last-mile industry.

Natasha Jaques, an alum of the Affective Computing group, has won this year's award for her thesis: "Social and Affective Machine Learning"

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

Dr. Oliver co-led team VALENCIA IA4COVID19’s Grand Prize-winning entry to the XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge.

Spinoff Tulip, an E14 Fund company founded by alumni Natan Linder and Rony Kubat, has received a new round of investment financing.

Butlr's people-sensing platform uses body heat to provide actionable spatial insights for the built environment.

Srinivasan hopes her work will help make using a prosthetic limb far more like the real thing.

The President's Awards for Excellence in Research recognize staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!

Read more about this news regarding Media Lab spinoff Affectiva, founded by former Labber Rana El Kaliouby.

Congrats to Misha Sra, a recent Fluid Interfaces alum and current assistant professor in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara.

Media Lab spinoff co-founded by alum Jinha Lee is one of the 10 most innovative companies in augmented and virtual reality for 2020.

The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.

This award recognizes the impact of PhD research on the scientific discipline and practice in the field of signal processing.

Matthew Carty, a visiting scientist in the Biomechatronics group, has been named to this position at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Zhang has also been invited to deliver the 20th Schrödinger lecture on December 17, 2021.

The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.

Ten principal investigators from seven MIT departments and labs receive MIT J-WAFS seed grants, including Health 0.0 director Pratik Shah.

Sarah Beckmann, a communications coordinator, writes and edits content with the goal of promoting the Media Lab's unique research agenda.

Get to know more about Maggie Church, the program coordinator for the City Science research group, through this MIT SA+P profile.

Congratulations to the members of the MAS team who have been recognized for these awards this year!

Sarah Ballinger, a staff member within MIT CCC, has been selected as a winner of the 2021 MIT Excellence Awards, for Innovative Solutions.

Monica Orta, former Director of Diversity and Student Support, has transitioned to the School of Architecture and Planning in this new role.