Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara, Paul Pu Liang, and Pattie Maes. 2026. Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Com- puting Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages.

Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Sergio Mutis, Yuxiang Cheng, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Portable Somatic Wearable: AI-Assisted Reflection Through Gaze-Derived Somatic Markers. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799134

Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Yanchen Shen, Yuqiao Liao, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Cry for AI: A Moss-Controlled AI Wearable for Resource-Aware Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799109

Nelson Hidalgo Julia, Robert Lewis, Craig Ferguson, Joshua Angulo Lopez, Hahrin Jung, Rosalind Picard, Simon Goldberg, Raquel Tatar, Wendy S.-Y. Lau, Caroline Swords, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, Gabriela Valdivia, Molly Schaefer, and Richard Davidson. 2026. Designing an Affective Mobile Probe to Measure Smile Dynamics in Depression. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in

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Song, H., Herrera-Arcos, G., Friedman, G.N. et al. A myoneural actuator with engineered biophysics for implantable biohybrid systems. Nat Commun 17, 2584 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70626-6

Karny, S., Baez, A., & Pataranutaporn, P. (2026). Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 868–884. doi:10.1145/3742413.3789120

O. K. Afsar et al., "Electrofluidic fiber muscles." Sci. Robot. 11, eady6438 (2026). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438

Danry, V*., Billa, J. G.*, Samaradivakara, Y.*, Liang, P. P., Maes, P. (2026, March). Mind Mapper: Modeling and Predicting Behavioral Patterns from Everyday Conversations with Wearable AI Systems and LLMs. In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Cohen, J. A., Shimizu, K., Song, A., Bharath, V., Maes, P., & Larson, K. (2026, March). Do Robots Need Body Language? Comparing Communication Modalities for Legible Motion Intent in Human-Shared Spaces. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 322-326).

Shuvo, I.I., Flores-Hernandez, D.R., Smith, G. et al. Breaking the thermal limit of atmospheric water harvesting technologies. Nat. Rev. Clean Technol. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44359-026-00154-5

Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., & Maes, P. (2026). Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798358

Izquierdo, L., Nawyn, J. & Larson, K. "Comparative assessment of women’s safety and mobility research methods in informal neighborhoods." npj Urban Sustain (2026).

Coronas Sala, Laia, and Parfait Atchade-Adelomou. "QMProt: A Comprehensive Dataset of Quantum Properties for Proteins." Electronics 14.14 (2025): 2825.

Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann. (2026). NeuroSkill™: Proactive Real-Time Agentic System Capable of Modeling Human State of Mind (Version 0.0.1) [Software]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03212

Buchthal, Joanna et al. "Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents." Cell Reports Methods, Volume 6, Issue 2, 101311

Islam, M. S., Kuwayama, Y., Entekhabi, D., Turner, K. M., Lu, C., Castillo, F. M., ... & Wood, D. (2026). A subnational social vulnerability index for use in drought decision support systems. Environmental Science & Policy, 178, 104349.

Rico, A., Izquierdo, L., Delgado, E. et al. The challenges, methods, and opportunities of understanding informal urbanism: a case study in Lomas del Centinela, Mexico. npj Urban Sustain 6, 35 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00360-x

Contributors: Kaustubh Dhavse, Chief Advisor to CM, Maharashtra; Dr. Praveen Gedam, Divisional Commissioner, Nashik; Shekhar Singh, Commissioner of Kumbh Mela, Nashik; Dr. Ramesh Raskar, MIT and Project Nanda; Dr. Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services; Mahesh Lambe, Project NANDA; Saurabh Sakalkar, Project NANDA; Ankur Shinde, Project NANDA; Gurusha Raskar, Project NANDA

Jisung Shin, Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, and Hossein Rahnama

Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, Hossein Rahnama

Dan Aronoff and Neha Narula, et al. "The Hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins: Financial and Technological Risks in the GENIUS Act Era," Digital Currency Initiative, February 2026, https://dci.mit.edu/projects/hidden-plumbing-stablecoins

Manuel Cherep, Chengtian Ma, Abigail Xu, Maya Shaked, Pattie Maes, and Nikhil Singh. "A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Nikhil Singh*, Manuel Cherep*, and Pattie Maes "Discovering and Steering Interpretable Concepts in Large Generative Music Models." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Ornellas, S. B., Kizilaslan, B., Shah, A., Hou, J. F., Shin, Y., Moyers, A. H., Lozano, C., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Ultrasound in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Applications, and Emerging Opportunities”, Advanced Materials, 0:e20454, 2026. [“Women in Materials Science” Special Issue]

Marcus, C.*, Nayeem, M. O. G.*, Shah, A., Hou, J., Viswanath, S., Eusebio, M., Sadat, D., Chandrakasan, A. P., Ozmen, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging with an Ultra-Sparse, Low Power Architecture”, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 0:e05310, 2026

Kushagra Tiwary et al. ,What if eye...? Computationally recreating vision evolution. Sci. Adv. 11, eady2888 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady2888

Carty, Matthew J.; Fernandez, Michael F.; Sullivan, Corey L.; Chiao, Rachael; Berger, Lori; Sparling, Tawnee L.; Souza, Jason M.; Potter, Benjamin K.; Beltran, Luis; Herr, Hugh M. Human Implementation of Upper-Extremity Amputation Incorporating Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) Construction. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, December 12, 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000012642

Chambers, L., Connolly, R., Kirk, M. S., Fischer, H., Aranda, A., Bowden, M. L., Cass, M., Cominsky, L. R., Czajkowski, K. P., Edson, L. B., Gardner-Vandy, K., Higdon, R., Holland, A., Keller, J. M., Kohl, H., Leavell, C., MacDonald, E., McCarthy, C., Mead, C., … White, V. (2025). Uniting Under the Eclipse: A Mega-Collaboration to Activate Science Learning Across the Penumbra and Beyond. Bulletin

Sanchez, N. C., & Larson, K. (2025). Understanding demand for shared autonomous micro-mobility. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 149, 105018.

Poster NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025

Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 (MAB 25), Bangkok, Thailand — accepted for publication.

Thasin, M., Baradari, D., Mykhaylychenko, D., & Mhungu, C. (2025, November 9). A(I)nimism: Re-enchanting the World Through AI-Mediated Object Interaction. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Creative AI Track: Humanity.

Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, and Pattie Maes. "Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests." NeurIPS Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning (LAW)

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Kent Larson, Understanding demand for shared autonomous micro-mobility, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 149, 2025, 105018, ISSN 1361-9209

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P. Pataranutaporn, N. Powdthavee, C. Archiwaranguprok, & P. Maes, Simulating human well-being with large language models: Systematic validation and misestimation across 64,000 individuals from 64 countries, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (48) e2519394122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519394122 (2025).

Sayed Saad Afzal, Jack Rademacher, Weitung Chen, Purui Wang, and Fadel Adib. 2025. Scalable and Low Power Localization for Underwater Robots. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MOBICOM '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1075–1090. https://doi.org/10.1145/3680207.3765265

Shuvo, I.I., Díaz-Marín, C.D., Christen, M. et al. High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by ultrasonic extraction. Nat Commun 16, 9947 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65586-2

Raechel Wallker. 2023. Systemic Justice Capstone Project: Enabling Students to Mitigate Systemic Oppression Through Data Activism. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1237. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3573293

Andron, Sabina, Tom Ward, and Konstantinos Avramidis. "Urban Surfaces Research Network Vol. 5". 13 Nov. 2025. Web. 13 Nov. 2025.

Matton, Katie & Balaji, Purvaja & Ghasemzadeh, Hamzeh & Cooper, Jameson & Mehta, Daryush & Van Stan, Jarrad & Hillman, Robert & Picard, Rosalind & Guttag, John & Abulnaga, Mazdak. (2025). Classifying Phonotrauma Severity from Vocal Fold Images with Soft Ordinal Regression. 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09702.

Berke A, Calacci D, Pentland A, Larson K (2025) Evaluating Amazon effects and the limited impact of COVID-19 with purchases crowdsourced from US consumers. PLoS One 20(11): e0336571. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336571

S. Yadav, R.X. Lee, S.N. Kajale, B.C. Joy, M. Saha, P. Patel, L. Bull, S. Cao, S. Mitragotri, D. Bono, D. Sarkar. A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid for focal neuromodulation. Nature Biotechnology (2025).

Zhang, C., Kim, M., Ghorbani, S., Wu, J., Picard, R., Maes, P., & Liang, P. P. (2025). When One Modality Sabotages the Others: A Diagnostic Lens on Multimodal Reasoning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02794.

Hu, Kai, Parfait Atchade-Adelomou, Carlo Adornetto, Adrian Mora-Carrero, Luis Alonso-Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yubo Liu, and Kent Larson. "Graph RAG as Human Choice Model: Building a Data-Driven Mobility Agent with Preference Chain." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16172 (2025).

Somin, S., Erhardt, K., Cohen, T. et al. Temporal fingerprints for identity matching across fully encrypted domains. Nat Commun 16, 9488 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64785-1

Jocelyn Scheirer, Rosalind Picard, and Aubrey Cantrell. 2025. Personalized Animations for Affective Feedback: Generative AI Helps to Visualize Skin Conductance. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 146–151. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746270.3760237

Raechel Dionne Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, Kantwon Rogers, Catherine D’Ignazio, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2025. Archaeology of Self: Reflexivity in Data Activism to Address Systemic Injustices. In Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO’25), November 05–07, 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/375

Leticia Izquierdo, Gabriela Bìlá, Maitane Iruretagoyena, and Kent Larson. 2025. The Community Carbon Impact: Engaging Visitors in Urban Sustainability. interactions 32, 6 (November - December 2025), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3769006

*Senthil, S., *Fedor, S., Zhang, B., Nathan, V., Stickgold, R., Picard, R. W., Associations Between Circadian Sleep Alignment, Sleep Regularity, and Wellbeing: Evidence from Wearable Data, In *Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI’25), Atlanta, GA, USA