LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe human problem solution process has attracted an increasing amount of interest by educators, managers, comput…

Dong, W. "Modeling the Structure of Collective Intelligence"

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

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …

Robert R. Morris, Rosalind W. Picard

Alex Pentland

Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, Hossein Rahnama

Orkin, J. "Collective Artificial Intelligence: Simulated Role-Playing from Crowdsourced Data"

This project investigates the nature of mental representations of musical structure through cognitive study and machine modeling. These mod…

Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.

Peter Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan, Nicolás Della Penna, Yaniv Altshuler, Erez Shmueli, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Alex Pentland. (2016). Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference. arXiv:1608.01987.

Leo Bonanni, Amanda Parkes

Former Research Assistant

Leng, Yan. Collective Behavior over Social Networks with Data-driven and Machine Learning Models. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.

Former Research Assistant

Karan, A., Vincent, N., Karahalios, K., & Sundaram, H. (2025). Algorithmic Collective Action with Two Collectives.

Adan, V. "Hierarchical Music Structure Analysis, Modeling and Resynthesis: A Dynamical Systems and Signal Processing Approach"

Peter Krafft, Robert Hawkins, Alex Pentland, Noah Goodman, and Joshua Tenenbaum. (2015). Emergent Collective Sensing in Human Groups. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).

The MIT Media Lab’s Collective Learning group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that we…

Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening

tl;dr: Smart agents fail at coordination the same way humans do. Better reasoning doesn't fix it. Better interaction does. Intelligenc…

Cassandra Lee, Chuanqi Sun, and Saetbyeol LeeYouk. 2026. Rock Talk: An AI-Mediated Community Garden for Collective Reflection and Purpose Finding. In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1236–1240. https://doi.org/10.1145/3803784.3809268

RNA is a fundamental biomolecule that stands at the intersection of modern biology and the origins of life. It carries genetic instruc…

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…

TitleA Rational Choice Framework for Collective BehaviorTime & LocationFriday, July 7, 2017 - 2:00pm, 32-G449 (Kiva)Thesis SupervisorsJ…

LocationBroad Institute, Monadnock Room Description

Singh, N., Bernal, G., Savchenko, D., & Glassman, E. L. (2022). Where to Hide a Stolen Elephant: Leaps in Creative Writing with Multimodal Machine Intelligence. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Ho, P. H., Smuts, C., Kayser, M. A., Hernandez, J. 2017. Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘17).

Arikan, H. "Collective Systems for Creative Expression"

Rubin, D., Costa, A. dos S., Ponnapati, M., & Jacobson, J. (2025). RiboGen: RNA Sequence and Structure Co-Generation with Equivariant Multiflow. AI for Nucleic Acids Workshop at ICLR 2025. Best Paper Award.

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.

Professor Post Tenure of Media Arts and Sciences

The choices we make about diet, environment, medications, or alternative therapies constitute a massive collection of "everyday experiments…

LocationE14-633 DescriptionFor a timely answer to the problem of sustainability, or how to provide for future generations, there needs to b…

Former Professor Emeritus; Former Founder

Former Research Assistant

Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2016). Linking individual and collective behavior in adaptive social networks. Physical review letters, 116(12), 128702. Chicago

Former Research Scientist

Tanzeem Choudhury, James Rehg, Vladimir Pavlovic, Alex Pentland

JJ Lee, WB Knox, JB Wormwood, C Breazeal, D DeSteno (2013). Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust. Frontiers in Psychology.

Wen Dong, Taemie Kim, Alex Pentland

Multisensory IntelligenceThe Multisensory Intelligence research group studies the foundations of multisensory artificial intelligence to cr…

Former Research Assistant

The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.

Postdoctoral Associate

In recent years, transformer-based language models have achieved state of the art performance in various NLP benchmarks. These models are a…

Alex Pentland, Bradley Horowitz

Vincent LeClerc Parkes, A., and Ishii, H.

Vincent LeClerc, Amanda Parkes, Hiroshi Ishii

Michele Coscia, Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo.

R Hausmann, CA Hidalgo

Dong, W. "Influence Modeling of Complex Stochastic Processes"

Ronen, S. "The Structure and Implications of the Global Language Network"

Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent?Rosalind Picard joins Ezra Klein to  discuss the importance of emotional cognit…

Tony S. Jebara, Alex Pentland

Airaghi Leccardi, M.J.I., Desbiolles, B.X.E., Haddad, A.Y. et al. Light-induced rolling of azobenzene polymer thin films for wrapping subcellular neuronal structures. Commun Chem 7, 249 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-024-01335-8

On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: that …

Collective Power employs a new type of human-computer interaction by visualizing data in a socially and psychologically aware way. The typ…

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…

Barahona, J. "Diffusion of Ideas, Practices, and Artifacts: Network Effects on Collective Outcomes"