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We seek candidates who have a bold vision for how design can help solve some of the societal and environmental problems we are facing.

Jason Hou, a PhD student in the Conformable Decoders research group, has been selected as a fellow for this NIH T32 grant.

Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.

PhD student Andrés Rico was named to MIT Technology Review’s "Innovators Under 35: Latin America" for 2023.

Canan Dagdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders group, is among the recipients of the 2023 Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.

Prof. Deblina Sarkar and PhD student Shivam Kajale of the MIT Media Lab awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI collaborators.

Media Lab alums, Rob Morris (Affective Computing) and J. Nathan Matias (Civic Media), are among 25 honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 awards.

Castrol membership supports the AstroAnt Payload Program.

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.

The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists.

Five Media Lab students–Ila Kumar, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Cecilé Sadler, Aastha Shah, and Raechel Walker–win MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.

Colin Marcus, a PhD student in the Conformable Decoders research group, has been selected for the EECS MathWorks Fellowship.

Baju Joy of the NCB research group receives the Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship Award.

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances to help monitor climate + coastal change

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.

Labber Safinah Ali served as an educator & curriculum designer for the SRMP Machine program at the American Museum of Natural History

Sarah joined Prof. Sarkar’s research group in September 2022 through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

Tzofi Klinghoffer and Kushagra Tiwary are among the winners of the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the North America Program.

This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).

The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

Alex Berke and Kent Larson of the Media Lab's City Science group co-authored a paper around these issues, recently published in Appetite.

Researchers from the Media Lab and collaborators begin their second trip to Svalbard, a remote land of wind, ice, and beauty.

The device detects the same molecules that cell receptors do, and may enable routine early screening for cancers and other diseases.

The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.

The MouthPad^ received the Grand Prix prize in the Innovation category and Silver in the Health + Wellness category.

Misha Sra is an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and current assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Barbara.

Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.

Deblina Sarkar is building tiny nanoelectronic devices that could constantly monitor our bodies, fixing any anomalies they find.

“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.

MIT professors Fadel Adib and Dina Katabi receive the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award for their paper, “See Through Walls with WiFi!”

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.

The MouthPad^ has been honored as the Winner of the Emerging Technologies Award and as a Runner Up for the Design for Social Impact Award!

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

In this age of climate change, the NFI's programs are addressed to those who wish to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide.

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.

Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments

This year's winners include Nicole Degnan, Director of Finance at the Media Lab, and Candido Monteiro, Facilities Assistant at the Media Lab

Sarkar among the 2023 SN 10: Scientists to Watch, early and mid-career scientists who are making extraordinary contributions to their field.

This event congregated a community of educators around the world to celebrate and share class content using the Day of AI curriculum.

Leonard Francis Vibbi, a student at the MIT Media Lab and at MIT GOV/LAB, has been selected for this new cross-Institute fellowship.

Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.

The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.

Cecilé Sadler, a research assistant in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, received the Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service.

Three members of the Media Lab community have received 2023 MIT Excellence Awards: Lindsey Charles, Mahy El-Kouedi, and Benoit Desbiolles!

On May 19, 2023, Professor Dava Newman received a Doctor Honoris Causa in Engineering from Universidade Minho in Portugal.

False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair.

Belén and Ufuoma received these awards at the 2023 Graduate Women of Excellence Ceremony in the Samberg Conference Center on May 8.

A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.

GAMMIFIED was Professor Machover's first attempt to create a musical work based around therapeutic Gamma frequencies.

The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023

The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.

A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstruction