Who we are + what we do + why we do it

The Director of People and HR Strategy has leadership and management responsibility for all human resources activities for the MIT Media Lab

Members of the Media Lab community participated in the 54th Annual Meeting of The World Economic Forum. Watch videos of selected sessions!

The Event Manager and Producer will plan and execute a wide variety of Lab-wide and high-level large-scale events with more than 500 guests

Dr. Sharif Islam, a postdoctoral associate in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as an ESIP Community Fellow and FEC Fellow

Classes offered by the Program in Media Arts and Sciences for the Spring 2024 semester

The NFI's "Opening Act" introduced the first cohort of students and included talks from experts in industry + academia. Watch the videos!

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments during 2024.

Dr. Alaa Algargoosh received the award for her research on how acoustic experiences can affect wellbeing.

Space Enabled experiments study dynamics of liquid wax in microgravity to inspire future low cost satellite fuel options

Jad Kabbara was selected for his research using generative AI for understanding community conversation.

Media Lab spinoff Augmental was recognized for their work on the MouthPad^, a smart oral splint.

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.

Professor Deblina Sarkar has been awarded The Sontag Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award—one of three winners nationwide this year.

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.

She was recognized in for her work on the development of a soft, multifunctional wearable platform.

The wearable device, designed to monitor bladder and kidney health, could be adapted for earlier diagnosis of cancers deep within the body.

Sarah’s research endeavors involve the development of new ultrasound technology that can enable the treatment of diseases in the deep brain.

The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities

Mentors are PhD students, postdocs, and researchers at top universities and research labs.

We’re delighted to announce our 2023–24 cohort of PLIX Creative Learning AmbassadorsThese library professionals share our passion for hands…

Postdoctoral fellow Samantha Chan (Fluid Interfaces) and collaborators win Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2023.

The recognition highlights his work at the Media Lab and his current position as chief minister of Sierra Leone.

The low-cost FibeRobo is compatible with existing textile manufacturing techniques.

B. Joy and D. Sarkar, "Cell Rover: An Intracellular Antenna for Radio Communication in 3D Biological Systems," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI), Portland, OR, USA, 2023, pp. 1381-1382, doi: 10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10237858.

Prof. Sarkar one of only two researchers worldwide to be named “MRS Early Career Distinguished Presenter” by the Materials Research Society.

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos from the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group has received two fellowships in support of his PhD.

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…

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

Media Lab student Jessica Shand, of the Opera of the Future group, was named to the inaugural class of the 2023 SJA Fellowship.

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…

The award recognizes technical achievements and contributions to society in the field of optical engineering.

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

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

A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.

Rico was recognized for his contributions in developing low-cost, open source sensors to test the quality and quantity of water sources.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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