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Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Finding could help overturn the prevailing notion that men and women experience angina differently.
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
[Update 10/29/2019: This project has two open positions for UROPs/visiting students or interns. One position focuses around electrical en...
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mu...
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve ...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...
The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of thought-provoking recipes, too...
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
CE 2.0
Mabu is about the size of a kitchen appliance and assists with day-to-day healthcare needs through daily "conversations."
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic mechani...
Women are more likely to report multiple symptoms, and "the majority of women present just like men."
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Creating technology for social change
System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
Health 0.0
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
S. S. Srinivasan, M. J. Carty, P. W. Calvaresi, T. R. Clites, B. E. Maimon, C. R. Taylor, A. N. Zorzos, H. Herr, On prosthetic control : A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface, 2, eaan2971 (2017).
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
The menacing mites have invaded suburban backyards and even parts of Boston. And Lyme disease isn’t the only thing they carry.
Kevin Esvelt writes about the Sculpting Evolution group’s project to immunize mice against Lyme disease through gene editing.
ML Learning
Our published research findings listed below share key examples for reducing dependence on specialized medical devices, biological &...
P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018774 * Equal contribution
K. Angelino*, P. Shah*, D. Edlund, M. Mohit, G. Yauney. BMC Oral Health 17.1: 162 (2017). DOI: 10.1186/s12903-017-0472-4. * Equal contribution
Perikumar Javia, Rana A, Shapiro NI, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00097
Aman Rana, Yauney G, Lowe A, Shah P. IEEE Xplore, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2018) (Conference acceptance rate: 14%). DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00133
We have described validation of novel machine learning architectures for designing faster, safer, and more efficacious digital medicines ...
A. Rana, G. Yauney, L. C. Wong, O. Gupta, A. Muftu, P. Shah. IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT). IEEE (2017). DOI: 10.1109/HIC.2017.8227605
E. Yee, S. Lathwal, P. Shah, H. Sikes. ACS sensors 2.11 (2017): 1589-1593. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00745
G. Yauney, K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, P. Shah. IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2017). DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-37
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, G. Bhatia, S. Wu, P. Shah. IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (2017). DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-33
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, P. Shah. Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Caries and Structural Deformities in Teeth. Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (2017). DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2017.2695194
R. S. Puri, A. G. Athanassiadis, N. Gill, S. S. Sathya, G. Rathod, A. Wahi, G. Satat, M. Majmudar, P. Shah. IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). pp. 1870-1873. IEEE, (2016). DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591085
Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
Advancing Wellbeing
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
The MAS.808 course perspective article published in Foresight was chosen as a winner by the editorial team, as it is one of the most exce...
In an interview with Medgadget, Canan Dagdeviren talks about the mission and ethos of Conformable Decoders
Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for ...
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots group, and her collaborators talk to US News about Huggable.
Summer’s great indoor-temperature debate rages on.
Ethics Initiative
Pratik Shah speaks on the challenges and opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption in clinical development.
Dr Pratik Shah speaks to ecancer at the 2019 MyKE Myeloma meeting in Barcelona.
Bloomberg Law interviews Pratik Shah for his opinion on the impact of AI in regulatory decisions.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...