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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals

System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Pain Management

Opioid therapy is the cornerstone of management of pain in the ICU. However, opioids present numerous side effects and are highly addicti...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Food Server

The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Multi-modal Active Learning From Human Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Rudovic, O., Zhang, M, Schuller, B., Picard, R. "Multi-modal Active Learning From Human Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach", In 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’19), October 14–18, 2019, Suzhou, China. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...
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Research Area | Medical Imaging Technologies Using Unorthodox Artificial Intelligence for Early Disease Diagnoses

Our published research findings listed below share key examples for reducing dependence on specialized medical devices, biological &...
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
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Machine learning algorithms for classification of microcirculation images from septic and non-septic patients

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
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Computational histological staining and destaining of prostate core biopsy RGB images with generative adversarial neural networks

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
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Research Area | Novel Ethical, Secure and Explainable Artificial Intelligence based Digital Medicines and Treatments

We have described validation of novel machine learning architectures for designing faster, safer, and more efficacious digital medicines ...
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Automated segmentation of gingival diseases from oral images

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
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Convolutional neural network for combined classification of fluorescent biomarkers and expert annotations using white light images

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
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Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: a Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...
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AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...
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What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform

Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019
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Personalized Machine Learning for Future Health

​The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evo...
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The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb turns to an AI startup to accelerate cancer research

Pratik Shah speaks on the challenges and opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption in clinical development.
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AI-powered food computers designing new ways of growing crops

MIT initiative is producing climate recipes for tastier crops.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Generation AI: Teaching a new kind of tech savvy

This summer, the Personal Robots group will be hosting a week-long workshop at the MIT Media Lab to teach kids about AI and ethics!
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
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Affective Computing researchers win Best Paper Award at IEEE BHI 2019

"Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks," by Terumi Umematsu, Akane Sano, Sara Taylor, an...
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Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks

Umematsu, T., Sano, A., Taylor, S., and Picard, R. "Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks." IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Chicago, Illinois, May 2019. (BEST PAPER AWARD - 1st Prize)
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City Science Lab Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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Improving wellbeing prediction performance using temporal machine learning models

This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning model...
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...
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Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
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VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation

Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for anal...
Article Research

AI researchers want to study AI the same way social scientists study humans

Maybe we don’t need to look inside the black box after all. We just need to watch how machines behave, instead.
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Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...
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Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future

We should challenge the cult of Singularity. AI won't take over the world.
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Machine behaviour

Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.
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Studying the behavior of AI

A new paper frames the emerging interdisciplinary field of machine behavior
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Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...
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The Electome: Measuring responsiveness in the 2016 election

The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
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A voting-based system for ethical decision making

The problem of ethical decision making presents  a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating ...
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Predicting students' wellbeing from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...
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Learning via Social Awareness: Improving sketch representations with facial feedback

In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic moti...
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The Ripple Effect: You are more influential than you think

The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...
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RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
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Recurrent neural network in context-free next-location prediction

Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
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Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
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Unspoken News

How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of...
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News Graph

This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Evolutron: Deep Learning for Protein Design

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...
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Artificial listener with social intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
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When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin

A.I. systems are shaped by the priorities and prejudices…of the people who design them, a phenomenon that I refer to as "the coded gaze."
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Pathways

Our social networks influence our sense of what's possible: we can't aspire to be cancer researchers, activists, or artificial intelligen...