Research

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

Rosalind W. Picard

Enhancing human physical capability

Hugh Herr

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

Ramesh Raskar

Looking beyond smart cities

Kent Larson

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

Canan Dagdeviren

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future

Behnaz Farahi

Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing

Pat Pataranutaporn

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation

Pattie Maes

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

Zach Lieberman

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

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Mitchel Resnick

Prototyping a better future for communication through human-led, AI-assisted systems for collective listening, understanding, and action

Deb Roy

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

Joseph M. Jacobson

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing

Paul Pu Liang

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis

Deblina Sarkar

Exploring the future of music through AI, multisensory expression, creativity, and sonic healing.

Tod Machover

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Cynthia Breazeal, Hal Hal Abelson

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

Joseph A. Paradiso

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

Kevin Esvelt

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

Fadel Adib

Creating reliable, resilient, and convivial infrastructures grounded in human agency, safety, and dignity

Karrie Karahalios

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

Danielle Wood

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire, engage, and connect people

Hiroshi Ishii

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop

Andrew Lippman

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future

WHx Program: Unlocking women's health through transformative technologies