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May 28, 2024 | School of Engineering

The School of Engineering welcomes 15 new faculty members across six of its academic departments. This new cohort of faculty members, who have either recently started their roles at MIT or will start within the next year, conduct research across a diverse range of disciplines.

Many of these new faculty specialize in research that intersects with multiple fields. In addition to positions in the School of Engineering, a number of these faculty have positions at other units across MIT. Faculty with appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) report into both the School of Engineering and the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This year, new faculty also have joint appointments between the School of Engineering and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the School of Science.

“I am delighted to welcome this cohort of talented new faculty to the School of Engineering,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, chief innovation and strategy officer, dean of engineering, and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “I am particularly struck by the interdisciplinary approach many of these new faculty take in their research. They are working in areas that are poised to have tremendous impact. I look forward to seeing them grow as researchers and educators.”

The new engineering faculty include:

Stephen Bates  joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor in September 2023. He is also a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Bates uses data and AI for reliable decision-making in the presence of uncertainty. In particular, he develops tools for statistical inference with AI models, data impacted by strategic behavior, and settings with distribution shift. Bates also works on applications in life sciences and sustainability. He previously worked as a postdoc in the Statistics and EECS departments at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Bates received a BS in statistics and mathematics at Harvard University and a PhD from Stanford University.

Abigail Bodner  joined the Department of EECS and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences as an assistant professor in January. She is also a member of the LIDS. Bodner’s research interests span climate, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and turbulence. Previously, she worked as a Simons Junior Fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Bodner received her BS in geophysics and mathematics and MS in geophysics from Tel Aviv University, and her SM in applied mathematics and PhD from Brown University.

Andreea Bobu  ’17 will join the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an assistant professor in July. Her research sits at the intersection of robotics, mathematical human modeling, and deep learning. Previously, she was a research scientist at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, focusing on how robots and humans can efficiently arrive at shared representations of their tasks for more seamless and reliable interactions. Bobu earned a BS in computer science and engineering from MIT and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.

Suraj Cheema  will join the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of EECS, as an assistant professor in July. His research explores atomic-scale engineering of electronic materials to tackle challenges related to energy consumption, storage, and generation, aiming for more sustainable microelectronics. This spans computing and energy technologies via integrated ferroelectric devices. He previously worked as a postdoc at UC Berkeley. Cheema earned a BS in applied physics and applied mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in materials science and engineering from UC Berkeley.

Samantha Coday  joins the Department of EECS as an assistant professor in July. She will also be a member of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Her research interests include ultra-dense power converters enabling renewable energy integration, hybrid electric aircraft and future space exploration. To enable high-performance converters for these critical applications her research focuses on the optimization, design, and control of hybrid switched-capacitor converters. Coday earned a BS in electrical engineering and mathematics from Southern Methodist University and an MS and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.

Mitchell Gordon  will join the Department of EECS as an assistant professor in July. He will also be a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In his research, Gordon designs interactive systems and evaluation approaches that bridge principles of human-computer interaction with the realities of machine learning. He currently works as a postdoc at the University of Washington. Gordon received a BS from the University of Rochester, and MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in computer science.

Kaiming He  joined the Department of EECS as an associate professor in February. He will also be a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research interests cover a wide range of topics in computer vision and deep learning. He is currently focused on building computer models that can learn representations and develop intelligence from and for the complex world. Long term, he hopes to augment human intelligence with improved artificial intelligence. Before joining MIT, He was a research scientist at Facebook AI. He earned a BS from Tsinghua University and a PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Anna Huang  SM ’08 will join the departments of EECS and Music and Theater Arts as assistant professor in September. She will help develop graduate programming focused on music technology. Previously, she spent eight years with Magenta at Google Brain and DeepMind, spearheading efforts in generative modeling, reinforcement learning, and human-computer interaction to support human-AI partnerships in music-making. She is the creator of Music Transformer and Coconet (which powered the Bach Google Doodle). She was a judge and organizer for the AI Song Contest. Anna holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila, a BM in music composition, and BS in computer science from the University of Southern California, an MS from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD from Harvard University.

Yael Kalai  PhD ’06 will join the Department of EECS as a professor in September. She is also a member of CSAIL. Her research interests include cryptography, the theory of computation, and security and privacy. Kalai currently focuses on both the theoretical and real-world applications of cryptography, including work on succinct and easily verifiable non-interactive proofs. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a master’s degree at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a PhD from MIT.

Sendhil Mullainathan  will join the departments of EECS and Economics as a professor in July. His research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior, social policy, and medicine. Previously, Mullainathan spent five years at MIT before joining the faculty at Harvard in 2004, and then the University of Chicago in 2018. He received his BA in computer science, mathematics, and economics from Cornell University and his PhD from Harvard University.

Alex Rives  will join the Department of EECS as an assistant professor in September, with a core membership in the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In his research, Rives is focused on AI for scientific understanding, discovery, and design for biology. Rives worked with Meta as a New York University graduate student, where he founded and led the Evolutionary Scale Modeling team that developed large language models for proteins. Rives received his BS in philosophy and biology from Yale University and is completing his PhD in computer science at NYU.

Sungho Shin  will join the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor in July. His research interests include control theory, optimization algorithms, high-performance computing, and their applications to decision-making in complex systems, such as energy infrastructures. Shin is a postdoc at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received a BS in mathematics and chemical engineering from Seoul National University and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jessica Stark  joined the Department of Biological Engineering as an assistant professor in January. In her research, Stark is developing technologies to realize the largely untapped potential of cell-surface sugars, called glycans, for immunological discovery and immunotherapy. Previously, Stark was an American Cancer Society postdoc at Stanford University. She earned a BS in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University.

Thomas John “T.J.” Wallin  joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in January. As a researcher, Wallin’s interests lay in advanced manufacturing of functional soft matter, with an emphasis on soft wearable technologies and their applications in human-computer interfaces. Previously, he was a research scientist at Meta’s Reality Labs Research working in their haptic interaction team. Wallin earned a BS in physics and chemistry from the College of William and Mary, and an MS and PhD in materials science and engineering from Cornell University.

Gioele Zardini  joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor in September. He will also join LIDS and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Driven by societal challenges, Zardini’s research interests include the co-design of sociotechnical systems, compositionality in engineering, applied category theory, decision and control, optimization, and game theory, with society-critical applications to intelligent transportation systems, autonomy, and complex networks and infrastructures. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering with a focus on robotics, systems, and control from ETH Zurich, and spent time at MIT, Stanford University, and Motional.

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Auburn hosts CBMS Conference: Mathematical Methods for Novel Metamaterials

Published: 05/28/2024

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Auburn University hosted the five-day CBMS Conference: Mathematical Methods for Novel Materials in the Mell Center Classrooms with 19 lectures. The interdisciplinary conference brought in attendees from around the world. The conference was organized by Auburn University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics under the leadership of Junshan Lin and Yanzhao Cao . 

“I am excited to be at this conference so that I can learn new things and meet new people,” said Liora Rueff, a doctoral student in applied math at ETH Zurich.

Jimmy Touma, a research scientist who works at the Air Force Research Lab and a proud Auburn alumnus, was looking forward to the speakers and topics.

“The speakers are sharing information that directly applies to my research,” Touma said.

Sedigheh Esfanhani, a research assistant at the Advanced Science Research Center located in the City University of New York, was looking forward to speakers.

“I am really excited about the lectures by Oscar Bruno from Caltech on Advanced Computational Methods for Modeling, Simulation and Design’ parts one and two,” she explained. “This conference is a good opportunity to become familiar with mathematical research and meet researchers that are working on interesting topics.”

Manuel Santana from the California Institute of Technology is a second-year doctoral student was looking forward to learning more about research possibilities.

“This is a great opportunity for me to formulate research ideas and add to my mathematical foundation,” Santana said.

Shixiong Yin, a graduate student from the City University of New York, was looking forward to engaging conversations.

“Since I have an electrical engineering background, but I work with meta-materials, this conference gives me different perspectives and angles of research,” Yin said.

The conference was supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and COSAM.

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International chemistry senior finds her footing at Oregon State

Marua Bekbossyn visited her home in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2023, hiking up to the nearby mountains to eat a heartwarming meal of plov with her cousins. The return trip made her feel more connected to her culture and people than ever before.

It was a distance that felt impossible. When she left the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan for the U.S. to pursue her bachelor’s in chemistry, Marua Bekbossyn could never have imagined how acute that separation would feel. Over 6,000 miles of ocean, land and mountains, a 12 hour time difference and countless nation borders stood between her and her home country. She was thrown into the deep end of a daunting new reality and struggled to keep herself afloat.

This story is all too common among international university students. What made the difference for Bekbossyn were the genuine connections she found at Oregon State. A conversation with her organic chemistry professor completely shifted her outlook on the situation and her experience navigating a world away from home, helping her to embrace the life she’d built here. In the fall, she even plans to attend New York University to earn her master’s degree.

Through pursuing an M.S. in Management and Systems, a degree focused on STEM leadership in business, she aims to someday improve science education across the globe so others are afforded the same opportunities as her.

“My ultimate goal is to promote and develop scientific facilities in Kazakhstan and beyond. I think it will be a very long, very important journey,” she said.

Finding her groove

Within the switch from one nation to another, Bekbossyn also found herself leaving behind the hustle and bustle of city life. Though the difference was staggering, she grew to appreciate what the change of pace offered.

“In Corvallis, people are a little bit more considerate and truthful because the city is small and everybody knows each other,” she said. “Because I’m a naturally fast-paced person, I don’t really stop and think. Oregon helped me a lot to stop, breathe and think.”

Still, her first year wasn’t a walk in the park. Learning English at a new depth while trying to digest content from her science classes was especially difficult.

Built to help international students in the same situation, the INTO OSU program became a valuable resource for her during this time. Its office in the International Living-Learning Center dormitories was always welcoming and understood that studying abroad had its fair share of obstacles. The program alleviated some of the language barrier burden by offering classes for college-level English. Bekbossyn even credits it for equipping her with the writing skills she used in her application essay to NYU.

Bekbossyn spent New Year's Eve in New York City and visited the Statue of Liberty during her trip.

To further capitalize on campus resources, she learned the importance of asking questions. Finding the courage to speak up to teaching assistants, other students and professors to get clarification didn’t come naturally, especially when many were native English speakers. But as she became more comfortable with the space and people, it was easier to take the brave step and wonder how things worked out loud. This, she says, is a key skill not only for students, but for anyone in science.

“Open-mindedness and not being scared of speaking your mind and talking to people, connecting to people, is really important. Asking lots of questions in college helped me to understand that and be more confident,” she said.

Patched with gold

Moving across the globe from familiarity was a hurdle Bekbossyn was still unsure she could clear. When she failed an organic chemistry class during her second year, it was the crushing crescendo of all the emotions she’d felt trying to adjust to her new environment. “Everything was crumbling,” she recalled.

That is, until she spoke with organic chemistry professor Paul Cheong. After she shared her experience with him, he empathized and invited her to celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving with him and his family. It was the warm welcome she needed and one that showed her the sincere connections waiting to be made at college. She still carries a particular piece of their conversations with her today.

“He was telling me about this kintsugi bowl,” she said, “or when a bowl breaks but then you patch it up with gold. It’s like something broken might be even more beautiful, even if it’s not the same as before. I found that so fascinating. It stuck with me.”

Cheong also spoke about how the mind heals differently than the body, saying that although a person may have mentally moved on from something in the past, their body may still be trying to catch up. “They were a few words, but they spoke a lot to me,” she said.

Bekbossyn drove to Newport, Oregon to visit the Oregon Coast Aquarium and clear her head by the ocean.

Opportunities for all

As the school year comes to a close, Bekbossyn prepares for a return to city life while seeking her master’s degree at NYU. A “scientist in mind and entrepreneur at heart,” one of her overall career goals is to bring together researchers to make more effective medicine, particularly for diabetes in honor of her late grandfather.

“He was always trying to make us happy,” she said. It was his encouragement and support that enabled her and his other grandchildren to attend college outside of their country. “He wanted a better future for us. He said, ‘Let them go abroad, explore, travel and study.’ I’m grateful for that.”

Using the science knowledge she gained from her bachelor’s in chemistry and the leadership and business skills she’ll learn during her master’s, she hopes to blend the best qualities of Kazakhstan and the U.S. to improve access to STEM in underserved countries. The professors she’s had have left a profound impact that she wants other students to experience, no matter where they are.

“They teach because they’re passionate about it and they care about people. They’re always very genuine with students,” she said. “People from around the world come to the U.S. because they don’t have that education privilege in their countries. I want to spread it out.”

From the peaks of Almaty to the hills of Corvallis, Bekbossyn has already sewn science together across the globe. Wherever she lands next, she looks forward to adding a new stitch.

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