AI & Automation for the Enterprise

Sertac Karaman

Faculty Lead

Sertac Karaman is the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society. His research interests lie in the broad area of embedded systems and mobile robotics. His recent research has focussed on developing planning and control algorithms for autonomous vehicles and autonomy-enabled transportation systems. More broadly, he has worked on driverless cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed aerial surveillance systems, air traffic control algorithms, certification and verification of control systems software, and many others.

In particular, he was on MIT’s team that built a self-driving car and competed in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. His experience with robotic platforms also includes developing an autonomous forklift, working with Willow Garage’s personal robot PR2, and developing fully-autonomous agile drones. He has published more than one hundred technical articles in the area of autonomous vehicles. He is also Co-Founder of Optimus Ride, an MIT spinoff company based in Boston that develops self-driving vehicle technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility.

Daniela Rus

Faculty Lead

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the science and engineering of autonomy. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of the Engelberger Award for robotics. She is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She earned her PhD in computer science from Cornell University.

David Autor

Instructor

David Autor is Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, codirector of the NBER Labor Studies Program, and coleader of both the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the JPAL Work of the Future experimental initiative. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes.

Jim Glass

Instructor

James Glass is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT where he leads the Spoken Language Systems Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is also a member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Faculty. His research focuses on automatic speech recognition, unsupervised speech processing, and spoken language understanding using machine learning. He is an IEEE Fellow, a fellow of the International Speech Communication Association, and an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Julie Shah

Instructor

Julie Shah is associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at MIT, a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and director of the Interactive Robotics Group, which aims to imagine the future of work by designing collaborative robot teammates that enhance human capability. She is expanding the use of human cognitive models for artificial intelligence and has translated her work to manufacturing assembly lines, healthcare applications, transportation and defense. Before joining the faculty, she worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications for aerospace manufacturing.

Prof. Shah has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and by MIT Technology Review on its 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also in Technology Review’s 2013 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. She has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Symposium on Robotics. She earned degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and in autonomous systems from MIT.