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Hal Abelson Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Eric Adams Senior Research Engineer

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Edward Adelson Professor

Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Anuradha Agarwal Principal Research Scientist

Microphotonics Center at MIT
Alfredo Alexander-Katz Associate Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Antoine Allanore Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Saurabh Amin Assistant Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anuradha Annaswamy Senior Research Scientist

Mechanical Engineering
Robert Armstrong Director

MIT Energy Initiative
Emilio Baglietto Associate Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Marc Baldo Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Ronald Ballinger Professor Emeritus

Nuclear Science and Engineering
George Barbastathis Professor

Mechanical Engineering
William Barletta Adjunct Professor

Physics
Steven Barrett Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Paul Barton Professor

Chemical Engineering
Carlos Batlle Research Scholar
Moungi Bawendi Professor

Chemistry
Martin Bazant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Geoffrey Beach Associate Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Angela Belcher Professor

Biological Engineering
Moshe Ben-Akiva Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alan Berger Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Karl Berggren Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Adam Berinsky Professor

Political Science
A Nihat Berker Professor Emeritus

Physics
Dimitri Bertsekas Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Daniel Blankschtein Professor

Chemical Engineering
Duane Boning Director of MASDAR

Office of the Provost
Audun Botterud Research Scientist

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Richard Braatz Professor

Chemical Engineering
John Brisson Director, MIT-SUTD Collaboration and Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Leslie Bromberg Principal Research Engineer and Group Leader

Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Fikile Brushett Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Matteo Bucci Assistant Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Markus Buehler Department Head and Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cullen Buie Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Vladimir Bulović Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Tonio Buonassisi Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Jacopo Buongiorno TEPCO Professor and Associate Department Head; Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Scott Burger

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Oral Buyukozturk Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jianshu Cao Professor

Chemistry
Federico Casalegno Associate Professor

Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Ivan Celanovic Principal Research Scientist

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology
Sylvia Ceyer Professor

Chemistry
Anantha Chandrakasan Dean of the School of Engineering

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Gang Chen Department Head and Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Sow-Hsin Chen Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Wai Cheng Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Yet-Ming Chiang Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Sallie Chisholm Institute Professor

Office of the Provost
Nazli Choucri Professor

Political Science
Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Robert Cohen Associate Director and Professor

Chemical Engineering
Daniel Cohn Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative
Clark Colton Professor

Chemical Engineering
Chathan Cooke Principal Research Engineer

Research Laboratory of Electronics
Charles Cooney Professor

Chemical Engineering
Christopher Cummins Professor

Chemistry
Munther Dahleh Director

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Frank Dale Morgan Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Rick Danheiser Professor

Chemistry
Luca Daniel Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Olivier de Weck Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Erik Demaine Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Laurent Demanet Professor

Mathematics
John Deutch Institute Professor

Chemistry
Srini Devadas Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Mircea Dincă Associate Professor

Chemistry
Patrick Doyle Professor

Chemical Engineering
Cyril Draffin Project Advisor, MIT Energy Initiative
Mark Drela Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Catherine Drennan Professor

Biology
Michael Driscoll Professor Emeritus

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Steven Dubowsky Professor Emeritus

Mechanical Engineering
Pablo Duenas-Martinez Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative
Esther Duflo Professor

Economics
Frédo Durand Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Alan Edelman Professor

Mathematics
Herbert Einstein Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Elfatih Eltahir Associate Department Head and Professor

Center for Global Change Science; Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Kerry Emanuel Professor

Center for Global Change Science; Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Dara Entekhabi Professor

Center for Global Change Science; Civil and Environmental Engineering; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Michael Fehler Senior Research Scientist

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
John Fernandez Director

Environmental Solutions Initiative
Joseph Ferreira Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Frank Field Senior Research Engineer

Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
Randall Field Executive Director, Mobility of the Future

MIT Energy Initiative
Charles Fine Professor

Sloan School of Management
Gerald Fink Professor

Biology
Yoel Fink Director and Professor

Research Laboratory of Electronics
John Fisher Senior Research Scientist

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Peter Fisher Department Head and Professor

Physics
Eugene Fitzgerald Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Merton Flemings Professor Emeritus

Materials Science and Engineering
Benoit Forget Associate Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Charles Forsberg Principal Research Scientist

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Aimé Fournier Research Scientist

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
William Freeman Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Jeffrey Freidberg Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Dennis Frenchman Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Daniel Frey Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Betar Gallant Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
David Gamarnik Professor

Sloan School of Management
Nuh Gedik Associate Professor

Physics
Emre Gençer Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative
Neil Gershenfeld Director, Center for Bits and Atoms

Media Arts and Sciences
Abbas Ghandi Research Staff

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Rania Ghosn Assistant Professor

Architecture
Amy Glasmeier Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Karen Gleason Associate Provost

Office of the Provost
Leon Glicksman Professor

Architecture
Jarrod Goentzel Research Associate

Center for Transportation & Logistics
Michael Golay Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Materials Science and Engineering
Marta Gonzalez Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Silvija Gradečak Associate Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
William Green Professor

Chemical Engineering
Edward Greitzer Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jeffrey Grossman Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Timothy Grove Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Philip Gschwend Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Timothy Gutowski Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Bradford Hager Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Paula Hammond Department Head and Professor

Chemical Engineering
Jongyoon Han Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Robert Hansman Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
David Hardt Professor

Mechanical Engineering
John Hart Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Charles Harvey Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
T. Alan Hatton Professor

Chemical Engineering
Harold Hemond Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Thomas Herring Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Howard Herzog Senior Research Engineer

MIT Energy Initiative
John Heywood Professor

Mechanical Engineering; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Christopher Hill Principal Research Scientist

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Linn Hobbs Professor Emeritus

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Niels Holten-Andersen Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Anette Hosoi Associate Department Head and Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Judy Hoyt Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Lin-Wen Hu Director, Research and Services

Nuclear Reactor Lab
Ian Hunter Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Piotr Indyk Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Tommi Jaakkola Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Henry Jacoby Professor Emeritus

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Robert Jaffe Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics

Physics
Timothy Jamison Department Head

Chemistry
Rafael Jaramillo Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Stefanie Jegelka

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Jesse Jenkins

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Klavs Jensen Professor

Chemical Engineering
John Joannopoulos Director and Professor

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology
Jeremiah Johnson Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Steven Johnson Professor

Mathematics
Paul Joskow Professor Emeritus

Economics
Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chris Kaiser Professor

Biology
Mehran Kardar Professor

Physics
Valerie Karplus Assistant Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
John Kassakian Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
R. Scott Kemp Associate Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Sheila Kennedy Professor

Architecture
Sangbae Kim Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Sang-Gook Kim Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Jeehwan Kim Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Lionel Kimerling Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
James Kirtley Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Mark Klein Principal Research Associate

Center for Collective Intelligence
Christopher Knittel Professor

Sloan School of Management
Janelle Knox-Hayes Associate Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Urban Studies & Planning
Thomas Kochan Professor

Sloan School of Management
Gordon Kohse Principal Research Engineer

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Alexie Kolpak Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Jing Kong Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
S. P. Kothari Professor

Sloan School of Management
Jesse Kroll Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Heather Kulik Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Jeffrey Lang Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Richard Lanza Senior Research Scientist

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab
Richard Larson Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Hae-Seung Lee Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Steven Leeb Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Richard Lester Associate Provost and Professor

Office of the Provost
Jing Li

Economics
Ju Li Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Mingda Li Assistant Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
John Lienhard Director and Professor

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Yuming Liu Principal Research Scientist

Mechanical Engineering
Seth Lloyd Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Nuno Loureiro Assistant Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Paulo Lozano Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jayson Lynch Graduate Student

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Stuart Madnick Professor

Sloan School of Management
Dharik Mallapragada Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative
Thomas Malone Professor

Sloan School of Management
Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
David Marks Professor Emeritus

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Manuel Martinez- Sanchez Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Youssef Marzouk Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Clapperton Mavhunga Associate Professor

MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Gareth McKinley Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Dennis McLaughlin Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gregory McRae Professor Emeritus

Chemical Engineering
Chiang Mei Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Harvey Michaels Lecturer

Sloan School of Management
Jurgen Michel Senior Research Associate

Materials Processing Center
Borivoje Mikic Professor Emeritus

Mechanical Engineering
Raanan Miller Executive Director, Electric Power Systems Center

MIT Energy Initiative
Joseph Minervini Assistant Director and Senior Research Engineer

Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Sanjoy Mitter Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Ernest Moniz Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus and Special Advisor to the MIT President; Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative
Jennifer Morris

MIT Energy Initiative; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Keith Nelson Professor

Chemistry
Leslie Norford Professor

Architecture
Una-May O'Reilly Principal Research Scientist

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Francis O'Sullivan Director of Research

MIT Energy Initiative
Elsa Olivetti Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Benjamin Olken Professor

Economics
Bradley Olsen Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Kenneth Oye Associate Professor

Political Science
Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Sergey Paltsev Senior Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Joseph Paradiso Director, Responsive Environments Group

Media Arts and Sciences
David Parks Professor

Mechanical Engineering
John Parsons Senior Lecturer

Sloan School of Management
Roland Pellenq Senior Research Scientist

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Alex Pentland Professor

Media Arts and Sciences
Jaime Peraire Department Head and Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Georgia Perakis Professor

Sloan School of Management
Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga Visiting Professor
David Perreault Associate Department Head and Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Ian Marius Peters Research Scientist

Mechanical Engineering
William Peters Executive Director

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology
Robert Pindyck Professor

Sloan School of Management
Carolina Pizano Assistant Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Martin Polz Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Miklos Porkolab Professor

Physics
Barry Posen Professor

Political Science
James Poterba Professor

Economics
Kristala Prather Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering
Ronald Prinn Director and Professor

Center for Global Change Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Ronald Probstein Professor Emeritus

Mechanical Engineering
Raul Radovitzky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Rajeev Ram Associate Director and Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Carlo Ratti Professor of the Practice

Urban Studies & Planning
Robert Redwine Professor

Physics
John Reilly Senior Lecturer

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Bryan Reimer Research Scientist

MIT AgeLab
Christoph Reinhart Associate Professor

Architecture
Pedro Reis Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Roberto Rigobon Professor

Sloan School of Management
Yuriy Roman Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering
Caroline Ross Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Nicholas Roy Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jennifer Rupp Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Daniela Rus CSAIL Director and Professor

Office of the Vice President for Research
Gregory Rutledge Professor

Chemical Engineering
Emanuel Sachs Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Donald Sadoway Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative
Harvey Sapolsky Professor Emeritus

Political Science
Themistoklis Sapsis Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Sanjay Sarma Vice President for Open Learning

Mechanical Engineering
Lawrence Sass Associate Professor

Architecture
Joel Schindall Professor of the Practice

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Richard Schmalensee Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Paul Sclavounos Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Warren Seering Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Noelle Selin Associate Professor

Center for Global Change Science; Institute for Data, Systems, and Society; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Nestor Sepulveda

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Yossi Sheffi Director and Professor

Center for Transportation & Logistics
Farrokh Sheibani Postdoctoral Associate

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Thomas Sheridan Professor Emeritus

Mechanical Engineering
Koroush Shirvan Assistant Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Michael Short Assistant Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Michael Siegel Principal Research Scientist

Sloan School of Management
Hadley Sikes Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
David Simchi-Levi Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anthony Sinskey Professor

Biology
Eugene Skolnikoff Professor Emeritus

Political Science
Alexander Slocum Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Kenneth Smith Professor Emeritus

Chemical Engineering
Zachary Smith Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Kord Smith Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Marin Soljacic Professor

Physics
Choon Sooi Tan Senior Research Engineer

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Zoltan Spakovszky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Lucas Stanczyk Assistant Professor

Political Science
Gregory Stephanopoulos Professor

Chemical Engineering
George Stephanopoulos Professor

Chemical Engineering
John Sterman Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Robert Stoner Deputy Director for Science and Technology

MIT Energy Initiative
Michael Strano Professor

Chemical Engineering
Yogesh Surendranath Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Joseph Sussman Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Timothy Swager Professor

Chemistry
Karen Tapia-Ahumada Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative
Alexandra Techet Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Carl Thompson Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
J. Phillip Thompson Associate Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Tian Tian Principal Research Engineer

Mechanical Engineering
William Tisdale Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Neil Todreas Professor Emeritus

Nuclear Science and Engineering
M. Nafi Toksoz Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Jessika Trancik Associate Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Michael Triantafyllou Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Bernhardt Trout Professor

Chemical Engineering
David Trumper Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Harry Tuller Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Konstantin Turitsyn Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Franz-Josef Ulm Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chintan Vaishnav Senior Lecturer

Sloan School of Management
Robert van der Hilst Department Head and Professor

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Krystyn Van Vliet Associate Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Troy Van Voorhis Professor

Chemistry
J. Kim Vandiver Dean for Undergraduate Research

Mechanical Engineering
Kripa Varanasi Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Bruno Verdini Lecturer of Urban Planning and Negotiation

Urban Studies & Planning
Claudio Vergara Post-Doctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative
Eric von Hippel Professor

Sloan School of Management
Ian Waitz Dean and Professor

School of Engineering
Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Chien Wang Senior Research Scientist

Center for Global Change Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Daniel Wang Professor

Office of the Institute Professors
Evelyn Wang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Brian Wardle Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Christopher Warshaw Associate Professor

Political Science
James Weaver Senior Research Scientist

Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
James Wescoat Professor

Architecture
Anne White Associate Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Dennis Whyte Department Head and Professor

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Tomasz Wierzbicki Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Karen Willcox Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Brian Williams Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
John Williams Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nigel Wilson Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Amos Winter Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Bilge Yildiz Professor

Materials Science and Engineering; Nuclear Science and Engineering
Sidney Yip Professor Emeritus

Nuclear Science and Engineering
Meejin Yoon Department Head and Professor

Architecture
Kamal Youcef-Toumi Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Dick Yue Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Christopher Zegras Associate Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Shuguang Zhang Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab
Jinhua Zhao Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Maria Zuber Vice President for Research

Office of the Vice President for Research