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Transportation Researchers

Lecturer of Transportation Policy and Planning

Research Interests:

Urban Transportation, Equity, Public Realm Design, Public Transportation Funding and Service Delivery

Professor, Sloan School; Managing Director, Martin Trust Center, MIT

Research Interests:

Entrepreneurship Education, Economics & Business

Fujitsu Chair Professor in the EECS Department

Research Interests:

Networking, Data Management, Sensing, Mobile and Sensor Computing, Wireless Networks, Overlay and P2P Networks

Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science and Professor of Operations Research

Research Interests:

Large-scale optimization, Airlines operations, Transportation operations, planning, and control

Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests:

Grid-Scale Electrical Storage, Low-Carbon Transportation, Solid-State Batteries

Associate Group Leader, Transportation Safety and Resilience, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Logistics and Supply Chain Decision Support, Machine Learning and Optimization

Assistant Group Leader, Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Aviation Cybersecurity, Weather Sensing, System/Software Architectures, System Engineering

Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Research Interests:

Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Value Chain Roadmapping, Outsourcing Dynamics

Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management and Professor of Operations Management

Research Interests:

Design and Planning of Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains, Supply-Chain Optimization

Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Robust Control, Adaptive Control, Model Predictive Control, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Dugald C. Jackson Professor in EECS, Co-Director of the Operations Research Center

Research Interests:

Online Optimization and Learning, Machine Learning, Decision Making Under Uncertainty

George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics

Research Interests:

Economics, Finance and Accounting

Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

Research Interests:

AI & Machine Learning, Graphics & Vision, Robotics, Big Data and Transportation

Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Autonomy in Human Environments; Precision Navigation; Ultra-Wideband for Urban Transit

E. Pennell Brooks (1917) Professor in Management

Research Interests:

Network, Combinatorial Optimization

Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science

Research Interests:

Computational Social Science, Organizational Engineering, Wearable Computing, Image Understanding

Professor of Urban Technologies and Planning, SENSEable City Lab Director

Research Interests:

Education, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Information, Technology, and Media and Analytics

Group Leader, Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Air Traffic Management, Aircraft Operations, Aviation Weather Decision Support, Environmental Impacts

John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry

Research Interests:

Electrochemistry, Electrochemical extraction & sensors, recycling of metals, lithium solid-polymer-electrolyte batteries

Vice President for Open Learning (2013-2022) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:

Automotive Technologies, Batteries, Digital Learning, Design, Manufacturing

Ford Professor of Political Science

Research Interests:

Political Economy, Historical Institutionalism, Labor Politics, Social Policy, Advanced Industrial Countries

Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning

Research Interests:

Semi-formal Transportation, Urban Information, Technology, Media Design, Data Action, Urban Design, Data Visualization and Privacy

Professor of Cities and Transportation, Founder and Faculty Director, MIT Mobility Initiative

Research Interests:

Urban Transportation, Travel Behavior, Public Transit, Automated and Shared Mobility, Machine Learning

Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor

Research Interests:

Control of Infrastructure Networks, Security of Cyber-Physical Systems, Applied Game Theory and Information Economics

Professor of Management and Operations Research, Associate Dean of Business Analytics

Research Interests:

Optimization, Stochastic Systems, Machine Learning, Robust Optimization, Transportation and Finance

E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests:

Batteries, Fuel Cells

Assistant Group Leader, Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Weather Sensing and Decision Support, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Environmental Impacts

Provost and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Interests:

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

Research Interests:

Aerospace Systems, Engineering Systems, Technology Development, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Assistant Group Leader, Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Air Traffic Management, Air Transportation Weather Impacts, Urban Air Mobility

Professor of Urban Studies & Planning

Research Interests:

Transportation and Mobility, Urban Information, Technology, and Media and Analytics

Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering

Research Interests:

Fuel Chemistry, Evaluation of Alternative Fuels & Engines

T. Wilson (1953) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Air Transportation, Instrumentation, Flight Safety, Flight Information Systems, Air Traffic Control

JR East Professor of Engineering

Research Interests:

Network Science, Decision Theory, Cooperative Control Of Multi-Agent Systems, Optimal Control, Motion Coordination

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Foundations of Mobility

Principal Research Scientist

Research Interests:

Advanced Simulation and Augmented Reality for Urban Design, Mobility-on-Demand Systems

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Interests:

Silicon Photonics for LiDAR Sensing, AR Displays, Optical Communications, Quantum Engineering, and Biophotonics

T. Wilson Chair Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Operations Research, Stochastic Systems, Air Transportation, Urban Services

Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Research Interests:

Energy Transition, Policy Scenarios, Climate Policy, Regional Analysis

Japan Steel Industry Professor, Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

Technology and policy, Transportation systems, Industry studies, Information systems

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Operations Research, Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Research Interests:

Systems Optimization, Risk Analysis, Supply Chain Management

Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning

Research Interests:

Architecture, Planning

Senior Lecturer, Operations Management

Research Interests:

Information Technology and Systems, Development, and Public Policy

Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civi & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

Geomechanics and geomaterials,
urban infrastructure,
environmental sensing

Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning

Research Interests:

Environmental Planning and Management, Healthy Communities and Active Living, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Economics

Associate Director of Research, MIT Mobility Initiative

Research Interests:

Mobility Systems, Urban Transportation, Decarbonization, Automotive Technology, EV Charging

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Research Interests:

Environmental Planning and Management, Healthy Communities and Active Living, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Design

Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering

Research Interests:

Transportation Systems Analysis, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Demand Modeling, Econometrics

Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Research Interests:

Freight Transportation, Supply Chain


Director, MIT AgeLab

Research Interests:

Consumer Behavior, Behavioral Science, Global Demographics

Principal Research Scientist and Lecturer of Transportation Policy and Planning

Research Interests:

Urban Technologies, Transportation and Planning, Social Construction of Technologies

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Research Interests:

Analytics, Combinatorial Optimization, Management Science, Operations Management, Sharing Economy

Executive Director, MIT Energy Initiative’s Mobility Systems Center

Research Interests:

Decarbonization of Transportation, Energy Efficiency in Mobility, Low-Carbon Technologies, Energy Systems Integration

Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor and Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Space propulsion, space policy, space systems, spacecraft manufacturing processes, space system architecting

Assistant Professor at MIT’s EECS

Research Interests:

TinyML, enable deep learning on mobile devices, efficient algorithms and hardware for computation-intensive AI applications

Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Statistics

Research Interests:

Stochastic optimization, data-driven decision-making, analytics, vehicle routing, transportation scheduling

Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management

Research Interests:

Biotechnology, Climate Change, Economic Modeling, Economic Development, Energy, Globalization, Sustainability

Executive Director, MIT Mobility Initiative

Research Interests:

Mobility Systems, Urban Transportation, Decarbonization

Distinguished Professor and Department Head, EECS; Deputy Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College of Computing

Research Interests:

Nonlinear and Convex Optimization: Theory and Algorithms; Game Theory;
Social and Economic Networks

Group Leader, Transportation Safety and Resilience, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Air Transportation, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Flight Safety, Collision Avoidance, Air Traffic Control

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Robotics, Machine Learning, Autonomous Systems, Planning and Reasoning, Human-Computer Interaction, Micro Air Vehicles

Visiting Researcher at MIT JTL Transit Lab

Research Interests:

Social Shared Mobility, Privacy and Security, Ubiquitous EV Transition Sustainability

Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning

Research Interests:

Spatial Analysis, Walkability, Public Transport, Business Location Patterns, Urban Design

Principal Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab

Research Interests:

Modeling and analysis of complex systems

Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate

Research Interests:

Infrastructure, Urban Transportation, Public Transportation, Institutional Development in Decision-Making.

Professor Emeritus

Research Interests:

Public Transportation, Transport System Design, New Transportation Systems

Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab; Director of the MIT CAVE Lab

Research Interests:

Multi-tier Distribution Network Design, Urban Logistics, Last-Mile Delivery, Urban Freight Policy, Data Analytics and Visualization

Samuel Tak Lee Professor, CRE, DUSP and SA+P

Research Interests:

Urban and Environmental Economics and Policy; Environmental Sustainability

Lecturer, Research Associate and Manager of the MIT Transit Research Program

Research Interests:

Transportation Planning, Transit Management and Operations, Transit Information and Decision Support Systems

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Control and Optimization Algorithms for Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Infrastructures

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:

Information Optics, Digital Holography, Subwavelength Optical Engineering

Director, MIT System Architecture Group

Research Interests:

Autonomous Vehicles, Industry Platforms

Leonardo Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests:

Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Perception and Vision

Assistant Group Leader, Transportation Safety and Resilience, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Air Transportation Simulation, Aircraft Collision Avoidance, Autonomy

Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science at the Sloan School of Management at MIT

Research Interests:

Continuous Optimization, Computational Complexity, Convexity, Computational Science, Mathematical Systems

Director, MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Research Interests:

Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Distribution Network Design, Emergency Management, International Development, Public Policy

Dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Research Interests:

AI, computer vision, social network analysis

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:

Energy and transportation interface, Internal combustion engines, Transportation fuels

Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Political Economy

Research Interests:

Community Development, Economic Development, Law and Policy, Machine Learning, Transportation and Mobility

Assistant Division Head, Homeland Protection and Air Traffic Control, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research Interests:

Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Risk Assessment, Human / Systems Integration, Air Traffic Control

Institute Professor & Professor of Operations Research

Research Interests:

Operations Research and Statistics, Management Science

Visiting Associate Professor

Research Interests:

Operations Research, Network Design, Traffic Management

William F. Pounds Professor of Management, EMBA Faculty Director, Operations Research Center Co-Director

Research Interests:

Operations Management, Management Science, Pricing, Revenue Management, Supply Chains, Machine Learning, Optimization

Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Interests:

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science

Lecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Research Interests:

National and Regional Systems of Innovation, Competitiveness, Manufacturing Ecosystems

Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics

Research Interests:

Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Research Scientist

Research Interests:

Spatial Analysis, Urban Transportation, Public Transportation

Professor of Data, Systems, and Society

Research Interests:

Infrastructure and decarbonization,
Low-carbon transport,
Vehicle electrification,
Storage Technologies,
Environmental Analysis,
Energy Technologies

Gilbert W. Winslow (1937) Career Development Assistant Professor

Research Interests:

Machine Learning, Control Theory, Multi-agent Systems, Implications of AI & Automation

Assistant Professor, MIT

Research Interests:

Sociotechnical Systems, Compositionality in Engineering, Applied Category Theory, Decision and Control, Optimization, and Game Theory

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