MIT-Amazon Science Hub – Funded Projects
The MIT-Amazon Science Hub supports a range of pioneering research initiatives that drive technological innovation and scientific discovery. Through collaborative funding, the Science Hub enables interdisciplinary teams at MIT to explore breakthrough ideas in computing, artificial intelligence, and beyond.
Ongoing Projects
- Certifiably Safe Machine Learning for Autonomy
PI: Luca Carlone (Boeing Career Development Associate Professor, AeroAstro) - Computationally Efficient Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Foundation Models
PI: James Glass (Senior Research Scientist, EECS) - DejaVid: Learned Temportal Features for Semantic Video Retrieval
PI: Samuel Madden (Faculty Head, Computer Science, EECS) - Dynamic Manipulation
PIs: Russ Tedrake (Toyota Professor of EECS, Aero/Astro, MechE.)
Philip Isola (Associate Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Glen Chou, Max Simchowitz, Ge Yang, Ran Choi, Savva Morozov, Bernhard Paus-Graesdal, Shao Yuan Chew Chia, Tommy Cohn, Lujie Yang, Adam Wei, Nicholas Pfaff, Shruti Garg, Evelyn Fu, William Shen, Alan Yu, Yajvan Varan, Ishaan Preetam-Chandratreya - Efficient Large Language Models
PI: Song Han (Associate Professor, EECS) - Evaluating and Improving Video Streaming Protocols and Counterfactual Trace-Driven Simulation
PI: Mohammad Alizadeh (Associate Professor, EECS) - Factorizing Motion Planning of Hundreds of Robots
PI: Gioele Zardini (Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor, CEE) - Fleet Management and Routing Optimization for Warehouse Operations
PIs: Cynthia Barnhart (Abraham J. Siegel Professor, Management Science; Professor, Operations Research)
Alex Jacquillat (Maurice F. Strong Career Development Associate Professor; Associate Professor, Operations Research and Statistics)
Cathy Wu (Thomas D. and Virginia W Cabot Career Development Associate; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Researchers: Alexandria Schmid, Felipe Cordera, Zhongxia “Zee” Yan, Han Zheng, Kevin Liu - Foundation Behavioral Model for Robotic Manipulation with Heterogeneous Robot Learning
PI: Edward Adelson (John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science, BCS) - Lifelong Decentralized Learning of Visuomotor Policies on Apollo
PI: Russ Tedrake (Toyota Professor of EECS, Aero/Astro, MechE.) - Metamaterial AGI
PI: Wojciech Matusik (Professor, EECS) - Next Generation Spacial AI for Human-Centric Robotics
PI: Luca Carlone (Boeing Career Development Associate Professor, AeroAstro)
Researchers: Lukas Schmid, Marcus Abate - On-Device Large Language Models
PI: Song Han (Associate Professor, EECS) - Platform for Automated Red-teaming of Black-Box Systems and Improving Reliability
PI: Pulkit Agrawal (Associate Professor, EECS) - Principles of Sim + Real Co-Training for Dexterous Manipulation
PI: Russ Tedrake (Toyota Professor of EECS, Aero/Astro, MechE.) - Reduced-Order Simulation for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
PI: Wojciech Matusik (Professor, EECS) - Real4SIM
PI: Russ Tedrake (Toyota Professor of EECS, Aero/Astro, MechE.) - Video Predictive Control: Video Generative Models as Planners in Robotics
PI: Vincent Sitzmann (Assistant Professor, EECS)
Completed Projects
- Controlling Large Language Models with Symbolic Structures
PI: Yoon Kim (Assistant Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Linlu Qiu - Combining Virtual and Real Imagery through Deep Inverse Rendering
PI: Fredo Durand (Amar Bose Professor of Computing, EECS)
Researchers: Camille Biscarat, Prafull Sharma - Deep Inverse Rendering for Performance Replay
PI: Fredo Durand (Amar Bose Professor of Computing, EECS)
Researchers: Camille Biscarat, Sai Praveen Bangaru - Enabling Memory-Efficient SLAM for Energy-Constrained Devices
PI: Vivienne Sze (Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Peter Li, Dasong Gao - Enhancing Robotic Calibration, Maintenance and Control with Neural System Identification
PI: Wojciech Matusik (Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Peter Yichen Chen, Pingchuan Ma - Evaluation of the Casual Effects of the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship Program
PIs: Josh Angrist (Ford Professor, Economics)
Raymond Han (PhD Student, Economics, MIT) - Inference Plans for Efficient Hybrid Symbolic Inference
PI: Michael Carbin (Associate Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Ellie Cheng - Manipulation of Rigid Point Cloud Objects
PI: Alberto Rodriguez (Class of 1957 Career Development Professor Associate Professor, MechE) - Multimodal Tactile Sensing
PI: Edward Adelson (John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science, BCS)
Researchers: Sandra Liu, Alan (JiaLiang) Zhao, Russ Tedrake, Lirui Wang, Yilin Du - Pensieve: A Modular Approach for Security Verification of Microarchitectural Designs
PIs: Adam Chlipala (Arthur J. Conner [1888] Professor, EECS)
Mengjia Yan (Assistant Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Shixin Song, Yuheng Yang, Tingzhen Dong, Julian Zanders - Reconstructing 3D Video from 2D Video
PIs: Vincent Sitzmann (Assistant Professor, EECS)
William Freeman (Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor, EECS)
Fredo Durand (Amar Bose Professor of Computing, EECS)
Researchers: Chonghyuk (Andrew) Song, David Charatan, Prafull Sharma, Tommy Mitchel - Safe Autonomy Leveraging Intelligent Optimization
PIs: Luca Carlone (Boeing Career Development Associate Professor, AeroAstro)
Chuchu Fan (Associate Professor, AeroAstro)
Researchers: Harry Zhang - Safety and Predictability in Robot Navigation for Last-Mile Delivery
PI: Jonathan How (Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor, AeroAstro)
Researchers: Xiaoyi Cai, Lakshay Sharma, Nicolaniello Buono, Ashton Flather, Sera Hamilton - Securing and Verifying Constant-time Cryptography Programs in the Spectre Era
PIs: Adam Chlipala (Arthur J. Conner [1888] Professor, EECS)
Mengjia Yan (Assistant Professor, EECS)
Researchers: Shixin Song - Segmenting and Tracking Objects in the Long Tail
PI: William Freeman (Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor, EECS) - Soft Artificial Intelligent Skin for Tactile-Environmental Sensing and Human-Robot Interaction
PI: Joseph Paradiso (Alexander W. Dreyfoos [1954] Professor, MAS)
Researchers: Irmandy Wicaksono, Fangzheng Liu - Verifying vMVCC, A High Performance Database Using Multi-Version Concurrency Control
PI: Nickolai Zeldovich (Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor, EECS) - Work of the Future Initiative Automation Clinic Research and Case Studies
PI: Julie Shah (Department Head, AeroAstro)
Researchers: Ben Armstrong, Valerie Chen, Matthew Boyd, Alex Cuellar