New Faculty (2022-2023)
Sara Beery joined MIT as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making in EECS in September 2023. Beery received her PhD in computing and mathematical sciences at Caltech in 2022, where she was advised by Pietro Perona. Her research focuses on building computer vision methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities, tackling real-world challenges including strong spatiotemporal correlations, imperfect data quality, fine-grained categories, and long-tailed distributions. She partners with NGOs and government agencies to deploy her methods in the wild worldwide and works toward increasing the diversity and accessibility of academic research in artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary capacity building and education.
Crystal Lee is an assistant professor in computational media and design with a shared appointment in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. She works broadly on research related to ethical tech, social media, data visualization, and disability. This research has been supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the MIT Programs for Digital Humanities. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she co-leads the Ethical Tech Working Group, and a senior fellow at Mozilla. She graduated with high honors from Stanford University and completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Christina Delimitrou joined MIT as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computer Science in EECS in September 2022. Delimitrou’s main interests are in computer architecture and computer systems. She works on improving the design, management, and programming interfaces of modern cloud systems, by leveraging practical machine learning techniques to solve large-scale systems problems. Delimitrou earned her PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University where she worked with Christos Kozyrakis.
Laura Lewis PhD ’14 joined MIT as an associate professor without tenure in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in EECS and in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science in February 2023. Lewis is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, as well as an associate faculty member at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously, she served as assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University. As a neuroscientist and engineer, Lewis focuses on neuroimaging approaches that better map brain function, with a particular focus on sleep. She is developing computational and signal processing approaches for neuroimaging data and applying these tools to study how neural computation is dynamically modulated across sleep, wake, attentional, and affective states. Lewis earned her bachelor’s degree at McGill University and her PhD in neuroscience at MIT.
Priya Donti joined MIT as an assistant professor in the Faculties of Electrical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making in EECS in September 2023. Donti finished her PhD in the Computer Science Department and the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Zico Kolter and Inês Azevedo. Her work focuses on machine learning for forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewables power grids. Specifically, her research explores methods to incorporate the physics and hard constraints associated with electric power systems into deep learning models. Donti is also co-founder and chair of Climate Change AI, a non-profit initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning that is currently running through the Cornell Tech Runway Startup Postdoc Program.
Kuikui Liu joined MIT as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computer Science in EECS in September 2022. Liu completed his PhD in the Theory Group at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Shayan Oveis Gharan. His research interests are in high-dimensional geometry and analysis of Markov chains. He develops and use mathematical tools from fields such as high-dimensional expanders, geometry of polynomials, and statistical physics.
Gabriele Farina joined MIT as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making in EECS in September 2023. Farina is currently a sixth year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is advised by Tuomas Sandholm. His work lies at the intersection between artificial intelligence, computer science, operations research, and economics. His primary research interest focuses on the development and application of optimization methods for internet advertisement markets, as well as optimization related to convex-concave saddle point problems, with applications to equilibrium finding in games.
Sherrie Wang joined MIT as an assistant professor in a shared position between the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society in April 2023. Wang was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, hosted by Solomon Hsiang and the Global Policy Lab. She develops machine learning for Earth observation data. Her primary application areas are improving agricultural management and forecasting climate phenomena. She obtained her PhD in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University in 2021, where she was advised by David Lobell.
Ericmoore Jossou joined MIT as an assistant professor in a shared position between the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in EECS in July 2023. He was an assistant scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy-affiliated lab which conducts research in nuclear and high energy physics, energy science and technology, environmental and bioscience, nanoscience, and national security. His research at MIT will focus on understanding the processing-structure-properties correlation of materials for nuclear energy applications through advanced experiments, multiscale simulations, and data science. Jossou obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering in 2019 from the University of Saskatchewan.