MIT-Amazon Science Hub
Bridging together industry and academia, the Science Hub helps create and support innovative research in the fields of AI, robotics, computing, and engineering.
Page Contents: About | Research | Who’s Involved | Events | Funded Projects | Fellows
About
The Science Hub is a collaboration launched by MIT and Amazon in October 2021. Hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the MIT-Amazon Science Hub is designed to connect researchers across disciplines, generate new computing and artificial intelligence tools and technologies, and build an inclusive community to ensure that the benefits of our research are widely shared.
Key Research Fields
AI & Robotics at the Science Hub is a team of MIT and Amazon researchers working together at the intersection of autonomous mobile robots, optimization, control, and perception. Relevant challenges in AI and robotics include simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and applying recent deep learning advances to applications in robotics. The intersectional approach of the AI & Robotics team results in technology that brings state-of-the-art robotics to homes around the world.
Conversational AI at the Science Hub is a team of MIT and Amazon researchers working together on advances in natural language processing. Relevant research areas include commonsense reasoning, natural language understanding, and AI democratization. By working together to advance research in these areas, the research teams create intuitive voice experiences that enable people to naturally communicate with computers.
Databases & Distributed Systems at the Science Hub are teams using innovative approaches to designing, building, or operating large-scale database services or distributed cloud services.
Video Understanding at the Science Hub is teams of MIT and Amazon researchers working together to solve audio and video challenges with machine learning. The teams work on solving broad challenges like the automation of error detection in video streaming and the creation of adaptive machine learning algorithms for streaming. By solving these challenges, researchers ensure that people can enjoy seamless video content.
Joint Advisory Committee
Asu Ozdaglar
Chair, Deputy Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; Department Head, EECS; MathWorks Professor
Sertac Karaman
Faculty Director, Director, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Antonio Torralba
Head of the Faculty of AI and Decision-making; Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor, EECS
Cynthia Barnhart
MIT Provost, Ford Foundation Professor and Professor of Operations Research, MIT Sloan
Tye Brady
Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics
Jeremy Wyatt
Director of Applied Science at Robotics AI
Shiv Vitaladevuni
Director of Applied Science at Alexa AI
BA Winston
Vice President of Technology at Amazon Prime Video
Program Team
Aleksa Lukovic
Program Manager, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Helena Martins
Program Manager, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Kathleen Hatch Allen
Program Manager, Amazon
Events
The Science Hub regularly hosts research talks, networking opportunities, and annual symposia. Upcoming events will be posted on a rolling basis. Past events are available to view here.
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 hub enables interdisciplinary teams at MIT to explore breakthrough ideas in computing, artificial intelligence, and beyond.
Project Highlights
- PIs: Russ Tedrake (Toyota Professor of EECS, AeroAstro, 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
- Edward Adelson (John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science, BCS)
- PI: Luca Carlone (Boeing Career Development Associate Professor, AeroAstro)
- Researchers: Lukas Schmid, Marcus Abate
- PI: Julie Shah (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
- Researchers: Ben Armstrong, Valerie Chen, Matthew Boyd, Alex Cuellar
Ongoing Projects
Completed Projects
Related News
- Q&A: Warehouse robots that feel by sight
- Amazon and MIT announce Science Hub gift project awards
- Q&A: Alberto Rodriguez on teaching a robot to find your keys
- Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world
Amazon Fellows
- Greta Tuckute PhD ’22
- Ekin Akyürek PhD ’22
- Mycal Tucker PhD ’22
- Anastasia K. Ostrowski PhD ’22
- Aparna Balagopalan PhD ’22
- Yue Meng PhD ’23
- Siriu Li PhD ’23
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Connect With Us
The MIT-Amazon Science Hub supports activities that helps bring together students, researchers, and faculty from across MIT and the world, to connect and learn about AI and computing technologies.
