Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus, PhD, the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has served as Director of CSAIL since 2012. In that role she has helped the lab grow beyond 1500 members, including 132 faculty and more than 500 graduate students, postdocs and researchers. She is also Deputy Dean of Research for Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Her research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence, and data science, with a focus on developing the science and engineering of autonomy, and the long-term objective of enabling a future more seamlessly integrating computing systems into human environments to support both cognitive and physical tasks. She is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.