Academic Job Market Candidates

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Academic Job Market Candidates

The following is an alphabetized list of participants in the Fall 2025 EECS Academic Job Search Seminar at MIT who are currently on the faculty job market. Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all PhD students and Postdoctoral Scholars from MIT EECS and related fields who may be currently seeking a faculty position.

Research areas: Artificial intelligence | Machine learning | Natural language processing | Computer vision/graphics | Robotics | Control theory | Human-computer interaction | Programming languages | Systems/networking | Security/cryptography | Computer architecture | Algorithms/optimization | Quantum computing/engineering | Communications systems | Devices/hardware | Nanotechnology | Energy | Circuits | Optics/photonics | Signal processing


Candidate list by research areas (by alphabetical order of last name):
Natural language processing:
Control theory: Fei Chen, Yingke Li
Programming languages: Amanda Liu, Emanuele Sansone
Systems/networking: Amanda Liu, Weiyang Wang
Security/cryptography: Jonathan Shafer
Computer architecture: Kyungmi Lee
Quantum computing/engineering: Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad
Communications systems:

Mazdak Abulnaga

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Computer vision/graphics, Machine Learning for Health, Science
Current Advisor: John Guttag
Job materials | Website | Email: abulnaga@csail.mit.edu



Piush Behera

Research Interests: Devices/hardware, Nanotechnology
Current Advisor: Suraj Cheema
Job materials | Email: pbehera@mit.edu



Angie Boggust

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction
Current Advisor: Arvind Satyanarayan
Job materials | Website | Email: aboggust@mit.edu



David Burt

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning
Current Advisor: Tamara Broderick
Job materials | Website | Email: dburt@mit.edu



Juan Cervino

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Signal processing
Current Advisor: Navid Azizan
Job materials | Website | Email: jcervino@mit.edu



Fei Chen

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Robotics, Control theory, Algorithms/optimization
Current Advisor: Chuchu Fan
Job materials | Email: feic@mit.edu



Giannis Daras

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision/graphics
Current Advisor: Antonio Torralba, Costantinos Daskalakis
Job materials | Website | Email: gdaras@mit.edu



Vasha DuTell

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision/graphics, Human-computer interaction
Current Advisor: Ian Waits, Bill Freeman
Job materials | Website | Email: vasha@mit.edu



Berthy Feng

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision/graphics
Current Advisor: Bill Freeman
Job materials | Website | Email: berthy@mit.edu



Zhengqi Gao

Research Interests: Devices/hardware, Nanotechnology, Circuits, Optics/photonics
Current Advisor: Duane S. Boning
Job materials | Website | Email: zhengqi@mit.edu



Chenghao Guo

Research Interests: Machine learning, Algorithms/optimization, Statistics
Current Advisor: Guy Bresler, Yury Polyanskiy
Job materials | Website | Email: chenghao@mit.edu



Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

Research Interests: Quantum computing/engineering, Nanotechnology, Optics/photonics
Current Advisor: Dirk Englund
Job materials | Website | Email: mjalalim@mit.edu



Benjamin Jones

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision/graphics, Computational Fabrication
Current Advisor: Wojciech Matusik
Job materials | Website | Email: bt_jones@mit.edu



Nikolaos Karalias

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Algorithms/optimization
Current Advisor: Stefanie Jegelka
Job materials | Website | Email: stalence@mit.edu



Aaron Langham

Research Interests: Energy, Signal processing
Current Advisor: Steven Leeb
Job materials | Email: alangham@mit.edu



Kyungmi Lee

Research Interests: Machine learning, Computer architecture, Devices/hardware, Circuits
Current Advisor: Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Job materials | Website | Email: kyungmi@mit.edu



Jin Woo Lee

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Signal processing
Current Advisor: Mark Rau
Job materials | Website | Email: jnlee@mit.edu



Yingke Li

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Robotics, Control theory
Current Advisor: Chuchu Fan
Job materials | Website | Email: yingkeli@mit.edu



Yifei Li

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Computer vision/graphics
Current Advisor: Wojciech Matusik
Job materials | Website | Email: liyifei@mit.edu



Tianhong Li

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Computer vision/graphics
Current Advisor: Kaiming He
Job materials | Website | Email: tianhong@mit.edu



Fangzheng Liu

Research Interests: Robotics, Devices/hardware, Circuits, space
Current Advisor: Joseph A. Paradiso
Job materials | Website | Email: fzliu@mit.edu



Amanda Liu

Research Interests: Programming languages, Systems/networking
Current Advisor: Adam Chlipala, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Job materials | Website | Email: lamanda@mit.edu



Ahmed Mahmoud

Research Interests: Computer vision/graphics, Algorithms/optimization
Current Advisor: Justin Solomon and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
Job materials | Website | Email: ahdhn@mit.edu



Emanuele Sansone

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Programming languages
Current Advisor: Armando Solar-Lezama
Job materials | Website | Email: esansone@mit.edu



Austin Saragih

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Algorithms/optimization, Supply Chain Management
Current Advisor: Yossi Sheffi, Saurabh Amin
Job materials | Website | Email: saragih@mit.edu



Chris Scarvelis

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Algorithms/optimization
Current Advisor: Justin Solomon
Job materials | Website | Email: scarv@mit.edu



Jonathan Shafer

Research Interests: Machine learning, Security/cryptography, Theory of computation
Current Advisor: Shafi Goldwasser (PhD) / Vinod Vaikuntanathan (postdoc)
Job materials | Website | Email: shaferjo@mit.edu



Yael Vinker

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision/graphics
Current Advisor: Antonio Torralba
Job materials | Website | Email: yaelvink@mit.edu



Raechel Walker

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Human-computer interaction, Responsible AI and AI education
Current Advisor: Cynthia Breazeal
Job materials | Website | Email: raechelw@media.mit.edu



Weiyang Wang

Research Interests: Systems/networking
Current Advisor: Manya Ghobadi
Job materials | Website | Email: weiyangw@mit.edu



Laurence Willemet

Research Interests: Robotics, Human-computer interaction, Signal processing
Current Advisor: Prof Pulkit Agrawal
Job materials | Website | Email: lwilleme@mit.edu