The following is a list of participants in the Fall 2021 EECS Academic Job Search Seminar at MIT who are currently on the faculty job market. 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.
| algorithms |
Helen XuPhD studentResearch Interests: algorithms, performance engineering
Dissertation: Algorithmic Performance Engineering of Data Movement on Multicore Platforms
Current Advisor: Charles Leiserson
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| Email: hjxu@mit.edu |
Siddhartha JayantiPhD studentResearch Interests: distributed computing, machine learning, security, game theory
Dissertation: Fast and Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for Modern Multiprocessors
Current Advisor: Julian Shun
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| Email: jayanti@mit.edu |
Talya EdenPostdocResearch Interests: Sublinear-time graph algorithms, algorithms for big data
Dissertation: Counting, sampling and detecting subgraphs in sublinear time
Current Advisor: Piotr Indyk and Ronitt Rubinfeld
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| Email: talyaa01@gmail.com |
Tim KalerPostdocResearch Interests: parallel algorithms, machine learning systems, performance engineering
Dissertation: Programming technologies for engineering quality multicore software
Current Advisor: Charles Leiserson
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| Website
| Email: tfk@mit.edu |
| computational biology |
Remy TuyerasPostdocResearch Interests: Computational biology, combinatorics and category theory
Dissertation: Sketches in higher category theories
Current Advisor: Manolis Kellis
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| Email: rtuyeras@mit.edu |
Rohit SinghResearch ScientistResearch Interests: Computational biology, machine learning
Dissertation: Algorithms for the Analysis of Protein Interaction Networks
Current Advisor: Bonnie Berger
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| Website
| Email: rsingh@mit.edu |
| cryptography |
Rishab GoyalPostdocResearch Interests: Cryptography
Dissertation: Collusion Resistant Traitor Tracing
Current Advisor: Vinod Vaikuntanathan
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| Website
| Email: rishab@mit.edu |
| graphics |
Oded SteinPostdocResearch Interests: Geometry Processing, Computer Graphics, Numerical Analysis, Computational Fabrication
Dissertation: Smoothness Energies in Geometry Processing
Current Advisor: Justin Solomon
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| Email: ostein@mit.edu |
| human-computer interaction |
Junyi ZhuPhD studentResearch Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Personal Health Sensing
Dissertation: Tentative Title: Towards More Personal Health Sensing
Current Advisor: Stefanie Mueller
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| Email: junyizhu@mit.edu |
Neil GaikwadPhD studentResearch Interests: Human-Centered AI and Public Policy, Computational Sustainability
Dissertation: Community-based Design of AI and Public Policy for Sustainable Systems
Current Advisor: Danielle Wood
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| Email: gaikwad@mit.edu |
| information theory |
Homa EsfahanizadehPostdocResearch Interests: Information theory, coding theory, signal processing, machine learning
Dissertation: My PhD Thesis Title: Spatially-Coupled Codes for Modern Data Storage Systems
Current Advisor: Muriel Medard
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| Email: homaesf@mit.edu |
Yuheng BuPostdocResearch Interests: Information theory, machine learning, signal processing
Dissertation: Information-theoretic bounds in learning algorithms
Current Advisor: Gregory W. Wornell
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| Website
| Email: buyuheng@mit.edu |
| data science |
El Kindi RezigPostdocResearch Interests: Data science; Data quality; data management
Dissertation: Online Data Cleaning
Current Advisor: Michael Stonebraker
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| Website
| Email: elkindi@mit.edu |
| machine learning |
Ferran AletPhD studentResearch Interests: machine learning
Dissertation: Learning to discover and encode structure
Current Advisor: Leslie Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Perez, Josh Tenenbaum
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| Email: alet@mit.edu |
Irene ChenPhD studentResearch Interests: machine learning, healthcare, fairness and equity
Dissertation: Machine Learning for Equitable Healthcare
Current Advisor: David Sontag
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| Website
| Email: iychen@mit.edu |
Octavian-Eugen GaneaPostdocResearch Interests: machine learning; geometric deep learning; 3D geometry of proteins, molecules and materials; graph neural networks; Riemannian geometric deep learning; hierarchical representations
Dissertation: Geometric machine learning for molecules, proteins and materials.
Current Advisor: Tommi Jaakkola and Regina Barzilay
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| Website
| Email: oct@mit.edu |
| programming languages |
Jiasi ShenPhD studentResearch Interests: programming languages, software engineering
Dissertation: Active learning for program inference and regeneration
Current Advisor: Martin Rinard
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| Website
| Email: jiasi@mit.edu |
Malavika SamakPostdocResearch Interests: Programming Languages, Software Engineering
Dissertation: Targeted Client Synthesis for Detecting Concurrency Bugs
Current Advisor: Martin Rinard
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| Website
| Email: malavika@mit.edu |
Nikos VasilakisResearch ScientistResearch Interests: programming languages, systems, security
Dissertation: Andromeda—a distributed userspace
Current Advisor: Martin Rinard
Job materials
| Website
| Email: nvas@mit.edu |
| systems |
Andres ErbsenPhD studentResearch Interests: formal verification, computer systems, programming languages, cryptography, embedded systems, computer security, type theory
Dissertation: Comprehensive Formal Verification of an Embedded System With Secure Remote Management Functionality
Current Advisor: Adam Chlipala
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| Email: andreser@mit.edu |
Seo Jin ParkPostdocResearch Interests: Distributed Systems, Systems for Machine Learning
Dissertation: Achieving Both Low Latency and Strong Consistency in Large-scale Systems
Current Advisor: Mohammad Alizadeh
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| Email: seojin@csail.mit.edu |
William MosesPhD studentResearch Interests: Compilers (Computer Systems, Machine Learning, Parallelism)
Dissertation: Tearing Down the Abstraction Barrier: Enabling Composable Performance via Interoperable Program Representations
Current Advisor: Charles Leiserson
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| Email: wmoses@mit.edu |
Xuhao ChenPostdocResearch Interests: Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, AI & Big-data Systems
Dissertation: Cache Management for Manycore Accelerators
Current Advisor: Arvind
Job materials
| Website
| Email: cxh@mit.edu |
| control |
Jack UmenbergerPostdocResearch Interests: Control theory, optimization, system identification, robotics
Dissertation: Convex Identification of Stable Dynamical Systems
Current Advisor: Russ Tedrake
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| Website
| Email: umnbrgr@mit.edu |
Kevin KircherPostdocResearch Interests: Control, Optimization, Smart Buildings
Dissertation: Heat pump aggregation, optimization and control
Current Advisor: Steven Leeb, Leslie Norford
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| Email: kircher@mit.edu |
Tobia MarcucciPhD studentResearch Interests: Control theory, Numerical optimization, Robotics
Dissertation: Dynamic Motion Planning in Graphs of Convex Sets (to be done)
Current Advisor: Russ Tedrake
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| Website
| Email: tobiam@mit.edu |
| robotics |
Maria Bauza VillalongaPhD studentResearch Interests: Robotics, Robotic Manipulation, Machine Learning, Perception, Computer vision, Tactile sensing
Dissertation: Toward precise learning of general robot skills: visuo-tactile perception for dexterous robotic manipulation.
Current Advisor: Alberto Rodriguez
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| Email: bauza@mit.edu |
Yen-Ling KuoPhD studentResearch Interests: artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing
Dissertation: Robotic planning with natural language
Current Advisor: Boris Katz, Andrei Barbu
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| Email: ylkuo@mit.edu |
Yunzhu LiPhD studentResearch Interests: robotics, computer vision, machine learning
Dissertation: Learning From and For Physical Interactions
Current Advisor: Antonio Torralba, Russ Tedrake
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| Website
| Email: liyunzhu@mit.edu |
| networking |
Moein KhazraeePostdocResearch Interests: Hardware frameworks for networking, high-performance in-network compute, software defined radios, Networks for Machine Learning
Dissertation: Reducing the development cost of customized hardware acceleration for cloud infrastructure
Current Advisor: Manya Ghobadi
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| Email: moein@mit.edu |
| photonics |
Carlos Errando HerranzPostdocResearch Interests: Quantum photonics, photonic integrated circuits, solid state color centers
Dissertation: Photonic MEMS for optical information technologies
Current Advisor: Dirk Englund
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| Website
| Email: carloseh@mit.edu |
Mohamed ElKabbashPostdocResearch Interests: Quantum photonics/Nanophotonics
Dissertation: Active Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Current Advisor: Dirk Englund
Job materials
| Website
| Email: melkabba@mit.edu |
| power electronics |
Jessica BolesPhD studentResearch Interests: power electronics
Dissertation: Miniaturizing DC-DC Power Conversion Through Piezoelectrics
Current Advisor: David Perreault
Job materials
| Website
| Email: jboles@mit.edu |
Pallavi BharadwajPostdocResearch Interests: Power Electronics, Smart Energy Systems, Renewable Energy, Green Microgids, Data-driven Modelling & Control
Dissertation: Modelling, Optimization and Control of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Systems
Current Advisor: Marija Ilic
Job materials
| Website
| Email: bpallavi@mit.edu |
Since Fall 2019, MIT EECS has been offering a seminar for EECS PhD students and Postdoctoral Scholars currently on the academic job market, hosted by Prof. Saman Amarasinghe and the EECS Communication Lab. For more information, you can contact: Prof. Saman Amarasinghe (saman@mit.edu), Dr. Deanna Montgomery (dmont@mit.edu), or Mustafa Doga Dogan (doga@mit.edu).
This webpage was developed by Neil Gaikwad (gaikwad@mit.edu) and Mustafa Doga Dogan (doga@mit.edu).