Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Daniela Rus: Biography at a Glance
- Daniela Rus is the Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
- In her book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, Rus explores the ways in which intelligent machines can augment and enhance our skills and talents, both as individuals and as a species.
- Her latest TED talk, How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World, explores the rise of "physical intelligence" which will enable AI to operate beyond digital confines and engage dynamically in the real world.
- Rus' research interests include robotics, generative AI, and data science, with a focus on developing the science and engineering of autonomy.
- Her research aims to enable a future with machines pervasively integrated into the fabric of life, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks - increasing the ability of machines to reason, learn, and adapt to complex tasks in human-centered environments
- Rus serves as Director of the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center whose focus is the advancement of AI research and its applications to intelligent vehicles.
- She is a member of several boards of technical companies and serves as a USA expert member for GPAI (Global Partnerships in AI).
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Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); and Deputy Dean of Research for Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus’ research interests are in robotics, generative AI, and data science.
The focus of her work is developing the science and engineering of autonomy, toward the long-term objective of enabling a future with machines pervasively integrated into the fabric of life, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks. Her research addresses some of the gaps between where robots are today and the promise of pervasive robots: increasing the ability of machines to reason, learn, and adapt to complex tasks in human-centered environments, developing intuitive interfaces between robots and people, and creating the tools for designing and fabricating new robots quickly and efficiently. The applications of this work are broad and include transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, monitoring the environment, underwater exploration, smart cities, medicine, and in-home tasks such as cooking.
Rus serves as Director of the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center, whose focus is the advancement of AI research and its applications to intelligent vehicles. She is a MITRE senior visiting fellow, serves as a USA expert member for GPAI (Global Partnerships in AI), a member of the board of advisers for Scientific American, a member of the Defense Innovation Board, and a member of several other boards of technical companies.
Rus 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. She is the recipient of the 2017 Engelberger Robotics Award from the Robotics Industries Association. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Rus has also worked on two collaborative projects with the Pilobolus Dance company at the intersection of Technology and Art. Seraph, a pastoral story about human-machine friendship, was choreographed in 2010 and performed in 2010-2011 in Boston and New York City. The Umbrella Project, a participatory performance exploring group behavior, was choreographed in 2012 and performed at PopTech 2012, in Cambridge, Baltimore, and Singapore.
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The Heart and the Chip: Steering the AI Evolution
Moving between her dreams of robots as a child and the fantastic intelligent machines she's building today, internationally renowned AI leader Daniela Rus details her vision of the future in this companion talk to her new book, The Heart and the Chip. As Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, Rus has built robots that fly, swim, crawl, and leap and designed a new type of AI network that overcomes many of the shortcomings of today's models. In this talk for general, undergraduate, and business audiences, she shares her inspiring academic and intellectual path, introduces the basics of robotics and AI, explores the risks and rewards of these new technologies, and outlines her vision of how to steer their evolution to ensure the best possible outcome for the largest number of people.
This is an engaging, thought-provoking, and intellectually rich conversation from one of the world's leading experts on robots and AI.
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