Daniela Rus

Director, CSAIL/Viterbi
Department
Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Technology Areas
Biotechnology: Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Robotics, Manufacturing & Equipment, Autonomous Systems, Logistics / Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) / Electronics & Photonics: Photonics / Sensing & Imaging: Imaging, Optical Sensing, Chemical & Radiation Sensing / Computer Science: Networking & Signals, Bioinformatics / Communication Systems: Wireless, Optical / Chemicals & Materials: Polymers, Fabrics & Textiles, Catalysis & Synthesis
Impact Areas
Healthy Living, Advanced Materials, Connected World, Uncharted Frontiers, Sustainable Future

Imagining a future where robots are so integrated in the fabric of human life that they become as common as smartphones are today.

Background and Experience

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus’s research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineers, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Prior to joining MIT, Rus was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College.

Technologies

Printable Hydraulics: A Method for Fabricating Actuated 3D-Printed Assemblies via Co-Deposition of Solids and Liquids

Technology / Case number: #18254
Daniela Rus / Robert MacCurdy
Technology Areas: Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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