Director, MIT CSAIL & Professor, MIT EECS
Faculty Director, MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL
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) at MIT. Prof. Rus's research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the science and engineering of autonomy and intelligence. Prof. Rus served as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Defense Innovation Board, and as a USA expert for Global Partnerships in AI. She is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Prof. Rus aspires to help build a world where robotics and AI systems help with people with physical and cognitive work, accelerate scientific discovery, and enable solutions to the grand challenges facing humanity. She is the co-author of the books The Heart and The Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, and The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI.
Industry Impact
It is vital that companies prepare towards the future with machines integrating into the fabrics of life, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks. The applications of this work are to increase the efficiency and applications of transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, monitoring the environment, underwater exploration, smart cities, medicine, and in-home tasks such as cooking.
