HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
FOR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Prior to her appointment as director, Rus served as associate director of MIT CSAIL from 2008 to 2011, and as the co-director of MIT CSAIL’s Center for Robotics from 2005 to 2012. She also leads MIT CSAIL’s Distributed Robotics Laboratory. Rus is the first woman to serve as director of MIT CSAIL and its predecessors — the AI Lab and the Lab for Computer Science.

Jackson’s current focus is on new approaches to software design for improved usability and reduced development cost, new programming paradigms, and security-by-design for cyberphysical systems and web apps. He has general interests in lightweight formal methods (such as Alloy) and the role of design thinking in software.

In 1978, Davis joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, where from 1979 to 1981 he held an Esther and Harold Edgerton Endowed Chair. He is currently a full professor in the department, and a research director of MIT CSAIL. He and his research group are developing advanced tools that permit natural, sketch-based interaction with software, particularly for computer-aided design and design rationale capture.

Karger’s primary interest is in developing tools that help individuals manage information better. This involves studying people and current tools to understand where the problems are, creating and evaluating tools that address those problems, and deploying those tools to learn how people use them and iterate the whole process. He draws on whatever fields can help: information retrieval, machine learning, databases, and algorithms, but most often human-computer interaction.

Matusik’s research interests are in direct digital manufacturing and computer graphics. In 2004, he was named one of the world's top 100 young innovators by MIT Technology Review. In 2009, he received the Significant New Researcher Award from ACM Siggraph. In 2012, Matusik received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and he was named a Sloan Research Fellow.

Mueller develops novel hardware and software systems that advance personal fabrication technologies. She publishes her work at the most selective HCI venues, CHI and UIST, and has received a best paper award and two best paper nominees in the past. She is also serving on the CHI and UIST program committees as an associate chair.

Durand works both on synthetic image generation and computational photography, where new algorithms afford powerful image enhancement and the design of imaging systems that can record richer information about a scene. His research interests span most aspects of picture generation and creation, with emphasis on mathematical analysis, signal processing, and inspiration from perceptual sciences.

Glass leads the Spoken Language Systems Group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is also a member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology faculty. Since obtaining his SM and PhD degrees at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, his research has focused on automatic speech recognition, unsupervised speech processing, and spoken language understanding.