AI at MIT

AI at MIT In almost every lab at the Institute, researchers are delving into AI. And the tools they’re developing and deploying have already turbocharged existing methods and opened new pathways to discovery. At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor of mechanical engineering. Deng says she still doesn’t know whether she’d have gone all in on artificial intelligence had it not been for the covid pandemic. She had joined the faculty in 2019 and was in the process of setting up her lab to study combustion kinetics, emissions reduction, and flame synthesis of energy materials when covid hit, putting a halt to all lab renovations. Because she needed to start from scratch, she challenged herself and her postdocs to try machine learning…