Cathy Wu works at the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and large-scale urban systems and other societal systems. Her recent research focuses on mixed autonomy systems in mobility, which studies the complex integration of automation such as self-driving cars into existing urban systems. She is broadly interested in developing principled computational tools to enable reliable and complex decision-making for critical societal systems.

She received her B.S. and M.Eng in EECS at MIT in 2012 and 2013, and a Ph.D. in EECS at UC Berkeley in 2018. She has received numerous fellowship, best paper, and teaching awards. Throughout her career, Cathy has collaborated and worked broadly across fields, including transportation, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, urban planning, and public policy, and institutions, including Microsoft Research, OpenAI, the Google X Self-Driving Car Team, AT&T, Caltrans, Facebook, and Dropbox. As the founder and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Initiative within the ACM Future of Computing Academy, she is actively building international programs to unlock the potential of interdisciplinary research in computing.

An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. Carlo is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati and was involved in the launch of several companies in the USA and Europe.

Carlo graduated from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the École des Ponts in Paris, France, and later earned his MPhil and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge, UK. He initially joined MIT as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2001, exploring how new technologies can enable a better integration between the natural and artificial worlds.

Three of Carlo’s projects have been included by TIME Magazine in the list of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s “Best and Brightest” list and in Wired Magazine’s “Smart List – 50 people who will change the world”. Blueprint Magazine included him among the “25 People who will Change the World of Design” and Fast Company named him as one of the “50 Most Influential Designers in America.

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on Machine Learning and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains.

At MIT, his co-inventions include camera to see around corners, femto-photography, automated machine learning (auto-ML), private ML (split-learning), low-cost eye care devices (Netra,Catra, EyeSelfie), a novel CAT-Scan machine, motion capture (Prakash), long distance barcodes (Bokode), 3D interaction displays (BiDi screen),  new theoretical models to augment light fields (ALF) to represent wave phenomena and algebraic rank constraints for 3D displays(HR3D). 

His work has appeared in NYTimes, CNN, BBC, NewScientist, TechnologyReview and several technology news websites. His invited and keynote talks include TED, Wired, TEDMED, Darpa Wait What, MIT Technology Review, Google SolveForX and several TEDx venues. His co-authored books include Spatial Augmented Reality,  Computational Photography, and 3D Imaging (under preparation).

Tian Gu is a Research Scientist at MIT, where he is the co-Investigator of the Photonic Materials Research Group. His primary research interests involve nano-/micro-optics, integrated photonics, and photonic materials, focusing on the areas of metasurface flat optics, optical phase change materials, data communications, on-chip spectroscopy, photovoltaics, flexible photonics, etc. He is also the co-Founder and President of LyteChip Inc., an MIT spin-off company that develops advanced optics and photonics technologies. He received his B.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. degree from University of Delaware in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He is a topic chair of IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting on Reconfigurable Optics and Photonics and served on the conference program committees for CLEO, IEEE Photonics Conference, IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference, IEEE SENSORS, International Congress on Glass, International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems, etc. He is a recipient of the SPIE Rising Researcher Award, R&D 100 Award, TechConnect National Innovation Award, among others.

We are the Ohms, MIT’s electrifying competitive South Asian a cappella group!

Really, we’re a pretty awesome group of people who love punny statements and pride ourselves on having the lowest time commitment on campus. Nevertheless, we have received plenty of praise for our creative arrangements, vocal talent, and upbeat spirit. We have been featured at MIT’s 150th Anniversary celebrations, MIT Campus Preview Weekend, and at our very first concert (Ohms: Resistance) in March 2011.

For us, the Ohms are a family. Though we started as just a really cool idea in Date Room B in McCormick Hall, we are who we are today because of a team effort. Every member of the Ohms has left a lasting imprint on our group, and we have created so many memories together. We collaborate, we’re efficient, we’re fun. We’re a little bit nerdy and little bit crazy, but that is why we love each other. Above all else, we love to sing and celebrate the richness of our culture. We are the Ohms, MIT’s electrifying competitive South Asian a cappella group!