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👏 Please join us in congratulating @aihealthmit PI Elazer Edelman for receiving the 2026-2027 Killian Award! The Killian Award is @mit 's highest faculty honor and was established in 1971 as a tribute to Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., who served as MIT President from 1948 to 1959. Edelman's contributions to machine learning approaches for cardiovascular interventions like stent deployment and understanding cardiovascular disease have made a significant impact not just in the sciences, but in patient care. More recently his work has explored the use of digital twins to assist with stent-based drug delivery. Elazer grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and got his first MIT experience as a high school student, taking classes as part of the Institute’s High School Studies Program. That experience led him to apply to MIT, where he earned two bachelor’s degrees, in applied biology and electrical engineering and computer science, followed by a master’s in bioelectrical engineering and a PhD in medical engineering and medical physics. He also earned an MD from @harvardmed through the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “It’s deeply meaningful that your colleagues think enough of you to want to recognize your life’s work. This is an incredibly awe-inspiring group, and for them to feel that way is a truly special honor,” Edelman told MIT News after learning that he had been selected for the award. . . . #aiforgood #stemrolemodels #healthcareheroes

Lidar systems use pulses of infrared light to measure distance and map a 3D scene with high resolution, allowing autonomous vehicles to rapidly react to obstacles that appear in their path. But traditional lidar sensors are expensive, bulky systems with many moving parts that degrade over time, limiting how the sensors can be deployed. A new study from MIT researchers could help to enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts. The key advance is a novel design for a silicon-photonics chip, which is a semiconductor device that manipulates light rather than electricity. This illustration shows an array of integrated antennas developed by MIT researchers (right) that minimizes the unwanted crosstalk that can occur in a standard antenna array (left). This innovation could enable a lidar chip to scan a wider field of view while maintaining low-noise operation. This work was conducted, in part, using MIT.nano facilities! 📸: Amy Pan and Sampson Wilcox Read more at MIT News. 🔗 in bio! #photonics #sensors #electronics #light #electricalengineering

Before modern computers existed, Alan Turing imagined machines that could think and solve problems. His ideas became the foundation of AI and the digital world.#AlanTuring [USA UK GERMANY ENGLAND FRANCE AUSTRALIA] #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureTech #MathHistory #AIRevolution

👏🔥 Congratulations to 2nd year undergraduate @mit student Jack Carson on being recognized as a 2026 Udall Scholar! Jack is a UROP in the lab of @aihealthmit AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay. UROP stands for "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program," a 50+ year-old MIT program that gives undergraduate students the opportunity to contribute to real research. In the Barzilay Lab, Jack works on developing multiomics models for personalized therapeutic target identification. His work on deep learning and statistical physics has resulted in a sole-author paper published at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the three major AI/ML research conferences. He also founded Code.Tulsa, a summer program designed to introduce Indigenous high school students to computer science and tech careers where Indigenous communities remain highly underrepresented, despite the potential for tech to advance tribal sovereignty and economic development. The @udallfoundation Undergraduate Scholarship honors the legacies of Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall, whose careers had a significant impact on Native American self-governance, healthcare, and stewardship of public lands and natural resources. 🔗 Link in bio to read more. . . . #aiforgood #airesearch #undergraduatescholarships stemscholarships

🏥 AI is now predicting breast cancer risk in real patients, at real hospitals, right here in Massachusetts. The technology developed by @aihealthmit AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay and @aihealthmit research affiliate Adam Yala has made the leap from lab to clinic, and it's already changing lives. @wbur 's Senior Health Reporter Priyanka Dayal McCluskey interviewed Barzilay along with MIT Jameel Clinic collaborators Leslie Lamb (@massgeneralbrigham ) and Gopal Vijayaraghavan (@umasschan ) about how Mirai is transforming the care of women in Massachusetts and in the U.S. at large, with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) updating its guidelines last month to include AI for breast cancer risk assessment. 🔗 Link in bio to read more! 🎨 @hudrewthis . . . #aiforgood #airesearch #medicalresearch

MIT researchers have developed an ultra-efficient microchip that can bring post-quantum cryptography techniques to wireless biomedical devices, like pacemakers and insulin pumps. Such wearable, ingestible, or implantable devices are usually too power-constrained to implement these computationally demanding security protocols. Their tiny chip, which is about the size of a very fine needle tip, also includes built-in protections against physical hacking attempts that can bypass encryption to steal user data, such as a patient’s social security number or device credentials. Compared to prior designs, the new technology is more than an order of magnitude more energy-efficient. In the long run, the new chip could enable next-generation wireless medical devices to maintain strong security even as quantum computing becomes more prevalent. In addition, it could be applied to many types of resource-constrained edge devices, like industrial sensors and smart inventory tags. Read more at MIT News. 🔗 in bio. #quantum #quantumcomputing #sensors #cybersecurity #engineering

How do we answer questions about what's next in AI? The AI and Society Forum is being held Tuesday, May 12 at 2:30 pm in the Linde Music Building's Tull Concert Hall. The Forum will gather leading researchers and thinkers to examine critical questions about AI's impact on employment, democracy, and society. Learn more and register at the link in our bio.

💡 @aihealthmit AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay gave the Opening Plenary for #AACR26, kicking off one of the world's largest cancer conferences this past weekend. Her talk, titled “Rethinking Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment with AI: From molecular mechanisms to clinical management,” focused on new advancements in machine learning for cancer treatments and early detection of cancer. "One of the themes that came out from everyone on the program committee was how important it was to highlight AI; I think everyone believes that AI is going to be transformative and it’s going to impact all aspects of cancer research and clinical care in the coming years." — Alice Shaw, Annual Meeting Program Chair 🔗 Link in bio to read our recap of Regina’s latest research covered in her Opening Plenary. . . . #aiforgood #cancerresearch #aacr2026

A new course, 6.S044/24.S00 (AI and Rationality) co-taught by Brian Hedden - a professor with a shared appointment in @mit_philosophy and @miteecs through @mitcomputing - and computer science and engineering professor Leslie Kaelbling, challenges students to explore rationality and other philosophical problems through the lens of AI research. In this video, Hedden and Kaelbling discuss the course and the importance of giving students tools to consider AI and its design and implementation carefully and critically.

👏 @aihealthmit AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay was recently recognized by Citeline's 7th edition of In Vivo as one of 30 Rising Leaders in the Life Sciences sector for 2026! "At a time when advances in artificial intelligence, data science and biotechnology are redefining the boundaries of medicine, these leaders reflect the same spirit of ambition and disruption." 🔗 Link in bio. . . . #aiforgood #lifesciences #drugdiscovery #biotech

Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in @mit_philosophy , investigates why work has value. "Work is both necessary and positively valuable," he argues. He's also working to foster dialogue and educate students on issues at the intersection of philosophy and computing. Read the story at the link in our bio.

🤔 How many years does it take to get a cutting edge cancer risk prediction AI model into hospitals to reach patients? @theapollohospitals Chief Medical Information Officer and @aihealthmit Regional Lead fo India recently joined @aihealthmit faculty lead Regina Barzilay to talk about how Mirai is currently being used to assess breast cancer risk in patients in India 🇮🇳 The interview goes behind-the-scenes to understand the initial retrospective work done to ensure that the model was safe to use in patients. Barzilay and Kar then discuss the process through which Apollo Hospitals developed a protocol to integrate Mirai into a clinical workflow. 🔗Link in bio to listen to the full interview! . . . #aiforgood #breastcancersupport #publichealth