Dr. Anant Agarwal, photographed in the Stata Center at MIT, is the director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Agarwal is also the instructor of 6.002x, the first course offered in the school's online learning initiative MITx. The course covers engineering in the context of circuit design and abstraction and helps students transition from physics to electrical engineering and computer science.
Dr. Emery Brown, Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology at MIT and Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, is seen here in an operating room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., on Feb. 2, 2012.
Dr. Andreas Mershin, professor in MIT's Biological Engineering Department, sits in his office at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Mershin's current research focuses on photosynthetic photovoltaic power systems. "We would like to be able to grow solar power," says Mershin, "Nighttime access to light is the best way out of poverty."
Dr. Andreas Velten, Postdoctoral Associate in Dr. Ramesh Raskar's Media Lab Camera Culture group, sets up equipment in a lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Velten and Raskar's group has developed a camera that records at 1 trillion frames per second, which allows, for example, the recording of pulses of light moving through a liquid.
Dr. Scott Stern is the Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, photographed in the Martin (1958) Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Feb. 7, 2012.
Professor Daniela Rus and PhD student Kyle Gilpin of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT have developed "smart pebbles" a rapid prototyping system involving small robots that can assemble themselves into tools after being given basic instructions. The two are photographed in their office and lab at CSAIL at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr. Alexei Borodin is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Borodin's research focuses on representation theory and probability.
Professors Robert S. Langer (right) and Michael J. Cima speak in the Cima Lab at the Koch Institute at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Langer and Cima work together in biotechnology and have developed a new implantable medical device which allows repeated wireless drug delivery in lieu of injections.
Reflected in a small solar cell, Dr. Jeffrey C. Grossman, a newly-tenured professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, poses for a picture in his lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Grossman's recent work focuses on three dimensional photovoltaics which are designed to optimize the efficiency of solar energy collection.
Overlaid by a projection of his Visual Dictionary, Antonio Torralba, a tenured associate professor in MITâs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), poses for a portrait in the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA. Torralba's research focuses on artificial intelligence systems involving computer vision. One of Torralba's current projects is a "Visual Dictionary," a map of thousands of images that correspond to 50,000 English nouns and uses a computer system to arrange visually and semantically similar images.
Dr. Anant Agarwal, photographed in the Stata Center at MIT, is the director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Agarwal is also the instructor of 6.002x, the first course offered in the school's online learning initiative MITx. The course covers engineering in the context of circuit design and abstraction and helps students transition from physics to electrical engineering and computer science.
MIT News has become one of my favorite new clients. The assignments are usually very similar: please take a portrait of this researcher (whose research is probably on a computer or microscopic). Each assignment poses a substantial challenge, not least because the subjects are very busy people at the top of their respective fields. My record for one of these shoots is about 3 minutes, including handshake and setup; if I wasn’t able to already, I’ve learned to work very quickly when necessary. You can see how a few of these pictures were used on the MIT homepage in the tearsheets section of this website and see a few more portraits in my archive.
