Franz-Josef Ulm, seen here in his Building 1 lab, is director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub and a professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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MIT Commencement 2016 - Killian Court - MIT - Friday, June 3, 2016. Cambridge, MA, USA.

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The ion Electrospray Propulsion System (iEPS) for CubeSats is made by MIT's Space Propulsion Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The device is used to maneuver a 10cm cubic satellite in space. The Space Propulsion Lab is directed by Dr. Paulo Lozano, professor in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Two Ph.D. candidates working on the project, Natalya Brikner and Louis Perna have formed a company, Accion Systems Incorporated, to commercialize the research. Brikner, graduating in Winter 2014, is CEO of the company, and Perna is co-founder.

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Seen in her multi-vehicle lab, Domitilla Del Vecchio is an Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is also a member of the Synthetic Biology Center and the Control Networks Group. She is seen with small vehicle robots built by students. The vehicles can drive along a path marked on the floor and avoid collisions with one another because of the control system developed in the lab. The vehicles use cameras mounted near the ceiling to obtain position information. That information, along with speed information from the vehicles themselves, is transmitted to other vehicles on the track.

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David Kaufman (colored hair) Andres Erbsen (blond hair) At the HackMIT hackathon in the Johnson Ice Rink at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. They were creating a device that would be a DIY RFID reader.
Postdoc Gordon Wetzstein works on a camera sensor in his office in the Camera Culture group in MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Wetzstein's work in computational photography focuses on changing the way sensors and displays capture and project light. Here, Wetzstein is working on a printed filter that would alter the way the sensor captures light and which would then be decoded computationally to display captured images in novel ways. The work might be applied to create things such as glasses-free 3D viewing or ultra-high-definition imagery, among other possible uses.
Senior Adwoa Boakye works alongside other students on a lab for course 6.002 Circuits and Electronics in a student lab in Building 38 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The project was the first group lab and focused on measuring output in metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) to see if observed results match theoretical predictions.
Yukiko Yamashita is a Professor in MIT's Department of Biology and a Member of the Whitehead Institute, seen here sorting fruit flies based on different physical phenotypes in her lab at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wed., March 2, 2022. Yamashita's research focuses on developmental genetics in Drosophila fruit flies, looking at the process of speciation, studying stem cells and junk DNA, and as a general model of tissue homeostasis.
Mechanical Engineering junior Wei Xun He works on a prototype for a wearable device that captures a person's motion during a desk critique session in the first design studio class in the new D-Minor design minor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 3, 2016.
Assistant Professor of Geology David Szymanski of Bentley University's Department of Natural and Applied Science leads students in a discussion about pollution and water supplies in a seminar of the NASE402 Science in Environmental Policy course in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. The class involves an optional extra section that includes a trip to Washington, D.C., to meet with policy makers and discuss the role of science in making government policy.
A Lexus 600h L sedan with the TRI Platform 3.0 self-driving technology built into it is being worked on in the Toyota Research Institute Garage near Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Aug. 14, 2018. The vehicle is outfitted with special software and navigation systems including RADAR (black rectangle near top), LIDAR (white and black round piece in middle below black RADAR), and cameras that are part of a computer vision system.
Riddhi Shah (Research Associate) Independent Activity Period (IAP) Pop-Up Resilient Furniture four-day workshop at the D-Lab workshop in MIT's building N51 in Cambridge, Mass., USA, on Sun., January 20, 2019. The finished furniture pieces were going to be installed in Grove Hall in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Franz-Josef Ulm, seen here in his Building 1 lab, is director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub and a professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Students dance during a Jazz Performance class at the Holmes Athletic Center at Simmons College, one of the Colleges of the Fenway, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Mon., March 13, 2017. The students were preparing for their Spring Showcase performance in April.
Gang Chen is Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department Head, and Director of the Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories & DOE EFRC: Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC) at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
First-year student Emily Stephens, 19, uses an artist's viewfinder while sketching a still life during the first class of the year in Tricia Gibb's Foundations And Painting class in a painting studio at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, on Mon., Oct. 2, 2018. The New Hampshire Institute of Art and New England College will consolidating into one school under the New England College name. The art school will be known as the Institute of Art at New England College once the merger is complete.
Professor Eric So lectures during a class session of Financial Accounting (15.515) in building E62 at the Sloan School of Management at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 15, 2018. Eric So is the Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor in the Economics, Finance, and Accounting Area of MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Members of the Traveling Research Environmental Experiences (TREX) program, under the leadership of Professor Jesse Kroll, assemble custom sensors to study the environmental effects of volcanic smog and collect and analyze soil samples from Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii.
Undergraduate student Tiandra Ray is a senior in MIT's Department of Architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her work uses patterns of light derived from nature that, when placed in a campus environment, help promote a mentally healthy space.
Postdoctoral Associate Jasdave Chahal (right) and Research Scientist Omar F. Khan are seen here in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Nov. 15, 2016. The two worked together to create a programmable RNA vaccine. The two are looking at a microfluidic device used by Khan for mixing and self-assembly of nanoparticle vaccines.
Sara Seager is a Professor of Planetary Science and Physics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She holds the Class of 1941 Professorship Chair and her research focuses on computer models of exoplanets, including their interiors and atmospheres. She is seen here in her office in MIT's Green Building, Building 54.

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Graduate student Laura Popa (pictured) and Associate Professor Dana Weinstein have developed a Gallium Nitride Millimeter Wave Integrade Circuit (MMIC) in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The chip they developed allows fast switching between frequencies in communications technology such as cell phones.
Two a silicon integrated circuit chips (small reflective rectangles in larger rectangles) are seen on a circuit board in the Building 38 lab of Ruonan Han at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., Sept. 27, 2021. The chips here function as a sort of electronic nose in gas sensing applications. Han is an Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Principal Investigator of the Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group in MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL).
Planarian flatworms swim in a petri dish in one of Michael Levin's labs in Tufts University's Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. The worms are placed in a computer-controlled automated learning and testing chamber which allows the training of flatworms in a controlled environment. Levin's research focuses on morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems. Some of the lab's recent experiments have looked at memory in flatworms using this device. A speck of food is placed in one quadrant of a petri dish and that quadrant is illuminated by a blue light. The flatworms seek out that food and retain that memory in subsequent tests even after regenerating most of their bodies.
A press technician checks the quality of pages coming off of a press in the Amity Printing Company's new printing facility in Nanjing, China....On May 18, 2008, the Amity Printing Company in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, inaugurated its new printing facility in southern Nanjing. The facility doubles the printing capacity of the company, now up to 12 million Bibles produced in a year, making Amity Printing Company the largest producer of Bibles in the world. The company, in cooperation with the international organization the United Bible Societies, produces Bibles for both domestic Chinese use and international distribution. The company's Bibles are printed in Chinese and many other languages. Within China, the Bibles are distributed both to registered and unregistered Christians who worship in illegal "house churches."
Dr. Daniel Schmidt, of Beth Isreal Deaconess Hospital, is a post-doctoral scholar and clinical fellow in radiation oncology in Matthew Vander Heiden's lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, seen here in his lab in MIT's Building 76 in Cambridge, Mass., USA, on Wed., Aug. 1, 2018. Here, Schmidt is extracting metabolites from prostate cancer cells for High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis
AeroAstro master's student Natalya Brikner works under a hood to mount an ion emitter on a 3-axis stage for use in a vacuum chamber in the Space Propulsion Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Post-it Notes with common chemical formulations hang on shelves above a workbench in the lab Matthew Vander Heiden, an Associate Professor of Biology and Associate Director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, in MIT's Building 76 in Cambridge, Mass., USA, on Wed., Aug. 1, 2018.
A small satellite levitates in a vacuum chamber used to test thruster design in the Space Propulsion Lab at MIT. Paulo Lozano is the Associate Director of the Space Propulsion Lab and an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Lozano's current research focuses on the development of small thrusters for satellites. The thrusters his lab has developed are about the size of a single die cube and contain enough fuel to power the thrusters for a year in space. The thrusters will be used on small satellites.
Yuhan Hu, a visiting student from China, works on the Hand Development Kit in the Fluid Interfaces Group lab space at MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, seen here on Tues., April 25, 2017. The Hand Development Kit is a prosthetic of sorts that allows a user to have additional fingers and may be used in future applications including typing and musical instrument playing.
The ion Electrospray Propulsion System (iEPS) for CubeSats is made by MIT's Space Propulsion Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The device is used to maneuver a 10cm cubic satellite in space. The Space Propulsion Lab is directed by Dr. Paulo Lozano, professor in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Two Ph.D. candidates working on the project, Natalya Brikner and Louis Perna have formed a company, Accion Systems Incorporated, to commercialize the research. Brikner, graduating in Winter 2014, is CEO of the company, and Perna is co-founder.
Anastasios John Hart holds a 3D-printed mesh that he developed for use in various medical devices. Hart is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP); and MechE Maker Czar, in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, seen here in his office in MIT's Building 35 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., May 27, 2019.
Yukiko Yamashita is a Professor in MIT's Department of Biology and a Member of the Whitehead Institute, seen here holding a flask of fruit flies in her lab at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wed., March 2, 2022. Yamashita's research focuses on developmental genetics in Drosophila fruit flies, looking at the process of speciation, studying stem cells and junk DNA, and as a general model of tissue homeostasis.
A MiNDS device, the Miniaturized Neuronal Drug Delivery System, is seen in Michael Cima's lab at the Koch Institute For Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., USA, on Tues., Dec. 5, 2017. The device is an implantable drug delivery system; two pumps at the bottom (white oval shapes dangling at bottom) can be wirelessly controlled to deliver drugs as specified through the needle at the top. The project is led by Canan Dagdeviren, Robert Langer, Michael Cima, and Ann Graybiel. Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT. Graybiel is an Investigator at the McGovern Institute, an Institute Professor at MIT, and a Professor in MIT's Department of Braing and Cognitive Sciences. Dagdeviren is Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and director of the Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. Cima is David H. Koch Professor of Engineering at the Koch Institute at MIT.
From left: Myung Sun Kang (Recent Ph.D. recipient) Riddhi Shah (Research Associate) Independent Activity Period (IAP) Pop-Up Resilient Furniture four-day workshop at the D-Lab workshop in MIT's building N51 in Cambridge, Mass., USA, on Sun., January 20, 2019. The finished furniture pieces were going to be installed in Grove Hall in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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MIT Commencement 2016 - Killian Court - MIT - Friday, June 3, 2016. Cambridge, MA, USA.
Angela Sirois-Pitel, a Nature Conservancy Stewardship Manager holds a bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) while performing weekly monitoring of the turtles' natural habitat in an undisclosed location in The Berkshires in western Massachusets on Wed., May 12, 2021. The turtle habitat is part of an ongoing 30-year study of bog turtles in their natural environment run by The Nature Conservancy. Scientists use radio telemetry to track individual turtles as they move around the habitat. There are currently 10 turtles with antennae out of approximately 30 in this habitat. On each weekly visit, the scientists find as many of the turtles as possible and make record of their location, health, and growth. Bog turtles are about four inches in when fully grown and are native to the northeastern and mountainous Mid-Atlantic United States. The species is critically endangered and over the last 30 years bog turtle colonies in the wild have declined by 80% according to scientific studies. This location, the larger of two wild colonies in Massachusetts, has been monitored by the Nature Conservancy over the past 30 years, a study vital to understanding how climate change and ecological degradation can affect turtle and other species populations. The scientists say that the number of bog turtles in an area can indicate the general health of an ecosystem. Once an invasive plant was removed from the northern section of this habitat, the turtles started nesting there again. "When you have a good healthy robust bog turtle population," Angela Sirois-Pitel, a Nature Conservancy Stewardship Manager who has been working with these turtles for the past 16 years, says, "you'll have a population of rare vegetation too. There are over 26 state-threatened and -endangered species here." Sirois-Pitel says that several threats have impacted bog turtles here and elsewhere in the country including changes to habitat hydrology, vegetation availability, and the way that road and housing development h
Competitors row in the Charles River during the Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sat., Oct. 23, 2021. The Head of the Charles is an annual rowing race held near Harvard University and drawing competitors from around the US and world. Harvard University buildings are visible in the background.
Cheikh Gueye (18, junior) works on an oil change on a car in the Automotive Shop at the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Wed., November 6, 2019.
Facebook mentor George Kedenburg (beard) Pranav Sathyanarayanan (gray jacket) Mukul Sarajiwale (blue shirt/brown jacket) At the HackMIT hackathon in the Johnson Ice Rink at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Pranav was working on an app that coordinates presenter times in a group presentation time.
At the HackMIT hackathon in the Johnson Ice Rink at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
FAIRHAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS - MAY 20, 2021. Steve Kirk, a Coastal Restoration Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, uses a ruler to measure a harvested oyster after farmer Matt Loo of Round Island Shellfish brought in a harvest from his Nasketucket Bay farm in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on Thu., May 20, 2021. Loo has been farming his one-person, three-acre operation since 2012, and estimates he spends five hours at his farm four days a week. He works at a larger oyster operation on Cape Cod on other days. During the coronavirus pandemic starting in 2020, Loo says his sales were off by 30 to 40 percent. "It went from 'Oh wow, this is gonna be a great year to restaurants closed. Nobody's buying anything," he says. The oysters harvested are what Loo calls "less than desirable." Due to the drop in demand during the pandemic, Loo had to crowd cages, which led to misshapen oysters or poor shell development, which makes them unsuitable for commercial sale. Loo ordinarily sells his oysters to commercial wholesalers, but the oysters harvested on this day have instead been purchased for use in the Supporting Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration program partnership between The Nature Conservancy, Pew Charitable Trusts, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. These oysters, approximately 12,000 from this farm on this day, and another 37,000 oysters from the same farm late last year, were relocated to the Little Bay in Fairhaven, Mass., as part of a 1 acre pilot program to restore lost oyster reefs and increase filtration of the water. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for the New York Times
Molly Brennan is a third year undergraduate student in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering. She is seen here in the dining hall in MIT's Simmons Hall dorm, on Thurs., March 23, 2017.
The veterinary team and Harvard Medical Student Wataru Ebina (right) prepare a red panda named Hoppy for intubation as the panda lays sedated on an examination table during a routine 3-year check-up at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., March 15, 2018. The zoo and Harvard Medical School partner for a 4-week rotation for medical students such as Wataru Ebina, who is in the MD-PHD program. In a check-up such as this one, medical students and veterinarians perform a range of tests and examinations on animals at the zoo, usually every 3 years unless the animal's health warrants more frequent care. The red panda's general health, heart function, motor range, ears, eyes, and paws were checked in addition to a blood draw.
MIT undergraduate students put away their sails at the end of a P.E. class sailing on the Charles River from the MIT Sailing Pavilion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Apr. 25, 2019.
Raabia Malik, a Masters of Public Health student at Tufts University, uses a laptop to simulate remote learning at the Tufts Health Sciences campus in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, on Thu., Sept. 23, 2021.
A view of the tower on Mary Lyon Hall at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA, on Wed., Nov. 28, 2018. Mary Lyon Hall houses the school's administration. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for the Chronicle of Higher Education
Abram Brown, a Junior majoring in Management, lays on the grass between classes on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) in Amherst, Massachusetts, on Thu., Sept. 2, 2021. This is the first week of classes at the school and the first time that most of the student body have been in person since the start of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic. Brown said he took a gap semester last year rather than participate in remote learning at the school. "It reminds me of the first day being here my Freshman year," Brown says of returning to campus, "I have the same nervous trepidation as my first year."
Sang-won Leigh works on the Guitar Machine device in the Fluid Interfaces Group lab space at MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, seen here on Tues., April 25, 2017. Sang-won Liegh is a grad student and research assistant in the Fluid Interfaces Group, led by Pattie Maes. The device seen here is part of the Robotic Symbiants project in the group, which augment human function. In this case, the device acts as additional fingers on a guitar fretboard, allowing a player to play chords that have not previously been possible. The device now works with pre-programmed movements, but Sang-won Leigh said that in the future, a similar device could adjust its playing in realtime to harmonize with what the human player is doing.
Assoc. Vet. Megan Watson (from left) and Harvard Medical Student Joseph Rosenthal examine a young Baird's Tapir named Ixchel while Lead Zookeeper Sarah Woodruff and Zookeeper Bethany Yates scratch and pet the animal to keep it calm during a routine examination and vaccination at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., April 12, 2018. The tapir was born on Jan. 1, 2018. Here, Watson looks at the animal's exterior while Rosenthal uses a stethoscope to listen to Ixchel's breathing. When regularly scheduled care with any animal such as this vaccination takes place, the veterinary team likes to take the opportunity to do a general physical exam to keep an eye on the animal's health and growth. The zoo and Harvard Medical School partner for a 4-week rotation for medical students such as Joseph Rosenthal, who is doing the rotation in the final part of his time in medical school before his first residency. Rosenthal said that the last year of medical school is pretty open and that advisers told him to seek out unique opportunities that would "make me think differently about medicine." Rosenthal said, "I can't think of a better capstone experience." In his residency, Rosenthal will be focusing on neurology and the effects of aging on cognition. He said he sees this rotation at the zoo as a good opportunity to learn about aging animals. He also said, "It's just as hard to understand what's wrong sometimes in animals as in humans."
PhD student Josh Leighton gathers up equipment after testing an underwater communications and navigation system with autonomous kayaks in the Charles River at the MIT Sailing Pavilion at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
The graduating class of 2012 gather in Killian Court for the 2012 MIT Commencement ceremony on June 8, 2012, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Photo by M. Scott Brauer

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Yury Polyanskiy is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a member of LIDS, IDSS and Center of Statistics, seen here in his office at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thu., October 31, 2019.
Dr. Michael Levin is a professor and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology in the Department of Biology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Levin's research focuses on the way that animal cells communicate with one another during embryonic development and cell and tissue regeneration. Levin's lab currently uses frogs and freshwater planaria worms for research.
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology, and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, a Senior member of the Broad Institute, and a Biomedical Engineer at the Brigham & Women's Hospital.
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Anthony Abraham Jack is an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, seen here on Tue., January 29, 2019. This is Professor Jack's first year teaching and he is the author of the forthcoming book published by Harvard University Press, "The Privileged Poor: How elite colleges are failing disadvantaged students."
Sinan Aral is the David Austin Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Postdoctoral Associate Jasdave Chahal (left) and Research Scientist Omar F. Khan are seen here in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Nov. 15, 2016. The two worked together to create a programmable RNA vaccine.
David Reich is a geneticist at Harvard Medical School. He is seen here in his lab at the New Research Building at Harvard Medical School's Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Mon., July 11, 2016. Reich's recent research focuses on analyzing ancient humanoid DNA.
Seen here in the Space Propulsion Laboratory, lab director Dr. Paulo Lozano (center), and Ph.D. candidates Natalya Brikner and Louis Perna (left) have been working on the ion Electrospray Propulsion System (iEPS) for CubeSats at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The device is used to maneuver a 10cm cubic satellite in space. Brikner and Perna have formed a company, Accion Systems Incorporated, to commercialize the research. Brikner, graduating in Winter 2014, is CEO of the company, and Perna is co-founder. The research at MIT was done under Space Propulsion Lab director Paulo Lozano, professor in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Julie Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and leads the Interactive Robotics Group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is seen here with an ABB industrial robot. Shah uses these robots in research on "elbow to elbow" manufacturing, in which humans and robots work side by side in the same area.
Lindley Winslow is the Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Associate Professor of Physics at MIT, seen here on MIT's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., Feb. 22, 2021. According to her MIT bio, Winslow is an experimental nuclear and particle physicist whose work focuses on how the physics of fundamental particles shaped our universe and the development of specialized experiments. She is currently working on searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay and axion dark matter.
Seen in her multi-vehicle lab, Domitilla Del Vecchio is an Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is also a member of the Synthetic Biology Center and the Control Networks Group. She is seen with small vehicle robots built by students. The vehicles can drive along a path marked on the floor and avoid collisions with one another because of the control system developed in the lab. The vehicles use cameras mounted near the ceiling to obtain position information. That information, along with speed information from the vehicles themselves, is transmitted to other vehicles on the track.
Paul Blainey is an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, seen here in one of the imaging rooms in his lab in the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., September 23, 2019. Blainey's research focuses on new microfluidic, optical, and molecular tools in biology and medicine.
Virak Uy is the Director of Asian American Student Advancement Program at Middlesex Community College and helped to establish the Asian American Connections Center at the school in Lowell, Mass., USA. He is seen at his desk in the Asian American Connections Center, on Thurs., Feb. 15, 2018. The Asian American Connections Center was established at the school using a federal grant in 2016 and serves as a focal point for the Asian community at the school, predominantly Cambodian, to gather, socialize, study, and otherwise take part in student life.
Undergraduate student Tiandra Ray is a senior in MIT's Department of Architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her work uses patterns of light derived from nature that, when placed in a campus environment, help promote a mentally healthy space.
George Church is a geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist, at Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, seen here in his lab and office at the New Research Building in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Sept. 5, 2017.
Jeffrey Zhang is a sophomore undergraduate student studying Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT seen in the Dupont Gym in the Zesiger Center on MIT's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Sun., Apr. 9, 2017. NOTE: Image has been digitally altered to remove a flash reflection.
Simona Dalin is a graduate student in MIT's Department of Biology. She is seen here in the Student Art Association's Ceramics Studio in MIT's Building W20 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Wed., March 22, 2017.
Ernest Fraenkel is an Associate Professor in MIT's Department of Biological Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His work focuses on finding new therapeutic strategies for treating diseases by developing computational and experimental approaches to the diseases.
Martin Culpepper is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and is the department's "maker czar" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Adam Chlipala is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Programming Languages & Verification Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, seen here at the STATA Center (Building 32) at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., June 4, 2019.
David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., A.O., is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging. He is seen here in his lab at the Harvard Medical School New Research Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on Fri., September 13, 2019.
Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland is the director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory and of the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Kerri Cahoy, an Associate Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics, Co-Director of the Small Satellite Center, and the Bisplinghoff Faculty Fellow, at MIT, is seen here with the Elliot 24-inch telescope at the MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts, on Fri., Nov. 6, 2020. The telescope is an automated instrument used to observe exoplanets.

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Franz-Josef Ulm, seen here in his Building 1 lab, is director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub and a professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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MIT Commencement 2016 - Killian Court - MIT - Friday, June 3, 2016. Cambridge, MA, USA.

Outside class and in the field
The ion Electrospray Propulsion System (iEPS) for CubeSats is made by MIT's Space Propulsion Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The device is used to maneuver a 10cm cubic satellite in space. The Space Propulsion Lab is directed by Dr. Paulo Lozano, professor in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Two Ph.D. candidates working on the project, Natalya Brikner and Louis Perna have formed a company, Accion Systems Incorporated, to commercialize the research. Brikner, graduating in Winter 2014, is CEO of the company, and Perna is co-founder.

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