A faculty member since 1994, Chandrakasan has also served as dean of engineering and MIT’s inaugural chief innovation and strategy officer, among other roles.

A study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center will establish the Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies.

As dean of the medical college at Thomas Jefferson University, Said Aidid Ibrahim MBA ’16 is working to improve the way medicine is practiced and delivered.

MIT researchers engineered a power-free, water-collecting device that extracted a glass of clean water from the air in Death Valley, California, suggesting that “the device could provide the vital resource to arid regions.” Professor Xuanhe Zhao explains that because “the design of this device is quite a compact structure, we believe that an even larger area of the device can supply the drinking water for a household for daily consumption.”