People

Team

Our lab is an interdisciplinary team of students, post-doctoral associates, and research staff. We work at the intersection of science, engineering, and design.

Principal Investigator

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A/Prof. Jas Brooks

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Assistant Professor, MIT EECS
Principal Investigator, MIT CSAIL
KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology

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Jas Brooks is an Assistant Professor and KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where they lead the Perceptual Engineering Lab within CSAIL. They received a Ph.D. (2025) and B.S. (2016) in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. Their work has appeared at top HCI venues and received Best Paper Awards. During their doctorate, Jas was a Rising Star in EECS, a Siebel Scholar, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

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Postdoctoral Associates

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MacKenzie Harnett, Ph.D.

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METEOR Fellow

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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University

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Tai Le, Ph.D.

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Biswas Fellow

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Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine

B.S., Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science & Technology

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PhD Students

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Sol (Eunsol) Choi

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Vamasundari Devi Fellow

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M.S., Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz

B.S., Food & Nutrition, Information & Interaction Design, Yonsei University

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Yuting Tang

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MIT Presidential Fellow

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B.S., Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University

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Alejandro López-Rodríguez

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Distinguished Science & Engineering Fellow

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M.S., Electrical & Electronics Engineering, EPFL

B.S., Industrial Electronics & Automation Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València

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Gene S-H Kim

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NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Co-advised by Prof. Arvind Satyanarayan

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B.S., Symbolic Systems, Stanford University

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Riley Lawson

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NSF Graduate Research Fellow

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B.S., Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Michigan State University

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Master's Students

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Terry Kim

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B.S., Computer Science, MIT

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External Collaborators

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Suk Min Hwang

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M.S., Human-Computer Interaction, UC Berkeley (Exp. 2027)

B.S., Computer Science, UIUC

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