Transportation Researchers
Professor, Sloan School; Managing Director, Martin Trust Center, MIT
Research Interests:
Entrepreneurship Education, Economics & Business
Chancellor, Ford Professor of Engineering
Research Interests:
Large-scale optimization, Airlines operations, Transportation operations, planning, and control
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Control and Optimization Algorithms for Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
Director, Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
Research Interests:
Climate Impacts of Aviation, Aircraft Emissions, Biofuels, Electric Aircraft Design, Low Emission and Noise Aircraft Propulsion
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Research Interests:
Aerospace Systems, Engineering Systems, Technology Development, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Executive Director, MIT Energy Initiative’s Mobility Systems Center
Research Interests:
Decarbonization of Transportation, Energy Efficiency in Mobility, Low-Carbon Technologies, Energy Systems Integration
T. Wilson (1953) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Air Transportation, Instrumentation, Flight Safety, Flight Information Systems, Air Traffic Control
JR East Professor of Engineering
Research Interests:
Network Science, Decision Theory, Cooperative Control Of Multi-Agent Systems, Optimal Control, Motion Coordination
Assistant Professor, System Dynamics
Research Interests:
Autonomous Vehicle, Supply Chain Management, Energy Consumption
Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Research Interests:
AI & Machine Learning, Graphics & Vision, Robotics, Big Data and Transportation
Institute Professor & Professor of Operations Research
Research Interests:
Operations Research and Statistics, Management Science
E. Pennell Brooks (1917) Professor in Management
Research Interests:
Network, Combinatorial Optimization
Professor of Urban Technologies and Planning, SENSEable City Lab Director
Research Interests:
Education, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Information, Technology, and Media and Analytics
Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning
Research Interests:
Spatial Analysis, Walkability, Public Transport, Business Location Patterns, Urban Design
Vice President for Open Learning at MIT
Research Interests:
Automotive Technologies, Batteries, Digital Learning, Design, Manufacturing
Ford Professor of Political Science
Research Interests:
Political Economy, Historical Institutionalism, Labor Politics, Social Policy, Advanced Industrial Countries
Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab; Director of the MIT CAVE Lab
Research Interests:
Multi-tier Distribution Network Design, Urban Logistics, Last-Mile Delivery, Urban Freight Policy, Data Analytics and Visualization
Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor of Transportation and City Planning, Director of MIT Mobility Initiative
Research Interests:
Urban Transportation, Travel Behavior, Shared and Automated Mobility Planning, Public Transit
Lecturer of Transportation Policy and Planning
Research Interests:
Urban Transportation, Equity, Public Realm Design, Public Transportation Funding and Service Delivery
Professor of Management and Operations Research, Associate Dean of Business Analytics
Research Interests:
Optimization, Stochastic Systems, Machine Learning, Robust Optimization, Transportation and Finance
Fujitsu Chair Professor in the EECS Department
Research Interests:
Networking, Data Management, Sensing, Mobile and Sensor Computing, Wireless Networks, Overlay and P2P Networks
Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Research Interests:
Freight Transportation, Supply Chain
Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
Research Interests:
Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Value Chain Roadmapping, Outsourcing Dynamics
Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science at the Sloan School of Management at MIT
Research Interests:
Continuous Optimization, Computational Complexity, Convexity, Computational Science, Mathematical Systems
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Energy and transportation interface, Internal combustion engines, Transportation fuels
Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Political Economy
Research Interests:
Community Development, Economic Development, Law and Policy, Machine Learning, Transportation and Mobility
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Foundations of Mobility
Principal Research Scientist
Research Interests:
Advanced Simulation and Augmented Reality for Urban Design, Mobility-on-Demand Systems
T. Wilson Chair Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Operations Research, Stochastic Systems, Air Transportation, Urban Services
William F. Pounds Professor of Management, EMBA Faculty Director, Operations Research Center Co-Director
Research Interests:
Operations Management, Management Science, Pricing, Revenue Management, Supply Chains, Machine Learning, Optimization
Japan Steel Industry Professor, Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Technology and policy, Transportation systems, Industry studies, Information systems
Research Scientist
Research Interests:
Spatial Analysis, Urban Transportation, Public Transportation
Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Senior Lecturer, Operations Management
Research Interests:
Information Technology and Systems, Development, and Public Policy
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Public Transportation, Transport System Design, New Transportation Systems
Samuel Tak Lee Professor, CRE, DUSP and SA+P
Research Interests:
Urban and Environmental Economics and Policy; Environmental Sustainability
Lecturer, Research Associate and Manager of the MIT Transit Research Program
Research Interests:
Transportation Planning, Transit Management and Operations, Transit Information and Decision Support Systems
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Research Interests:
Environmental Planning and Management, Healthy Communities and Active Living, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Design
Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering
Research Interests:
Transportation Systems Analysis, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Demand Modeling, Econometrics
Director, MIT AgeLab
Research Interests:
Consumer Behavior, Behavioral Science, Global Demographics
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Research Interests:
Analytics, Combinatorial Optimization, Management Science, Operations Management, Sharing Economy
Hoyt C. Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering
Research Interests:
Fuel Chemistry, Evaluation of Alternative Fuels & Engines
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Robust Control, Adaptive Control, Model Predictive Control, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Dugald C. Jackson Professor in EECS, Co-Director of the Operations Research Center
Research Interests:
Online Optimization and Learning, Machine Learning, Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management
Research Interests:
Biotechnology, Climate Change, Economic Modeling, Economic Development, Energy, Globalization, Sustainability
Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Autonomy in Human Environments; Precision Navigation; Ultra-Wideband for Urban Transit
Distinguished Professor and Department Head, EECS; Deputy Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College of Computing
Research Interests:
Nonlinear and Convex Optimization: Theory and Algorithms; Game Theory;
Social and Economic Networks
Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science
Research Interests:
Computational Social Science, Organizational Engineering, Wearable Computing, Image Understanding
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests:
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Operations Research, Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
Research Interests:
Systems Optimization, Risk Analysis, Supply Chain Management
Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civi & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Geomechanics and geomaterials,
urban infrastructure,
environmental sensing
Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning
Research Interests:
Semi-formal Transportation, Urban Information, Technology, Media Design, Data Action, Urban Design, Data Visualization and Privacy
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Control of Infrastructure Networks, Security of Cyber-Physical Systems, Applied Game Theory and Information Economics
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Information Optics, Digital Holography, Subwavelength Optical Engineering
Principal Research Scientist
Research Interests:
Air Transportation Economics and Operations Analysis, Airline Pricing and Revenue Management
Principal Research Scientist and Lecturer of Transportation Policy and Planning
Research Interests:
Urban Technologies, Transportation and Planning, Social Construction of Technologies
Professor of Urban Studies & Planning
Research Interests:
Transportation and Mobility, Urban Information, Technology, and Media and Analytics
Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management and Professor of Operations Management
Research Interests:
Design and Planning of Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains, Supply-Chain Optimization
Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Statistics
Research Interests:
Stochastic optimization, data-driven decision-making, analytics, vehicle routing, transportation scheduling
George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics
Research Interests:
Economics, Finance and Accounting
William Barton Rogers Career Development Professor of Energy Economics
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Environmental & Energy Economics
Research Program Manager for the MIT Energy Initiative's Mobility Systems Center
Research Interests:
Advanced Technologies, Alternative Fuels, Service Models, Consumer Choice, Government Policy
Visiting Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Operations Research, Network Design, Traffic Management
Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Research Interests:
Energy Transition, Policy Scenarios, Climate Policy, Regional Analysis
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research Interests:
Robotics, Machine Learning, Autonomous Systems, Planning and Reasoning, Human-Computer Interaction, Micro Air Vehicles
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate
Research Interests:
Infrastructure, Urban Transportation, Public Transportation, Institutional Development in Decision-Making.
Associate Professor of Energy Studies
Research Interests:
Storage Technologies, Environmental Analysis, Energy Technologies
Gilbert W. Winslow (1937) Career Development Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Machine Learning, Control Theory, Multi-agent Systems, Implications of AI & Automation
Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning
Research Interests:
Environmental Planning and Management, Healthy Communities and Active Living, Transportation and Mobility, Urban Economics