Director of CSAIL at MIT
Daniela Rus is the Director of CSAIL at MIT. At MIT, she also served as the Deputy Dean of Research at the Schwarzman College of Computing and Director of the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center. She was a senior visiting fellow at Mitre and is a member of several boards.
Rus' research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and a foreign member of the French Academie Nationale de Medecine (ANM). She is the recipient of several awards including the 2017 Engelberger Robotics Award from the Robotics Industries Association, the John Scott Medal, and the IEEE Edison Medal. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
