Life Sciences at the MIT EECS Department

The MIT EECS department has long been a source of interdisciplinary research, however in recent years, the number of faculty members who have expanded their research portfolios to include aspects from the life sciences has risen dramatically. This trend is a perfect illustration of the department’s tag line: “EECS is everywhere” – our view that EECS modes of thinking are important tools in tackling many different domains of investigation. We will briefly highlight selected examples of EECS influences on life science problems, including computational biology algorithms, synthetic biology methods, nanodevices for therapy delivery, “lab on a chip” devices, computer-assisted surgery, novel medical sensors, medical image analysis methods for disease tracking, prosthetic devices, and others.

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Eric Grimson is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering at MIT. He also holds a joint appointment as a Lecturer on Radiology at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prof. Grimson has previously served as the Education Officer for the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and as Associate Department Head. Since 2005, he has been serving as the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received a B.Sc. (High Honors) in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Regina in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1980. Prof. Grimson is a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his group has pioneered state of the art systems for activity and behavior recognition, object and person recognition, image database indexing, image guided surgery, site modeling and many other areas of computer vision. Prof. Grimson is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the IEEE, and was awarded the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering at MIT.

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Eric Grimson
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