Daniela Rus — CEO
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and robotics research with significant academic and industry influence.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Experience: 31 yrs 7 mos
Career Highlights
- Director of CSAIL at MIT, leading AI and robotics research.
- Recipient of prestigious awards including Engelberger Robotics Award.
- Member of multiple national engineering and science academies.
Work Experience
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Symbotic
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deputy Dean of Research, Schwarzman College of Computing (2 yrs 11 mos)
Andrew(1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of EECS (12 yrs 11 mos)
Director, CSAIL (13 yrs 11 mos)
Professor of EECS (23 yrs 3 mos)
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Founding Member of the Board of Trustees (7 yrs 3 mos)
Dartmouth College
Professor (9 yrs 3 mos)
Education
PhD at Cornell University