Daniela Rus

CEO

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States31 yrs 7 mos experience

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and robotics research with significant academic and industry influence.

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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.

Experience

31 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
10 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Gartner

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Jan 2026Present · 3 mos

Massachusetts institute of technology

MIT Panasonic Professor

Jul 2025Present · 9 mos

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Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs

Symphonyai

Director

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Symbotic

Director

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Massachusetts institute of technology

4 roles

Deputy Dean of Research, Schwarzman College of Computing

Sep 2019Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Andrew(1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of EECS

Jul 2012Jun 2025 · 12 yrs 11 mos

Director, CSAIL

Promoted

May 2012Present · 13 yrs 11 mos

Professor of EECS

Jan 2003Present · 23 yrs 3 mos

Mbzuai

Founding Member of the Board of Trustees

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

Dartmouth college

Professor

Sep 1994Dec 2003 · 9 yrs 3 mos

Education

Cornell University

PhD

Jan 1987Jan 1993

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