MIT-Pillar AI Collective has introduced three inaugural fellows for the autumn 2023 semester. With help from this system, the graduate college students, who’re of their ultimate yr of a grasp’s or PhD program, will conduct analysis within the areas of synthetic intelligence, machine studying, and information science with the goal of commercializing their improvements.

Launched by MIT’s College of Engineering and Pillar VC in 2022, the MIT-Pillar AI Collective helps college, postdocs, and college students conducting analysis on AI, machine studying, and information science. Supported by a present from Pillar VC and administered by the MIT Deshpande Heart for Technological Innovation, the mission of this system is to advance analysis towards commercialization.

The autumn 2023 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows are:

Alexander Andonian SM ’21 is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and pc science whose analysis pursuits lie in pc imaginative and prescient, deep studying, and synthetic intelligence. Extra particularly, he’s centered on constructing a generalist, multimodal AI scientist pushed by generative vision-language mannequin brokers able to proposing scientific hypotheses, working computational experiments, evaluating supporting proof, and verifying conclusions in the identical method as a human researcher or reviewer. Such an agent might be skilled to optimally distill and talk its findings for human consumption and comprehension. Andonian’s work holds the promise of making a concrete basis for rigorously constructing and holistically testing the next-generation autonomous AI agent for science. Along with his analysis, Andonian is the CEO and co-founder of Reelize, a startup that gives a generative AI video instrument that effortlessly turns lengthy movies into brief clips — and originated from his enterprise coursework and was supported by MIT Sandbox. Andonian can be a founding AI researcher at Poly AI, an early-stage YC-backed startup constructing AI design instruments. Andonian earned an SM from MIT and a BS in neuroscience, physics, and arithmetic from Bates School.

Daniel Magley is a PhD candidate within the Harvard-MIT Program in Well being Sciences and Expertise who’s obsessed with making a wholesome, totally functioning thoughts and physique a actuality for all. His modern analysis is concentrated on growing a swallowable wi-fi thermal imaging capsule that might be utilized in treating and monitoring inflammatory bowel illnesses and their manifestations, reminiscent of Crohn’s illness. Offering elevated sensitivity and eliminating the necessity for bowel preparation, the capsule has the potential to vastly enhance therapy efficacy and total affected person expertise in routine monitoring. The capsule has accomplished animal research and is coming into human research at Mass Basic Brigham, the place Magley leads a crew of engineers within the hospital’s largest translational analysis lab, the Tearney Lab. Following the human pilot research, the most important technological and regulatory dangers can be cleared for translation. Magley will then start specializing in a multi-site examine to get the gadget into clinics, with the promise of benefiting sufferers throughout the nation. Magley earned a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.

Madhumitha Ravichandra is a PhD candidate fascinated about advancing warmth switch and floor engineering methods to reinforce the protection and efficiency of nuclear vitality methods and cut back their environmental impacts. Leveraging her deep information of the combination of explainable AI with high-throughput autonomous experimentation, she seeks to rework the event of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) sensors, which might probably stand up to and performance amidst radiation ranges that might render typical sensors ineffective. By integrating explainable AI with high-throughput autonomous experimentation, she goals to quickly iterate designs, take a look at underneath diverse circumstances, and be sure that the ultimate product is each sturdy and clear in its operations. Her work on this area might shift the paradigm in rad-hard sensor improvement, addressing a evident void available in the market and redefining requirements, guaranteeing that nuclear and area functions are safer, extra environment friendly, and on the slicing fringe of technological progress. Ravichandran earned a BTech in mechanical engineering from SASTRA College, India.