Join us! As a PhD student: apply to the MIT EECS PhD program by December 1st, 2025.
As a postdoc or UROP/SuperUROP/MEng: email individual faculty directly.

Faculty & PIs

Daniel Jackson

Software Design Group

David R. Karger

Haystack Group

Rob Miller

Usable Programming Group

Stefanie Mueller

HCI Engineering Group

Arvind Satyanarayan

Visualization Group

Anna Huang

Human-AI Resonance Lab

Mitchell L. Gordon

Interaction & Alignment Group

PhDs & Postdocs

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Marwa AlAlawi

HCI Engineering

Angie Boggust

Visualization

Abutalib Namazov

Software Design

Faraz Faruqi

HCI Engineering

Hope Dargan

Usable Programming

Theia Henderson

Haystack

Nouran Soliman

Haystack

Prerna Ravi

Haystack

Josh Pollock

Visualization

Ticha Sethapakdi

HCI Engineering

Dylan Wooton

Visualization

Yunyi Zhu

HCI Engineering

Andre Ye

Interaction & Alignment

Helen Bang

Interaction & Alignment

Kendall Nakai

Haystack

Arnav Verma

Visualization

Carmel Schare

Software Design

Maxine Perroni-Scharf

HCI Engineering

Paris Myers

HCI Engineering

Demircan Tas

HCI Engineering

Stephen Brade

Human-AI Resonance

Jiaji Li

HCI Engineering

Eagon Meng

Software Design

Ryan Yen

Visualization

Zoe De Simone

Visualization

Nithya Shikarpur

Human-AI Resonance

Mason Wang

Human-AI Resonance

Shih-Lun Wu

Human-AI Resonance

Amber Horvath

Visualization

Research

Please look at lab websites for more information on research projects.

Classes

6.1040 Software Design

Fall 2025

Instructors: Daniel Jackson, Mitchell Gordon

Provides design-focused instruction on how to build complex software applications. Design topics include classic human-computer interaction (HCI) design tactics (need finding, heuristic evaluation, prototyping, user testing), conceptual design (inventing, modeling and evaluating constituent concepts), social and ethical implications, abstract data modeling, and visual design. Implementation topics include reactive front-ends, web services, and databases. Students work both on individual projects and a larger team project in which they design and build full-stack web applications.

HCI Seminar

📅  Tuesdays, 4pm 📍 Star Room (32-D463) 🔓 Open to the public 📫 Subscribe ✉️ Contact

Lunch with speakers: 12pm in HCI Lounge (32-G707)

Organizers: Profs. Arvind Satyanarayan (EECS, CSAIL), Crystal Lee (CMS/W), Mitchell Gordon (EECS, CSAIL), and Anna Huang (MTA, EECS, CSAIL)
Coordinator: Cindy Rosenthal

Fall 2025 Talk Schedule

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Student of the Hour

Every hour, we honor one of our amazing PhD students and postdocs as Student of the Hour!

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