CDFG / MIT CSAIL

People

About thirty group members and alumni gathered at the December 2021 holiday party
The group, December 2021.
01 / Today

Current members

Current Faculty (1)
Portrait of Wojciech Matusik Wojciech Matusik Cadence Design Systems Professor of EECS at MIT. Computational design, fabrication, and machine learning for the physical world.
Current Staff (1)
Debbie Goodwin Joined in January 2025; supports Wojciech Matusik and the group.
Current Postdocs (4)
Portrait of Ben Jones Ben Jones Joined in 2024 after a PhD at the University of Washington with Adriana Schulz. Machine learning for design and proof synthesis.
Portrait of Liane Makatura Liane Makatura PhD from the group in 2026, now a postdoc. Representation, design, and exploration of high-performance metamaterials.
Portrait of Crystal Owens Crystal Owens Distinguished postdoctoral fellow since 2023. Acoustic self-assembly, material design, 3D printing, and rheology. MIT MechE PhD.
Portrait of Haixu Wu Haixu Wu Joined in 2025 after a PhD at Tsinghua. Neural simulators for physical systems, and scaling laws for scientific learning.
Current PhD students (5)
Portrait of Zhiyang (Frank) Dou Zhiyang (Frank) Dou PhD student since Fall 2025. Physics-based and cognitive simulation, robotics, neurosymbolic AI, and character animation.
Portrait of Minghao Guo Minghao Guo PhD student since 2021. Master's from CUHK MMLab, Bachelor's from Tsinghua University.
Alston Lo PhD student since Fall 2024, from the University of Toronto. Machine learning for drug discovery and structure elucidation.
Portrait of Jamison Meindl Jamison Meindl PhD student since Fall 2025; BS and MEng from MIT. Extending large language models for optimization and experimental planning.
Portrait of Michael Sun Michael Sun PhD student since 2023; BS and MS from Stanford. AI that generates graph-structured objects: molecules, materials, networks.
Current Master's and MEng students (3)
Steven Rayes
Sarah Zhang
Current Undergraduates (1)
Michal Lipiec
02 / Alumni

Past members

Past Staff (6)
Past Postdocs (19)
Past PhD students (14)
Past Master's and MEng students (21)
Past Undergraduates (2)
Past Visitors (6)