People
01 / Today
Current members
Current Faculty (1)
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)
Ben Jones
Joined in 2024 after a PhD at the University of Washington with Adriana Schulz. Machine learning for design and proof synthesis.
Liane Makatura
PhD from the group in 2026, now a postdoc. Representation, design, and exploration of high-performance metamaterials.
Crystal Owens
Distinguished postdoctoral fellow since 2023. Acoustic self-assembly, material design, 3D printing, and rheology. MIT MechE PhD.
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)
Zhiyang (Frank) Dou
PhD student since Fall 2025. Physics-based and cognitive simulation, robotics, neurosymbolic AI, and character animation.
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.
Jamison Meindl
PhD student since Fall 2025; BS and MEng from MIT. Extending large language models for optimization and experimental planning.
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)
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)