Faculty Home | People | Faculty Hamsa Balakrishnan Associate Dean, MIT School of Engineering; William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor Research Areas: Transportation & Exploration; Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making; Systems Design & Engineering Andreea Bobu Boeing Career Development Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Human-System Collaboration; Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Kerri Cahoy Director, Small Satellite Collaborative; Sheila Evans Widnall (1960) Professor Research Areas: Earth & Space Sciences; Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Luca Carlone Boeing Career Development Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Zachary Cordero Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor Research Area: Vehicle Design & Engineering Edward F. Crawley Ford Professor of Engineering, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Post Tenure Research Areas: Systems Design & Engineering; Earth & Space Sciences David L. Darmofal Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor Research Areas: Computational Science & Engineering; Vehicle Design & Engineering Olivier L. de Weck Associate Department Head; Apollo Program Professor Research Areas: Systems Design & Engineering; Transportation & Exploration; Earth & Space Sciences Mark Drela Terry J. Kohler Professor; Director, Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Research Areas: Computational Science & Engineering; Vehicle Design & Engineering Eric Evans Professor of the Practice, AeroAstro and the Security Studies Program Research Areas: Earth & Space Sciences; Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Chuchu Fan Leonardo Career Development Professor in Engineering Research Areas: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making; Human-System Collaboration; Systems Design & Engineering Masha Folk Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Earth and Space Sciences; Vehicle Design & Engineering; Transportation & Exploration Edward M. Greitzer H. N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Vehicle Design & Engineering Carmen Guerra-Garcia Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Vehicle Design & Engineering; Earth & Space Sciences Steven R. Hall Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making R. John Hansman T. Wilson (1953) Professor In Aeronautics Research Area: Transportation & Exploration Wesley L. Harris Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Vehicle Design & Engineering Daniel E. Hastings Interim Vice Chancellor; Cecil (1923) and Ida Green Professor in Education Research Areas: Systems Design & Engineering; Vehicle Design & Engineering; Earth & Space Sciences Jeffrey A. Hoffman Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering Research Areas: Transportation & Exploration; Human-System Collaboration Jonathan P. How Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Sertac Karaman Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making; Computational Design & Engineering Nancy Leveson Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor Research Areas: Systems Design & Engineering; Human-Systems Collaboration Robert Liebeck Professor of the Practice Research Area: Vehicle Design & Engineering Richard Linares Rockwell International Career Development Professor Research Area: Earth & Space Sciences Paulo Lozano Miguel Alemán Velasco Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Vehicle Design & Engineering; Earth & Space Sciences Adrián Lozano-Durán Draper Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Computational Science & Engineering Youssef M. Marzouk Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor Research Area: Computational Science & Engineering David Miller Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor, Post Tenure Research Area: Systems Design & Engineering David Mindell Frances and David Dibner Professor in the History of Engineering and Manufacturing Research Areas: Human-System Collaboration; Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making; Transportation & Exploration Eytan H. Modiano Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Donna Nelson MLK Visiting Professor, 2024–2025 Dava J. Newman Director, MIT Media Lab; Apollo Program Professor Research Areas: Human-System Collaboration; Systems Design & Engineering Jaime Peraire H.N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Computational Science & Engineering Lonnie Petersen Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professor of Applied Biology Research Area: Human-System Collaboration Raúl Radovitzky Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor Research Areas: Computational Science & Engineering; Vehicle Design & Engineering Nicholas Roy Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Autonomous Systems & Engineering; Human-System Collaboration Sara Seager Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science, Joint with Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Research Area: Earth & Space Sciences Julie Shah Department Head, H.N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Human-System Collaboration; Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Zoltán Spakovszky T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Aeronautics Research Areas: Vehicle Design & Engineering; Transportation & Exploration; Earth & Space Sciences Russell Tedrake Toyota Professor, Joint with Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Areas: Computational Science & Engineering; Vehicle Design & Engineering Ian A. Waitz MIT Vice President for Research, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor Research Area: Vehicle Design & Engineering Qiqi Wang Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Areas: Computational Science & Engineering; Vehicle Design & Engineering Brian L. Wardle Apollo Program Professor Research Area: Vehicle Design & Engineering Justin Wilkerson MLK Visiting Professor, 2024–2025 Brian C. Williams Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Research Area: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Moe Z. Win Robert R. Taylor Professor Research Area: Autonomous Systems & Decision-Making Danielle Wood Benesse Career Development Professor of Research in Education, Joint with MIT Media Lab Research Area: Systems Design & Engineering
