MIT AeroAstro

A team, including researchers in @MITAeroAstro, has conducted a study that highlights the need for a multiobservational approach in developing contrail identification and avoidance systems, necessary for reducing aviation’s climate impact. news.mit.edu/2025/study-obs…

Meet new @MITAeroAstro faculty member, Professor Masha Folk! Her research focuses on sustainable aerospace technology driven by a deep desire to accelerate carbon-neutral aviation. #NewFacultyFriday news.mit.edu/2025/school-en…

Teaching robots to map large environments 🤖🗺️LIDS student Dominic Maggio, postdoc Hyungtae Lim, and PI @lucacarlone1 have developed a new #AI-driven mapping approach that could help search-and-rescue robots navigate unpredictable, cluttered environments. bit.ly/43xqnUG

Chloe Gentgen, a PhD student in @MITAeroAstro, co-authored a recent study from the Engineering Systems Lab, finding that @SpaceX’s Starship may enable a flagship mission to Uranus in half the flight time. news.mit.edu/2025/3-questio…

Media Lab Prof. Danielle Wood (@space_enabled) and alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (@jovialjoy) are among the MIT community members featured in The Genius Within, a new public art installation in Kendall Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts). media.mit.edu/posts/media-la…

This winter, Zero Robotics—an education outreach program led by Prof. Danielle Wood, @space_enabled, and the Innovation Learning Center—invites teams of US high school students to program Astrobee robots to manage crops in microgravity! Team registration closes Nov. 21. Learn more at media.mit.edu/posts/zero-rob…

Nine MIT PhD students have been named Amazon AI Fellows to advance research in machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing. The fellowship will provide students with funding to conduct independent research at MIT and mentorship. bit.ly/MITAmazonAIFel…

Improving the reliability of fusion power plants. LIDS PI Chuchu Fan, grad student Oswin So, and colleagues have developed a prediction model that uses physics and machine learning to help tokamak reactors avoid damaging disruptions when powering down. bit.ly/4nZyv8H

Congrats to AeroAstro alum Major Adam Fuhrmann (SB’11) on being selected as one of NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates! Adam is one of 10 new candidates chosen from a pool of over 8,000 applicants from across the US. Read NASA’s full announcement here: nasa.gov/news-release/n…

In @Nature, Prof. @space_enabled makes the case for continuing to support NASA’s Earth-observation satellite programs, which are vital to understanding and protecting the environment. rdcu.be/eCt9c

A team, including researchers from @MITAeroAstro, is designing robotic helpers that can learn from demonstration through a three-in-one training interface that enables a person to lead a robot through a task through any of three training methods. news.mit.edu/2025/new-tool-…

Aurelia Institute, founded by a team from MIT including former @MITAeroAstro students, serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry, with a mission of making space accessible to all people. news.mit.edu/2025/supportin…

Planets without water could still produce certain liquids, new experiments have found. These “ionic liquids” can form through common planetary processes and might be capable of supporting life even on waterless planets. news.mit.edu/2025/planets-w…

As the new associate dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, @MITAeroAstro Prof. Youssef Marzouk will work to foster a stronger community among bilingual computing faculty across MIT. news.mit.edu/2025/youssef-m…

A group of faculty, including @MITAeroAstro professor and LIDS director Sertac Karaman, founded MIT’s Mission Innovation X (MIx) to help innovators secure crucial early funding while giving defense agencies access to cutting-edge technologies. news.mit.edu/2025/mix-helps…

Work led by @JasonJChoi1 @jasminejerrya Jingqi Li, Maria Gabriela Mendoza, Hamsa Balakrishnan and Claire Tomlin from @MITAeroAstro @MIT and @UCBerkeley @Berkeley_EECS #safety #collisionavoidance #marl #multiagentsystems #reinforcementlearning #CBFs

MIT granted tenure to 11 faculty members across the School of Engineering, in the departments of @MITAeroAstro, @MITdeptofBE, @MITChemE, @MITEECS, @MIT_DMSE, @MITMechE, and @MIT_NSE. news.mit.edu/2025/tenured-e…

🧠💻 New “smart coach” boosts AI’s problem-solving superpowers! CodeSteer, a smart assistant from Chuchu Fan, @YongchaoC, et al, guides LLMs on when to use text reasoning & when to switch to writing code, boosting LLM accuracy when solving complex problems bit.ly/4eX7XRL

A team of researchers, including members of @MITAeroAstro and LIDS, is developing a system for predicting rare kinds of failures, which could be used in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles. news.mit.edu/2025/learning-…

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