Qing Hu received his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1987. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the MIT faculty in 1990, where he is now a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Hu has made significant contributions to physics and device applications over a broad electromagnetic spectrum from millimeter wave, THz, to infrared frequencies; involving both technology development for detectors and sources and system-level imaging and sensing applications. Among those contributions, the most distinctive is his development of high-performance THz quantum cascade lasers, which have already led to applications in heterodyne receiver technology and real-time THz imaging, which was also pioneered by his group.

He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), a fellow of American Physical Society (APS), a fellow of the IEEE and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Erich Ippen is known for pioneering the field of femtosecond optics. He worked at Bell Laboratories for 12 years before joining the faculty of MIT, has received major awards for his work from IEEE, the OSA, the APS and the SPIE, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

His current research interests include femtosecond optical clock and arbitrary waveform technologies, ultrafast studies of materials and devices, nanophotonics, and ultrashort-pulse fiber devices.

Jeffrey H. Lang received his SB (1975), SM (1977) and PhD (1980) degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. In 1980, he joined the faculty of MIT, where he is now a professor of electrical engineering and computer science. He served as the associate director of the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems between 1991 and 2003, and as an associate editor of Sensors and Actuators between 1991 and 1994.

Lang's research and teaching interests focus on the analysis, design and control of electromechanical systems with an emphasis on: rotating machinery; micro-scale (MEMS) sensors, actuators and energy converters; flexible structures; and the dual use of electromechanical actuators as motion and force sensors. He has written more than 220 papers and holds 12 patents in the areas of electromechanics, MEMS, power electronics and applied control, and has been awarded four best-paper prizes from IEEE societies. He has also received two teaching awards from MIT.

He is a co-author of Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits, published by Morgan Kaufman, and the editor of and a contributor to Multi-Wafer Rotating MEMS Machines: Turbines Generators and Engines, published by Springer. Lang is a fellow of the IEEE and a former Hertz Foundation Fellow.

Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor and head of the Programming Methodology Group. Liskov's research interests lie in programming methodology, programming languages and systems and distributed computing.

Major projects include: the design and implementation of CLU, the first language to support data abstraction; the design and implementation of Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs; and the Thor object-oriented database system, which provides transactional access to persistent, highly available objects in wide-scale distributed environments. Her current research interests include Byzantine-fault-tolerant storage systems, peer-to-peer computing, and support for automatic deployment of software upgrades in large-scale distributed systems. 

Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Association for Computer Machinery. She received the Society of Women Engineers' Achievement Award in 1996 and the IEEE von Neumann medal in 2004. At the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Design and Implementation Conference in 2008, she was awarded the Programming Languages Achievement Award. In 2009, she received the A.M. Turing Award from ACM.

Rob Miller is an associate professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He earned his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, and his dissertation earned an honorable mention in the ACM Distinguished Dissertation competition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2005, and has won four best paper awards at USENIX and UIST conferences.

His research interests lie at the intersection of programming and human computer interaction: making programming easier for end-users (Web end-user programming), making it more productive for professionals (HCI for software developers), and making humans part of the programming system itself (crowd computing and human computation).

Pablo Parrilo received an electronics engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires (1995), and a PhD in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology (2000). He has held visiting appointments at the University of California at Santa Barbara (Physics), the Lund Institute of Technology (Automatic control), and UC Berkeley (Mathematics). Before joining MIT EECS in 2004, he was an assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

Parrilo is the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council (2005), as well as the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory (SIAG/CST) Prize (2005). He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) society, and a member of the Editorial Board of the MOS/SIAM Book Series on Optimization. At MIT, he is affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Operations Research Center (ORC).

Daniela Rus is a professor in the Department of Electrical Enginnering and Computer Science at MIT. She co-directs the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Center for Robotics.

Previously, she was an assistant professor, associate professor and professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth. She holds a PhD in computer science from Cornell University. Her research interests include robotics, mobile computing, sensor networks, and information organization. She is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow.

Joel Schindall rejoined the MIT faculty in June 2002 after a 35-year career in the defense, aerospace and telecommunications industries. His research includes the invention and development of a nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitor which holds the promise of being  superior to electrochemical batteries as a means of efficient regenerative electrical energy storage, and he has also supervised research on dynamic simulation and reliability analysis of complex  safety-critical systems.

As co-director of the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, Schindall is working to enhance MIT's development of engineering leaders by expanding, focusing and disseminating the teaching of innovative engineering design and engineering leadership within the MIT School of Engineering. Prior to joining MIT, Schindall was VP and chief technology officer of Loral Space and Communications (a manufacturer and operator of commercial satellites), senior VP and chief engineer for Globalstar (a 48-satellite LEO mobile-phone system), and president of Loral Conic (a manufacturer of telemetry systems for missiles and satellites). Schindall received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1963, 1964 and 1967.

John Tsitsiklis began his studies at MIT in 1976, and completed his PhD in electrical engineering in 1984. His thesis focused on the subject of decentralized decision-making and distributed computation, under the supervision of Michael Athans.

After serving as an acting assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University (1983-1984), he returned to MIT in 1984 and has since been affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He has served as a director of the Operations Research Center, and is currently an associate director of LIDS.

Tsitsiklis is the co-author of more than 100 journal papers in the areas of systems, optimization, control and operations research, and a number of books, including Introduction to Probability, with Dimitri Bertsekas. He is a fellow of the IEEE and of INFORMS. In 2007, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2008, he was conferred the title of Doctor honoris causa from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).