CSAIL Alliances

CSAIL Alliances

Connect with CSAIL!

CSAIL is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. CSAIL is home to almost 1200 people, over 900 active projects, 56 research groups, and over 600 students. The lab covers robotics, natural language processing, computer vision, cryptography, algorithms, architecture, networks, systems, web science, AI, HCI, computational biology and more.

CSAIL Alliances is the program that connects companies and organizations to CSAIL. Research, emerging technology, talent acquisition or development, and startup connections are all ways to connect with the lab.  Leading organizations come to CSAIL to learn about our work, recruit talented graduate students, and explore collaborations with our researchers.  CSAIL Alliances provides a proactive and comprehensive approach to developing strong collaborations with all CSAIL has to offer.  

Through the programs in CSAIL Alliances, companies and organizations:

  • have unprecedented access to cutting edge research and emerging technologies
  • opportunities for dialogue with leading researchers and student innovators
  • access to the CSAIL community through lectures, research publications, workshops, and networking events
  • opportunities to host tech talks and recruiting events in the lab
  • connect with CSAIL start-ups from across the lab
  • join an initiative where members provide input to shape projects: SystemsThatLearn@CSAIL(AI), CyberSecurity@CSAIL, FinTech@CSAIL
  • send an industry researcher to work side by side CSAIL researchers in the lab
  • participate in professional programs by world class faculty for talent development
  • ...and so much more!

If you are interested in more information on connecting with CSAIL please visit our website http://cap.csail.mit.edu/ or email us at alliances@csail.mit.edu.

900+
active projects
60+
member companies spanning telecommunications, finance, consumer electronics, banking, transportation and more
“The most rewarding parts of the collaboration are intangibles like research, ideas, potential employees, and industry connections. It is these benefits that make the program well-worth the investment.”

—John Cardente, Lead Technologist at Dell EMC

CSAIL Initiatives

CSAIL researchers are tackling some of today's most challenging problems with comprehensive cross-area initiatives in critical areas. Initiatives are impact driven. They are formed in partnership with industry to address real -world problems. Industry members have a seat on a governing board that informs the researchers and helps shape the projects that are undertaken. Presently there are 4 initiatives housed in CSAIL.

MachineLearningApplications@CSAIL: Bringing new applications, workforce cohesion and technological vision to industry

This initiative will focus on applications of the latest machine learning (ML) technologies, research on the resolution of current challenges limiting the abilities of ML and professional development that will help prepare a company’s workforce for this digital transformation.

Organizations who know how to leverage and integrate ML across their business will have a competitive advantage. All industries including retail, food/beverage, travel/tourism, household goods, construction, fashion, agriculture, manufacturing/ packaging, education, pharmaceutical, health care and more will all benefit from the latest ML technologies.
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Systems That Learn: Accelerating the development, deployment and evolution of large-scale AI systems

With this Initiative, we combine expertise in systems and machine learning to create new applications for understanding complex relationships from the avalanche of data available today. STL has been created to enable cross-collaboration and accelerate development of innovative human-like systems to serve the world.
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FinTech@CSAIL

FinTech@CSAIL will bring together industry, thought leaders, innovators, academics, disruptive technology development and start-up companies that are reinventing global financial services.
Through FINTECH@CSAIL, we will work closely with industry partners in leveraging innovation from cutting edge research to develop the next generation of impactful technologies that will open up new business models, broaden access, gain new data insights, and improve security.
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Wireless@MIT

A huge part of our computing future will be wireless and mobile.

To realize that future, CSAIL researchers are developing novel solutions to four challenges: dramatic improvements in spectrum use, systems to develop and run distributed mobile applications at scale, security and privacy in the mobile world, and energy-efficient designs.

These efforts are part of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, housed at CSAIL, whose participants also include researchers from LIDS, MTL, and RLE.
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