Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
Her research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science. And is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy for Arts and Science. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Modular Stiffness Design and Its Simplification on Cable-Driven Continuum Robot Control
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Venue:
International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR)2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Wenci Xin (SMART), Yimeng Sun (NUS), Zhihang Qin (NUS), Peiyi Wang (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), and Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
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Venue:
Workshop on Continual Adaptation at Scale: Towards Sustainable AI, in conjunction with ICML 2026 (covered by VentureBeat)
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Ryan Wei Heng Quek (NUS), Sanghyuk Lee (U Tokyo & Liquid AI), Alfred Wei Lun Leong (NUS & AI Singapore), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Nancy F. Chen (A*STAR), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS & SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT & SMART), Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT & SMART)
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Venue:
Workshop on Principled Design for Trustworthy AI: Interpretability, Robustness, and Safety Across Modalities, in conjunction with ICLR 2026 (Spotlight), and ICML Workshop 2026 (Oral)
2026
Publication Type:
Article
Status:
Arxiv
Authors:
Thanh Q. Tran (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Kiwan Wong (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS & SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT & SMART), Wei Xiao (NTU & SMART)
MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ICML 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Zhenwei Tang (NTU), Arun Verma (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (SMART & MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (SMART & NUS)
3-RRS and 3-RRUR parallel manipulators as spatial positioning manipulators
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Int. Symp. Robot. Res. (ISRR), 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Wu Yongxin (NUS), Luis Hernandez (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Two-finger soft gripper with a scaled-pad contact interface for dual-mode grasping and surface cleaning
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Venue:
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Luis Hernandez (SMART), Zhi Cong Wong (SMART), Mong Juin Hwaye (NUS), Wu Yongxin (NUS), Do Van Minh (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Shape Control of a Planar Hyper-Redundant Robot via Hybrid Kinematics-Informed and Learning-based Approach
Year of Publication:
Venue:
2026 The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yuli Song (NUS), Wenbo Li (NUS), Wenci Xin (NUS), Zhiqiang Tang (SEU), Daniela Rus (MIT), and Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS, Flexiv), Xulei Yang (A*STAR), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Shijie Li (A*STAR)
GLASS: A Global and Local Adaptive Segmentation System for Robust Transparent Object Perception
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS, Flexiv), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE RoboSoft 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Niklas Hagemann (MIT), Daniela Rus (MIT)
Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Grasping in Augmented Reality via Rigid-Soft Robot Synergy
Year of Publication:
Venue:
9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Huishi Huang (NUS, SMART), Jack Klusmann (TUM, SMART), Haozhe Wang (SMART), Shuchen Ji (NUS), Fengkang Ying (NUS, SMART), Yiyuan Zhang (NUS, SMART), John Nassour (TUM), Gordon Cheng (TUM), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jun Liu (A*STAR), Marcelo H Ang Jr (NUS), Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
Adaptive and Multi-object Grasping via Deformable Origami Modules
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE RoboSoft 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted (Best Paper Finalists)
Authors:
Peiyi Wang (SMART), Paul A. M. Lefeuvre (NUS), Shangwei Zou (NUS, SMART), Zhenwei Ni (NUS), Daniela Rus (MIT), Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ICLR 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Arun Verma (SMART), Dai Zhongxiang (CUHK-Shenzhen), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Science Advances
2026
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zhiqiang Tang (SMART), Liying Tian (NTU), Wenci Xin (SMART), Qianqian Wang (Southeast University, China), Daniela Rus (MIT) & Cecilia Laschi (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ICLR 2026 (Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in Large Language Models (MTI-LLM), in conjunction with NeurIPS 2025)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zijian Zhou (SMART), Ao Qu (MIT), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Sunghwan Kim (Yonsei University), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS), Paul Pu Liang (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
The 2nd Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), Montreal, Canada, 7th October, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Rulin Shao (UW & Meta), Rui Qiao (SMART), Varsha Kishore (Allen Institute of AI), Niklas Muennighoff (Stanford), Xi Victoria Lin (Meta), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS), Sewon Min (Berkley), Wen-tau Yih (Meta), Pang Wei Koh (UW), Luke Zettlemoyer (UW & Meta).
Year of Publication:
Venue:
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria, 27th July, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment, in conjunction with ICLR 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Arun Verma (SMART), Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Dai Zhongxiang (CUHK-Shenzhen), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zijian Zhou (SMART), Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Xinyi Xu (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Low (NUS)