Anant Agarwal is the Director of CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.  He leads the Carbon group, which focuses on research involving operating systems and architectures for manycores and clouds. He is also a founder and CTO of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras. He led the development of Raw – an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle – an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife – a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works, which took the VirtualWires technology to market. Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array based on Raw, and is an author of the textbook “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."

Dimitri A. Antoniadis is the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. He is also director of the multi-university Focus Research Center for Materials Structures and Devices, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, and recipient of several professional awards.

He has published extensively in the area of solid state processes and devices, quantum-effect-devices, and CMOS device engineering. His current research is on nanoscale Si, Ge and III-V FET devices.

Arthur B. Baggeroer is a Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received the degrees of BSEE from Purdue University in 1963 and ScD from MIT in 1968.

He was been a consultant to the Chief of Naval Research at the NATO SACLANT Center (now NURC) in 1977 and a Cecil and Ida Green Scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1990 while on sabbatical leaves. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He received the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 1991, was an elected member of the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society from 1994-1997, and was awarded the Rayleigh-Helmholtz Medal from the Acoustical Society in 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and awarded a Secretary of the Navy / Chief of Naval Operations Chair in Oceanographic Science in 1998.
He has served as a senior advisor to the Navy on numerous committees and panels. He recently chaired the NSB panel on Distributed Remote Surveillance (DRS).

Baggeroer was awarded the “Distinguished Alumni Award” of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from his alma mater, Purdue University. He was recently awarded the ADM Charles Martel - David Bushnell Award by NDIA for ”outstanding technical contributions to the defense of the US in the field of UnderseaWarfare.” He has long been recognized as the outstanding academic for Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW). Some of the Navy Committees he has been involved are:

1. the Naval Studies Board (NSB)
2. the Ocean Studies Board (OSB) of the National Academy
3. the Submarine Superiority Technical Advisory Group (He was a member of the original committee for ADM Demars which led to APB/ARCI.)
4. the Fixed Surveillance Systems Technical Advisory Group;
5. the SSIPT for N84 (twice)
6. the ”Red Team” special programs component for the Way Ahead for ASW
7. an advisory panel member for several programs for the Navy and DARPA
8. the Naval Research Advisory Committee.

He has been chief scientist on 15 oceanographic cruises with seven in the Arctic Ocean. His research has concerned signal and array processing for sonar, radar and seismic systems, ocean acoustic telemetry, global acoustics for ocean thermometry and ocean warming and matched field array processing. He also has had long affiliations with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) where he was director of the MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program from 1983-1988 and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

V. Michael Bove Jr. holds an SBEE, an SM in visual studies and a PhD in media technology, all from MIT, where he is currently head of the Object-Based Media Group at the Media Laboratory, co-directs the Center for Future Storytelling, and directs the consumer electronics program CELab.

He is the author or co-author of more than 60 journal or conference papers on digital television systems, video processing hardware/software design, multimedia, scene modeling, visual display technologies and optics. He holds patents on inventions relating to video recording, hardcopy, interactive television, and medical imaging, and has been a member of several professional and government committees. He is coauthor with the late Stephen A. Benton of the book Holographic Imaging (Wiley, 2008). He is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and associate editor of Optical Engineering. He served as general chair of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'06), and is a member of Board of Governors of the National Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. Bove is a fellow of the SPIE and of the Institute for Innovation, Creativity, and Capital. He was a founder of and technical advisor to WatchPoint Media (now a part of Tandberg Television) and is technical advisor to One Laptop Per Child (creators of the XO laptop for children in developing countries).

Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990 and 1994, respectively. Since September 1994, he has been with MIT, where he is currently the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering. 

He was a co-recipient of several awards, including the 1993 IEEE Communications Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award, the IEEE Electron Devices Society's 1997 Paul Rappaport Award for the Best Paper in an EDS publication during 1997, the 1999 DAC Design Contest Award, the 2004 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, the 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence and the ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper (2007, 2008, 2009). He received the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award.

His research interests include low-power digital integrated circuit design, wireless microsensors, ultra-wideband radios and emerging technologies.

Joel l. Dawson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received the SB in electrical engineering from MIT in 1996, and the MEng degree from MIT in EECS in 1997. He went on to pursue further graduate studies at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in electrical engineering for his work on power amplifier linearization techniques.

Before joining the faculty at MIT, Dawson spent one year at a startup company that he co-founded. He continues to be active in the industry as both a technical and legal consultant. Dawson received the NSF CAREER award in 2008, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009.

Fredo Durand is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

He received his PhD from Grenoble University, France, in 1999, supervised by Claude Puech and George Drettakis. From 1999-2002, he was a postdoc in the MIT Computer Graphics Group with Julie Dorsey.

Dennis Freeman, PhD, is a professor of electrical engineering in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and he is an affiliate professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Freeman's research interests combine the study of optics with the study of micromechanics in both biological and microfabricated systems. His group has developed a system that combines stroboscopic illumination, optical microscopy and computer vision to measure motions of microscopic targets with nanometer resolution. The technique has been applied to obtain the first direct measurements of sound-induced motions of cells and accessory structures in the inner ear. The technique has also been applied to study motions of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), and this system has been commercialized by several companies. His group has recently developed a Doppler optical coherence microscope for studies of cochlear mechanics.

Vivek K. Goyal was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He received an SB in mathematics and the BSE degree in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa, receiving the John Briggs Memorial Award for the top undergraduate student across all colleges and departments. He received SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Before joining the MIT faculty, he was a member of technical staff in the Mathematics of Communications Research Department of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; and a senior research engineer for Digital Fountain. His research interests include source coding theory, sampling, quantization and information gathering and dispersal in networks.

Goyal is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu and SIAM. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He received the Eliahu Jury Award of the University of California, Berkeley, awarded to a graduate student or recent alumnus for outstanding achievement in systems, communications, control or signal processing. He was also awarded the 2002 IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award and an NSF CAREER Award. He served a six-year term on the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Image and Multiple Dimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and was a plenary speaker at IEEE Data Compression Conference and IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. He is currently a permanent co-chair of the SPIE Wavelets conference series.

Peter L. Hagelstein is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. He received an SB and SM in 1976, and a PhD in electrical engineering in 1981, from MIT. He was a staff member of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1981 to 1985 before joining the MIT faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1986.  

Hagelstein's early work focused on EUV and soft X-ray lasers, relativistic atomic structure and electron collisional physics, ionic autoionization and dielectronic recombination processes, plasma population kinetics, radiation transport and large scale physics simulation. He received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1984 for his innovation and creativity in X-ray laser physics.

His recent efforts have included the invention of semiconductor technology that could allow efficient, affordable production of electricity from a variety of energy sources, as well as continuing investigations of low-energy nuclear reactions. Hagelstein is the co-author of a new textbook, Introductory Applied Quantum and Statistical Mechanics, and chaired the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion in 2003.