Wojciech Matusik

Wojciech Matusik is the Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with appointments in both the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He leads the Computational Design and Fabrication Group within MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

His research interests span computational design, computer graphics, applied machine learning, and numerical simulation, with applications in design automation, digital fabrication, and computer vision. His work combines theoretical foundations with system development to create new tools for modeling, making, and understanding the physical world.

Matusik received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Before joining the MIT faculty, he conducted research at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems, and Disney Research Zurich. He is also a co-founder of two startups translating academic research into practical technologies.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and MIT’s Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, he received the Humboldt Research Award.