Daniela Rus — Director, MIT CSAIL; Pioneer in Autonomous Systems and Soft Robotics

**Daniela Rus** is the Director of the **MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)**, the world's largest and most prestigious AI and computer science research lab. She is one of the most influential roboticists alive, with pioneering research in autonomous vehicles, swarm robotics, soft robotics, and distributed systems. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.