TIME100 AI 2026 · Thinkers
Daniela Rus
Director, MIT CSAIL; Co-founder, Liquid AI
The director of MIT's AI lab co-founded Liquid AI, a spinout from that lab, and has co-founded other robotics and AI companies.
- Born
- Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Now
- Co-founder, Liquid AI
- Studied
- Cornell University, University of Iowa
Interesting facts
- First
Won a MacArthur 'genius' Fellowship in 2002, while still a professor at Dartmouth.
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Has spun four companies out of her own MIT lab: Liquid AI, Themis AI, Venti Technologies and The Routing Company.
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Her PhD advisor at Cornell was John Hopcroft, a Turing Award winner.
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Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Was a founding member of the board of trustees of MBZUAI, the AI university in Abu Dhabi.
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Career
- Liquid AICo-founder2023 to now
- MITDirector, CSAIL; Panasonic Professor, CSAIL2004 to now
- Dartmouth CollegeProfessor of Computer Science1994–2004
Education
- PhD, Computer science, Cornell University, 1993
- MS, Computer science, Cornell University, 1990
- BS, Computer science and mathematics, University of Iowa, 1985