Dina Katabi

Dina Katabi is the Thuan (1990) and Nicole Pham Professor at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  (EECS) and director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing. Her research spans congestion control, network measurements, scalability and robustness of communication systems, differentiated services, internet pricing, routing, content distribution, peer-to-peer systems, self-configurable and wireless networks, and network security. Katabi has a particular interest in adapting tools from various fields of applied mathematics, like control theory, coding theory, and AI to solve problems in computer networks. She has received an Association for Computing Machinery prize in computing for her work in the field of networking. She earned a BS from the University of Damascus and an SM and PhD in computer science from MIT.

Selected Publications

• Zha, K., Gao, Z., Shen, M., Hong, Z.-W., Boning, D., and Katabi, D. (2025). RL Tango: Reinforcing generator and verifier together for language reasoning. In Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 
• Yang, Y., Zhang, H., Katabi, D., and Ghassemi, M. (2023). Change is Hard: A Closer Look at Subpopulation Shift. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
• Yuan, Y., He, H., Tian, Y., Feris, R., Indyk, P., and Katabi, D. (2023). Addressing Feature Suppression in Unsupervised Visual Representations. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

• June 28, 2024: MIT News, Study reveals why AI models that analyze medical images can be biased
• November 21, 2023: MIT News, Students pitch transformative ideas in generative AI at MIT Ignite competition
• August 17, 2023: MIT News, How machine-learning models can amplify inequities in medical diagnosis and treatment