Wojciech Matusik
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Department of Mechanical Engineering

Wojciech Matusik is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He leads the Computational Fabrication Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests are in computer graphics, computational design and fabrication, computer vision, robotics and human-computer interaction. Before coming to MIT, he worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Adobe Systems and Disney Research Zurich. He has received a Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, a DARPA Young Faculty Award and a Sloan Foundation fellowship. He has been named one of the world’s top 100 young innovators by MIT Technology Review and received a Significant New Researcher Award from ACM Siggraph. He earned a PhD in computer graphics at MIT.
Publications
- Xu, X., Wang, C., Shou, W., Du, Z., Chen, Y., Li, B., Matusik, W., Hussein, N., Huang, G. (2020). Physical realization of elastic cloaking with a polar material. Physical Review Letters 124 (11), 114301.
- David Guirguis, D., Aulig, N., Picelli, R., Zhu, B., Zhou, Y., Vicente, W., Iorio, F., Olhofer, M., Matusik, W., Coello Coello, C. A., Saitou, K. (2019). Evolutionary Black-box Topology Optimization: Challenges and Promises. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
- Kaspar, A., Makatura, L., Matusik, W. (2019). Knitting Skeletons: A Computer-Aided Design Tool for Shaping and Patterning of Knitted Garments. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 53-65.
Media
- November 22, 2019: MIT News, How to design and control robots with stretchy, flexible bodies.
- August 6, 2019: MIT News, Computer-aided knitting.
- June 4, 2019: MIT News, A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence.