Wojciech Matusik
Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Department of Mechanical Engineering

Who they work with
Wojciech Matusik is the Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He leads the Computational Fabrication Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). 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.
Selected Publications
- Sun, M., Lo, A., Guo, M., Chen, J., Matusik, W., & Coley, C. W. (2025). Procedural synthesis of synthesizable molecules. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https://openreview.net/forum?id=OGfyzExd69
- Liu, G., Sun, M., Matusik, W., Jiang, M., & Chen, J. (2025). Multimodal Large Language Models for Inverse Molecular Design with Retrosynthetic Planning. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https://openreview.net/forum?id=rQ7fz9NO7f
- Guo, M., Wang, B., Ma, P., Zhang, T., Owens, C. E., Gan, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., He, K., & Matusik, W. (2024). Physically Compatible 3D Object Modeling from a Single Image. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). https://openreview.net/pdf?id=k29Iv0XrBF
Media
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- May 21, 2024, MIT News, School of Engineering first quarter 2024 awards
- July 7, 2023: MIT News, Learning the language of molecules to predict their properties