Research – Complexity Research Team (CRT)

Dynamical Characteristics of Genome
Universality of Tsallis non-extensive statistics
Non-linear timeseries analysis
Complexity Metrics and Machine Learning Applications in Biological, Physical and Space Phenomena

Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images 20/12/2024

Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI. 19/12/2024

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

Zach Winn | MIT News

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures 17/12/2024

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.

Adam Zewe | MIT News

New autism research projects represent a broad range of approaches to achieving a shared goal 18/12/2024

At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Artifacts from a half-century of cancer research 13/12/2024

Ten objects on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries offer uncommon insights into the people and progress of MIT's cancer research community.

Becca Hoff | Koch Institute

Photos: 2024 Nobel winners with MIT ties honored in Stockholm 11/12/2024

Laureates participated in various Nobel Week events, including lectures, a concert, a banquet, and the Nobel ceremony on Dec. 10.

Maia Weinstock | MIT News