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New Faculty Chair Appointments

Effective January 1 through July 1, 2026

MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Juan Antolin-Diaz (Finance) Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor
  • Ali Aouad (Operations Management) Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management
  • Johan Chu (System Dynamics) Sarofim Family Career Development Professor
  • Mert Demirer (Applied Economics) Ford International Career Development Professor
  • Alex Jacquillat (Operations Research and Statistics) George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management
  • Tong Liu (Finance) Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Professor
  • Alexey Makarin (Applied Economics) Mitsubishi Career Development Professor in International Management
  • Joseph Moran (Accounting) Class of 1958 Career Development Professor
  • Lira Mota (Finance) Victor J. Menezes (1972) Career Development Professor of Finance
  • Jimin Nam (Marketing) Class of 1957 Career Development Professor
  • Georg Rilinger (Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management) Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship
  • Kerry Siani (Finance) Jon D. Gruber Career Development Professor in Finance
  • Vicky Chuqiao Yang (System Dynamics) Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Professor of Management in Technology
  • Y. Karen Zheng (Operations Management) Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management

School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P)

  • Cynthia Breazeal (Media Arts & Sciences) Benesse Professor of Research in Education
  • Alexandra Cabral (Urban Studies & Planning) Charles H. (1951) and Ann E. Spaulding Career Development Chair*
  • Neil Gershenfeld (Media Arts & Sciences) LG Electronics Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
  • Hugh Herr (Media Arts & Sciences) Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor
  • Caitlin Mueller (Architecture) George Macomber Professor in Construction Management
  • Deb Roy (Media Arts & Sciences) Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

School of Engineering (SoE)

  • Faez Ahmed (Mechanical Engineering) Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor
  • Andrew Akerson (Mechanical Engineering) ABS Career Development Professor in Naval Engineering
  • Connor W. Coley (Chemical Engineering) Warren K. Lewis Professor in Chemical Engineering*
  • Jake Hecla (Aeronautics and Astronautics and Nuclear Science and Engineering) Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Ruben Juanes (Civil & Environmental Engineering) Japan Steel Industry Professor
  • Zachary Manchester (Aeronautics and Astronautics) Boeing Career Development Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Vivishek Sudhir (Mechanical Engineering) Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor
  • Loza Tadesse (Mechanical Engineering) Latham Family Career Development Professor
  • Haoning Tang (Mechanical Engineering) Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering
  • Giovanni Traverso (Mechanical Engineering) Karl Van Tassel (1925) Professor
  • J. Kim Vandiver (Mechanical Engineering) Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor
  • Kripa Varanasi (Mechanical Engineering) Maher A. Elmasri Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  • Stylianos Varchanis (Chemical Engineering) Raymond (1921) & Helen St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering
  • Haruko Murakami Wainwright (Nuclear Science and Engineering) Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies
  • Bilge Yildiz (Nuclear Science and Engineering) Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor

SoE & Schwarzman College of Computing

  • Marc A. Baldo (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) William and Emma Rogers Professor
  • Jas Brooks (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology
  • Connor W. Coley (Chemical Engineering) Warren K. Lewis Professor in Chemical Engineering*
  • Daniel Huttenlocher (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) Panasonic Professor
  • Noelle Selin (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Professor
  • Hengyun (Harry) Zhou (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Professor

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS)

  • Eric J. Goldberg (History) Ford International Professor of History
  • Caspar Hare (Linguistics and Philosophy) Ann F Friedlaender Professor
  • Valentin Figueroa (Political Science) Class of 1958 Career Development Professor
  • Seth Mnookin (Comparative Media Studies/Writing) Class of 1941 Professor
  • Oliver Rollins (Science, Technology, and Society) Leo Marx Career Development Professor in the History and Culture of Science and Technology
  • Paris Smaragdis (Music and Theater Arts) John E. Burchard Professor*
  • Makoto Harris Takao (Music and Theater Arts) Class of 1957 Career Development Professor
  • Claire Luchette (Comparative Media Studies/Writing) Old Dominion Career Development Professor

School of Science (SoS)

  • Raymond Ashoori (Physics) Alexander and Ethel Klemin Professor of Physics
  • Shaoyun Bai (Mathematics) D. Reid Weedon, Jr. (1941) Career Development Professor
  • Jacopo Borga (Mathematics) Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor
  • Lindsay Case (Biology) Howard Gillis (1967) Career Development Professor
  • Sven Dorkenwald (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Professor
  • Anna-Christina Eilers (Physics) Victor F. Weisskopf Career Development Professor in Physics
  • Susan Hockfield (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Whitehead Professor
  • Matthew G. Jones (Biology) Howard S. (1953) and Linda B. Stern Career Development Professor
  • Josh McDermott (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Uncas (1923) and Helen Whitaker Professor
  • Richard Milner (Physics) Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
  • Ankur Moitra (Mathematics) Francis Wright Davis Professor
  • Mohammad Movassaghi (Chemistry) Roger and Georges Firmenich Professor of Natural Products Chemistry
  • Lyle Nelson (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences) Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor
  • Bradley L. Pentelute (Chemistry) Frederick George Keyes Professor
  • Robert Simcoe (Physics) Bruno B. Rossi Distinguished Professor in Experimental Physics
  • Daniel L.M. Suess (Chemistry) Arthur Amos Noyes Professor
  • Zuri Sullivan (Biology) Whitehead Career Development Professor
  • Washington Taylor (Physics) Herman Feshbach (1942) Professor of Physics
  • Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) Whitehead Professor
  • Jesse Thaler (Physics) William and Emma Rogers Professor
  • Brandon (Brady) Weissbourd (Biology) Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Professor
  • Boleslaw (Bolek) Wyslouch (Physics) Jerrold R. Zacharias Professor of Physics

* holds a shared appointment in the Schwarzman College of Computing

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