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Stefanie Mueller is the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, with joint affiliation in Mechanical Engineering. She leads the HCI Engineering Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), focusing on advancing fabrication techniques through hardware/software innovations that enable novel object interactions.
- Develops computational fabrication methods combining photochromic dyes, lenticular lenses, birefringent materials, and optical illusions
- Co-chaired ACM CHI 2023 and ACM UIST 2020 program committees
- Recipients of 9 MIT EECS Best Undergraduate Researcher Awards among mentees
Her research spans four key directions:
- Appearance-changing Objects: Photo-Chromeleon (ACM UIST 2019), Lenticular Objects (ACM UIST 2021), and Polagons (ACM CHI 2023) demonstrate reprogrammable surfaces through advanced materials and optical engineering.
- Tracking Systems: InfraredTags (ACM CHI 2022) and G-ID (ACM CHI 2020) enable passive object tracking via infrared markers and slicing artifacts.
- Embedded Sensing: MechSense (ACM CHI 2023) and Sprayable User Interfaces (ACM CHI 2020) integrate sensing capabilities into complex geometries.
- Curved Surface Prototyping: FlexBoard (ACM CHI 2023) and CurveBoard (ACM CHI 2020) develop specialized tools for non-planar electronics.
Her recent publications focus on functionality segmentation (UIST 2023), fluorescent markers (UIST 2023), and machine-knitted haptics (UIST 2023). These works combine machine learning, material science, and interactive design principles to push fabrication boundaries.
Scientific recognition includes:
- 2022 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35
- 2020 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
- 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2019 ACM UIST Best Paper Award
- 2019 NSF CAREER Award
- 2018 MIT EECS Outstanding Educator Award
- 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science
Mentoring 9 PhD students and over 20 master's students, her lab has produced 20+ publications at top HCI conferences. She redesigned MIT's 6.810 Engineering Interactive Technologies course during the pandemic, maintaining hands-on learning through home electronics kits and Slack-based collaboration.
