PI-led research initiatives at LIDS cut across disciplinary boundaries and involve collaboration with colleagues across MIT.

Many of these initiatives take the form of distinct labs and groups whose work focuses on a specific set of complex problems within a research field.

Most of the research initiatives in LIDS cut across disciplinary boundaries and involve collaboration with colleagues across MIT. Many of these initiatives take the form of distinct labs and groups whose work focuses on a specific set of complex problems within a research field.LIDS research initiatives also extend beyond MIT to encompass collaborations with colleagues at other top academic institutions around the world, as well as industrial organizations and national laboratories including: Draper Laboratory, Lincoln Laboratory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM, SES, Accenture, and others.