Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of CSAIL at MIT. Her research in robotics, artificial intelligence, and data science focuses on advancing the science of autonomy and intelligence. She leads CSAIL's Distributed Robotics Laboratory, developing modular/self-reconfiguring robots, self-organizing networks, soft robots, and programmable matter. Her work is foundational for intuitive human-robot interfaces and rapid tools for the design and fabrication of new robots, with applications across transportation, manufacturing, medicine, and environmental monitoring.