Uncertainty Quantification Group (UQ Lab)

The Uncertainty Quantification Group (UQ Lab) is in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. The Lab is also part of the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, as well as the MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering and the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, both within the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Research focuses on advancing foundational computational methodologies for uncertainty quantification, statistical inference, and machine learning in complex physical systems. Methodological work is motivated by a wide variety of engineering and environmental applications.

The UQ Lab tackles a broad range of projects, but most involve aspects of a few core questions:
(*) How to quantify confidence in computational predictions?
(*) How to build or refine models of complex physical processes from indirect and limited observations?
(*) What information is needed to drive inference, design, and control?