

During the COVID-19 pandemic he is researching standardized multi-modal biomarkers that can help smart speakers pre-screen for positive and negative cases of various conditions including COVID, dementia and Alzheimer's. He is developing a Voice Name System that can help humans talk with any object in an IoT environment.

His research centers on Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence, focusing on manufacturing, e-learning, the creative industries and digital health. Subirana obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now CSAIL), his MBA at MIT Sloan, has founded three start-ups, and has been affiliated with MIT for over 20 years in various capacities including Visiting Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before becoming an academic, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group. His MIT Sloan class was the first course ever to offer a recorded lecture on MIT Open Courseware. His Harvard class on Artificial Intelligence is the first MIT-run non-residential on-line class ever to offer academic credit. Brian Subirana is Director of the MIT Auto-ID lab, Director of the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology, Research Scientist at MIT and also teaches at Harvard University. He has authored over 50 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research including the MacVicar Fellowship, the Business Week eBiz In between degrees, Sarma worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He sits on the boards of GS1, EPCglobal and several startup companies. He was also the the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. Sarma founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT (now MIT Auto-ID Labs) and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide.

Sanjay Sarma is MIT's Vice President for Open Learning and the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Dr.
