MIT Sports Lab

The MIT Sports Lab connects the MIT community with the sports industry to advance athletic performance using state-of-the-art engineering and data science tools.

News from the Lab

Congratulations to Felice Frankel, friend of the MIT Sports Lab, who has a set of new books out on visual communication! As always, we’re excited to use her tips in presenting our analysis of sports data. Visit the link in our bio for a recent

Last month, the MIT Sports Lab held its annual Sports Summit conference at the MIT Media Lab! We were thrilled to welcome leaders in sports and academia to share advances in the industry and new work coming out of the MIT labs. This year’s them

We’re so excited for the semester with our MIT Sports Tech Club! If you’re a student interested in sports research, you are always welcome to join. We meet 7:30-9pm in 3-333 on Thursday.

Open to everyone on campus, groups are mentored by

We take a moment to honor and remember Ken Johnson, Jr., Director of DAPER Communications, Promotions, and Marketing at MIT. Ken’s collaboration with our lab was marked by his exceptional dedication, warmth, and the genuine passion he brought t

Jess Sonner is pursuing a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering under Prof. Peko Hosoi in the MIT Sports Lab, collaborating with adidas for her thesis on women’s soccer. A lifelong athlete and former MIT Varsity Soccer player, Jess co-led th

REGISTER for 2.98/2.980 Sports Technology: Engineering and Innovation! UG and grad students all welcome! 2.98/2.980 examines the future of sports technology across technical disciplines, including mechanical design, biomechanics, quantified self, spo

ALUMNI FEATURE: Ivan joined the MIT Sports Lab as a course 6-3 undergraduate researcher his senior year, working on evaluating decision-making ability of NBA players by leveraging an expected points based metric, a project that turned into his MEng w

Wrapping up their semester, MIT Sports Lab grad students Eva Nates and Jess Sonner and Sports Summit Co-Lead Duncan Lee presented projects for 2.156: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for Design.

Eva and Duncan experimented with data a

This Tuesday, the MIT Sports Tech Club (MITSTC) kicked off with its pilot meeting, featuring presentations from president Jess Sonner and MIT Sports Lab Co-director Prof. Peko Hosoi. MITSTC is a student-run branch of the Sports Lab which seeks to eng

Last summer, Helen Sun (MechE, ’24) completed an internship at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics department on using machine learning to be able to predict hamstring injuries in athletes through markerless