Anne E. White is the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering and associate vice president for research administration at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on magnetic fusion energy and has contributed to the understanding of turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Her group’s research is dedicated to the demonstration of nuclear fusion as an important and practical part of the world’s emerging sustainable energy future.

As associate vice president for research administration at MIT, White advises the vice president for research and oversees the central administrative teams that engage with MIT researchers and federal, industrial, and other sponsors to help advance research from idea to impact.

From 2022 to 2025, she chaired the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. She earned her PhD in physics at UCLA and is a fellow of the American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics.