MIT CONNECTION SCIENCE - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Abdullah Almaatouq is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on the mechanisms of decision-making in networked environments where...
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- President of Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard
- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Ajay Bhalla is President of Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard, and serves on the company's global management committee. His team develops product solutions that enhance safety,... Read More
Ajay Bhalla is President of Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard, and serves on the company's global management committee. His team develops product solutions that enhance safety, security and experience for consumers, merchants, partners and governments around the world.
Ajay is a passionate advocate of collaborative digital platforms that enable AI, biometrics, cybersecurity and digital identity to deliver positive social impact. He is committed to youth engagement in technology and international affairs and works with leading bodies and academia to advance global understanding and future solutions in the new digital economies. Ajay is also a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
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- Director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative
- Faculty Director
Alex "Sandy" Pentland is founding faculty director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, which uses network science to access and change real-world human behavior, and is the Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also holds a triple appointment at MIT in Media Arts and Sciences, Engineering Systems Division and with the Sloan School of Business.
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- Global Head, Research
- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Alexander Lipton is Global Head, Research & Development at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Professor of Practice at Khalifa University, Visiting Professor and Dean's Fellow at the Hebrew... Read More
Alexander Lipton is Global Head, Research & Development at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Professor of Practice at Khalifa University, Visiting Professor and Dean's Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Connection Science Fellow at MIT, and Advisory Board member at ADIA Lab. Alex is a Co-Founder of Sila, a company providing, digital wallet & ACH payment services, and an advisory board member at several fintech companies worldwide. From 2006-2016, Alex was Co-Head of the Global Quantitative Group and Quantitative Solutions Executive at Bank of America. Earlier, he was a senior manager at Citadel, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust. In addition, Alex held visiting professorships at EPFL, NYU, Oxford University, Imperial College, and the University of Illinois. Before becoming a quant, Alex was a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois and a Consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Risk Magazine awarded him the Inaugural Quant of the Year Award in 2000 and the Buy-side Quant of the Year Award in 2021. Alex authored/edited twelve books and more than a hundred scientific papers on nuclear fusion, astrophysics, applied mathematics, financial engineering, and distributed ledgers. He frequently gives keynote presentations on Quantitative Finance and FinTech at conferences and forums worldwide.
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- Co - Founder and CTO of Secure AI Labs
- Science Fellow
Anne Kim is co-founder and CTO of Secure AI Labs, which is based on her graduate work at MIT. She worked with Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland, principal investigator of the Human Dynamics Group at... Read More
Anne Kim is co-founder and CTO of Secure AI Labs, which is based on her graduate work at MIT. She worked with Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland, principal investigator of the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab, on federated learning and blockchain solutions for clinical trial optimization using Open Algorithms (OPAL). Outside of her research, Anne has done a number of different projects in computer science and molecular biology including: quantum chemistry simulations, genome-wide association studies, natural language processing for electronic health records, machine learning, and cyberbiosecurity work with the EFF, ACLU, and DEFCON. Anne sees accessibility to healthcare as a right, and believes that the interface between biology, healthcare policy, and technology is a promising way to achieve that mission.
Cosimo Accoto is a Connection Science Fellow at MIT. A philosopher by training, his techno-cultural research interests are focused on: software theory, sensor society, data science, artificial...
Dan is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where they research the technical, social, and legal implications of data and AI on communities and workers. Their interdisciplinary work utilizes... Read More
Dan is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where they research the technical, social, and legal implications of data and AI on communities and workers. Their interdisciplinary work utilizes computational modeling, sociological theory, mixed-methods approaches, and participatory design to analyze platforms, develop new insights into community behaviors, and create systems that audit algorithmic impact. Dan's research has been published in international conferences and journals in computational social science, machine learning, AI ethics, and law. Dan's expertise and research have been recognized by leading publications and media outlets, including NPR's Radiolab, Gizmodo, Wired, Reuters, The Atlantic's CityLab, and the New York Times. In addition to their research, Dan is also a mixed-media artist who has exhibited his work globally.
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- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
David Shrier is a globally recognized authority on financial innovation, and teaches ``Future Commerce`` at the MIT Media Lab (the first graduate fintech class in North America). He also created and runs the MIT Translational Innovation Alliance. David has published multiple books on fintech, blockchain and cybersecurity.
(Daniel) Dazza Greenwood is an entrepreneur, innovator and national thought on design and deployment of scalable, distributed Trust Network and other digital systems. Dazza heads the digital business... Read More
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- Founder of InfleXon
- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Deven is the founder of InfleXon, a firm focused on information and analytics markets. InfleXon advises companies on strategic transformation through disruptions in information, technology and geo political markets, as well as in risk and regulatory governance. Deven invests in and incubates next generation information enabled companies that focus on shaping ways to connect, use and learn from data to transform the way enterprises make decisions, manage risks and, value and monetize their data and analytic assets.
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- Senior Connection Science Fellow
Douglas Kim has 30 years of experience in co-founding and running category-leading enterprise software businesses, customer engagement, and business process automation. He was the founder and GM for the Cloud business at PEGA, founder of Talksender, the world's first rich media email marketing company, and a founding member NovaSoft, the category leader in engineering content management.
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- Founding Connection Science Fellow
Dr Emmanuel Letouzé is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona (2021-23) and the Director of Data-Pop Alliance, a not-for-profit non-governmental organization he... Read More
experience and interests comprise robotics, blockchain technology, and complex systems. Eduardo was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Human Dynamics (HD) group at the MIT Media Lab ... Read More
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- Member of the Global Medical Development
- Science Fellow
Dr. Hugo Caicedo is a member of the Global Medical Development and Accelerated R&D Executive Leadership program at Lilly. Previously, he worked at BMS and J&J. As an MIT Connection Science... Read More
Dr. Hugo Caicedo is a member of the Global Medical Development and Accelerated R&D Executive Leadership program at Lilly. Previously, he worked at BMS and J&J. As an MIT Connection Science Fellow, Dr. Caicedo took MBA classes both at the Sloan School of Business and Harvard Business School (HBS) and did research with faculty director and Sloan professor Dr. Alex "Sandy" Pentland, HBS' Sr. Associate Dean Dr. Gary Pisano and HMS' Dr. Daniel Hashimoto, exploring the impact of social physics on healthcare, prevention medicine, and business. His work generated actionable thought leadership, including a published article in the journal Nature Biotechnology. As a practitioner, Dr. Caicedo has broad biopharmaceutical experience both in preclinical and clinical development for oncology, hematology, and neurology. He holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (focused on Molecular Neuroscience) from the University of Illinois at Chicago & Sorbonne Université in Paris and a postdoctoral research fellowship from Harvard Medical School (HMS).
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- Head and Founder of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center
- Visiting Scientist
Dr. Jeremy Kepner is Head and Founder of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC), and also a Founder of the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. Lincoln Laboratory is a 4000-person National... Read More
Dr. Jeremy Kepner is Head and Founder of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC), and also a Founder of the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. Lincoln Laboratory is a 4000-person National Laboratory. Dr. Kepner is one of five Lincoln Laboratory Fellows, a position that "recognizes the Laboratory's strongest technical talent for outstanding contributions to Laboratory programs over many years." Dr. Kepner is recognized as one of nine MIT Fellows of the Society of Industrial Applied Mathematics (SIAM), for "contributions to interactive parallel computing, matrix-based graph algorithms, green supercomputing, and big data." Dr. Kepner received a PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University in 1998 (advisor: Prof. David Spergel) and a BA in Astrophysics from Pomona College in 1991.
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- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Dr. Rajni Aneja, MD, MBA, CPE is a 2023 Presidential Innovation Fellow and a senior physician executive at the intersection of medicine/business and technology with subject matter expertise in... Read More
Dr. Rajni Aneja, MD, MBA, CPE is a 2023 Presidential Innovation Fellow and a senior physician executive at the intersection of medicine/business and technology with subject matter expertise in strategy/innovation/population health/digital health and data along with business development, ranging for various stakeholders like payors/providers/pharma/consumer digital/academia and start up organizations. She also serves on the board for many organizations and is a Senior Connection Science Fellow at MIT.
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- Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) Lincoln Laboratory
- Visiting Scientist
Dr. Vijay N. Gadepally is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory and leads the research activities of the Lincoln Laboratory... Read More
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- Researcher at MIT Media Lab
- Science Fellow
Dr. Yaniv Altshuler is a researcher at MIT Media Lab and the founder and CEO of Metha.ai, an industry-leading start-up that uses AI to help dairy and beef farmers boost their productivity while... Read More
Dr. Yaniv Altshuler is a researcher at MIT Media Lab and the founder and CEO of Metha.ai, an industry-leading start-up that uses AI to help dairy and beef farmers boost their productivity while significantly reducing methane emissions. For the past 20 years, Yaniv's career has been dedicated to the research and development of Artificial Intelligence. His approach is centered on rigorous theoretical analysis of decentralized and scalable AI methods, aimed at discovering new insights and opportunities for improving AI systems and their applications. He is committed to advancing the field of AI by creating systems that are ethical, robust, and accessible to all.
Dr. Altshuler holds a PhD in Computer Science, and is the author of over 70 scientific papers and 15 patents. He is also the author of several scientific research books such as "Security and Privacy in Social Networks", "Swarm Intelligence", and "Applied Swarm Intelligence".
Esteban Moro is a Reseach Scientist in Connection Science, an associate professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain, and a member of the Joint Institute UC3M Santander on Financial Big... Read More
Esteban Moro is a Reseach Scientist in Connection Science, an associate professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain, and a member of the Joint Institute UC3M Santander on Financial Big Data. He researches the intersection of big data and computational social science with special attention to human dynamics, collective intelligence, social networks, and urban mobility in problems like viral marketing, natural disaster management, and economic segregation in cities. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
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- Architect and Lead
- Science Fellow
Gabriele Mazzini is the architect and lead author of the proposal on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) by the European Commission, where he has focused on the legal and policy questions raised... Read More
Gabriele Mazzini is the architect and lead author of the proposal on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) by the European Commission, where he has focused on the legal and policy questions raised by new technologies since August 2017. Between 2009 and 2017 Gabriele studied and worked in the United States. He was Associate General Counsel at the Millennium Villages Project, an international development initiative across several sub-Saharan countries founded and directed by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, and collaborated with early stage start-ups in the field of emergency communications and smart energy solutions. As EU official, he also served in the European Parliament, Legal Service and the Court of Justice. He holds a LLM from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Italian and Comparative Criminal Law from the University of Pavia and a Law Degree from the Catholic University in Milan. He is qualified to practice law in Italy and New York.
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- Computer Scientist
- Visting Professor and Founding Connection Science Fellow
Hossein Rahnama is a computer scientist and an academic entrepreneur. As a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and professor at Ryerson University, where he co-founded Ryerson DMZ, his research... Read More
Hossein Rahnama is a computer scientist and an academic entrepreneur. As a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and professor at Ryerson University, where he co-founded Ryerson DMZ, his research explores AI, mobile human-computer interaction, and the effective design of data-driven services. He is also the founder and CEO of Flybits Inc., a data intelligence company that is serving a global customer base. Rahnama has written more than 30 publications and received 23 patents in computer science. He served as a council member at NSERC (National Science and Research Engineering Council of Canada) and is currently serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing and the Home Capital Group. In 2012, MIT Technology Review selected him as one of its global TR35 list - The list of top 35 Innovators under the age of 35. In 2017, he was selected as part of Canada's 40 under 40.
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- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
IIsabella is a Ph.D. student in the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab. She uses value-sensitive design to build tools to help people make pivotal life decisions using data-driven insights about people like them. She is currently developing Career Compass, a tool to help US workers craft their careers in the context of the future of work. In the past, Isabella has researched international migrations to build a tool called Voyage Viewer to help workers make decisions about international relocation destinations based on metrics about people like them and destination labor markets. Her work stands at the intersection of Computational Social Science, Design, and the future of work.
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- EY Global Tax Innovation Leader
- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Jeff Saviano is the EY Global Tax Innovation Leader. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts Jeff is a Partner (Principal) with EY and a member of EY's global innovation leadership team. Jeff leads teams... Read More
Joel Dietz is a serial entrepreneur and intellectual historian who helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational...
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- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
John Werner has made a career of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. John is Managing Director at Link Ventures. John was a VP at Meta, a Y-Combinator augmented... Read More
John Werner has made a career of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. John is Managing Director at Link Ventures. John was a VP at Meta, a Y-Combinator augmented reality startup based in Silicon Valley. Prior he was the Head of Innovation and New Ventures at the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Group and served as a Managing Director of Emerging Worlds SIG, where he helped lead the launch of collaborative innovation centers in India. John is the Founder of ARIA, a community focused on the potential of AR and with Sandy Pentland launched Blockchain+AI+Human at MIT and the World Economic Forum. John also is the founder of TEDxBeaconStreet, (talks accumulated 250+ million views). John was a co-founder of Citizen Schools; advisor for PhotoButler and VestigoVentures; passionate photographer; and an accomplished triathlete and organized the Boston Light 10 mile Swim. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard.
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- Research Scientist in Connection Science and Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab
- Science Fellow
José Balsa-Barreiro is a research scientist in Connection Science and Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab where he works with Prof. Sandy Pentland. He is also part of the NASA Jet Propulsion...
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- Member of the Advisory Board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's MIT - Africa Committee
- Senior Connection Science Fellow
Julius is a current member of the Advisory Board of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT-Africa Committee and its MIT-Africa Executive Working Group. He was a member of the United Nation's ICT Working Group to eradicate poverty and one of the 12 member global jurors for OECD's prize for taking Innovation to scale.He was the 2016 honoree of the "Spirit of Africa Award" by the Self Help Africa Organization. Julius obtained his MBA from Ohio University; he holds a couple of intellectual property patents and he is a global speaker on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and global Economic Development.
Keeley is a PhD student at MIT and has industry experience at Meta, Apple, Google, and several startups. Her research focuses on building machine learning models and statistical approaches for... Read More
Michiel is an MIT Computer Science PhD student and a research assistant in the Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab, where he is supervised by Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. His research lies at the...
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- Research Scientist
- Associate in the Connection Science Group at MIT
Mohsen Bahrami is a postdoctoral associate in the Connection Science group at MIT. His research field is computational social science and he has been working on data driven behavioral analytics to... Read More
Mohsen Bahrami is a postdoctoral associate in the Connection Science group at MIT. His research field is computational social science and he has been working on data driven behavioral analytics to analyze, describe, and predict individual and group behavior using large-scale datasets from various industries. He has conducted academic research and completed industry projects under supervision of Prof. Alex ‘Sandy' Pentland. He is currently conducting research concerning how human mobility, social interactions, and peer influence can affect health and economic outcomes.
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- CTO
- Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Praveen Mandal is a veteran of 7 successful start-ups and a seasoned technology executive whose teams have developed industry recognized, market leading technologies and solutions in telecom equipment, electric vehicle charging, high performance compute and AI consulting industries.
Francesca Grippa is Professor and Faculty Director at Northeastern University, where she teaches Business Strategy and New venture Creation. Dr Grippa's research interests include: collaborative innovation networks, entrepreneurship and change management. Dr Grippa also collaborates with researchers at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence on projects focused on the application of dynamic network analysis to investigate the diffusion of innovation. She obtained a PhD in e-Business Management from University of Salento, Italy.
Francesca Grippa is Professor and Faculty Director at Northeastern University, where she teaches Business Strategy and New venture Creation. Dr Grippa's research interests include: collaborative... Read More
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- Assistant Professor at the School of Computing
Morgan Frank is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. Morgan is interested in the complexity of AI, the future of work, and the socio-... Read More
Morgan Frank is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. Morgan is interested in the complexity of AI, the future of work, and the socio-economic consequences of technological change. While many studies focus on phenotypic labor trends, Morgan's recent research examines how genotypic skill-level processes around AI impact individuals and society. Combining labor research with investigations into the nature of AI research and the social or societal implications of AI adoption, Morgan hopes to inform our understanding of AI's impact. Morgan has a PhD from MIT's Media Lab, was a postdoc at MIT IDSS and the IDE, and has a masters degree in applied mathematics from the University of Vermont where he was a member of the Computational Story Lab.
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- Assistant Professor at the Krannert School of Management
- Science Fellow
Yuan Yuan is an Assistant Professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Yuan is interested in understanding social networks using advanced computational techniques, such as... Read More
Yuan Yuan is an Assistant Professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Yuan is interested in understanding social networks using advanced computational techniques, such as machine learning and causal inference. He also works with world-leading social network platforms to investigate how to improve well-being on online social networks by product designs. Yuan received his Ph.D. in Social and Engineering Systems and Statistics from MIT IDSS, and his Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Tsinghua University.
Robert is pursuing a joint JD-PhD degree at Harvard Law School and the MIT Media Lab. His work focuses on Computational Law: leveraging computation to analyze, improve, and extend the study and... Read More
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- Group Chief Data & Emerging Technologies Officer at AXA
- Senior Connection Science Fellow
Roland Scharrer is currently the Group Chief Data & Emerging Technologies Officer at AXA. Based in Paris, Roland oversees vision, strategy, investments, implementation, and governance on Data/AI... Read More
Roland Scharrer is currently the Group Chief Data & Emerging Technologies Officer at AXA. Based in Paris, Roland oversees vision, strategy, investments, implementation, and governance on Data/AI, digital transformation, and emerging technologies (IoT, Geospatial, High-Performance/Quantum Computing, Web3/Metaverse, Blockchain/Crypto, Digital Twins, etc.). He leads 200+ inspiring minds in Paris, London, Lausanne, Barcelona, Singapore, and Palo Alto leveraging responsibly data and technology at scale which have the potential to disrupt the insurance business model and provide opportunities to shape future businesses in co-creation and collaboration with AXA entities and strategic partners around the world.
Coming from a diverse background in natural sciences, computer science, statistics, social sciences and business administration, Roland gained extensive experience in empowering interdisciplinary engagements leveraging various domains and mediating between disciplines and their mostly different mindsets in a collaborative way. In that sense, he serves as an advisor to a variety of venture capital funds, startups, and NGOs.
Prior to AXA, Roland was Chief Data Scientist at Capgemini Consulting (now Capgemini Invent) in Germany, focusing on the digital transformation in Automotive and Financial Services. He studied among others at ESADE Barcelona, IMD Lausanne and HPI Berlin and holds a MS in Computer Engineering, a MS in Business Information Systems, and an Executive MBA.
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- Associate
- Postdoctoral Associate
Shahar Somin, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Human Dynamics Group, at the MIT Media Lab, working with Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. Shahar's research concentrates on network theory, and...
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director of the Connection Science and Human Dynamics Programs at MIT
Stephen C. Buckley serves as Executive Director of the Connection Science and Human Dynamics programs at MIT. Steve runs "Sandy Pentland's Flying Circus", and acts as MIT's key management lead, with responsibility for managing a group of 31 faculty, staff and students towards creating an innovation-centric culture to produce great research. His prime directive is to meet the group's financial commitments to our students, and our contractual obligations to our sponsors. He does this by liaising with key external stakeholders, to increase awareness of, and engagement in, our programs, initiatives, and projects.
Previously, Stephen served as Technical Director at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ("CSAIL"). Earlier, he served MIT as Senior Director of Systems Engineering in IS&T, reporting to MIT's CIO. He is the founder of the MIT CIO Summit, the MIT CIO Symposium, and the MIT Kerberos Consortium. Stephen received the $100K Andrew W. Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration in 2008 for MIT's work on Kerberos. At MIT's Sloan School of Managment, he served as Associate Director of the Center for Digital Business, and the Center for Collective Intelligence.
Stephen C. Buckley was inducted into the MIT Quarter Century Club in 2022 in recognition of his years of service.
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- Assistant Professor at the Center for Urban Science
Takahiro Yabe is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University. Previously between 2021 and 2023, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT...
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- CTO of Connection Science
- Technology Officer
Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of Connection Science and Engineering. He leads technical projects and initiatives around identity, security and data privacy, and engages industry partners and sponsors on... Read More
Tobin is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland's Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab. His research lies at the intersection of data, privacy, and society; leveraging tools of private... Read More
Todd Reid is an epidemiologist and global health practitioner at the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Reid's research focuses on integrating technology and... Read More
Vinicius Brei is a Research Affiliate and Connection Science Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, Chair Tramontina Eletrik Associate Professor of Marketing at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His... Read More
Vinicius Brei is a Research Affiliate and Connection Science Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, Chair Tramontina Eletrik Associate Professor of Marketing at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His research focuses on the intersection of consumer analytics, judgment and decision-making, and market dynamics, with a particular emphasis on predicting individual and organizational behavior, estimating market potential, and forecasting demand for new business development. Utilizing a range of methods, including behavioral experiments and machine learning, Brei is also a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees in Sciences de Gestion from HEC Paris and Marketing from UFRGS, Brazil.
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- Senior Founding MIT Connection Science Fellow and Founding Member and Chief Technology Officer ( CTO
Wilson D'Souza is Senior Founding MIT Connection Science Fellow and founding member and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Akoya, a startup transforming the way consumers share their data by providing them with increased security, privacy, and control over their information. In this role, he is responsible for all product development & marketing, design, engineering, security, and client success.
Prior to this role, he headed a product and technology organization for Fidelity's Personal Investing division, where he had responsibilities for all the digital and technology needs for all customer facing associates across all of Fidelity's business units globally. He also ran the End User Computing group within Fidelity's Enterprise Technology business.
Before Fidelity, he was director of the Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture (ISDA) and the Client Support Services (CSS) organizations for MIT. Additionally, he served as director in the architecture and engineering group at Merrill Lynch, where he was responsible for directing strategy, engineering, compliance and operational support for applications and platforms.
He has also had a variety of management and technical positions at Pepsi Cola International, Emirates Airlines and various companies in India. Wilson received his bachelor's degree in electronics and communications from Karnataka University in India.
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- Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University
Yan Leng is Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas, Austin. She holds master degrees in Computer Science and Transportation Engineering, both from MIT.... Read More
Yan Leng is Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas, Austin. She holds master degrees in Computer Science and Transportation Engineering, both from MIT. Professor Leng is a network scientist working on social science problems. Her research lies in the intersection of machine learning, network theory, and causal inference. She uses large-scale behavioral data to understand collective human behavior over social networks and builds computational techniques for solving societal and organizational issues.
Ziv Epstein (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. At the intersection of computational social science and design, his research explores ways to conceptualize and navigate attention online... Read More