IPC - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History, Cornell University, IRL School
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- Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
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- Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn University
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- Professor, Mathematics Department, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, BC
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- Executive Director of the Industrial Performance Center
- Executive Director, Industrial Performance Center / Co - Lead, Work of the Future Initiative
- Research Scientist at MIT 's Industrial Performance Center
Ben Armstrong is the Executive Director and a Research Scientist at MIT's Industrial Performance Center. His research and teaching examine how workers, firms, and regions adapt to technological change. In his work, Ben has collaborated with governments, non-profit organizations, and firms to understand how scholarship and education can be useful to practitioners and policymakers.
Previously, Ben was a Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University, where he studied how workers, policymakers, and the public think about automation and taught courses on technology, public policy, and capitalism. He worked with the Provost to spearhead the Brown and the Innovation Economy initiative, which developed a strategy for the university to contribute to good job growth in the region, and a faculty colloquium on the future of work. In partnership with the State of Rhode Island and others, he studied the longest autonomous vehicle public transit route in the United States to date.
Ben completed his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University and his PhD at MIT, where he received the Lucian Pye Award for Outstanding Political Science PhD Dissertation. Before graduate school, he helped lead an open-source hardware non-profit and worked at Google Inc.
Ben Armstrong is Executive Director of the Industrial Performance Center and co-leads the Work of the Future Initiative.
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- Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Transformation Asia Pacific, Johnson Controls
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- Associate Professor, Management and Organization Studies, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
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- Special Consultant, Greylock McKinnon Associates
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- Candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Christopher Fourie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the Interactive Robotics Group. His research interests lie in close proximity human robot collaboration, prediction models of human behavior and task planning and scheduling. Fourie received his master's degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and his undergraduate degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His current research focuses on predictive models of human behavior using insight from cognitive psychology.
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- Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science, University of Toronto
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- Assistant Professor, Organization and Management, Gozieta Business School, Emory University
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- Co - Chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future - Ford Professor of Economics, MIT Department of Economics
- Fellow of the Econometrics Society
- Ford Professor
David Autor is Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, co-director of the NBER Labor Studies Program, and co-leader of both the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and the JPAL Work of the Future experimental initiative. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes.
Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship-the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019-and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work "transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers".
In 2017, Autor was recognized by Bloomberg as one of the 50 people who defined global business. In a 2019 article, the Economist magazine labeled him as "The academic voice of the American worker." Later that same year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was christened "Twerpy MIT Economist" by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight in a segment on automation and employment.
Autor is an elected Fellow of the Econometrics Society, the Society of Labor Economists, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He is co-director of the NBER Labor Studies Program, Co-Director of the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, and Scientific Advisor to the NBER Disability Research Center.
David Autor was co-chair of the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and is a faculty affiliate of the Work of the Future Initiative.
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- Professor of Management and Innovation
Kate Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation, a Professor of Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Kate's research focuses on helping knowledge workers and organizations develop and implement Predictive and Generative AI products, on-the-ground in everyday work, to improve decision making, collaboration, and learning. She shows how organizations can gain user acceptance and effective use of intelligent products and services by including users in the technology design process, providing training to give employees the skills they need to work with intelligent technologies, and designing the technologies with employees in mind.
She has authored dozens of articles that have appeared in top journals across the fields of management, organization studies, healthcare, sociology, work and employment, and information systems research. Her research has won awards from the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.
Over the past decade, Kate has partnered with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to help improve collaboration among diverse experts, use technologies to improve internal knowledge sharing, and manage the human aspects of new technology implementation in order to thrive in fast-paced and uncertain contexts.
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- Professor and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, George Mason University
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- Engineer
- Co - Chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future
David Mindell, an engineer and historian, is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. An expert in human relationships with robotics and autonomous systems, he has led or participated in more than 25 oceanographic expeditions. From 2005 to 2011, he was director of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. He is co-founder of Humatics Corporation, which develops technologies to transform how robots and autonomous systems work in human environments. Mindell has a BS in electrical engineering and BA in literature, both from Yale University, and a PhD in the history of technology from MIT.
David Mindell was co-chair of MIT's Work of the Future Task Force and is a faculty affiliate of the Work of the Future Initiative.
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- Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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- Professor, School of Management, Zhejiang University School of Management
Elisabeth Reynolds works at the National Economic Council as Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development.
Elisabeth Reynolds was a principal research scientist and executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center as well as a lecturer in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). She was the executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future from 2018 to 2020. Her research examines systems of innovation, regional economic development and industrial competitiveness. She has focused in particular on the theory and practice of cluster development and regional innovation systems and advises several organizations in this area. Her current research focuses on advanced manufacturing, growing innovative companies to scale, and building innovation capacity in developed and developing countries.
Before coming to MIT for her Ph.D., Reynolds was the Director of the City Advisory Practice at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a non-profit founded by Professor Michael Porter focused on job and business growth in urban areas. She is a member of the Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative and a board member of the Northeast Clean Energy Council and Issue One.
Elisabeth Reynolds is former Executive Director of the Industrial Performance Center and is currently a Lecturer in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, as well as a Research Affiliate at the IPC.
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- Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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- Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist at MIT 's Industrial Performance Center
Florian is a Research Scientist at MIT's Industrial Performance Center. His research centers on the evolution of industries and scientific fields with a particular focus on nuclear fusion and quantum technologies.
Florian's interests in innovation research revolve around the dynamics of invention and innovation. This includes the study of distinct temporal stages during the emergence of novel science and technology based on patents, publications, interviews, and archival data. Central distinctions in this work pertain to the growth, recombination, interpretation, and integration of knowledge. Cases considered cover the dynamics that led to the smartphone, the transistor, and high-temperature superconductors.
In the natural sciences, Florian has made contributions to the understanding of nuclear fusion and nuclear fusion rate enhancement. In a forthcoming article, Florian lays out how different modeling approaches favored by different scientific communities have resulted in the identification of several distinct fusion rate enhancement mechanisms. This research suggests that a combination of rate enhancement mechanisms across the relevant fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and quantum dynamics may enable novel approaches to nuclear fusion with much simplified technical requirements.
Florian holds degrees in Engineering Systems (PhD), Nuclear Science and Engineering (MS), and Technology and Policy (MS) from MIT and Electronic Engineering (BE) from HKUST. He has consulted with government agencies, companies, and nonprofit organizations in the US and internationally.
Florian Metzler is a Research Scientist at the IPC, where he leads the Progress Studies program.
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- Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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- Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Professor of Operations Management Faculty Co - Director, Leaders for Global Operations
Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan and affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center. Levi also serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO).
Before coming to MIT, he spent a year in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as the holder of the Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship. He received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) in 2001, and a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2005. Levi spent almost 12 years in the Israeli Defense Forces as an officer in the Intelligence Wing and was designated as an Extra Merit Officer. After leaving the Military, Levi joined an emerging new Israeli hi-tech company as a Business Development Consultant. Levi's current research is focused on the design of analytical data-driven decision support models and tools addressing complex business and system design decisions under uncertainty in areas such as health and healthcare management, supply chain, procurement and inventory management, revenue management, pricing optimization and logistics. He is interested in the theory underlying these models and algorithms, as well as their computational and organizational applicability in practical settings. Levi has been leading several industry-based collaborative research efforts with some of the major academic hospitals in the Boston area, such as Mass General Hospital (MGH), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Children's Hospital, and across the U.S. (e.g., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC Presbyterian Hospital System and the American Association of Medical Colleges).
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- Associate Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning
Jackson is an assistant professor in political economy and urban planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Jackson's research focuses on the relationship between states and markets-seeking to understand the historical origins and evolution of the institutional arrangements through which states and markets are constituted from the late 19th century to the present. Jason completed his PhD in political economy at MIT. He also holds an AB in economics from Princeton University, an MSc in development economics from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He has won fellowships from the Social Sciences Research Council and the UK-based Overseas Development Institute, and has worked with a variety of private, non-governmental, and multilateral organizations in the Caribbean, South Africa, and the US.
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- Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy Innovation, Boston University 's School of Management
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- Faculty Affiliate, Manufacturing
- Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of MIT 's Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP); Director, MIT Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies
John Hart is professor of mechanical engineering and chair of MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in July 2013, he was assistant professor of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and art/design, at the University of Michigan. He has PhD (‘06) and SM (‘02) degrees from MIT, and a BSE (‘00) degree from Michigan, all in mechanical engineering. At MIT, Hart leads the Mechanosynthesis Group, which aims to accelerate the science and technology of advanced manufacturing in areas including additive manufacturing, nanostructured materials, and the integration of computation and automation in process discovery. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in manufacturing processes, advanced materials, and research methods. Hart's work has been recognized by prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has received two R&D 100 awards, several best paper awards, and the MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Julie Shah is Faculty Director of the Industrial Performance Center and co-leads the Work of the Future Initiative. She is the H.N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006) from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from MIT. Before joining the faculty, she worked at Boeing Research and Technology on robotics applications for aerospace manufacturing. She has developed innovative methods for enabling fluid human-robot teamwork in time-critical, safety-critical domains, ranging from manufacturing to surgery to space exploration. Her group draws on expertise in artificial intelligence, human factors, and systems engineering to develop interactive robots that emulate the qualities of effective human team members to improve the efficiency of human-robot teamwork. In 2014, Shah was recognized with an NSF CAREER award for her work on "Human-aware Autonomy for Team-oriented Environments," and by the MIT Technology Review TR35 list as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also recognized by the Technology Review as one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013, and she has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the International Symposium on Robotics, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
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- David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation
Kate Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation, a Professor of Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Kate's research focuses on helping knowledge workers and organizations develop and implement Predictive and Generative AI products, on-the-ground in everyday work, to improve decision making, collaboration, and learning. She shows how organizations can gain user acceptance and effective use of intelligent products and services by including users in the technology design process, providing training to give employees the skills they need to work with intelligent technologies, and designing the technologies with employees in mind.
She has authored dozens of articles that have appeared in top journals across the fields of management, organization studies, healthcare, sociology, work and employment, and information systems research. Her research has won awards from the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.
Over the past decade, Kate has partnered with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to help improve collaboration among diverse experts, use technologies to improve internal knowledge sharing, and manage the human aspects of new technology implementation in order to thrive in fast-paced and uncertain contexts.
Before coming to MIT Sloan, Kate worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company and for Health Advances. She received her PhD in organization studies from MIT, her MBA from Harvard, and her BA from Dartmouth in biology and psychology.
Lindsay Sanneman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
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- Sachi Hatakenaka - Research Affiliate
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- Associate Professor, Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College
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- Associate Professor, Urban Planning Director, Urban Community and Health Equity Lab, Columbia University
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- Professor, Organizational Economics, University of Zurich
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- Associate Dean, MBA Program Professor, International Economics, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
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- Professor, Innovation Management, University of Bologna, Italy
Michael J. Piore is on the faculty of the Department of Economics at MIT.
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- Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Public Service, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Program
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- Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor
Nathan Wilmers is the Sarofim Family Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is in the core faculty of the Institute for Work and Employment Research and affiliated with the Economic Sociology program. For the most up-to-date information on his research, please see his personal website at www.nathanwilmers.com.
Wilmers researches wage and earnings inequality, economic sociology, and the sociology of labor. In his empirical research, he studies how wage stagnation and rising earnings inequality result from weakening labor market institutions, changing market power, and job restructuring. More broadly, he is interested in bringing insights from economic sociology to the study of labor markets and the wage structure. His research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, ILR Review, Journal of Labor Economics, PNAS, and Social Forces.
Wilmers holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in sociology from Harvard University.
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- Nanyang Technological University Professor of Human Resources and Management / Co - Director, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research
Osterman is the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor of Human Resources and Management at MIT Sloan, as well as a member of the Department of Urban Planning. From July 2003 to June 2007, he served as deputy dean at the Sloan School. His research concerns changes in work organization within companies, career patterns and processes within firms, economic development, urban poverty, and public policy surrounding skills training and employment programs. Osterman has been a senior administrator of job training programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has consulted widely to government agencies, foundations, community groups, firms, and public interest organizations. In addition, he has written numerous academic journal articles and policy issue papers on topics such as labor market policy, the organization of work within firms, careers, job training programs, economic development, and anti-poverty programs.
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- Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
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- EU Lead, Pricing and Market Access Solutions, IQVIA
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- Research and Evaluation Coordinator, USAID Office of Microenterprise and Private Enterprise Promotion
Reimar Weissbach is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a member of the Mechanosynthesis Group. His research focuses on both the development of advanced manufacturing technologies, specifically metal additive manufacturing through a combined computational-experimental approach, as well as their impact on business and society. Prior to starting his PhD studies, Reimar worked as a management consultant focused on digital strategy and organizational transformation for industrial companies. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc., B.Sc.) focused on computational engineering, and in Management & Technology (B.Sc.) from TU Munich.
Reimar Weissbach is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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- Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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- Chairman
- Faculty Chair
- Founding Executive Director
- Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate
Richard Lester is Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he oversees the international activities of the Institute. From 2009 to 2015 he served as head of MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, leading the Department successfully through a period of rapid rebuilding and strategic renewal. Professor Lester's research focuses on innovation strategy and management. He is also widely known for his research on nuclear technology innovation, management and control.
Dr. Lester holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT. He is the author or co-author of eight books, and serves as chair of the National Academies' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy.
Richard Lester is the founding Executive Director and Faculty Chair of the Industrial Performance Center.
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- Alice Cook Professor, Women and Work at the Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University
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- Professor, Management and Organizations, EMLyon Business School, France
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- Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT CEO, Asia School of Business
Sanjay Sarma is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Sarma was one of the founders of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, which, along with a number of partner companies and its "spin-off," EPCglobal, developed the technical concepts and standards of modern RFID. He also chaired the Auto-ID Research Council consisting of six labs worldwide, which he helped to establish. Today, the suite of standards developed by the Auto-ID Center, commonly referred to as the EPC, are utilized by over a thousand companies on five continents. Between 2004 and 2006, Sarma took a leave of absence from MIT to found the software company OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems in 2008. He is a consultant and board member at several companies, including EPC Global, and also serves as a permanent guest of the board of GS1 and a member of the board of governors of GS1US. Sarma also serves on the City of Boston's Complete Streets Advisory Group.
Sarma received his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, his master's from Carnegie Mellon University, and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. In between degrees, Sarma worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK. Sarma's master's thesis was in the area of operations research, and his PhD was in the area of automation. His current research projects are in the areas of radio frequency identification, manufacturing, design, and energy, especially applied to energy and transportation. He has authored over 75 publications in computational geometry, manufacturing, CAD, RFID, signal processing, security, sensors, and automotive systems.
Sarma is a recipient of the MIT MacVicar Fellowship, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair at MIT, the Den Hartog Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keenan Award for innovations in undergraduate education, the New England Business and Technology Award, and the MIT Global Indus Award. In 2003, he was selected on Business Week‘s eBiz 25 and Fast Company magazine's Fast Fifty. He recently received the RFID Journal‘s Special Achievement Award.
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- Senior Fellow and Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
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- Associate Professor, Strategy Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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- Professor, the Finance Unit, Harvard Business School
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- Founder Director, Technological Change Lab ( TCLab ), Columbia University
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- Advisory Board and Researcher
Suzanne Berger is the John M. Deutch Institute Professor of Political Science at MIT. She works in comparative politics and political economy. Her current activities include continuing research on the analysis of the globalization strategies of Asian, American and European firms at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (the first results of which have been published in How We Compete (2005); new research on the localization of research, development, and manufacturing in Ile-de-France; and comparative analysis of political responses to the first globalization (1870-1914).
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- Founding Principal, Mass Economics
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- Senior Researcher, Industrial Performance Center & Lecturer, MIT DUSP
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- Associate Professor, International Business, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
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- Associate Professor of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Director, MBA Program, Tsinghua SEM