INTERNET POLICY - Key Persons


Amelia Meles

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Amir Farhat

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Amy van der Hiel

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
Before joining the W3C and DIG, Amy was the Assistant to the Director and Curatorial Associate at the Exhibitions Department of the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She has her Bachelors in Art History from Bard College, NY and her Masters in Art Education from Mansfield University, PA.

Arthur Berger

Job Titles:
  • Research Affiliate - ANA

Ashley Chen

Job Titles:
  • UROP

Avital Baral

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Caty Fairclough

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Cecilia Testart Pacheco

Cecilia Testart is an MIT PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is part of the Advanced Network Architecture group and the Internet Policy Research Initiative in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Learn more at her webpage.

Daniel Weitzner

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative ( IPRI )

Danny Tang

Job Titles:
  • Master
Master's Thesis: "Empowering novices to understand and use machine learning with personalized image classification models, intuitive analysis tools, and MIT App Inventor"

David Clark

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science
David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Since the mid-70s, Clark has been leading the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet Activities Board. His current research looks at re-definition of the architectural underpinnings of the Internet, and the relation of technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy considerations. He helped the U.S. National Science Foundation organize their Future Internet Architecture program. He is past chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies, and has contributed to a number of studies on the societal and policy impact of computer communications. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as a member of the AAAS Council.

David Kim

Job Titles:
  • Staff

Eric Pence

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Erica Radler

Job Titles:
  • UROP

Evan Patton

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer
  • Software Engineer
Evan is a software engineer on the App Inventor project. His aim is to help App Inventor users realize the full potential of their app ideas through the development of new components and features to aid in collaboration, rich data collection and visualization, and efficiency. During his time as a graduate student, Evan consulted on the PUNYA project to expand App Inventor capabilities for humanitarian causes, and he has consulted for a number of companies deploying Android and iOS applications. Evan completed his Ph.D. on optimizing reasoning software power consumption on smartphones at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in June 2016 prior to joining the App Inventor team. He also holds a M.S. in Cognitive Science and B.S. in Computer Science & Psychology from RPI.

Francisca Susan

Job Titles:
  • Student - Sloan

Jerry Sussman

Job Titles:
  • Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering

Kevin Paeth

Job Titles:
  • Master - TPP

Kriti Jain

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Leo de Castro

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student - Theory of Computation

Li Li

Job Titles:
  • Staff

Mona M. Vernon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Affiliate

Nicolas Xuan-Yi Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Masters Student - TPP

Nicole "Hannah" Pang

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

R. David Edelman

Job Titles:
  • Director, IPRI Project on Technology, the Economy, and National Security, MIT

Rachel Wei

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Reagan Zimmerman

Job Titles:
  • UROP

Rebecca Spiewak

Job Titles:
  • Master - TPP

Rene Reyes

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Renee Ge

Job Titles:
  • UROP

Robert Parks

Job Titles:
  • Staff

Sara Wedeman

Job Titles:
  • Research - Associate

Shabnum (Sukhi) Gulati

Job Titles:
  • Masters - TPP

Simon Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management

Taylor Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Technology Policy Director

Viktoriya Tabunshchynk

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Job Titles:
  • Steven and Renee Finn Career Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science

William Boag

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng

YeonHwan (Brian) Park

Job Titles:
  • Master - MEng