MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Key Persons


Christian Gabbianelli

Job Titles:
  • Software Developer

Daniel Nwazue


Dr. Ben Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Dr. Daniel Braconnier

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. George Westerman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management / Principal Research Scientist, Workforce Learning in the MIT Office of Open Learning
Principal Research Scientist, Workforce Learning in the MIT Office of Open Learning

Dr. John Liu

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Director / Principal Investigator, LEAP Group / Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT / Scientist, MIT Digital Learning Laboratory, Open Learning
  • Engineering Department and a Scientist
Dr. John Liu is a Lecturer in MIT's Mechanical Engineering department and a Scientist in the MIT Digital Learning Lab. He leads education and workforce development efforts for MIT's new campus-wide Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). He was the Director of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters program, an online certificate program that has now enrolled over 160,000 learners across the globe. His research has received recognition from ASEE, ACM CHI, and IEEE DEMOCon. He is also the recipient of the MIT IS&T Infinite Mile Award and currently serves as an executive guest editor for Manufacturing Letters. Dr. Liu earned his B.S. in Applied Physics from Caltech and S.M. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, under an MIT-SUTD fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Dr. Licia Mastronardi

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Dr. Meredith Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Dr. Rolando Bautista Montesano

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Slawomir Konrad Tadeja

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Yeo Jung Yoon

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Yibo Fan

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer

Dr. Zhen Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Ziling Chen


Julie C. Diop

Job Titles:
  • Program Lead

Kachina Studer

Job Titles:
  • XR Technical Associate

Megan Huang


Nam Pyo Suh

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Prof. Dave Hardt

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. John Hart

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Nick Fang

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Rohit Karnik


Romina Cano Velasquez


Sage Gilbert-Diamond


Sam Young

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

William (Bill) Bonvillian

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer