People

Graduate Students

Maggie Hughes

PhD candidate

Hope Schroeder

PhD candidate

Suyash Fulay

PhD candidate

Wonjune Kang

PhD candidate

Cassandra Overney

PhD candidate

Daniel Kessler

PhD candidate

Zaria Jalan

Masters candidate

Om Gokhale

Masters candidate

Max Holschneider

Masters candidate

Faculty and Research Staff

Professor Deb Roy

Director & Principal Investigator

Professor Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou

Principal Research Scientist

Brandon Roy

Head of Applied Research

Doug Beeferman

Research Engineer

Jad Kabbara

Research Scientist

Bill Noble

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cassandra Lee

Research Designer

Sam Brasil

Postdoctoral Fellow

Prototype Engineering Staff

Maya Detwiller

Prototype Manager

Ali Klemencic

Prototype Engineer

Program and Administrative Staff

Russell Stevens

Head of Strategy & Development (co-founder Cortico)

Heather Pierce

Head of Operations and Administration

Lorrie LeJeune

Program Strategist

Ellen Hoffman

Communications Strategist

Amar C. Bakshi

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Marina Rakhilin

realtalk@MIT Program Lead

Alice Gold

realtalk@MIT Instructional Designer and Program Manager

Julia Matthews

realtalk@MIT Platform Administrator

Katie Morrell

Administrative Assistant

MIT Faculty Affiliates

Peter Fisher

(Thomas A. Frank – 1977 – Professor of Physics, MIT)

Maria Zuber

(E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT)

Michiel Bakker

(Assistant Professor in Information Technology, MIT)

Advisors

Dr. Marshall Ganz

(Kennedy School of Government, Harvard)

Jonathan Haidt

(Professor, New York University Stern School of Business)

Martha Minow

(Harvard Law School)

Bruce Schneier

(Harvard University)

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

(Cofounder & CTO, Inrupt; Prof. Post Tenure, CSAIL/MIT)

Audrey Tang

(Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan)

Professor Katherine Cramer

Faculty (University of Wisconsin-Madison & MIT Media Lab)

Raney Aronson-Rath

Journalist-in-Residence (FRONTLINE)

Andrew Heyward

(Walter Cronkite School, Arizona State University)

Yasmin Green

(Google Jigsaw)

Ken Ong

(Product, Technology and Data Leader)

Glenn Otis Brown

(Texas Tribune Board)

Claudia Chwalisz

DemocracyNext Founder

Vivian Schiller

(The Aspen Institute)

Wes Chow

(Filament)

Alex Kelly Berman

(Cortico)

Student Advisors

Anoushka Tamhane

Mathematical Economics and Climate System Engineering Undergraduate

Ruben Stephen

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate

Ellie Montemayor

Computational Cognitive Science and Writing Undergraduate

Deana Prasad

Mathematics and Finance Undergraduate

Jessie Lin

Biological Engineering and Finance Undergraduate

Tasnim Zulfiqar

Computer Science, Data Science & Economics and Business Analytics Undergraduate

Caleb Mathewos

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Undergraduate

In Memory

Allen Gorin

(Researcher in Natural Language Processing)

Alumni

PhD Graduates & Candidates

Alex Siegenfeld
Anneli Woolf
Artemisia Luk
Belén Saldías
Bridgit Mendler
Eric Chu
Hang Jiang
Nabeel Gillani
Rukun Zhang
Shayne Longpre
William Brannon

Masters Graduates & Candidates

Elinor Poole-Dayan
John Flynn
Matt Nay
Michael Wong
Naana Obeng-Marnu
Shrestha Mohanty

Faculty

Professor Ceasar McDowell

Advisors

Professor Andrea Louise Campbell
Brian Bedol
Professor David Rand
Joshua Flax
JP Maheu

Staff

Amy Johnson
Debby Goldberg
Dennis Jen
Elena Sapora
Kayla Burt
Leila Carter
Lorena Tovar
Matthew McKenna
Sarah Ballinger
Sinclair Target
Thanh Mai Phan

Fellows

Becky Lin
Born Bi-Kim
Grey Black
Magdalena Ayerra
Maridena Rojas
Tibisay Zea
Valinda Chan