People

Graduate Students

Belén Saldías

PhD candidate

Maggie Hughes

PhD candidate

William Brannon

PhD candidate

Bridgit Mendler

PhD candidate

Hang Jiang

PhD candidate

Hope Schroeder

PhD candidate

Rukun Zhang

PhD candidate

Shayne Longpre

PhD candidate

Suyash Fulay

PhD candidate

Wonjune Kang

PhD candidate

Cassandra Overney

Masters candidate

Cassandra Lee

Masters candidate

Daniel Kessler

Masters candidate

Naana Obeng-Marnu

Masters candidate

Faculty & Research Scientists

Professor Deb Roy

Director & Principal Investigator

Professor of the Practice Ceasar McDowell

Associate Director (joint with MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning)

Professor Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou

Research Scientist & Visiting Scholar

Professor Katherine Cramer

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

Brandon Roy

Head of Applied Research

Doug Beeferman

Research Engineer

Jad Kabbara

Postdoctoral Researcher

Prototype Engineering Staff

Wes Chow

Head of Engineering

Dennis Jen

Lead Software Engineer

Thanh Mai Phan

Research Software Engineer

Artemisia Luk

UX Designer

Administrative Staff

Russell Stevens

Head of Programs (co-founder Cortico)

Heather Pierce

Head of Operations and Administration

Lorrie LeJeune

Program Strategist

Ellen Hoffman

Communications Strategist

Lorena Tovar

Project Coordinator

Amy Johnson

Administrative Assistant

Community Fellows

Becky Lin

RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23

Born Bi-Kim

RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23

Grey Black

RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23

Valinda Chan

RealTalk Community Fellow 2022-23

Advisors

Allen Gorin

Senior Advisor

Dr. Marshall Ganz

Senior Advisor (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard)

Jonathan Haidt

Professor, New York University Stern School of Business

Martha Minow

Senior Advisor (Harvard Law School)

Raney Aronson-Rath

Journalist-in-Residence

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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

Andrew Heyward

Senior Advisor

Debby Goldberg

Senior Advisor, Development and Strategy (Cortico)

Sara Frisk

Senior Advisor, Product (Cortico)

Professor Andrea Louise Campbell

Senior Advisor (MIT Dept. Political Science)

Professor David Rand

Senior Advisor (MIT Sloan & Brain and Cognitive Sciences)

Brian Bedol

Senior Advisor

Glenn Otis Brown

Senior Advisor (Texas Tribune)

JP Maheu

Senior Advisor (Twitter)

Vivian Schiller

Senior Advisor (The Aspen Institute)

Alex Kelly Berman

Advisor (Cortico)

Alumni

Please visit our Media Lab site to learn more about past students, faculty and staff.

Alex Siegenfeld

PhD 2022

Anneli Woolf

PhD 2020, Research Scientist

Eric Chu

PhD 2022

Magdalena Ayerra

RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22

Maridena Rojas

RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22

Nabeel Gillani

PhD 2021, Postdoctoral Associate

Sarah Ballinger

Head of Program Management

Sinclair Target

Research Software Engineer

Tibisay Zea

RealTalk Community Fellow 2021-22