Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Praveen Mandal is a veteran of 7 successful start-ups and a seasoned technology executive whose teams have developed industry recognized, market leading technologies and solutions in telecom...
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Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
John Werner has made a career of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. John is Managing Director at Link Ventures. John was a VP at Meta, a Y-Combinator augmented...
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Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Alexander Lipton is Global Head, Research & Development at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Professor of Practice at Khalifa University, Visiting Professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew...
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Connection Science Faculty
Esteban Moro is a Reseach Scientist in Connection Science, an associate professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain, and a member of the Joint Institute UC3M Santander on Financial Big...
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Connection Science Faculty
Michiel is an MIT Computer Science PhD student and a research assistant in the Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab, where he is supervised by Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. His research lies at the...
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Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Dr. Rajni Aneja, MD, MBA, CPE is a 2023 Presidential Innovation Fellow and a senior physician executive at the intersection of medicine/business and technology with subject matter expertise in...
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Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Jeff Saviano is the EY Global Tax Innovation Leader. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts Jeff is a Partner
(Principal) with EY and a member of EY’s global innovation leadership team. Jeff leads teams...
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Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Connection Science Fellow Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM in May of 2007 after a 37 year career with the company, where his primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He led...
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Connection Science Faculty
Abdullah Almaatouq is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on the mechanisms of decision-making in networked environments where...
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Connection Science Faculty
Francesca Grippa is Professor and Faculty Director at Northeastern University, where she teaches Business Strategy and New venture Creation. Dr Grippa’s research interests include: collaborative...
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Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow
Ajay Bhalla is President of Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard, and serves on the company’s global management committee. His team develops product solutions that enhance safety,...
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Connection Science Faculty
Morgan Frank is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. Morgan is interested in the complexity of AI, the future of work, and the socio-...
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Connection Science Fellow
Cosimo Accoto is a Connection Science Fellow at MIT. A philosopher by training, his techno-cultural research interests are focused on: software theory, sensor society, data science, artificial...
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Connection Science Fellow
Anne Kim is co-founder and CTO of Secure AI Labs, which is based on her graduate work at MIT. She worked with Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland, principal investigator of the Human Dynamics Group at...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Douglas Kim has 30 years of experience in co-founding and running category-leading enterprise software businesses, customer engagement, and business process automation. He was the founder and GM for...
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Connection Science Fellow
Todd Reid is an epidemiologist and global health practitioner at the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Reid's research focuses on integrating technology and...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Connection Science Fellow Deven Sharma served as President of Standard & Poor’s, Head of Global Strategy and M&A at The McGraw-Hill Companies and partner at Booz Allen Hamilton. He served as...
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Connection Science Fellow
Carlos experience and interests comprise data and social analytics, ICT and international development. He served as the Technical Program Manager of Open Algorithms (OPAL) project, a techno-...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Susan is currently an Executive-in-Residence at Excel Ventures, where she focuses on innovation inside large corporations. As a senior executive with extensive experience in launching successful...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Stephen is an entrepreneur, business advisor, and has a long career in the development, funding and expansion of companies. He has served as a director or advisor to several companies, including...
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Connection Science Fellow
Yuan Yuan is an Assistant Professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Yuan is interested in understanding social networks using advanced computational techniques, such as...
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Connection Science Fellow
Sandro received his BSc & MSc in Physics from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and his PhD from the Centre of Future Resilient Systems (Singapore), under the supervision of Didier Sornette.
At MIT,...
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Connection Science Fellow
John Edge started his career in Capital Markets in the late 90’s with a focus on algorithmic trading, launching Europe’s first direct market access trading business. These new automated trading...
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Connection Science Fellow
Indu Kodukula is currently Vice President Development, Blockchain Technologies, where
he leads all of Intuit’s efforts around Blockchain. Prior to that, he was Chief Information
Security Officer and...
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Connection Science Fellow
Fabio is a serial entrepreneur and an international investor born in Venice (Italy) and currently residing in Munich, Germany. He is the President & Executive Chairman at ORS GROUP (www.ors.ai),...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
David Shrier is a globally recognized authority on financial innovation, and teaches ``Future Commerce`` at the MIT Media Lab (the first graduate fintech class in North America). He also created and...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Julius has held technology leadership roles at PepsiCo and Wells Fargo Bank, he is the Residence Entrepreneur at MIT Media Lab. Julius is the Chairman, Founder and CEO of UWINCorp Inc. (The Mobile...
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Connection Science Fellow
Tara is a Harvard Computer Science PhD student and a researcher with Sandy Pentland. Her research centers around modeling human behavior, social decision making, and understanding the mechanisms...
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Connection Science Fellow
I'm a visiting researcher at Inria de Paris where I lead the NEXTLEAP project and Research Scientist at the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT on blockchain technology. I'm interested in...
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Connection Science Fellow
Panos is the Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Innovation at Berklee College of Music. He is also the founder of Berklee's Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship and the co-founder of...
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Connection Science Fellow
Xin Liu has been a driving force in China’s big-data and AI industry as leader of global business at “TalkingData” — China’s largest independent data platform. She led cooperation with technology...
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Connection Science Fellow
Dr. Eduardo Castello experience and interests comprise robotics, blockchain technology, and complex systems. Eduardo was a Marie Curie Fellow in the Human Dynamics (HD) group at the MIT Media Lab ...
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Founding Connection Science Fellow
Dr Emmanuel Letouzé is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona (2021-23) and the Director of Data-Pop Alliance, a not-for-profit non-governmental organization he...
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Connection Science Fellow
Xiangfei is a researcher and director of Data & Social Innovation Center of Capital Institute of Science and Technology Development Strategy. He is currently building a consulting company and...
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Connection Science Fellow
I am a legal engineer interested in reimagining the ways technology, design, and visualization can be combined to improve the efficiency and interoperability of the legal system. I am currently the...
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Connection Science Fellow
Dr. Yaniv Altshuler is a researcher at MIT Media Lab and the founder and CEO of Metha.ai, an industry-leading start-up that uses AI to help dairy and beef farmers boost their productivity while...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Will is currently the founder and CEO of OV Loop, Inc., Omnichannel Conversational Commerce platform with 1-Tap or handsfree messaging and payments. Prior to OV, he spent 3 years as Global Co-GM of...
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Connection Science Faculty
Yan Leng is Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas, Austin. She holds master degrees in Computer Science and Transportation Engineering, both from MIT....
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Connection Science Fellow
José Balsa-Barreiro is a research scientist in Connection Science and Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab where he works with Prof. Sandy Pentland. He is also part of the NASA Jet Propulsion...
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Connection Science Fellow
Gianluigi M. Riva is an Italian Attorney at Law specialised in contracts, IT Law and Data Protection and is a Marie Curie Ph.D. fellow in Privacy, Ethics and New Technologies at the University...
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Connection Science Fellow
As an engineer, Remo's passion is exploring disruptive technologies and concepts that push the boundaries of what is possible. Remo holds a Master in Computer Science and a PhD in Information Systems...
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Connection Science Fellow
Sam Fraiberger is a computational social scientist fascinated by how the digitization of our lives allows to study social processes at an unprecedented scale, using massive datasets and methods...
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Connection Science Fellow
Pablo Rodriguez is an ambassador and advisor to X (Google [X]). He is
a entrepreneur, business executive, and computer scientist, and
recognized as a creative leader and visionary.
He founded as CEO...
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Senior Founding MIT Connection Science Fellow
Wilson D’Souza is Senior Founding MIT Connection Science Fellow and founding member and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Akoya, a startup transforming the way consumers share their data by providing...
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Connection Science Fellow
Dhaval Adjodah is a machine learning and policy researcher working on pushing the limits of modern machine learning while maximizing their social good. Currently, he is a research scientist at the...
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Connection Science Fellow
Barak has been a leader in the use of technology to solve human problems for his whole career. He is currently researching how Federated Learning could unlock the knowledge hidden in failed drug...
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Connection Science Fellow
Anirban is the Founder and CEO of FortifID. FortifID is a working commercial implementation of OPAL and its related concepts introduced in the MIT Trust :: Data book by Dr. Sandy Pentland. The go to...
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Connection Science Fellow
Joel Dietz is a serial entrepreneur and intellectual historian who helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational...
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Connection Science Fellow
Andre Uhl is executive member at the Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI), a think and action tank co-hosted by the MIT Media Lab and the IEEE Standards Association promoting principles of...
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Visting Professor and Founding Connection Science Fellow
Hossein Rahnama is a computer scientist and an academic entrepreneur. As a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and professor at Ryerson University, where he co-founded Ryerson DMZ, his research...
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Communications Specialist
Sarah Beckmann is a passionate writer, editor, and communicator. At MIT Connection Science, she drafts, proofreads, and disseminates content contained in the newsletter, the Connection Science...
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Connection Science Fellow
Johs. is an entrepreneur and business advisor with more than 30 years of experience in the financial services infrastructure. He led Swisscom’s, Switzerland’s leading Telco and service provider for...
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Connection Science Fellow
Takahiro Yabe is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Media Lab, working with Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland. Taka’s research focuses on the...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Roland Scharrer is currently the Group Chief Data & Emerging Technologies Officer at AXA. Based in Paris, Roland oversees vision, strategy, investments, implementation, and governance on Data/AI...
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Connection Science Fellow
Dr. Hugo Caicedo is a member of the Global Medical Development and Accelerated R&D Executive Leadership program at Lilly. Previously, he worked at BMS and J&J. As an MIT Connection Science...
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Connection Science Fellow
Guy C. Fedorkow received his BASc and MASc in Engineering Sciences at University of Toronto, and went on to develop both communications and high-throughput parallel computer architectures at Bolt,...
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Senior Connection Science Fellow
Christopher E. Kay is a Senior Executive Vice President with M&T Bank. In this role, Kay leads all aspects of consumer banking, business banking and marketing, including more than 1,000 branches...
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Connection Science Fellow
Desheng is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. He is interested in bridging Cyber Physical Systems, Cyber Human Systems, Data Science and Machine Learning in Extreme-...
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Connection Science Fellow
Guang Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Connection Science. Before that, he obtained his Ph.D....
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Connection Science Fellow
Yi Ding is a postdoctoral associate in the Connection Science group within SSRC at MIT, working with Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and his group. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and...
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