Leadership
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Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Alex “Sandy” Pentland is founding faculty director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, which uses network science to access and change real-world human behavior. He is a Stanford… Read More
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Hossein Rahnama
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,… Read More
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Thomas Hardjono
Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of Connection Science and Engineering. He leads technical projects and initiatives around identity, security and data privacy, and engages industry partners and sponsors on… Read More
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Wilson D’Souza
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… Read More
PhD Students
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Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno
My research goal is to understand statistics and probability with more depth, and then combine the learnings with engineering to make relevant contributions to society. Right now my work… Read More
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Robert Mahari
Robert is pursuing a joint JD-PhD degree at Harvard Law School and the MIT Media Lab. His work focuses on Computational Law: leveraging computation to analyze, improve, and extend… Read More
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Shayne Longpre
Shayne is a PhD Candidate at MIT. His research focuses on the intersection of AI and policy: responsibly training, evaluating, and governing general-purpose AI systems. He leads the Data… Read More
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Tobin South
Tobin is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland's Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab. His research lies at the intersection of data, privacy, and society;… Read More
Research Scientists
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Hend Alrasheed
Hend Alrasheed is an associate professor at the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She received her B.S. and M.S. in… Read More
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Mohsen Bahrami
Mohsen Bahrami is a postdoctoral associate in the Connection Science group at MIT. His research field is computational social science and he has been working on data driven behavioral analytics to… Read More
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Shahar Somin
Shahar Somin, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Human Dynamics Group, at the MIT Media Lab, working with Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland. Shahar’s research concentrates on network theory, and… Read More
Recent Graduates
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Dana Calacci
Dr. Dana Calacci studies the socio-technical and legal impacts of datafication and AI on communities, especially worker groups. Through collaborations like the Workers Algorithm Observatory, which she helps direct,… Read More
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Isabella Loaiza
Isabella is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Sloan Management School. As a Computational Social Scientist, she is dedicated to shaping a more equitable future of work. Her research… Read More
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Keeley Erhardt
Keeley is a PhD student at MIT and has industry experience at Meta, Apple, Google, and several startups. Her research focuses on building machine learning models and statistical approaches… Read More
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Takahiro Yabe
Takahiro Yabe is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University. Previously between 2021 and 2023, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at… Read More
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Ziv Epstein
Ziv Epstein (he/him) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, where he works with Michael Bernstein, and Johan Ugander. In his research, Ziv seeks to… Read More
Faculty & Staff
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Michiel Bakker
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… Read More
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Morgan Frank
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… Read More
Lecturers
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Dazza Greenwood
(Daniel) Dazza Greenwood is an entrepreneur, innovator and national thought on design and deployment of scalable, distributed Trust Network and other digital systems. Dazza heads the digital business systems… Read More
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John Werner
Innovation is the disciplined creation of new knowledge. At MIT, we believe that innovation occurs more frequently when individuals from diverse disciplines connect in new ways to help create… Read More
Connection Science Fellows
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Anirban Basak
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.… Read More
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David Shrier
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… Read More
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Dr. Jeremy Kepner
Dr. Jeremy Kepner is Head and Founder of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC), and also a Founder of the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. Lincoln Laboratory is a… Read More
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Eduardo Castello
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 where he worked with Prof. Alex… Read More
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Esteban Moro
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… Read More
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Guy Fedorkow
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,… Read More
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Jeffrey N. Saviano
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.… Read More
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Rudina Seseri
Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, is a pioneering force in AI, Frontier Technology, and enterprise SaaS, with 20 years of investing and operational leadership. She… Read More
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Shlomit Wagman
Dr. Shlomit Wagman served as the Director-General of the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), a financial regulator and law enforcement agency, from 2016 to 2022,… Read More
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Vinicius A. Brei
Vinicius Brei is a Research Affiliate and Connection Science Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, Chair Tramontina Eletrik Associate Professor of Marketing at the Federal University of Rio Grande… Read More