Elazer R. Edelman is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, where he directs the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a cardiac intensive care unit cardiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston.

Tolga Durak is the Managing Director of the MIT Environment, Health & Safety Office (EHS). As MIT’s Managing Director, Durak is the responsible administrator for health, safety and environmental programs for all MIT academic and administrative units. Durak leads EHS to assure university activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, best business practices as well as by supporting development, implementation, and monitoring of prevention control strategies and initiatives. In addition to the main MIT campus, EHS provides support for and oversight over all off-site and international departments, laboratories and research centers.

Dr. Seongkyu Yoon is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Ward Endowed Professor in Biomedical Sciences at UMass Lowell. He is also the UMass Site Director of the Advanced Mammalian Biomanufacturing Innovation Center and a contributor to the National Biomanufacturing Innovation Institute. Dr. Yoon runs a systems biology group that conducts research on systems biotechnology, life science informatics, bioprocess data analytics, and regulatory sciences with the objective of developing innovative biomanufacturing platforms for protein/cell/gene biotherapeutics.

Dr. Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, where he conducts research into advanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing systems. In this role, he leads process data analytics, mechanistic modeling, and control systems for several projects on campus, including those focused on monoclonal antibody, viral vaccine, and gene therapy manufacturing.

Course Director Emilio Baglietto is Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and PhD Graduate of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research goals include improving the effectiveness and expanding the reach of 3-D, first-principles computational tools for nuclear reactor design.

Course Director Michael Short joined the faculty in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering in July, 2013. He brings 15 years of research experience in the field of nuclear materials, microstructural characterization, and alloy development. 

Thomas U. Schwartz is the Boris Magasanik Professor of Biology at MIT. His primary research investigates communication across biological membranes, using structural, biochemical, and genetic tools. Thomas leads the Schwartz Lab at MIT, which focuses on understanding how signals and molecules are transmitted between the nucleus and cytoplasm across the nuclear envelope, and working to decipher the mechanism and structure of the machinery that executes these cellular processes.

Annie Wang joined MIT's ONE Lab in 2011 as a joint postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Bulovic and Prof. Jeffrey Lang after completing her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at MIT. Her graduate work in Prof. Tayo Akinwande's group (EECS, MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory) focused on developing organic and oxide semiconductor thin film transistors (TFTs) for large area flexible electronics, particularly a low-temperature-budget, scalable fabrication process for oxide TFT circuits.