Professor Charles E. Leiserson is the Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and head of the Supertech research group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Leiserson’s research centers on the theory of parallel computing, especially as it relates to engineering reality.

David Sontag joined the MIT faculty in 2017 as Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He is also a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Professor Sontag’s research interests are in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Ralph Morelli is a professor of computer science at Trinity College. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Mobile CSP project, an NSF-funded effort to train high school teachers in Connecticut and elsewhere to teach the emerging Advanced Placement CS Principles course that is being created by the College Board. 

Dr. Reza Rahaman, Bernard M. Gordon Industry Co-Director and Senior Lecturer. Dr. Rahaman returned to MIT in 2018 after a 29-year career in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharmaceuticals, and Agricultural Chemical Industries. Immediately prior to MIT, Reza was the Vice-president of Research, Development, and Innovation for the Specialty Division of the Clorox Company. 

Professor Suvrit Sra is an Associate Professor in the EECS department at MIT. He is also a core faculty member of the Institute for Data Systems and Society (IDSS) and PI in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Professor Justin Solomon is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, where he leads the Geometric Data Processing Group. His textbook, Numerical Algorithms, covers numerical methods for geometry, graphics, robotics, and other computational applications.

Benoit Forget is the Department Head and Professor at MIT in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. His research and teaching focuses mainly on transport theory, computational reactor physics and the nuclear fuel cycle.

Course director Neil Todreas is the Korea Electric Power Corp Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Emeritus) at MIT. His research and teaching focuses on thermal and hydraulic aspects of nuclear reactor engineering and safety analysis.

James P. Womack is co-author of the best selling book, The Machine That Changed The World, which examined Toyota's lean design system. His Lean Enterprise Institute now works with a wide range of other corporations seeking to implement these ideas around the world.

Michael Schrage is a research fellow with the Sloan School of Management's Center for Digital Business and a visiting fellow at Imperial College's [London] 'Innovation and Entrepreneurship' program.