Johannes Fruehauf is Executive Director of LabCentral, a new shared lab facility in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a serial biotech entrepreneur, a co-founder of ViThera Pharmaceuticals, Deltix, and Cequent Pharmaceuticals, and an advisor or Board member to numerous life sciences companies and non-profits.
Richard J. Cohen is the Whitaker Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on the application of physics and engineering to solve problems in biology and medicine, particularly in developing cardiovascular diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.
Ben Waber is recognized worldwide as one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of management, data, workplace, and people. He is the President and co-founder of Humanyze and a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where he received his PhD. His research was named a Top 10 Emerging Technology by the MIT Technology Review and a Breakthrough Idea by the Harvard Business Review. He is the honorary chairman of the Japan People Analytics and HR Technology Association and an advisory board member at Accenture and HR.com. Waber was previously a senior researcher at the Harvard Business School.
Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.
Bhaskar Pant is the Executive Director of MIT Professional Education. Prior to joining MIT, Mr. Pant held senior leadership positions in academic and corporate organizations around the globe.
Edward Schiappa is Professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he holds the prestigious John E. Burchard Chair of Humanities. From 2013 to 2019, he also served as the program's Head.
Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT. Professor Buehler pursues new modeling, design and manufacturing approaches for advanced bio-inspired materials that offer greater resilience and a wide range of controllable properties from the nano- to the macroscale. He received many distinguished awards, including the Feynman Prize, the Drucker Medal, the J.R. Rice Medal, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, the Washington Award, and many others. Buehler is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Professor Dov Dori is Harry Lebensfeld Chair in Industrial Engineering and Head of the Enterprise System Modeling Laboratory at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include model-based systems engineering, conceptual modeling of complex systems, systems architecture and design, software and systems engineering, and systems biology.
Bruce Cameron is the Director of the System Architecture Lab at MIT and a co-founder of Technology Strategy Partners, a consultancy. His research interests include technology strategy, system architecture, and the management of product platforms.
Timothy Simpson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include product family design and platform-based product development, multidisciplinary design optimization, trade space exploration, and additive manufacturing.
