Zhengzhen Tan is a Lecturer in MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, Executive Director of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, and Director of the China Future City Program. Her research and teaching is focused on sustainable urban development, digital innovation, and entrepreneurship. She is the editor of “Towards Urban Vibrancy: Patterns and Practices of Asia’s New Cities” (MIT SA+P Press, 2020), and the author of the digital cities chapter in this book. Prior to joining MIT, she worked as an urban planner and urban designer with extensive practice in both the public and private sectors in Shanghai, Singapore, London, and Vancouver. 
 

Professor Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at MIT and Faculty Director of both the MIT Center for Real Estate and MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab. Her research focuses on urban and environmental economics, urban development, and real estate markets, with a special focus on China. She is widely published in both English and Chinese language journals and serves as Associated Editor of Journal of Economic Surveys, an editorial board member of Journal of Housing Economics and International Real Estate Review, and the Vice General Secretary of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress. Prior to joining MIT, she was a professor and director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China.

Julian Shun is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a lead investigator in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research focuses on the theory and practice of parallel algorithms and programming, with particular emphasis on designing algorithms and frameworks for large-scale graph processing and spatial data analysis. He also studies parallel algorithms for text analytics, concurrent data structures, and methods for deterministic parallelism. Prior to joining MIT, he was a postdoctoral Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley. His honors include the NSF CAREER award, DOE Early Career Award, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the CMU School of Computer Science Doctoral Dissertation Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Google Research Scholar Award, SoE Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, Facebook Graduate Fellowship, and best paper awards at PLDI, SPAA, CGO, and DCC.

Professor Yossi Sheffi is Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), and Director and Founder of the Master of Engineering in Logistics Program. He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management. Dr. Sheffi has been recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums, including the 1997 Distinguished Service Award given by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University’s Clare Hall College.

Sandra Galletti is the Assistant Director, Crisis Courses at MIT. She is a multi-lingual executive with international experience in business operations, business resiliency, and crisis management; her focus is on banking and financial institutions.

Mark G. Roberts, CFA, AIA currently serves as the Executive Director of the Real Estate Center at the UT McCombs School of Business and has over 30 years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to this, he served as a Managing Director at DWS and held several senior leadership positions including Head of Research & Strategy, Alternatives and Real Assets, Head of U.S. Multi-asset & Solutions and Co-Head of Research for DWS. He led the research teams that support the firm’s global real estate investment process which also included developing the firm’s ESG strategy. He also led the portfolio management team responsible for over $2 billion in multi-asset strategies. From 1995 until joining DWS in June 2011, he served as Global Head of Research of Invesco Real Estate. From 2003 to June 2011, Mr. Roberts was Chairman of the firm’s investment strategy group and also served as a member of various Executive and Investment Committees. Prior to joining Invesco Real Estate in 1995, Mr. Roberts previously served as an architect and also Director of Construction/Development for Club Corp International Inc., a global hospitality company. He has also served as the Chairman of the Board of NCREIF and was the former President of RERI, and a member of the NCREIF Fund - Index Subcommittee which developed the NFI - ODCE Index. He currently serves on the Leadership Committee of the Global Real Estate Fund Index (a consortium which includes NCREIF, Inrev- Europe and Anrev - APAC) and also serves on the PREA Research Committee. Mr. Roberts holds an M.S. in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He is a Fellow of both the Real Estate Research Institute and the Homer Hoyt Institute.

John N. Tsitsiklis is a Clarence J Lebel Professor, with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Munther Dahleh is director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He was previously the associate department head of EECS. He is also a member of MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).