Speakers

Adam J. Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). He is a specialist in the fields of political behavior and public. Berinsky received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1992 and his PhD. from the University of Michigan in 2000.… Read more

Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions:… Read more

Kimon Drakopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Data Sciences and Operations department at USC Marshall School of Business. His research focuses on the operations of complex networked systems, epidemics, social networks, stochastic modeling, game theory and information economics. Kimon, prior to joining USC, completed his PhD at the Laboratory for Information and Decision systems… Read more

Anette (Peko) Hosoi is Associate Dean of Engineering, and Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at MIT. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and went on to become an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Mathematics and at the Courant Institute, NYU. She is a leader… Read more

Emily Oster is a Professor of Economics at Brown University.  She holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Emily’s academic work focuses on health economics, development economics, and statistical methods. In addition to her academic work, Emily has written two bestselling books on data driven parenting, “Expecting Better” and “Cribsheet”. Emily’s work has been… Read more

Fernando Paganini received degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1990), and his MS (1992) and PhD (1996) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. From 1996 to 1997 he was postdoctoral associate at MIT. Between 1997 and 2005 he was on the faculty of… Read more

Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT.  Pathak’s research is on market design, a branch of microeconomics that seeks to devise practical solutions to real-world allocation problems.  His research has influenced real-world practice. In 2005, based on work in his PhD thesis, Boston’s school committee adopted a new mechanism for student… Read more

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar was born in Guntur, India on September 29, 1947. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969 respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Marquette University, Concordia University, and the University of… Read more

Emma Tegling is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC). She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2019, and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees, both in Engineering Physics, from the same institute in 2013 and 2011, respectively. She has also spent… Read more