MIT Media Lab

Leadership & Staff

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Preeta Bansal Former Global General Counsel, HSBC Holdings PLC

• Senior Advisor, Lecturer ('14→?)*

George Church leading expert in human genetics and biotechnology.

• Director of Research

Phillipp Schmidt Director of Learning Innovation MIT Media Lab

• Director Learning Innovation ('14→?)*

Deb Roy Directs the Cognitive Machines group at the MIT Media Lab

• Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Alex Wissner-Gross Fellow at the Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science and a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab

• Research affiliate

Kevin Slavin Founded game company Area/Code in 2005

• Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Beth Simone Noveck Professor of Law, Director of NYU Governance Lab

• visiting professor ('12→?)

Kate Crawford

• Visiting Professor

Ethan Zuckerman UMass associate professor, former Director of MIT Center for Civic Media

• Director of Center for Civic Media

Nick Grossman General Manager for Policy and Outreach at USV

• visiting scholar

Board Members

Megan Smith Chief Technology Officer, Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Board Member (past)

Donors

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Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft

• Donation/Grant · 20,000,000 USD

Samsung Multinational conglomerate based in South Korea

• Donation

Jeffrey Epstein Wealthy money manager, registered sex offender

• Donation

NEC Corporation Electronics company; Japan's first venture seeded by foreign capital, established by U.S. firm Western Electric Company

• Donation

Knight Foundation

• Donation ('07)

Volkswagen AG German multinational automotive manufacturing corporation

• Donation

Pearson, Plc Education manager and publisher

• Donation

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc Manufacturer of skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products

• Donation

GlaxoSmithKline PLC multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, England.

• Donation

News Corporation Murdoch-led media group.

• Donation

Child Organizations

MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics Group

• Child Org

MIT MediaLab Center for Extreme Bionics

• Child Org

Personal Robots Group MIT Media Lab

• Child Org*

MIT Center for Future Banking (Defunct) MIT Media Lab Program 2008-2010

• Initiative ('08→'10)*

Auto-ID Labs Network of Labs to Develop Tracking for Global Commerce

• Program ('99→?)*

Enigma Project, MIT Media Lab Secret Smart Contracts on Blockchain

• Child Org

ml Learning Initiative (MIT Media Lab) Use Media Lab Research to Influence Learning

• Program

MIT Digital Currency Initiative Cryptocurrecy and Blockchain

• Program

Laboratory for Social Machines at MIT Using Data Science Methods to Map Social Systems

• Program

Cortico Non Profit Tracking Social Media Discourse

• Spin Off ('16→?)

Parents

MIT School of Architecture and Planning

• Parent Org*

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Host*

Memberships

LACChain

• Member

Spatial Web Foundation Open Standards for Augmented and Mixed Reality With Smart Contracts

• Partner ('20→?)

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund MIT Media Lab and Harvard Berkman Center

• Co-Lead*

Data-Pop Alliance Harvard & MIT data science research center

• founding partner

Services & Transactions

DARPA’s Red Balloon Challenge

• Service/Transaction

Culinary Institute of America culinary school with multiple locations

• Service/Transaction

Bridge International Academies Corporate Education Chain Serving Africa and India, Tech & Social Impact Investor Supported

• Funded By ('07→?) [+1]

• Service/Transaction

Nectome a Y Combinator startup that preserves the brain for potential memory extraction in some form through a high-tech embalming process

• terminated contract*

Students

Louis Kang Managing Director at ACCLR8 Ventures; Biotech and AI scholar; Co-founder MitoLab Inc.

• Graduate (past)*

Tinsley Galyean Executive Director Curious Learning, MIT Media Lab Affiliate

• PhD, Digital Media ('90→'95)*

Phil Frei Co-Founder Bridges International, Advisor Metcalf Foundation

• Graduate, Media Studies ('98→'00)*

Craig Kanarick Co founded Razorfish with Jeffrey Dachis in 1994

• Master's Degree

Jonah Peretti Founder & CEO of Buzzfeed

• Graduate (past)

Miscellaneous Relationships

Curious Learning Mobile Based Literacy App - "Evidence-Based"

• Project

Tinsley Galyean Executive Director Curious Learning, MIT Media Lab Affiliate

• Affiliate ('13→'17)*

MIT Architecture and Machine Group (MAMG) Nicholas Negroponte's Research Lab / ARPA Contracts 1960s

• Replaced by ('85→?)*

Networks Understanding Networks MIT Media Lab Gathering 2011

• Event of ('11→?)*

DataUSA Data Visualization Software for Government Information, MIT & Deloitte

• Project ('14→?)*

Blockcerts Standard for Digital Identity and Credentials

• Product ('16→?)*

Learning Machine Blockchain Credentialing MIT Media Lab / Sloan School Management

• Collaborator With ('16→?)*