Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science
Dr. Micah Altman is Director of Research and Head/Scientist of the Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and a member of Harvard Universitys Privacy Tools Project, a multidisciplinary effort to advanced understanding of data privacy issues. Micahs research focuses on the intersections of information, technology, privacy, and politics, as well as on the dissemination, preservation, reliability and governance of scientific knowledge. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology.
Co-founder and Executive Director, Climate Change AI (CCAI)
Assistant Professor, MIT EECS
Priya Donti is a data scientist, soon-to-be professor at MIT, and the co-founder and executive director of Climate Change AI (CCAI), a key partner in the 2023 Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon on using AI to predict the weather.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Samuel Gershman is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work focuses on computational models of learning and memory, and he is interested in the extent to which we can understand the brain as performing statistical inference.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Liz Nolan was raised in Niskayuna, New York and graduated magna cum laude from Smith College in 2000 with highest honors in chemistry and a minor in music. Liz conducted her graduate studies in inorganic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she joined the laboratory of Professor Stephen J. Lippard. Her doctoral work focused on the synthesis, characterization, and application of small-molecule fluorescent sensors for detecting zinc in biological samples and mercury in aqueous solution. Liz pursued post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Christopher T. Walsh at Harvard Medical School where she investigated the biosynthetic assembly of microcin E492m, an antibiotic “Trojan horse” peptide that targets Gram-negative bacteria expressing siderophore uptake pumps. Liz joined the Department of Chemistry at MIT as an assistant professor in 2009. Her current research interests include synergies between metal ion homeostasis and immunity, and the roles of host-defense peptides and metalloproteins in various biological phenomena. Liz received a 2010 NIH New Innovator Award, and she was named a Searle Scholar in 2011 and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow in 2013.