Technology and Innovation Acceleration Program

Deborah Ancona

Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, Professor of Organization Studies, and Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Ancona’s pioneering research into how successful teams operate has highlighted the critical importance of managing outside, as well as inside, the team’s boundary. Ancona’s work also focuses on the concept of distributed leadership and on the development of research-based tools, practices, and teaching/coaching models that enable organizations to foster creative leadership at every level.

Hamsa Balakrishnan

Professor and Associate Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Balakrishnan’s current research interests are in the design, analysis, and implementation of control and optimization algorithms for large-scale cyber-physical infrastructures, with an emphasis on air transportation systems. Her research spans theory and practice, including both algorithm development and real-world field tests.

Duane Boning

Clarence J. LeBel Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Boning's research is focused on the modeling and control of variation in manufacturing, including IC, photonics, and MEMS processes, devices, and circuits. His research interests include statistical and machine learning methods for design and manufacturing in advanced technologies.

Bruce G. Cameron

Director of the System Architecture Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cameron’s research interests include technology strategy, system architecture, and the management of product platforms. He has supervised over 50 graduate students and has directed research projects for Amazon, BP, Sikorsky, Nokia, Caterpillar, AMGEN, Verizon, and NASA.

Edward Crawley

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Crawley’s research focuses on the design of complex systems, and he is the author of this text: System Architecture. He is a fellow of the AIAA, and a member of the NAE, as well as national academies in the UK, Sweden, Russia, and China.

Olivier de Weck

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

De Weck’s research focuses on how complex man-made systems such as aircraft, spacecraft, automobiles, printers, and critical infrastructures are designed and how they evolve over time. His main emphasis is on strategic properties that have the potential to maximize lifecycle value.

Steven Eppinger

General Motors LGO Professor of Management; Professor of Management Science and Innovation; Co-Director, SDM and IDM Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Eppinger is one of the most highly recognized scholars in the area of product development and technical project management. His research is applied to improving complex design processes in order to accelerate industrial practices. He is a pioneer in development of the widely used Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method for managing complex system projects.

Dan Frey

MIT D-Lab Faculty Director for Research, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Frey is actively involved in design of engineering devices for the developing world, and has worked intensively with colleagues, administrators, and the Singapore Ministry of Education to establish a major new research center for engineering design.

D. Fox Harrell

Professor of Digital Media & Artificial Intelligence and Director of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality

Harrell’s research explores the relationship between imagination and computation, and it involves developing new forms of virtual reality, computational narrative, video gaming for social impact, and related digital media forms based in computer science, cognitive science, and digital media arts.

Bruce Lawler

Managing Director of MIT Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing and Operations

Lawler is a technology entrepreneur and executive leader with consecutive public and private exits, and early-stage investing success with leading venture firms including Accel, CRV, KPCB, Redpoint, Sequoia, and Softbank. He has development expertise in mobile applications, SaaS, artificial intelligence systems, and video distribution networks. He is currently the managing director of MIT MIMO (Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing and Operations).

David Niño

Senior Lecturer, Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Niño heads leadership education for graduate students across the institute. He is strongly committed to the development of leadership among engineers and other professionals in technology and is active in an international consortium of engineering leadership centers. He is also a founding officer of the Engineering Leadership Development Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.

Will Oliver

Professor of the Practice of Physics, Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and Laboratory Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In these roles, Oliver provides programmatic and technical leadership targeting the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies. His research interests include the materials growth, fabrication, design, and measurement of superconducting qubits, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic CMOS and single-flux quantum digital logic.

RAY REAGANS

Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, Professor of Work and Organization Studies, and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at MIT Sloan School of Management

Reagans studies the origin and influence of social capital on knowledge transfer, learning rates, and overall team performance. More specifically, he examines how demographic characteristics such as race, age, and gender affect the development of network relations.

Adam Ross

Research Scientist, Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative, Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ross has research interests and advises students in ongoing research projects in advanced systems design and selection methods, tradespace exploration, managing unarticulated value, designing for changeability, value-based decision analysis, and systems-of-systems engineering.

Daniela Rus

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of CSAIL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rus’ work is focused on developing the science and engineering of autonomy, toward the long-term objective of enabling a future with machines pervasively integrated into the fabric of life, supporting people with cognitive and physical tasks. Her research addresses some of the gaps between where robots are today and the promise of pervasive robots. The applications of this work are broad and include transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, the environment, underwater exploration, smart cities, and medicine.

Brian Subirana

Director of Auto-ID Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology

Subirana’s research centers on IoT and AI, and focuses on manufacturing, e-learning, the creative industries, and digital health. He is developing a voice name system that can help humans talk to any object in an IoT environment. He has over 200 publications, including three books.

Sanjay Sarma

Vice President for Open Learning and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarma is co-founder of the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. His research includes sensors, the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, and RFID.