Speakers

Suzanne Berger

Suzanne Berger is the inaugural John M. Deutch Institute Professor. Her current research focuses on politics and globalization. She recently co-chaired the MIT Production in the Innovation Economy project, and in September 2013 published Making in America: From Innovation to Market. She created the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative, and participated in the 1989 Made in America project at MIT. She wrote Made By Hong Kong and Global Taiwan (with Richard K. Lester). She is the author of Notre Première Mondialisation and How We Compete. Her earlier work focused on political development (Peasants Against Politics) and the organization of interests (Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies and Organizing Interests in Western Europe).   Suzanne Berger served as Head of the MIT Department of Political Science, founding chair of the SSRC Committee on West Europe, and Vice President of the American Political Science Association. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The French government has awarded her the Palmes Academiques, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite and the Légion d'Honneur.

Susan Helper

Susan Helper is the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She was formerly Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce and a member of the White House Staff. She has served as chair of the Economics Department, and has been a visiting scholar at University of Oxford, the University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on the globalization of supply chains, and on how U.S. manufacturing might be revitalized. Dr. Helper received her PhD in Economics from Harvard and her BA from Oberlin College in Economics, Government and Spanish.

Ben Armstrong

Ben Armstrong is a research scientist at the Industrial Performance Center and the Initiative for Knowledge and Innovation in Manufacturing at MIT. He studies how some places and organizations adapt to structural economic changes more successfully than others. His current projects include a National Manufacturing Workforce Plan, funded by the Department of Defense, as well as a book project examining the role of government in enabling local economic transformations. Armstrong received his PhD from MIT in political science. Before graduate school, he worked at Google Inc.

Milo Phillips-Brown

Milo Phillips-Brown is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy and Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College. He works at the Institute for Ethics in AI. He received his PhD from MIT. He studies the ethical, social, and political implications of technology; teaches responsible engineering practices to computer scientists; and writes about desire from the perspective of philosophy of mind and language. He is also a Senior Fellow in Digital Ethics and Governance at the Jain Family Institute. From 2015 to 2018, he was a director of PIKSI Boston, a summer program for undergraduates from underrepresented groups. He is a member of the Society for Philosophy and Disability.

Hadas Kress-Gazit

Hadas Kress-Gazit is a Professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and has been at Cornell since 2009. Her research focuses on formal methods for robotics and automation and more specifically on synthesis for robotics – automatically creating verifiable robot controllers for complex high-level tasks. Her group explores different types of robotic systems including modular robots, soft robots and swarms and synthesizes (pun intended) ideas from different communities such as robotics, formal methods, control, hybrid systems and computational linguistics. She is an IEEE fellow and has received multiple awards for her research, teaching and advocacy for groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM. She lives in Ithaca with her partner and two kids.

Tim Miller

Tim Miller is a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, and Co-Director for the Centre of AI and Digital Ethics. His primary area of expertise is in artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on human-AI interaction and collaboration, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), decision making in complex, multi-agent environments, and reasoning about action and knowledge. His work is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, interaction design, and cognitive science/psychology. His areas of education expertise are in artificial intelligence, software engineering, and technology innovation. He has extensive experience developing novel and innovative solutions with industry and defence collaborators. He is a member of the AI and Autonomy Lab in the school.

Maya Cakmak

Maya Cakmak is an Associate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, where she directs the Human-Centered Robotics lab. She received her PhD in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012, after which she spent a year as a post-doctoral research fellow at Willow Garage, one of the most influential robotics companies. Her research interests are in human-robot interaction, end-user programming, and assistive robotics. Her work aims to develop robots that can be programmed and controlled by a diverse group of users with unique needs and preferences to do useful tasks. Maya's work has been published at major Robotics and AI conferences and journals, demonstrated live in various venues and has been featured in numerous media outlets. Tools that she and her students developed are being used by robotics companies like Savioke and Fetch Robotics. She received an NSF CAREER award (2015), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2018), and Early Career Spotlight Awards at R:SS (2018) and IJCAI (2019).

AJung Moon

AJung Moon an experimental roboticist. She investigates how robots and AI systems influence the way people move, behave, and make decisions in order to inform how we can design and deploy such autonomous intelligent systems more responsibly. At McGill University, she is the Director of the McGill Responsible Autonomy & Intelligent System Ethics (RAISE) lab. The RAISE lab is an interdisciplinary group that investigates the social and ethical implications of robots and AI systems and explores what it means for engineers to be designing and deploying such systems responsibly for a better, technological future.

Andrea Manera

Andrea is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the MIT Economics department. His research focuses on Automation and the Economics of Innovation, and the optimal policy to respond to emerging challenges in these fields. In his joint work, he covered the impact of automation on employment and its implication for labor markets (with Michele Fornino), optimal taxation of automation (with Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo), and the effect of labor market regulations on firms’ technology choices (with Martina Uccioli).

Maram Sakr

Maram Sakr is Ph.D. candidate in the joint Ph.D. program between the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia, Canada and the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, Australia. Her doctorate research is about effective teaching for robot learning from demonstration. Maram's research vision is to allow everyday users to intuitively teach robots by demonstrations and provide high-quality demonstrations for the robot to learn from. She is co-supervised by Prof. Elizabeth Croft, Prof. Dana Kulić and Prof. H.F. Machiel Van der Loos. She is the recipient of the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC and was ranked first in Canada in the Computing Science committee.

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