Founder and Lead
Faculty Mentors and Advisors
Maria Zuber, MIT VP for Research
Joseph Paradiso, PI and Director, Responsive Environments group, Media Lab
Dava Newman, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MIT AeroAstro
SEI Staff and Program Volunteers
Maggie Coblentz, Program Manager & Space Gastronomy research lead
Xin Liu, Arts Curator
Mehak Sarang, Lunar Exploration Projects Lead
Sands Fish, Staff Designer
Sean Auffinger, Mission Integrator
Che-Wei Wang, Staff Engineer and Designer
Peter Dilworth, Staff Engineer
Jamie Milliken, Staff Engineer
Avery Normandin, Outreach Coordinator
Devora Najjar, Outreach Volunteer
Sana Sharma, Astronaut Ethnography and Design Volunteer
Amna Carreiro, Administrative Assistant
50+ Graduate Students, Staff, and Faculty Researchers Involved
Media Lab
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MIT Research Collaborators
Oli deWeck, Engineering Systems Laboratory, AeroAstro
Jeffrey Hoffman, HSL, AeroAstro
Kerri Cahoy, STAR Lab, AeroAstro
Noelle Bryan, Zuber Lab, EAPS
Chris Carr, Zuber Lab, EAPS [Now at Georgie Tech]
Marie-Pier Boucher, CAST & Science, Technology, and Society
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Collaborators
Marc Bernstein, Associate Director [Now at the Pentagon]
Bob Shin, Beaverworks
Ken Gregson, Beaverworks
Dan Cousins, Climate CubeSat Co-building program collaborator
Jillian James, Climate CubeSat Co-building program collaborator
Research Affiliates, Visiting Researchers, Honorary Members
Cady Coleman, ret. NASA Astronaut
Paolo Nespoli, ESA Astronaut and Engineer
Leland Melvin, ret. NASA Astronaut & Media Lab Director's Fellow
Hajime Yano, JAXA (Japanese Space Agency)
Margarita Mora, NiaTero & Media Lab Director's Fellow
Andrea Lauer, Broadway costume designer & Media Lab Director's Fellow
Sana Sharma, IBM UX Designer for Emerging Technologies
Aswin Venkatapathy, Visiting Researcher, TU Dortmund
Emeritus
Ani Liu, Artist, Media Lab alum
Harpreet Sareen, Media Lab alum
Manuel Muccillo, Visiting Researcher, Sapienza Universita di Roma
Vicky Zeamer, Designer and MIT ACT alum
UROPs (MIT Undergraduate Researchers)
Peter C Williams [Fall 2019]
David Turner [Fall 2019]
Mehitabel Glenhaber [Summer 2018]
Aye Htun [Spring 2018 --> Summer 2018]
Siranush Babakhanova [Fall 2017 --> Present]
Elisheva Shuter [Fall 2017 --> Spring 2018]
Tesla Wells [Spring 2018]