Announcing the 2018 Assembly Cohort

We are thrilled to announce the 2018 cohort for the Assembly program at the Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab. The program, which will start its second iteration on January 22, 2018, gathers developers, project managers, academics, and tech industry professionals for a rigorous spring term to tackle hard problems at the intersection of code and policy. The program will be split into three parts: a two week design and team building session, a course co-taught by MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito and BKC co-founder and HLS professor Jonathan Zittrain on the ethics of artificial intelligence, and a twelve-week collaborative development period.

Our 2018 cohort is made up of twenty-one participants with diverse backgrounds and experiences representing the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations. Their task? To work on the emerging problems and opportunities within artificial intelligence and its governance.

Below you can see who makes up our 2018 cohort! For more information about the program, visit the Assembly website. To see the cohort's full profiles, you can go directly to their profiles on the 2018 cohort page.

 

DHAVAL ADJODAH Ph.D student at the MIT Media Lab researching AI, computational social science and financeANDRÉ BARRENCE Director of Campus São Paulo and leads Google for Entrepreneurs in BrazilHALLIE BENJAMIN Experiment Designer at GoogleKASIA CHMIELINSKI Technologist at the White House U.S. Digital ServiceJACK CLARK Strategy and Communications Director of OpenAIJENNIFER FERNICK Ph.D candidate in Mathematics (Computer Science – Quantum Information) at the University of WaterlooGRETCHEN GREENE Computer Vision Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer working with Cambridge startupsSARAH HOLLAND Public Policy Manager at GoogleAHMED HOSNY Data Scientist, Web Developer and Researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical SchoolJOSH JOSEPH CSO of Alpha Features