Dr. Katy Croff Bell, Founder & Director
Dr. Jennifer Chow, Education & Outreach Manager
Dr. Dan Novy, Object-Based Media, Research Scientist
Amna Carreiro, Administrative Assistant
Dr. Alexis Hope, Civic Media & Life-Long Kindergarten, Creative Director
Devora Najjar, Responsive Environments & Sculpting Evolution, Learning Researcher & Bioengineer
Avery Normandin, Sculpting Evolution, Learning Researcher
Oceane Boulais, Responsive Environments, AI Researcher
Susan Poulton, Digital Strategist
Kathleen Cantner, Design Researcher
Lui Kawasumi, Research Engineer
Dr. Joe Paradiso, Responsive Environments, MIT Media Lab
Dr. Dava Newman, MIT Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering & MIT Portugal Program
Dr. Michael Triantafyllou, MIT Mechanical Engineering & MIT Sea Grant
Open Ocean members hail from numerous Media Lab groups, including Responsive Environments, Object-Based Media, Sculpting Evolution, and the Learning Initiative, as well as several MIT labs, including MIT Sea Grant, Mechanical Engineering, and the Future Ocean Lab. We have worked with more than a dozen UROPs from across the Institute, and numerous graduate students through activities ranging from workshops and events to project funding and thesis advising.