Behind the scenes of a contact tracing study | Julie Shah | TEDxMIT (TEDx Talks)

The MIT Proximity Pilot Study is approved by MIT‘s Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES)

Proximity Pilot Team

Principal Investigator
Prof. Julie Shah, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Co-Investigators
Dr. Cecilia Stuopis, MIT Medical
Dr. Shawn Ferullo, MIT Medical
Prof. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab
Dr. Vikash Mansinghka, MIT Probabilistic Computing Project
Dr. Veronica Weiner, MIT Probabilistic Computing Project

Project Coordinator and Study Lead
Dr. Przemyslaw Lasota, Postdoctoral Researcher, CSAIL
Development Team
Adam Norige, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Anthony Lapadula, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Daniel Ribeirinha-Braga, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Megan Richardson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Brice MacLaren, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Nathaniel Hanson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Abhishek Singh, Graduate Student, MIT Media Laboratory
Christopher Fourie, Graduate Student, MIT CSAIL & AeroAstro
Dr. Illaria Liccardi, Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL

Deployment and Community Engagement
Sarah Chung, Research Specialist, MIT CSAIL
Geeticka Chauhan, Graduate Student, MIT CSAIL and Sidney Pacific Dorm President
Joseph DelPreto, Graduate Student, MIT CSAIL
Amanda Hornick, PhD Student, MIT Medical Engineering Medical Physics, Ashdown House Executive Committee Chair
John Bell, PhD Student, MIT Mechanical Engineering, Ashdown House Events Committee Chair
Emma Gibson, PhD Candidate, MIT Operations Research Center, Eastgate Sustainability Officer

Emily Simons, Senior Graphic Artist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Julie Shah is an associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and associate dean of social and ethical responsibilities of computing in the Schwarzman College of Computing. Her work aims to imagine the future of work by designing computing that enhances human capability and well-being. She is expanding the use of human cognitive models for artificial intelligence and has translated her work to manufacturing assembly lines, healthcare applications, transportation and defense. Prof. Shah has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and by MIT Technology Review on its 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also in Technology Review’s 2013 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. She has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Symposium on Robotics. She earned degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and in autonomous systems from MIT. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Behind the scenes of a contact tracing study | Julie Shah | TEDxMIT