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Andrew Lo

Financial Engineer

Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and an affiliated faculty member of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and his A.B. in economics from Yale University.

Daniela Rus

Pervasive Roboticist

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus’s research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy for Arts and Science. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Prior to joining MIT, Rus was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College.

R.D. King

Musician

R.D. King is an award-winning composer and performer of instrumental acoustic guitar music who has opened for Grammy-nominated Ari Hest, Andy McKee, and Liz Longley among others. Following a tumultuous childhood, he confronts the anxiety and alienation of modern life by seeking deeper meaning, beauty, and connection through music. Inspired by literature, philosophy, art, and meditation, R.D.’s pursuit of music is his deepest source of personal growth. He hopes to inspire listeners in their own journeys towards empathy, love, and self-actualization.