The IPC draws on the expertise of faculty, students, and staff from across MIT in pursuit of its three main research thrusts in manufacturing, progress studies, and the Work of the Future Initiative. Our work benefits from the contribution of faculty affiliates, student fellows, and program leads who help implement our programs.
Our Team
Ben Armstrong
Ben Armstrong is Executive Director of the Industrial Performance Center and co-leads the Work of the Future Initiative.
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Julie Shah
Julie Shah is Faculty Director of the Industrial Performance Center and co-leads the Work of the Future Initiative.
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Richard Lester
Richard Lester is the founding Executive Director and Faculty Chair of the Industrial Performance Center.
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Florian Metzler
Florian Metzler is a Research Scientist at the IPC, where he leads the Progress Studies program.
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David Autor
David Autor was co-chair of the MIT Work of the Future Task Force and is a faculty affiliate of the Work of the Future Initiative.
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Suzanne Berger
Suzanne Berger is the John M. Deutch Institute Professor of Political Science at MIT.
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Julie Diop
Julie Diop is program lead for the MIT working group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future.
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David Mindell
David Mindell was co-chair of MIT’s Work of the Future Task Force and is a faculty affiliate of the Work of the Future Initiative.
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Dylan Nelson
Dylan Nelson is a Work of the Future Fellow and a postdoctoral scholar at MIT Sloan.
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Paul Osterman
Osterman is the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor of Human Resources and Management at MIT Sloan, as well as a member of the Department of Urban Planning.
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Michael J. Piore
Michael J. Piore is on the faculty of the Department of Economics at MIT.
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Prerna Ravi
Prerna Ravi is a Work of the Future Fellow focused on generative AI. She is a PhD student in CSAIL.
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Elisabeth B. Reynolds
Elisabeth Reynolds is former Executive Director of the Industrial Performance Center and is currently a Lecturer in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, as well as a Research Affiliate at the IPC.
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Lindsay Sanneman
Lindsay Sanneman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
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Azfar Sulaiman
Azfar Sulaiman is a Work of the Future Fellow focused on generative AI. He is also a dual Master’s degree student in Integrated Design & Management and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science programs at MIT.
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Leandra Tejedor
Leandra is a Work of the Future Fellow with the working group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future. She is also an IDM fellow at MIT, pursuing a dual MS in Computer Science and Engineering & Management. She was previously co-founder of Vidcode, a startup supporting K-12 computer science education.
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Yilmaz Uygun
Yilmaz Uygun is Professor of Logistics Engineering at Jacobs University, Bremen.
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Felix Wang
Felix Wang is a Work of the Future Fellow focused on generative AI. He is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Reimar Weissbach
Reimar Weissbach is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Past Fellows
Pierre Azoulay - Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Rosemary Batt - Alice Cook Professor, Women and Work at the Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University
Dan Breznitz - Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science, University of Toronto
Shawn Cole - Professor, The Finance Unit, Harvard Business School
Janice Fine - Associate Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
Tony Frost - Associate Professor, International Business, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Ann Frost - Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Erica R. H. Fuchs - Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Douglas B. Fuller - Professor, School of Management, Zhejiang University School of Management
Jeffrey L. Furman - Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy Innovation, Boston University's School of Management
Xudong Gao - Associate Professor of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Director, MBA Program, Tsinghua SEM
Eugene Gholz - Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Jody Hoffer Gittell - Professor of Management, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University; Executive Director, Relational Coordination Research Collaborative; Chief Scientific Officer, Relational Coordination Analytics, Inc.
Ari Goelman - Professor, Mathematics Department, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, BC
Raquel Gomes - Research and Evaluation Coordinator, USAID Office of Microenterprise and Private Enterprise Promotion
Laura Guild -
David M. Hart - Professor and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, George Mason University
Sachi Hatakenaka - Research Affiliate, IPC
Lorin M. Hitt - Professor, Operations and Information Management, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Ruthann Huising - Professor, Management and Organizations, EMLyon Business School, France
Malo Hutson - Associate Professor, Urban Planning; Director, Urban Community and Health Equity Lab, Columbia University
Natasha Iskander - Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Public Service, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Program
Sarah Kaplan - Associate Professor, Strategy Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Charles King, - Special Consultant, Greylock McKinnon Associates
Andrew King - Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Richa Kumar - Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Brenda Lautsch - Associate Professor, Management and Organization Studies, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Adam Seth Litwin - Associate Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History, Cornell University, IRL School
Teresa M. Lynch - Founding Principal, Mass Economics
Sara Jane McCaffrey - Senior Fellow and Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Lynn McCormick - Associate Professor, Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College
Benjamin W. Pinney - Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Transformation Asia Pacific, Johnson Controls
Marek Pycia - Professor, Organizational Economics, University of Zurich
Apiwat Ratanawaraha - Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn University
Elisabeth B. Reynolds - Former Executive Director, IPC
Daniel Rodriguez - Assistant Professor, Organization and Management, Gozieta Business School, Emory University
Diego Rodríguez - Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Raja Shankar - EU Lead, Pricing and Market Access Solutions, IQVIA
Apichai W. Shipper - Adjunct Associate Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Asia; Regional Chair, Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State
Matthew J. Slaughter - Associate Dean, MBA Program; Professor, International Economics, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Maurizio Sobrero - Professor, Innovation Management, University of Bologna, Italy
Smita Srinivas - Founder Director, Technological Change Lab (TCLab), Columbia University
J. Gunnar Trumbull, - Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Tim Sturgeon - Senior Researcher, Industrial Performance Center & Lecturer, MIT DUSP