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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Sabiyyah Ali

Sabiyyah Ali is a Work of the Future Fellow focused on generative AI.

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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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Christopher Fourie

PhD candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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John Hart

Faculty Affiliate, Manufacturing

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Jason Jackson

Faculty Affiliate, Work of the Future

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Kate Kellogg

Faculty Affiliate, Work of the Future

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Retsef Levi

Faculty Affiliate, 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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Shakked Noy

Work of the Future Fellow, Generative AI

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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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Sanjay Sarma

Faculty Affiliate, Work of the Future

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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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Nathan Wilmers

Faculty Affiliate, Work of the Future

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Whitney Zhang

Work of the Future Fellow, Generative AI.

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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