Professor Alex Pentland
Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT, co-creator of the MIT Media Lab and founder of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Labs
Professor Alex Pentland is a global expert on AI and data analytics and secure distributed information systems that support such analysis. He has more than twenty years’ experience in financial, social, and engineering aspects of building, operating, and evolution of these fields.
Professor Pentland began his career as Lecturer at Stanford, then transferred to MIT to help create the Media Lab and later the Institute for Data, Systems and Society. He advises the OECD, and formerly the UN Secretary General, EU Presidency, World Economic Forum, Google, AT&T, Telefonica and Nissan, as well as many start-up firms.
He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and has won numerous awards and prizes, including the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, the Brandeis Privacy Award, AI Influencer Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as many scientific awards.