The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) carefully selected several outstanding scholars, whose achievements in their fields make them promising leaders, and who have displayed an early commitment to promoting global peace and security.
In 2018-2019, Michael Dukakis Leadership fellows come from a diversity of disciplines, including the Media, Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence, and Psychology, but they share a common interest in promoting human well-being.
Here are the four members of Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow 2018-2019:
– Walter Langelaar:Programme Director of Media Design at the University of Wellington, and co-founder of SAM – an AI Politician – which aims to raise awareness as well as pose critical perspectives on AI cloud infrastructure, blockchains and social media mining while contextualizing these tools in relation to contemporary Internet culture, political science and e-governance.
– Angela Schoelig: She leads the Dynamic Systems Lab at the University of Toronto, and has developed algorithms that allow robots to learn together. Her algorithms are helping self-driving and self-flying vehicles move around more safely. She was named as one of 35 Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2017.
– Sarah Cotterill: PhD, College Fellow in Psychology at Harvard University, Secretary of MDI’s AIWS Standards and Practice Committee. She conducts research on political misinformation, as well as decision-making in the context of charitable giving, using experimental and machine learning techniques.
– Kevin Roose: A technology columnist for The New York Times and a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. In 2015, he was named in Forbes’s “30 Under 30” list and Time’s list of the 140 best Twitter feeds, and his work has been featured in The Best American Business Writing, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and other publications.