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  • Yunus Telliel

    Assistant Professor Worcester Polytechnic Institute PIT-NE Working Groups: Future LEaders of PIT Yunus Telliel is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Rhetoric. Before joining WPI, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His work is animated by an intellectual curiosity with how ideas travel across time and space, and generate diverse…

  • Diana Freed

    Assistant Professor Brown University PIT-NE Working Groups: Faculty Resource Roundtable Future LEaders of PIT Diana is a joint Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and at The Center for Research on Computation and Society at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is a 2024 incoming…

  • Azer Bestavros

    Associate Provost for The Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences,William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science,Founding Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing Boston University Azer Bestavros is the inaugural associate provost for the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University.  He is also the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science…

  • Christine Bassem

    Anchor Point Assistant Professor in Computer Science Wellesley College PIT-NE Working Groups: Faculty Resource Roundtable Future LEaders of PIT Christine Bassem is the Anchor Point Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College. She first joined the department as a lecturer back in 2015, right after receiving my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University.…

  • Ziba Cranmer

    Director, BU SPARK! Boston University PIT-NE Working Groups: PIT Summer Program Ziba Cranmer is the Director of BU SPARK!, an initiative for student-centered entrepreneurship and innovation in computing. Ziba is an innovation leader with a diverse range of experience spanning the public and private sectors. Prior to BU, Ziba served as Executive Director of a…

  • Francine Berman

    Director of Public Interest Technology and PIT@UMass co-Founder University of Massachusetts – Amherst PIT-NE Working Groups: PIT Summer Program Dr. Berman joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst as Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor in 2021. Previously, she was the Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science…

  • Colette Basiliere

    Executive Director, PIT-NE Colette Basiliere is the Executive Director of PIT-NE and a Research Fellow at UMass Amherst working alongside Francine Berman to advance the Public Interest Technology – New England (PIT-NE) research consortium. She works closely with faculty across New England to leverage and synergize PIT programs to create an ecosystem of mutual support.  In…