April 21, 2022
3-4 pm ET
MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor Silverman Room
The Science Hub Inspiration Series brings you presentations from some of MIT’s most inspiring students, researchers, and faculty. Join us virtually or in-person for the next event!
Learn about our featured speakers and their curated presentations on themselves and their research below! The presentations focus on topics from equitable design of robots, to machine learning-based measurements. Presentations were followed by live Q&A.
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The Inspiration Series was hosted by Andrew Lippman, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab. You are also welcome to view our featured speaker presentations and their Q&As further below
Featured Speakers
Research Assistant and Design Researcher, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Anastasia Ostrowski is a PhD student and design researcher at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots Group. Her work focuses on equitable design of robots, including co-design and participatory design approaches. Before becoming a design researcher at the Media Lab, she received her master’s and bachelor degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan with a focus on engineering design processes and idea generation. Anastasia has published in human-robot interaction and design research conferences, including receiving the Best Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication.
Aparna Balagopalan
PhD Student, EECS
Aparna Balagopalan is a second-year PhD student in EECS at MIT, supervised by Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi. Her research broadly focuses on developing interpretable and robust models by carefully re-evaluating and surfacing assumptions in machine learning-based measurements in socially-relevant contexts. Prior to this, she received a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto, supported by a MITACS Accelerate scholarship, and a BTech degree from the IIT Guwahati.
The Inspiration Series will be held at the MIT Media Lab. Join us at:
MIT Media Lab
75 Amherst Street
Cambridge MA
6th Floor Silverman Room