Ari Y. Benbasat
ayb[@]media[.]mit[.]edu

Ari Y. Benbasat was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1975. He received a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) in 1998 and a S.M. in media arts and sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) in 2000.

In 1993, he was a candidate for the mayoralty of Vancouver and received over 0.1% of the popular vote. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, USA. His research concentrates on design methodologies for the creation of real-time power optimal wearable sensors, with the goal of making such devices efficient enough that they can be embedded into everyday life.

Mr. Benbasat was awarded a post-graduate scholarship by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 1998.

Josh Lifton
lifton[@]media[.]mit[.]edu

A former master's student and current doctoral student, Josh's research concerns sensor networks.

Mat Laibowitz
mat[@]media[.]mit[.]edu

Mat Laibowitz, currently a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab in the Responsive Environments Group, was born Mathew Laibowitz in Zurich, Switzerland. He received a B.S. in E.E.C.S. from Columbia University in 1997, a G.Cert. in Film from NYU in 2000, and a S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2004. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Mat worked for IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY and worked for several start-ups designing advanced research products.

Mat's current research seeks to combine his interests in narrative storytelling with pervasive human-centric sensor and camera networks in order to create novel experiences.

Mat recently had a solo show of installation sculpture at the Exit Art Gallery in Chelsea, NY and has previously shown work at Fellisimo House of Design (NYC), Longhouse (Easthampton, NY), and several other venues in NY, MA, and Montreal. He has also been an active electronic musician and has performed live at South By Southwest, The Limelight (NYC), Wonderland (NYC), and over the air at WMBR in Cambridge.

His other interests include metalwork, scuba diving, snowboarding, Italian cult cinema, and repelling down waterfalls in Brazilian rain forests.

Mark Feldmeier
carboxyl[@]mit[.]edu

Mark's interests include product design, analog circuits, and energy efficiency.

Bo Morgan
neptune[@]media[.]mit[.]edu

Bo Morgan has studied artificial intelligence and neuroscience through his bachelors and masters programs at MIT. Bo is starting his PhD at the intersection of the subfield of artificial intelligence focused on human commonsense and brain-computer interfaces to understand neuroscience models of the brain in terms of artificial intelligence models of mind.

Matt Malinowski
mattxmal[@]mit[.]edu

Matt is currently working on sensate active tags for security and supply chain management. He would eventually like to use sensor networks to better manage energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings.

Jason LaPenta
the5[@]media[.]mit[.]edu

Jason joined the Media Lab in 2005 to work on uTags, a novel passive transponder system for real-time 3-D tracking. B.S. 2001 in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Five years working at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, designing electronics and embedded software for experiment control systems used on both spacecraft and aircraft. Favorite sport of all-time: Underwater Hockey.

Manas Mittal
manas[@]media[.]mit[.]edu

Manas Mittal is a Masters candidate in the Responsive Environments group. His current research focus is on finding new applications for sensor nets. In his spare time, Manas likes to take things apart, understand them, and then put them together again, with decreasing degree of success at each stage.