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.

Michael Lapinski
mtl[@]media[.]mit[.]edu
 

Michael is a PhD student in the Responsive Environments group.

Nan-Wei Gong
nanwei[@]media[.]mit[.]edu
 

Nan-Wei Gong is a Masters student in the Responsive Environments group. She is interested in building gadgets and gizmos.

Matt Aldrich
maldrich[@]media[.]mit[.]edu
 

Matt joined the Media Lab in 2008. He has an embedded systems background and his interests include low power design and instrumentation. Before joining the group, Matt worked at a start-up designing solid state lighting products and control systems. He also enjoys designing electronic musical controllers. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Yale in 2004.

Alexander Reben
areben [@]media[.]mit[.]edu
 

Alex joined the group in 2008. He enjoys photography, simple elegant design, and building robots. He has worked on robots for photography at NASA, built a talking robotic chimp for the Whitney Art Museum Biennial at the EYEBEAM Art and Technology Center in NYC, and was recently published in The Best of Instructables book