Allegra Farrar

Allegra Farrar is a graduate researcher at MIT, working jointly in the Media Lab and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Her work is shaped by the urgent need to address the inequities faced by coastal communities, where the impacts of tropical cyclones are often amplified by limited infrastructure and growing climate uncertainty. In response, she is reimagining Earth observation satellite mission design for more timely, relevant, and actionable observations. Her work focuses on developing adaptive sensing frameworks for Earth-observing satellites, combining probabilistic AI with stakeholder-informed design for real-time decision systems. Her goal is to construct observation methods that serve both scientific inquiry and community resilience.