Dr. John Liu
Principal Investigator, LEAP Group
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Scientist, MITx Digital Learning Laboratory, Open Learning
johnhliu@mit.edu
Current Members
Staff
Dr. Daniel Braconnier
Digital Learning Laboratory Fellow / Postdoctoral Associate
Christian Gabbianelli
Software Developer
Dr. Meredith Thompson
Program Manager
Dr. Ziling Chen
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Rolando Bautista Montesano
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Dishita Turakhia
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Yibo Fan
Instructional Designer
Kachina Studer
XR Technical Associate
Dr. Zhen Zhao
Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Students
Aarsh Patel
Visiting Masters Student
Alumni
Dr. Rachel Mok
Instructor
Shelly Ben-David (‘23)
MIT Ideation Lab Intern
Megan Ngo (‘23)
Research and development Intern at Procter and Gamble
Tema Nwana (‘21)
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Dan Li
Research Scientist at Tongji University
Satvik Sabarad
Manufacturing Engineer at Tesla
Emily Li
Gillian Roeder
Nathaniel Lee (‘22)
MIT Laboratory of Manufacturing and Productivity Intern
Francisco Sepulveda
Masters Student – System Design & Management Program
Gabrielle Enns (‘21)
Footwear Product Engineer at Nike
Charlotte Folinus
PhD student at MIT
Ben Thomson
Mechanical Engineer at Jetcool
Emma Higgason
UROP '21
Emily Welsh
Technical Associate at MIT
Rafael Fernandes (‘23)
Cong (Justin) Li (‘23)
Testing and Development Intern at Synaptics
Sandra Li (‘20)
Masters of Engineering student at Cornell Mechanical Engineering
Nisal Ovitigala (‘21)
System Integration and Test Engineer at FormLabs
Gregory Osborne
Instructor at XR Terra
Fatima Abbasi
Josue Rodriguez
Hing (Isa) Lie
UROP '23