Alex Pentland
Alex "Sandy" Pentland is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and a Center Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, where he serves as faculty lead for digital society at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He is a pioneer in computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing, and modern biometrics, and is among the most-cited computational scientists in the world. He co-founded the MIT Media Lab and has advised over 80 PhD students, with spin-off companies from his lab managing digital authentication systems and health resources for hundreds of millions of people globally.
“In each of the era, you could see that Sandy was such an influential character. That's always an amazing power to observe.”
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