DLC UROP Coordinators List

Every department, lab & center (DLC) has a designated faculty member or academic professional who serves as the department’s UROP liaison.

Coordinators interpret departmental requirements, ensuring the academic rigor & research value in UROP projects, and clarify policies/ procedures for departmental review. Their role includes review of submitted student UROP applications, examining project descriptions & financial requests, and determining project appropriateness for departmental approval before forwarding to UROP staff for final review.

Below you will find names and contact information for our current DLC UROP Coordinators.

Coordinators for Credit-Bearing Academic Departments

The following individuals are UROP coordinators for UROPs proposed in the academic departments/programs:

Course 1: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Prof. Saurabh Amin, amins@mit.edu
Sarah Smith, ssmith1@mit.edu

Course 2: Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Vivishek Sudhir, vivishek@mit.edu

Course 3: Materials Science & Engineering

Rebecca Shepardson, bshep@mit.edu

Course 4: Architecture

Prof. Skylar Tibbits, sjet@mit.edu

Course 5: Chemistry

Prof. Alex Radosevich, aradosev@mit.edu

Course 6: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Melissa Cao, melc@mit.edu
Ellen Reid, Room 38-488, ellenr@mit.edu

Course 7: Biology

Janice Chang, jdchang@mit.edu

Course 8: Physics

Yen-Jie Lee, yenjie@mit.edu

Course 9: Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Prof. Laura Schulz, lschulz@mit.edu

Course 10: Chemical Engineering

Dr. Tom Kinney, tkinney@mit.edu

Course 11: Urban Studies & Planning

Justin Steil, steil@mit.edu

Course 12: Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

Ann Greaney-Williams, agreaney@mit.edu

Course 14: Economics

Prof. Joshua Angrist, angrist@mit.edu

Course 15: Sloan School of Management

Prof. David Rand, drand@mit.edu
Scott Alessandro, salessan@mit.edu

Course 16: Aeronautics & Astronautics

David L. Darmofal, darmofal@mit.edu

Course 17: Political Science

Kate Hoss, hoss@mit.edu

Course 18: Mathematics

Prof. Elchanan Mossel, elmos@mit.edu
Prof. Steven Johnson, stevenj@mit.edu

Course 20: Biological Engineering Division

Prof. Jacquin Niles, jcniles@mit.edu

Course 21A: Anthropology Program

Carolyn Carlson, carlsonc@mit.edu

Course 21G: Global Studies and Languages

Takako Aikawa, taikawa@mit.edu

Course 21H: History

Prof. Caley Horan, cdhoran@mit.edu

Course 21L: Literature

Stephanie Frampton, sframpto@mit.edu

Course 21M: Music

John Congdon, congdon@mit.edu

Course 21T: Theater Arts

John Congdon, congdon@mit.edu

Course 22: Nuclear Engineering

Prof. Matteo Bucci, mbucci@mit.edu

Course 24: Linguistics & Philosophy

Christine Graham, cgraham@mit.edu
(Linguistics Faculty Coordinator: Suzanne Flynn)

Comparative Media Studies (CMS)/Writing

Danna Solomon, dsolomon@mit.edu

IDSS: Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Prof. Fotini Christia, cfotini@mit.edu

Edgerton Center

Dr. James Bales, bales@mit.edu
Amy Fitzgerald, amyfitz@mit.edu

HST: Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology

Tracy Anderson, tanderso@mit.edu
Henrike Besche, hbesche@mit.edu

MAS: Media Arts & Sciences/Media Laboratory

Andy Lippman, lip@media.mit.edu
Mahy El-Kouedi, mahy@media.mit.edu

STS: Program in Science, Technology & Society

Karen Gardner, kgardner@mit.edu
Stephanie Brandao Carvalho, sbrandao@mit.edu

SCM: Supply Chain Management Program

Dr. Matthias Winkenbach, mwinkenb@mit.edu

WGS: Program in Women’s and Gender Studies

Stacey Lantz, slantz@mit.edu

Coordinators for Interdisciplinary Laboratories & Centers

The following individuals are UROP coordinators for UROPs proposed in interdisciplinary laboratories & centers.

ACT: Art, Culture and Technology

Scott Tirrell, stirrell@mit.edu

CAST: Center for Art, Science and Technology

Prof. Evan Ziporyn, zipo@mit.edu

CMRAE: Center for Materials Research in Archaeology & Ethnology

Michael Tarkanian, tarky@mit.edu

CSAIL: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Jack Nealon, jtn728@mit.edu

Chiara Ma, chiar833@mit.edu

ESI: Environmental Solutions Initiative

Jerome Gately, jfgately@mit.edu

ISN: Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

Josh Freedman, joshf@mit.edu

LIDS: Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems

Richard Lay. rlay@mit.edu

LNS: Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Yen-Jie Lee, yenjie@mit.edu

Lincoln Laboratory

Prof. William Oliver, wi18222@mit.edu

MRL: Materials Resear ch Laboratory

Lisa Sinclair, lpage@mit.edu

MCSC: MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium

Elise Chambers, elisetch@mit.edu

MITEI: Energy Initiative

Dr. Antje Danielson, antjed@mit.edu
Aisling O’Grady, aogrady@mit.edu

MIT Haystack Observatory (MHO)

Dr. Philip Erickson, pje@mit.edu
Dineen Doucette, dineend@mit.edu

MIT IBM Watson AI Lab

Emily Goldman, ediamond@mit.edu

MITii: Innovation Initiative

Rosaleah Brown, brownr@mit.edu

MKI: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Dr. George Ricker, grr@space.mit.edu

QI: MIT Quest for Intelligence

Valerie Hoke, vhoke@mit.edu

NRL: Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

Dr. Gordon Kohse, kohse@mit.edu

PILM: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Prof. Troy Littleton, troy@mit.edu

PSFC: Plasma Science & Fusion Center

Martin Greenwald, g@psfc.mit.edu

RLE: Research Lab for Electronics

Richard Petruzzelli, petruzze@mit.edu

Coordinators for Other Programs

The following individuals are UROP coordinators for UROPs proposed in other programs.

Broad Institute

Angela Florentino, aflorent@broadinstitute.org

Sea Grant Program

Andrew Bennett, abennett@mit.edu

Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research

Janice Chang, jdchang@mit.edu