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. Rachel Mok
Instructor
Kachina Studer
XR Technical Associate
Dr. Meredith Thompson
Program Manager
Dr. Zhen Zhao
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Ziling Chen
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Yibo Fan
Instructional Designer
Graduate Students
Francisco Sepulveda
Past Members
Shelly Ben-David (‘23)
MIT Ideation Lab Intern
Gabrielle Enns (‘21)
Footwear Product Engineer at Nike
Rafael Fernandes (‘23)
Nathaniel Lee (‘22)
MIT Laboratory of Manufacturing and Productivity Intern
Cong (Justin) Li (‘23)
Testing and Development Intern at Synaptics
Sandra Li (‘20)
Masters of Engineering student at Cornell Mechanical Engineering
Megan Ngo (‘23)
Research and development Intern at Procter and Gamble
Tema Nwana (‘21)
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nisal Ovitigala (‘21)
System Integration and Test Engineer at FormLabs
Dan Li
Research Scientist at Tongji University
Emily Welsh
Technical Associate at MIT
Gregory Osborne
Instructor at XR Terra
Charlotte Folinus
PhD student at MIT
Satvik Sabarad
Manufacturing Engineer at Tesla
Ben Thomson
Mechanical Engineer at Jetcool
Fatima Abbasi
Emily Li
Josue Rodriguez
Gillian Roeder
Emma Higgason
UROP ’21
Hing (Isa) Lie
UROP ’23
Collaborators: People
Dr. Ben Armstrong
Bill Bonvillian
Dr. Benita Comeau
Julie C. Diop
Prof. Nick Fang
Prof. Dave Hardt
Prof. John Hart
Prof. Rohit Karnik
Dr. Bavand Keshavarz
Prof. Pierre Lermusiaux
Prof. Gareth McKinley
Dr. George Westerman
Collaborators: Groups
MIT Industrial Performance Center (IPC)
MITx Digital Learning Laboratory (DLL)
Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)