Seven young people huddle around Shreeya who is holding a glass award.
Shreeya won the MIT in 3:00 video contest! Congratulations! 🎉
The contest is inspired by Antje Ehmann’s & Harun Farocki’s video project “Labour in a Single Shot.” Sponsored by the Chris Pomiecko Memorial Fund & Comparative Media Studies/Writing with support from Arts at MIT.
cmsw.mit.edu/mit-in-3/
Christine Ortiz, Bhavya Lal, Richard de Neufville
TPP alum, Dr. Bhavya Lal is a Professor at the RAND School of Public Policy and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on space policy, lunar governance, and the political economy of space.
Christine Ortiz, Adam Ali, Mike Giovanniello, and Graham Turk
IDS.449 Welcome back Adam, Mike, and Graham!
Dr. Sami Khan
Today's MITEI Research Seminar featured TPP alum Assistant Professor Sami Khan SM ’16, PhD ’20 in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Simon Fraser University.
Talk title: Ideating Impactful Interfaces in Sustainable Energy Systems
TPP alum and former TPP Director, Dava Newman is one of the featured speakers.
TPP student Ananda is on the student climate solutions panel.
Frank Field, Reese Dobson, Christine Ortiz, Jordan Foley, Barb DeLaBarre standing in front of a Technology and Policy Program sign.
TPP alum Jordan Foley stopped by to say hello today. TPP alumni if you are in the area on April 23, stop by the speed networking event with current students in the lounge.
April 23, 2026
6:00-8:00 pm
Registration required
tinyurl.com/ycyevsku
Strahinja Janjusevic standing next to a research poster.
Strahinja Janjusevic and another person standing in front of a large RSAC sign.
Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the current state of cybersecurity with the very people who inspired me to enter this space.
See you next year! -Strajo
Christine Ortiz sits at a table. The curtain behind her is red as is the fabric on the chairs.
International Symposium Science Across Boundaries poster.
TPP Director, Christine Ortiz sat on a panel at the Science Across Boundaries an International symposium taking place this week in Seville, Spain.
Luke Heeney and Her Excellency the Honorable Ms Sam Mostyn AC
Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC presented the 2026 BHP John Monash Scholarship to TPPer Luke Heeney. Thanks to the generous support of BHP, Luke intends to pursue a PhD in Economics. He will use his studies to develop the tools needed to advance Australia’s clean energy transition.
Sam Crum, Christine Ortiz, Georgina Campbell Flatter
Georgina Campbell Flatter presenting a poster from her time at TPP.
MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition with TPP alum Georgina Campbell Flatter SM '11, CEO of @greentownlabs, the world’s largest climate and energy startup incubator.
Christine Ortiz standing next to Dr. Dafna Rand
Last Friday, IDS.449 welcomed Dr. Dafna Rand. Dr. Rand served as the US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor until January 2025. Previously, she directed the US State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance, overseeing $70 billion in annual US foreign aid.
somethin’s rotten in the state of denmark…
TPPers Ananda (actor) and Daniel (lighting)
hamlet opens this weekend, reserve your tickets here: tinyurl.com/msw4t7sm
Flyer with event details superimposed over a photo of Georgina Campbell Flatter.
Tuesday, 3/17 at 5:15pm: Join us for MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition with TPP alum Georgina Campbell Flatter SM '11, CEO of Greentown Labs, the world’s largest climate and energy startup incubator.
This event is open to the MIT community.
Register: bit.ly/mitei-flatter
Kali Benavides ’15, SM ’23 spoke to MIT students about why she applied to the MIT Technology and Policy Program at this week's @mitcareers Infinite Careers program.
capd.mit.edu/people/kali-...
Christine Ortiz wearing a black dress and beige cardigan standing in the lobby of The Engine.
On this beautiful warm and sunny day in Cambridge, MA, TPP Director, Christine Ortiz spoke at the MIT Sloan School of Management Women on Boards program at The Engine, MIT’s tough‑tech incubator and accelerator.
Ellan Spero, Christine Ortiz, Anana Santos Figueiredo, Eli Duggan with the US Capital in the background.
TPPers Ananda and Eli traveled to DC with TPP Director Christine Ortiz and TPP instructor Ellan Spero to attend Reinventing the Triple-Helix: A Workshop on Establishing a National Network of Tripartite Regional Bioeconomy Institutes.
National Science and Technology Challenges flyer
TPP alum Darío Gil SM '00, PhD '03
From advanced manufacturing to smarter buildings, faster nuclear deployment, and a stronger grid, we’re using AI to turn ideas into impact.
Dive deeper into the National Challenges here:
www.energy.gov/documents/ge...
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TPP Director Christine Ortiz moderated the first panel discussion: Democratic Processes and Public Policy. See the full program and watch live here: www.widscambridge.org
MIT & Microsoft New England are proud to collaborate with Women in Data Science Worldwide to bring the regional conference here.
In our latest Researcher Profile, MIT CS3 PhD student Chris Womack describes how he became interested in advancing more efficient, reliable #climate #emulators, how he is doing just that at MIT, and how this work may ultimately enhance human well-being. 🧪
Strahinja Janjusevic wearing a black sweater over a white collared shirt leaning on a railing in the Stata building at MIT.
Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy
Strahinja Janjusevic brings an international perspective and US Naval Academy education to his graduate research in the MIT Technology and Policy Program.
tpp.mit.edu/news/enhanci...
Lucia Huo in a maroon shirt holding a yellow mug in front of the Calla Lilly Clinical Care sign.
Lucia Huo interned with Calla Lily Clinical Care, a women’s health startup in London, UK, focused on improving drug delivery for women. She worked closely with Vinh-Thang Vo-Ta ’98, the startup founder and MIT alum.
tpp.mit.edu/news/improvi...
TPP student Alicia Ouyang ’19, SM ’26 worked at Maryland’s AI Enablement Team, and experienced the whole pipeline of researching technology to write recommendations for public policy, to actually drafting and implementing public policy at a government agency.
tpp.mit.edu/news/technol...
Xiaoyang Cao wearing sunglasses and white shirt standing on a beach with the waves rolling in.
RE-PO: robust enhanced policy optimization as a general framework for LLM alignment
TPP student Xiaoyang Cao SM ’27 publishes first-author paper on improving LLM alignment.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.24159
graphic of a heat pump
Electrifying boilers to decarbonize industry
AtmosZero, co-founded by TPP alum Addison Stark SM ’10, PhD ’14, developed a modular heat pump to electrify the centuries-old steam boiler.
tpp.mit.edu/news/electri...
Yassine Lahlou-Kamal MAP ’25 (left) and Kevin Power MAP ’25 photo by Emma Perakis
How an online MIT course in supply chain management sparked a new career
Current TPP student Kevin Power MAP ’25, SM ’27 shares what brought him to MIT.
tpp.mit.edu/news/how-an-...
Roxana Leal headshot and Dylan Cohen headshot
Dylan Cohen SM ’19 received the 2025 David S. C. Chu Award for Excellence in Research.
www.ida.org/en/careers/l...
Michael Lenox PhD ’99, who started with TPP in the fall of 1994 as Technology Management and Policy (TMP) doctoral candidate and graduated with his PhD in 1999, was recently named the interim dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business.
news.virginia.edu/content/mich...
“Technology has advanced significantly, but the policy environment has not kept pace,” says Anthony Valiaveedu, TPP student and lead-author of the new report.
tpp.mit.edu/news/mit-mar...
Ananda Santos Figueiredo (far right) and two other people wearing blue hardhats and safety vests drinking from large green coconuts on a beach in brazil.
Combining a scientific mindset with a passion for community impact, current TPP student Ananda Santos Figueiredo’s research explores how sustainable development and food systems can improve lives without compromising the planet.
tpp.mit.edu/news/a-journ...
Hafsa Akbar wearing all black standing in front of her poster at the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop.
Current TPP student Hafsa Akbar presented a paper at the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop during the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). The paper is based on a research project she completed during her undergrad experience at LUMS.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20420