Category: People
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Seth Blum
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Seth Blum is a Masters student in the Technology and Policy Program. His research focuses on the impacts and costs of heating electrification under extreme weather events and varying technology adoption and cost scenarios. Seth earned his B.A. in Mathematics and International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to MIT, Seth…
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Dr. Micah S. Ziegler
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Micah S. Ziegler is a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). His research focuses on evaluating emerging and established energy technologies. Micah earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemistry from Yale University, with an emphasis on energy and environmental applications. In…
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Amy Kaczur
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Amy Kaczur is our group administrator at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. She joined MIT in January 2017, bringing with her a diverse background in education, visual arts, and the culinary industry. In her free time, Amy produces video art that focuses on environmental issues, particularly threatened coastal marshes and ecosystems. Amy holds…
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Heshuang Zeng
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Heshuang Zeng graduated in 2011 from the Master in City Planning Program at MIT. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture (2007) and her master’s degree in city design and planning (2009) from Tsinghua University. Her research focused on optimally incorporating renewable energy technologies in urban sustainable development. She is currently working at the World Resources…
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Kelly Wu
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Kelly Wu is an MIT undergraduate studying chemical engineering and interested in both the technical and social spheres of transitioning energy systems. Previously, she has worked on chemical industry graph networks through the Manthiram lab and coded for the MIT Energy Initiative’s SESAME lifecycle energy emissions tool. She has also interned at a renewables investment…
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Nora Xu
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Nora Xu is a graduate student in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT. She worked with the Trancik Lab from 2013-2014. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Geosciences and subsequently worked as an investment analyst at DC Energy focusing on electricity trading in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator market. She is a…
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Dr. Wei Wei
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Wei Wei is a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from MIT in 2022, her M.S. in the same field from MIT in 2017, and her B.Eng. in Engineering Systems and Design with a focus on Economics and Operations Research from Singapore University of Technology…
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Ava Waitz
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Ava Waitz works at Trancik Lab through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. She is considering majors in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Material Science Engineering. Her research contributes to life cycle analysis of current energy technologies. Specifically she is focusing on fugitive methane emissions along the natural gas supply chain. Contact: avawaitz at mit dot edu
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Dr. Geoffrey Supran
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Geoffrey Supran is a postdoctoral associate working with Prof. Jessika Trancik at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT. He is also a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Naomi Oreskes in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. He also received an MIT…
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Dr. Leah Stokes
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Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She received her PhD in Public Policy and Masters in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research examines renewable energy politics across North America, using qualitative and quantitative methods. She also…