#  LInc Faculty Fellows 

 



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**2024-2025**

   ![Stephanie Gil PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/stephanie-gil_headshot-scaled-e1705690543703-537x636.jpg?itok=BLynlmv8) 

 

**Stephanie Gil, PhD**   
LInc Faculty Fellow  
Assistant Professor of Computer Science  
Course: CS182 - Planning and learning methods in AI  
Course Design: Fall 2024  
Course Implementation: Spring 2025

   ![Reddi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/reddi_200x300.jpg?itok=_udNthRP) 

 

**Vijay Janapa Reddi, PhD**   
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
LInc Faculty Fellow  
Course: CS249r - Tiny Machine Learning  
Course ReDesign: Fall 2024  
Course Implementation: Fall 2025

   ![Chris Lombardo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/lombardo.jpg?itok=3ncdgoJm) 

 

**Christopher Lombardo, PhD**  
LInc Faculty Fellow  
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Lecturer on Engineering Sciences  
Course: ES 105hfr - Humanitarian Design Projects  
Course ReDesign: Spring 2025  
Course Implementation: Spring 2026

   ![Tim OBrien](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/faculty_obrien_tim.jpg?itok=OeW6fjsE) 

 

**Timothy O'Brien, PhD**   
LInc Associate  
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School   
Course: MLD201 Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change  
Course Design: Fall 2024  
Course Implementation: Fall 2025

   ![Ariel P](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/procaccia_200x300.jpg?itok=C-bCmeVD) 

 

**Ariel Procaccia, PhD**   
LInc Faculty Fellow  
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science  
Course: CS 136 - Economics and Computation  
Course Design: Fall 2024  
Course Implementation: Spring 2025

   ![patrick slade](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/salde_200x300.jpg?itok=2JmEc1Y1) 

 

**Patrick Slade, PhD**   
LInc Faculty Fellow  
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering  
Course: ES 126/226 - Biomechanics of Movement  
Course Design: Fall 2024

Course Implementation: Fall 2025

   ![TS](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/teddy-svoronos_headshot-1500x1500.jpg?itok=mL5h4d8q) 

 

**Theodore Svoronos, PhD**  
LInc Associate  
Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School  
*Course:* API-201: Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods  
Course Design: Spring 2025  
Course Implementation: Fall 2025

  
  
**2023-2024**

   ![koumoutsakos-petros](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/koumoutsakos-petros_5936_radcliffe-tr.jpg?itok=1zG6qlxM) 

 

**Petros Koumoutsakos, PhD**   
LInc Faculty Fellow  
Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Area Chair for Applied Mathematics  
Course: General Education course in Computational Thinking  
Course Design: Spring 2024  
Course Implementation: Fall 2024 / Spring 2025

   ![Yue Lu](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/yue_lu.jpg?itok=44YR9P_7) 

 

**Yue Lu, PhD**  
LInc Faculty Fellow   
Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics  
Course: ES 150: Introduction to Probability with Engineering Applications  
Course Re-Design: Fall 2023  
Course Implementation: Spring 2024

   ![linsey moyer](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/linsey_moyer_2.jpg?itok=YonFNul_) 

 

**Linsey Moyer, PhD**   
LInc Faculy Fellow   
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering; Lecturer on Biomedical Engineering  
Course: ES 53: Quantitative Physiology as a Basis for Bioengineering  
Course Re-Design: Spring 2024  
Course Implementation: Fall 2024

   ![michael m](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/michael_m_01.jpg?itok=PS8GcyHv) 

 

**Michael Mitzenmacher, PhD**   
LInc Faculty Fellow   
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer Science   
Course: CS 20: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science  
Course Re-Design: Fall 2023  
Course Implementation: Co-teaching Spring 2024; offering it both semesters 2024-2025 onwards

   ![Rebecca Nesson](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/rebecca_nesson_2.jpg?itok=hWkooatD) 

 

**Rebecca Nesson, PhD, JD**   
LInc Faculty Fellow   
Dean for Academic Programs; Associate Senior Lecturer on Computer Science   
Course: CS 20: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science  
Course Re-Design: Fall 2023  
Course Implementation: Co-teaching Spring 2024; offering it both semesters 2024-2025 onwards

   ![patrick slade](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/salde_200x300_2.jpg?itok=SaOv44xf) 

 

**Patrick Slade, PhD**   
LInc Associate  
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering  
Course: Biomechanics of Movement (ES 126/226)  
  
  
**2022-2023**

   ![Elena Glassman, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/elena_glassman_01.jpg?itok=m-QUK39z) 

 

**Elena Glassman, PhD**   
Assistant Professor of Computer Science  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course Design: CS 178 - Engineering Usable Interactive Systems   
Course Design: Fall 2022  
Course Implementation: Spring 2023  
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash

   ![Robin Wordworth, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/robin_wordsworth.jpeg?itok=GJKK8CMp) 

 

**Robin Wordsworth, PhD**   
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences  
Course Re-Design: ESE 160 Space Science and Engineering: Theory and Applications -  
Course Re-Design: Fall 2022  
Course Implementation: Fall 2023  
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash

**Fawwaz Habbal, PhD and Doris Sommer, PhD**

   ![Fawwaz Habbal, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/fawwaz-habbal_2.jpg?itok=3Bnmwz8a) 

 

Fawwaz Habbal: Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics  
Doris Sommer: FAS- Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies  
Course Redesign: ES 27- Hard Skills, Flex Skills: Arts and Engineering for Complex Challenges

   ![Doris Sommer, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/doris_sommer.jpg?itok=pUZLBm2K) 

 

Course Redesign: Spring 2023  
Course Implementation: during the academic year 2023-2024 (semester to be determined).  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

   ![Woodward Yang, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/woody_yang_2.jpg?itok=RjSCwAHs) 

 

**Woodward Yang, PhD**   
Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  
Course Redesign: New Experimental Version of ES152 Circuits, Devices, and Transduction  
Course Re-Design - Fall 2022  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

**2021-2022**

   ![Boris Kozinsky, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/kozinsky_200x300.jpg?itok=-Wlx8bvf) 

 

**Boris Kozinsky, PhD**   
Associate Professor of Computational Materials Science  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course Redesign: AP 275 - Computational Design of Materials   
Course Redesign: Spring 2022  
Course Implementation: Spring 2023  
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

   ![Dan Levy, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/6.15.07danlevy022r_updated_0.jpg?itok=b1YWeMvN) 

 

**Dan Levy, PhD**    
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy   
Harvard Kennedy School   
Course Design: API-318 - Thinking Analytically in an Uncertain World  
Quantitative Methods I: Statistics  
Course Design: Spring 2022  
Course Implementation: Fall 2022  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

   ![Jia Liu, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/liu_04.jpg?itok=7_iC2VUV) 

 

**Jia Liu, PhD**   
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering   
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course Redesign: BE 131/ES 225 Neuroengineering  
Course Redesign: Fall 2021   
Course Implementation: Fall 2022  
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

   ![Kelly](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/kelly_miller.png?itok=k20odIjT) 

 

**Kelly Miller, PhD**   
Associate Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
New Course Design: ENG-SCI 20R - Physics of Sports   
Course Design: Fall 2021   
Course Implementation: Fall 2022  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash  
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD

   ![Elsie Sunderland, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/sunderland_200x300.jpg?itok=OZB8ToAt) 

 

**Elsie Sunderland, PhD**   
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Department of Environmental Health; Affiliate of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences​​​​​​  
New Course Design: Establishing Interdisciplinary Courses Toward a New Joint Degree Program between the Harvard T.H. Chan and SEAS  
Course Design: Fall 2021  
Course Implementation: Spring 2022  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD   
  
  
**2020-2021**

   ![James Honan, EdD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/jim_honan_copy.png?itok=5r2vRbbb) 

 

**James P. Honan, EdD**  
Senior Lecturer on Education  
Harvard Graduate School of Education  
Course Redesign: A-027/MLD-427 - Managing Financial Resources in Nonprofit Organizations  
Course Redesign: Summer/ Fall 2020  
Course Implementation: Spring 2021  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

   ![EK](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/ek_portrait4.jpg?itok=ymk73zob) 

 

**Ethimios Kaxiras, PhD**  
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course Redesign: Applied Math 10 - Computing for Scientists and Engineers  
Course Redesign: Summer 2020  
Course Implementation: Fall 2020  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD

   ![Michael D. Smith, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/mike_smith2.jpg?itok=n2L2nd4N) 

 

**Michael D. Smith, PhD**  
John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
New Course Design: Computational Thinking and Problem Solving- COMPSCI 32  
Course Design: Fall 2020  
Course Implementation: Spring 2022  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

   ![Salil Vadhan, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/salil_bio_photograph.jpg?itok=hcN-PAZe) 

 

**Salil Vadhan, PhD**  
Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics​​​​​​  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences​​​​​​  
New Course Design: Computer Science 120 Introduction to Algorithms &amp; the Theory of Computation  
Course Design: Spring 2021  
Course Implementation: Fall 2021  
Pedagogical Fellow: Salma Abu Ayyash   
Pedagogical Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Pedagogical Fellow: Deniz Marti, PhD

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**2019-2020**

   ![Yiling Chen, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/yilingchen-web.jpg?itok=wx4VQ6iy) 

 

**Yiling Chen, PhD**  
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
New Course Design - AM 122 Convex Optimization and Applications  
Course Design: Spring 2021   
Course Implementation: Spring 2022  
Postdoctoral Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD  
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash

   ![David Clark, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/david_clark.jpg?itok=YDemFbHs) 

 

**David Clarke, PhD**   
Extended Tarr Family Professor of Materials  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
New Course Design: Materials Selection for Engineering Systems  
Creation of New Course- Fall 2019  
Course Implementation - Fall 2020  
Postdoctoral Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD  
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash

**2018-2019**

   ![Sheila Jasaonoff, PhD ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/jasanoff-stewart-use_0.jpg?itok=kD7j7UA3) 

 

**Sheila Jasanoff, PhD**  
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy  
Harvard Kennedy School  
Course: ENG-SCI 28 Science, Technology and Society   
Course Design: Fall 2018   
Course Implementation: Spring 2019   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Chris Lawrence, PhD   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Efrat Furst, PhD  
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash

   ![Na Li, PhD ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/nalinsf_0.jpg?itok=GUZfjrww) 

 

**Na Li, PhD**  
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course: ENG-SCI 155: Systems and Control  
Course Design: Spring 2019   
Course Implementation: Fall 2019   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yuval Hart, PhD   
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash

   ![Hanspeter Pfister, PhD ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/pfister_connectomics_0.jpg?itok=t5wLNlxP) 

 

**Hanspeter Pfister, PhD**  
An Wang Professor of Computer Science  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course: COMPSCI 10 Elements of Data Science   
Course Design: Spring 2019  
Course Implementation: Spring 2020   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yuval Hart, PhD   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD   
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash

   ![Stuart Shieber, PhD ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/sheiber1_0.jpg?itok=EtpB6zhY) 

 

**Stuart Shieber, PhD**  
James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course: CS51: Abstraction and Design in Computation   
Course Redesign: Fall 2018   
Course Implementation: Spring 2019   
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash  
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yuval Hart, PhD

**2017-2018**

   ![Mahadevan ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/maha_bos_03.jpg?itok=5ZmvfG39) 

 

**Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, PhD**  
Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course: AM115: Mathematical Modeling  
Course Redesign: Fall 2017  
Course Implementation: Fall 2018   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Yuval Hart, PhD   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD

   ![Todd Zickler, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/zickler_200x300_01.jpg?itok=b2NkJX7n) 

 

**Todd Zickler, PhD**  
William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course: EC/CS 183: Computational Photography  
Course Design: Spring 2018  
Course Implementation: Spring 2020  
Postdoctoral Fellow: Efrat Furst, PhD   
Postdoctoral Fellow: Robert Haussman, PhD

**2016-2017**

   ![Robert D. Howe, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/howe_0.png?itok=QNaJ57BL) 

 

**Robert D. Howe, PhD**  
Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course Redesign: AM101 Statistical Inference for Scientists and Engineers  
Course Redesign: Spring 2017  
Course Implementation: Fall 2018  
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash

   ![Robert J. Wood, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum4546/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/learningincubator/files/wood_200x300_0.jpg?itok=IJNFsj2s) 

 

**Robert J. Wood, PhD**  
Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Course: ENG-SCI 25 Engineering the Acoustical World  
Course Design: Spring 2017  
Course Implementation: Spring 2018   
Preceptor: Salma Abu Ayyash