Group Members

CurrentAlumni
Danna Freedman
Professor
she/her

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009
A.B., Harvard University, 2003

danna@mit.edu

Heather Hubbard
Administrative Assistant
she/her

M.A., Boston College, 2007
B.A., Marlboro College, 1997

hmhub251@mit.edu

Mireya Haran
First Year Graduate Student
she/her

B.S., Seattle University, 2025

mharan@mit.edu

Dane Johnson
Sixth Year Graduate Student
he/him

B.S., University of Washington, 2020

danej@mit.edu

Hyeongseop Keum
Second Year Graduate Student
he/him

B.S., Seoul National University, 2024

hskeum@mit.edu

Mak Kirkman-Davis
Sixth Year Graduate Student
they/them

B.A., Clark University, 2020

ekd@mit.edu

Joseph Kraus (Joe)
Third Year Graduate Student
he/him/his

B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022

jdkraus@mit.edu

Michael Lee
Second Year Graduate Student
he/him

B.S., Stanford University, 2024

mlee375@mit.edu

Ira Martyniak
Third Year Graduate Student
she/her

École Normale Supérieure de Paris Diploma, 2023
M.S., Sorbonne University and Paris Sciences et Lettres University, 2023
B.S., Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2020

iramart8@mit.edu

Cindy Serena Ngompe Massado (Massado)
Fourth Year Graduate Student
they/them

B.S., Case Western Reserve University, 2022

massado@mit.edu

David Ullery
Fifth Year Graduate Student
he/him

B.S., The Ohio State University, 2021

ulleryd@mit.edu

Yizhe Wang
First Year Graduate Student
he/him

B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2025

yizhe_w@mit.edu

Luke Zhou
First Year Graduate Student
he/him

B.S., California Institute of Technology, 2025

lukezhou@mit.edu

Max Attwood
Postdoctoral Associate
he/him

Ph.D., University of Surrey, 2020
MChem., University of Surrey, 2016

attwoodm@mit.edu

Atanu Ghosh
Postdoctoral Associate
he/him

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2025
M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2019
B.Sc., Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, 2017

ghoshata@mit.edu

Ryan Murphy
Postdoctoral Fellow
he/him

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2024
M.M., New England Conservatory of Music, 2015
A.B., Harvard University, 2014

rymur@mit.edu

Christian Oswood
Postdoctoral Fellow
he/him

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2023
B.A., St. Olaf College, 2018

coswood@mit.edu

Jason Kipper Schuler
Undergraduate Student
they/any

Pending B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2026

kschuler@mit.edu