Elisabeth Sylvan
Visiting Associate Professor Of Sociotechnical Systems
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolElisabeth Sylvan is a Visiting Associate Professor of Sociotechnical Systems and an educational leader with nine years of focused experience at the intersection of learning sciences, HCI, and emerging technologies such as AI, AR, and VR. She balances academic teaching roles at Olin College, Brown, RISD, and TUM with a consulting practice that helps governments and organizations translate AI policy into humane, implementable strategy—often acting as a “critical friend” during moments of organizational change. A former executive leader at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and an MIT Media Lab PhD, she designs programs and research that center data empowerment, digital identity, and ethics in education and edtech. Her work combines rigorous research, public-facing speaking, and hands-on program building, and she’s actively exploring data literacy and scientific storytelling through fellowships like ManyLabs and NEXMAP. Notably, she applies sociotechnical design to support creativity and shared knowledge, bringing museum, K–12, and higher-ed program experience to policy and product conversations.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Media Lab, PhD Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (13)
balloon8
exchange7
rails7
javascript7
collaboration6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby6
sprint4
java3
mozilla3
makecode2
microsoft1
paper1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Open-Data-Open-Minds/odom_GlobalSprint2017
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 43 pushes, 8 comments in 8 days
project-description
NEXMAP/odom_MozFest2017
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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