Sandy Pentland
Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs MIT Connection Science and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" . He is a founding member of advisory boards for the UN Secretary General, Google, AT&T, and Nissan, and a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies. He is the author of many articles and books including Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter and Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
