Berkman represents a network of faculty, fellows, students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
Ben Adida studied Cryptography and Information Security at MIT. His specific technology interests include authentication infrastructures, electronic voting, reliable and secure transactional storage, and web application software development. He's a member of the Creative Commons Technology Advisory Board and of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Authentication Workgroup. At the Berkman Center, Ben works on two fronts: balancing the interests of business and free software, and strengthening privacy in the context of the war on terror.
Karina Alexanyan’s research focuses on the Russian language social media landscape.
Catherine Bracy is a first-year Masters of Public Affairs student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin where she is studying media's influence on the policy-making process. Prior to graduate school Catherine served in many staff positions at the Berkman Center, most recently as administrative director.
Trained in symbolic systems, mathematics, and theoretical economics at Stanford and Harvard, James Burns designs and develops new digital and intellectual frameworks for relational knowledge.
John Henry Clippinger was the Co-Director of The Law Lab at Harvard University, a multi-disciplinary project founded to research the role of social, neurological, and economic mechanisms on the role of law in facilitating cooperation and entrepreneurial innovation.
Ron Deibert (PhD, University of British Columbia) is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He is a Principal Investigator of the OpenNet Initiative.
Joichi Ito is an affiliate of the Berkman Center, and is the director of the MIT Media Lab.
John Kelly is the founder and lead scientist of Morningside Analytics. His research blends Social Network Analysis, content analysis, and statistics to solve the problem of making complex online networks visible and understandable.
Samuel Klein is a Wikipedian, a One Laptop per Child organizer, a mathematics and physics zealot, a clutch proofreader, and a long-time Bostonian.
Alice Marwick is a postdoctoral researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England and a research affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her work looks at online identity and consumer culture through lenses of privacy, surveillance, consumption, and celebrity.
Helmi Noman is a Research Affiliate of the Berkman Center working on the OpenNet Initiative.
Kara Oehler is a 2011-2012 Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University. She is a radio documentary producer and media artist whose work over the past decade has focused upon pushing the boundaries of narrative journalism both on the air and across multiple platforms, combining investigative storytelling with participatory media, building new systems and opportunities for education and artistic practice.
Eric M.K Osiakwan is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA, www.gispa.org.gh). He is also a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Stanford University and Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program @ http://rdvp.org/fellows/2004-2005/erik-osiakwan/, Project Co-ordinator for UC Berkeley TIER Group in Ghana @ http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu and affiliate of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School @ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
Carlos is graduate student at the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and research assistant at MIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence.
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is an engineer-designer focusing on the relationship between contemporary technology and spatial products.
Rafal A. Rohozinski is a Research Fellow of CSP and Director of the Advanced Network Research Group (ANRG) and is a Principal Investigator of the OpenNet Initiative.
Jesse Shapins is a media artist, theorist and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, and Wired, and been exhibited at MoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues.
Elizabeth Stark is a board member of the international student organisation Freeculture.org and the founder of the Harvard Free Culture group.
Maxim Weinstein leads StopBadware, a former Berkman Center project.