Our Peace Innovation Lab Team Members include:
BJ Fogg
Director, Persuasive Technology Lab
Trained as an experimental psychologist, Dr. B.J. Fogg directs research and design at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab. The lab’s mission is to create insight into how computing products–from websites to mobile phone software–can be designed to change people beliefs and behaviors. BJ is the author of “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do.” Outside the university BJ runs a startup company that creates compelling user experiences for everyday people. He holds seven patents for his innovations in user interface design.
Margarita Quihuis
Director, Peace Innovation Lab @ Stanford
A social entrepreneur and mentor capitalist, Margarita Quihuis’s career has focused on innovation, technology incubation, access to capital and entrepreneurship. Her accomplishments include directorship of Astia (formerly known as the Women’s Technology Cluster) where her portfolio companies raised $67 million in venture funding, venture capitalist, Reuters Fellow at Stanford, and Director of RI Labs for Ricoh Innovations. She is currently a member of the research team at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and directs the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab where she conducts research in Innovation, mass collaboration, persuasive technology & the potential of social networks to change society for the better.
Mark Nelson
Project Lead, EPIC Global Challenge
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Project Lead, Future of Peace
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is a futurist of science and technology. Alex has conducted a variety of forecast and prototyping exercises exploring the business and social implications of emerging technologies, the future of science, and emerging global innovation networks. His methodological research examines how futurists can use behavioral economics and social software to better understand and build responses to today’s complex global challenges. In spring 2011 he was a visiting fellow at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where he developed a framework for contemplative computing, an approach to information technologies that promotes mindfulness and concentration in users. Alex holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions (Stanford University Press, 2002), and numerous articles in scholarly and popular publications.
Ryan Singer
Project Lead, Peace Markets
Collaborators
Karen Guttieri
Naval Post Graduate School
Karen Guttieri is an assistant professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and a former CISAC affiliate and fellow. At NPS she teaches in the graduate program in Stabilization and Reconstruction. Her focus is military operations in civilian environments–in particular, issues of effectiveness, military organizational learning and civil-military relations.
While writing her doctoral dissertation at the University of British Columbia on the evolution of American military doctrine for civil affairs, Gutierri organized “The Civil Dimension of Military Operations,” a conference in Washington, D.C. She joined the NPS faculty in 2001 after a postdoctoral fellowship at CISAC, during which she studied the intersection of politics and technology in the revolution in military affairs.
2010 Summer Interns
Kaitlin Carano
Kaitlin Carano is fresh off her first year at Georgetown University where she is planning to study Neurobiology. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she attended Castilleja School for high school and has been emerged in a global and technological world her whole life.
She is currently interning at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and hoping to both contribute ideas to creating technology that will help promote peace, as well as learning a LOT from her very talented and brilliant colleagues.
Dave Miller
Dave Miller is a graduate student at New York University, researching the use of persuasive technology to reduce individuals’ environmental impact. At the Persuasive Technology Lab, he is working on the My Social Health project, developing interventions which encourage greater physical activity and promote better nutritional choices.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in human factors and cognitive science at Cornell University, and has worked in product testing and product development. He is the Vice-Chair of the New York chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America, and is an avid bicycle racer on New York University’s collegiate cycling team.
