A new focus on understanding the human element
The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) is a bold, new Institute priority designed to identify and elevate scholars at the frontiers of human-centered research and education, providing them with resources to pursue their most innovative ideas.
MITHIC is fostering creativity, inquiry, and understanding, and amplifying impact on global challenges like climate change, AI, pandemics, poverty, democracy, and more:
Energizing innovation and inspiration with new resources for ambitious endeavors in the arts and humanities that broaden humanity’s horizons.
Empowering interdisciplinary teams led by experts in human-centered disciplines with colleagues across the Institute to achieve large-scale, long-term impact.
Elevating human-centered education across MIT with new tools and techniques that equip new generations of leaders with human-centered knowledge and skills.
MITHIC Leadership
Anantha Chandrakasan (Co-Chair)
Provost, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Agustín Rayo (Co-Chair)
Kenan Sahin Dean, SHASS, Professor, Philosophy
Keeril Makan (Faculty Lead)
Associate Dean, SHASS, Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor
MITHIC Staff
Steering Committee
Iain Cheeseman 
Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology
Fotini Christia
Director, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science
Caspar Hare
Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, Schwarzman College of Computing, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Yael Kalai
Ellen Swallow Richards (1873) Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Erin Kelly
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Kenda Mutongi
Ford International Professor of History
John Ochsendorf
Class of 1942 Professor, Professor of Architecture, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Elsa Olivetti
Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Heather Paxson
Associate Dean for Faculty, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology
Julie Shah
Department Head, H.N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Susan Silbey
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology, Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management
David Singer
Department Head, Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science