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Florian Allroggen Research Scientist

Aeronautics and Astronautics

Maryam Arbabzadeh Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

Moshe Ben-Akiva Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Wai Cheng Professor

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Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research; MIT Energy Initiative

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Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Sloan School of Management

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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

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David Keith Assistant Professor

Sloan School of Management

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Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

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Chemical Engineering

Joanna Moody Former Research Program Manager, Mobility Systems Center

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Georgia Perakis Professor

Sloan School of Management

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Chemical Engineering

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MIT Energy Initiative

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Mechanical Engineering

Choon Sooi Tan Senior Research Engineer

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Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Jinhua Zhao Associate Professor

Urban Studies & Planning