SAEED ARIDA

Chief Excitement Officer
PhD, MIT ’10

email: sarida@nuvustudio.org

Saeed Arida is an entrepreneur and designer. He received a PhD in Design and Computation at the Architecture School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Saeed’s doctoral research focused on teaching creativity and ultimately developed into NuVu. Saeed, along with the NuVu team, has been working for two years to bring his vision of innovative education to reality. His portfolio of products and solutions includes Hugah, an online home exchange service, a limited series MIT Gradrat Ring, and product commercials for LG, Samsung and Microsoft. Prior to NuVu, he taught graduate architectural design studios at MIT and advised students’ theses projects.

SABA GHOLE

Chief Creative Officer
SM, MIT ’07

Saba Ghole is an architectural/urban designer and strategist. She received her Masters in Urban Design at MIT. Her multidisciplinary explorations in painting, photography, graphic design, film, architecture and urban planning have formed her holistic understanding of design, creative education and the interfacing of people and their environments. Her experience in the urban design world exposed her to a myriad of innovative educational projects including the Central Los Angeles High School #9 (a school of visual and performing arts in downtown Los Angeles), the National Research Foundation’s CREATE project (a Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise in Singapore), and the Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh (the world’s largest center of higher learning for women).

DAVID WANG

In-House Rocket Science
PhD, MIT ’13

David Wang is a PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, where his current research focuses on planning for autonomous systems. The goal of which is to be able to command a system via high level commands such as goals it must accomplish and have the system determine the appropriate course of action. For his masters, he studied techniques for improving software-reliability. Outside of work, he pursues a wide variety of interests, from building robots and planes to teaching. He was an organizer for the 6.270, Lego Robotics Competition for 3 years, and helped teach a variety of computers, programming, and algorithm courses over 5 years. He holds degrees in Aeronautics/Astronautics and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT.

SEAN STEVENS

Prototyping Guru

Since Sean was six years old, he has always taken things apart to see how they worked. This innate curiosity about how things work lead him to explore computer programming, human perception, robotics, alternative energy, Sound, lighting, LASERs, Interactivity, the internet, and how it can all tie into community. He discovered that most complex systems can be considered to be made of modules. With the right input and output, these modules can be made to act independently.