The Accelerator is an international, multi-institutional consortium with an administrative and incubational home at Princeton as a special initiative within the School of Public and International Affairs.
Our Team
Executive Committee
Curt Hillegas
Associate CIO, Princeton University
Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University; Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy
Matthew Salganik
Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Brandon Stewart
Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Olga Troyanskaya
Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
External Advisors
Christine Balagué
Professor-HDR of Management and founder of the “Good in Tech” research network at Insitut Mines-Telécom Business School
Chris Mattmann
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA JPL; Adjunct Research Professor of Computer Science at University of Southern California
Katie Shilton
Professor and Program Co-Director of the BS in Social Data Science at the University of Maryland; leader of the Ethics & Values in Design (EViD) Lab.
Josh Tucker
Professor of Politics at New York University; co-director of the Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU
Chris Wiggins
Chief Data Scientist at New York Times; Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Staff
Kristen DeCaires Gall
Deputy Director, Operations and Research Development
Sean Norton
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Kelly Pereira
Administrative Coordinator
Jen Rosiere Reynolds
Director of Program Management and Strategy
Jake Shapiro
Faculty Director; Professor Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University