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