Meet the Lookit team
Core Team
Rico Rodriguez
Rico is Lookit's lead software engineer, working on planning and adding features for both participants and researchers.
Laura Schulz
Laura is the PI of the Early Childhood Cognition Lab. She conducts research about how children arrive at a common-sense understanding of the physical and social world through exploration and instruction.
Kim Scott
Kim started Lookit as a graduate student, and now runs the project as a research scientist in the Early Childhood Cognition Lab. Her three children frequently provide feedback on studies.
Mark Sheskin
Mark organizes the Lookit Working Groups, which are groups of researchers working to improve Lookit in a variety of ways.
Affiliated Universities and Researchers
As of November 2020, there are over 400 researchers in our community, and around 40 universities across seven countries affiliated with Lookit, including:
- American University
- Boston College
- Boğaziçi University
- University of British Columbia
- Brown University
- University at Buffalo
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- University of Chicago
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Duke University
- University of Essex
- East Tennessee State University
- George Mason University
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Harvard University
- Haskins Laboratories
- University of Illinois
- University of Kansas
- Leiden University
- Loyola University Chicago
- University of Maryland (UMD)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Nottingham
- New York University (NYU)
- University of Oregon
- Rutgers
- Smith College
- University of Southern California (USC)
- Stanford University
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Tokyo
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Yale University
- Yeshiva University
To learn about joining us, visit the guide to getting started!
Working Groups
Although the Core Team at MIT provides a foundation for Lookit to function, a lot of great additional work is done by the community of researchers using Lookit. These efforts are organized as "Working Groups" that each have a different focus. For example, one Working Group is focused on increasing our sample size and diversity, and another is focused on supporting new researchers as they learn how to use Lookit. A current list of members includes:
- Caspar Addyman
- Catherine Best
- Agata Bochynska
- Katherine Casey
- Lisa Chalik
- Allie Chroust
- Junyi Chu
- Marc Colomer
- Nicole Cuneo
- Michaela C. DeBolt
- Caitlin Fausey
- Hyesung Grace Hwang
- Liz Lapidow
- Bria Long
- AJ Orena
- Maddie Pelz
- Rico Rodriguez
- Haley Weaver
- Yang Wu
- Francis Yuen
Undergraduate student alumni
Joseph
Alvarez
Summer 2015
Skidmore College
Daniela
Carrasco
Spring 2015
MIT
Jean
Chow
Fall 2014
MIT
Junyi
Chu
Summer 2015
Vanderbilt
Annie
Dai
IAP, Spring 2015
MIT
Hope
Fuller-Becker
Spring 2015, 2016
Wellesley College
Kamaria
Kaalund
Fall 2019
Wellesley College
Audrey
Ricks
Summer 2016
MIT
Rianna
Shah
IAP, Sp, Fall 2015; IAP, Sp 2016; Sp 2018
MIT
Alice
Wang
Summer 2017
Wellesley
Jean
Yu
IAP, Spring 2015
Wellesley College
Jessica
Zhu
Fall 2016
MIT