Professor Maes runs the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, which aims to radically reinvent the human-machine experience. Coming from a background in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, she is particularly interested in the topic of cognitive enhancement, or how immersive and wearable systems can actively assist people with creativity, memory, attention, learning, decision making, communication, and wellbeing. 

Roy Shilkrot completed his PhD as a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group in 2015, where he is currently a research associate with interests in Augmented Reality, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics and Computer Vision. He is the chief scientist at Tulip, a MIT Media Lab spinoff.

Joanne Leong has a keen interest in understanding human perception of the world, and designing technologies that complement us and can bring positive change to our lives—in how we learn, work, play, and connect with one another and the things around us. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the Lab.

Pat Pataranutaporn is an antidisciplinary technologist/scientist/artist in the Fluid Interfaces research group. Pat’s research is at the intersection of biotechnology and wearable computing, specifically at the interface between biological and digital systems. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the Lab.