Mark Klein is a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has worked for nearly 20 years. His background includes a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Illinois, as well as research and teaching positions at Hitachi, Boeing, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Zurich and the Nagoya Institute of Technology.

He does research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and social computing, studying how computers can enable better knowledge sharing and decision making among groups of humans.

He has 180 publications (with 8000 citations, an h-index of 43, and over 11,000 downloads) and has won US$7 million dollars in research funding. His approach is multi-disciplinary, and he is deeply committed to having a direct impact on solving real-world problems, especially in the sustainability and deliberative democracy realms.

He serves on the editorial boards and program committees for many of the most respected journals and conferences on artificial and collective intelligence. He also serves on the advisory boards for several social computing startups, and is pursuing the commercialization of his own research.

He has taught full-semester university courses on social computing and given scores of tutorials and other invited presentations throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.

He has a long-standing commitment to engagement with the international research community. He has hosted many international visitors in his lab at MIT, and has done extended research visits throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. He has taught graduate-level classes in Japanese, and had interesting conversations in French and Spanish.