Deb Roy is an Associate Professor at MIT where he directs the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) based at the Media Lab. His lab researches media analytics and design with applications in children’s learning and social listening. Roy is also co-founder and chairman of Cortico, a social venture that develops media technologies and services to foster a healthy public sphere. He was a co-founder and CEO of Bluefin Labs, a media analytics company, which was acquired by Twitter in 2013. From 2013-2017 Roy served as Twitter’s Chief Media Scientist where he guided Twitter’s data science strategy.