D. Fox Harrell

D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D., is Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence at MIT — in the Comparative Media Studies Program and CSAIL — and founding director of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality. He leads the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab), where research spans computational narrative, VR/XR, videogames for social impact, virtual identity, and the social and ethical impacts of AI. His concept of phantasmal media (book: Phantasmal Media, MIT Press, 2013) studies how imagination and computation intertwine in expressive systems; NSF recognized his work with a CAREER Award for "Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, where he was part of the same graduate milieu as Joseph Goguen and the founding SCALE circle. Earlier degrees include an M.P.S. from NYU Tisch (Interactive Telecommunication) and B.S./B.F.A. degrees from Carnegie Mellon. He contributed to SCALE as author — Issue No. 2 (Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapor), Issue No. 5 (Raposa Vermelha and the 7 Griot Machines).