Daniella DiPaola is a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, researching the intersection of AI, children, and society. She studies human-AI interaction, develops curricula on the responsible creation and use of AI, and informs educational policy on AI in schools. Her research has been featured in top ACM and IEEE conferences on human-computer interaction and STEM education. She has designed K-12 AI curricula that have reached thousands of students worldwide through the Day of AI initiative and featured in outlets such as The New York Times and Popular Science. Most recently, she led MIT’s Policy Brief on the Responsible Use of AI in K-12 Education.

Daniella holds a B.S. in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University and an M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Before graduate school, she was a design researcher at Jibo, Inc., where she studied the world’s first social home robot, named Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year in 2017.