Lead tech transformation to drive growth

Develop forward-looking AI strategies

  • Transform business and shape your future

    Gain most recent knowledge and research-driven insights from accomplished MIT faculty to build new expertise

  • Identify and capture high-impact AI opportunities

    Transform business operations and drive organizational success across key business functions

  • Harness generative AI and emerging technologies

    Enhance decision-making and pursue optimization of the organization

  • Lead organizational transformation

    Manage AI initiatives, governance, and ethical considerations

Benefits of joining the program

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Inclusion in the MIT Professional Education Alumni network and ability to join the global MIT Professional Alumni LinkedIn Group

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Access and invitations to exclusive MIT Professional Education events, conferences, seminars, and local MIT alumni events

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One-year digital subscription to MIT Horizon starting one month after the start of the Program

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Forwarding email address (your_name@professional.mit.edu)

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MIT Professional Alumni e-newsletter

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15% discount on enrollment in future MIT Professional Education offerings (short duration open enrollment programs of 5 days or less and online programs)

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Earn 42 MIT CEUs or Continuing Education Units**

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Certificate of Completion awarded from MIT Professional Education

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*Benefits are subject to change, and some may require an additional fee

**The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.

Be Immersed in MIT’s Innovation Ecosystem

  • Learn to lead transformational growth

    Gain exclusive knowledge, technical expertise, and the skills to leverage exponential technologies for business growth.

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  • Learn about key areas in the industry

    Explore the latest MIT research and innovations, and expand your context-specific knowledge or develop new areas of expertise.

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  • Learn through the MIT motto ‘Mens et Manus’

    Action Learning Team Projects and Action Insights ensure that academic knowledge go hand in hand with practical application.

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  • Learn in a multi-modular format

    Experience 3 on-campus modules at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, USA, and 3 live online modules from anywhere in the world.

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  • Learn from sought-after MIT faculty

    Get exclusive insights and guidance to solve the world’s problems through emerging technology and advanced leadership.

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  • Learn with peers from around the globe

    Be a part of a global cohort of like-minded leaders and practitioners and be exposed to varied perspectives.

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This program is ideal for

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    Technology leaders and practitioners

    Leverage emerging digital technology to stay relevant and competitive in the marketplace

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    Functional Managers & Delivery heads

    Focus on evolving their organization’s technology management and growth to meet future needs

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    Senior Executives on strategic projects

    Engineering managers, product managers and team leaders with significant team size and budget responsibility

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    Ambitious Professionals with

    A strong drive to succeed and aspirations for reaching beyond the obvious career milestones

Program Faculty

  • DAVID NIÑO

    Faculty Director

    DAVID NIÑO

    Faculty Director, MIT Professional Education Technology Leadership Program, Senior Lecturer in the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program at MIT

    David Niño is a Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Program in Engineering Leadership. He has served in this role since 2015, when he launched this program to provide academic leadership education for MIT graduate students in engineering and other disciplines.

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Program faculty may include*:

  • Markus J. Buehler  - Faculty Director

    Markus J. Buehler

    Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor of Engineering, MIT

    Member of the Center for Materials Science and Engineering

    Recieved ASME Drucker Medal, the Feynman Prize, the IACM Fellows Award

  • John  Hart - Faculty Director

    John Hart

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Mitsui Career Development Professor of Contemporary Technology, MIT

    Published 125+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and is co-inventor on 50+ patents

    Co-founded three advanced manufacturing startup companies, including Desktop Metal

  • Olivier  de Weck - Faculty Director

    Olivier de Weck

    Associate Department Head; Apollo Program Professor; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

    Fellow of INCOSE and AIAA

    Received most promising textbook of 2024 award 'Technology Roadmapping and Development'

  • Vivienne Sze  - Faculty Director

    Vivienne Sze

    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

    Received Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for the High-Efficiency Video Coding

    Co-author of the book entitled “Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks”

  • Richard  D. Braatz - Faculty Director

    Richard D. Braatz

    Edwin R. Gilliland Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

    Collaborated with more than 20 companies

    Published over 200 papers and three books

  • Jinhua  Zhao - Faculty Director

    Jinhua Zhao

    Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor Director, MIT Mobility Initiative, Interdepartmental Transportation Program Director

    Interdepartmental Transportation Program Director

    Founded and directs the MIT Mobility Initiative

  • William  D. Oliver - Faculty Director

    William D. Oliver

    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Professor of the Practice, Physics, MIT Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Laboratory Fellow, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

    President, INFORMS Auctions & Market Design

    Council of Economic Advisors, Croatia (2010–2015)

  • Cathy  Wu - Faculty Director

    Cathy Wu

    Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Member of a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) Member of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)

    Founder and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Initiative at the ACM Future of Computing Academy

    Experience at Microsoft Research, OpenAI, Google X, AT&T, Caltrans, Facebook, Dropbox.

  • Pulkit  Agarwal - Faculty Director

    Pulkit Agarwal

    Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Director, Improbable AI Lab, MIT

    co-founded SafelyYou, an organization that builds fall prevention technology

    co-founded AI Foundry, an incubator for AI startups

  • Jelena Notaros - Faculty Director

    Jelena Notaros

    Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Assistant Professor

    Listed in 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30

    Recieved the 2023 NSF CAREER Award

  • Tony  Eng - Faculty Director

    Tony Eng

    Senior Lecturer, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

    Has degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Biology

    Teaches courses and runs workshops in oral communication

  • Michael  Davies - Faculty Director

    Michael Davies

    Lecturer, MIT

    President, INFORMS Auctions & Market Design

    Council of Economic Advisors, Croatia (2010–2015)

  • Blade  Kotelly - Faculty Director

    Blade Kotelly

    Senior Lecturer, Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program

    Authored The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice

    Featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechTV, NPR, BBC, etc.

  • Javier de Luis  - Faculty Director

    Javier de Luis

    Lecturer of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT

    Appointed to the FAA Expert Panel charged with reviewing Boeing safety culture

    Served as the principal investigator for multiple aerospace research projects

  • Bhaskar  Pant - Faculty Director

    Bhaskar Pant

    Executive Director, MIT

    Served as the first President of Turner Broadcasting's South Asia subsidiary

    Held senior leadership positions at multiple companies over three decades.

  • Brian  Anthony - Faculty Director

    Brian Anthony

    Associate Director, MIT.nano; Faculty Lead, Industry Immersion Program in Mechanical Engineering

    Emmy Award Winner in broadcast technical innovation

    20+ years of experience in product realization, tech innovation,and entrepreneurship

  • Dr. Jacqueline M. Wolfrum  - Faculty Director

    Dr. Jacqueline M. Wolfrum

    Codirector of Biomanufacturing@MIT-CBI at the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation Director of BioMAN

    Industrial experience in cell-based therapies

    Director at BioMAN

  • Abel  Sanchez - Faculty Director

    Abel Sanchez

    Research Scientist, MIT

    He advises companies in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East

    Pioneered password security with a Negative Authentication (NA) system

  • Afreen  Siddiqi - Faculty Director

    Afreen Siddiqi

    Research Scientist, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT

    Recipient of the Amelia Earhart and Richard D.DuPont Fellowships & Rene H. Miller Prize

  • Dr. Stacy Springs   - Faculty Director

    Dr. Stacy Springs

    Executive Director, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI)

    Chair of Landmark Bio’s Science and Technology Committee

    Principle investigator on several research programs in biologics manufacturing

  • Ben  Waber - Faculty Director

    Ben Waber

    Co-Founder Humanyze, Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab

    Research named as Top 10 Emerging Tech by the MIT Technology Review

    Honorary chairman of the Japan People Analytics and HR Technology Association

  • Neil  Thompson - Faculty Director

    Neil Thompson

    Director of the FutureTech Research Project, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and Principal Investigator, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

    Has worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Bain and Company, etc.

    Advised businesses and government on the future of Moore’s Law

  • Ben Armstrong   - Faculty Director

    Ben Armstrong

    Executive Director, Industrial Performance Center Co-Lead, Work of the Future Initiative

    Research has been published or featured in the New York Times, Forbes, etc.

    Co-Lead, Work of the Future Initiative

In collaboration with

The MIT Professional Education is collaborating with online education provider Great Learning to offer the Blended Professional Certificate: Technology Leadership Program. Great Learning is a professional learning company with a global footprint in 170+ countries. Its mission is to make professionals around the globe proficient and future-ready. This program leverages MIT Professional Education's leadership in innovation, science, engineering, and technical disciplines developed over years of research, teaching, and practice. Great Learning manages the enrollments and provides industry experts, student counselors, course support, and guidance to ensure students get hands-on training and live personalized mentorship on the application of concepts taught by MIT Professional Education's faculty.

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