People – Principled Interfaces'

Dr. David Ramsay, PhD

Director, Principled Interfaces

Dr. Ramsay is an Assistant Professor in the DePaul School of Computing. He earned his PhD from the MIT Media Lab where he studied how the design of our tools alter the dynamics of our daily attention. He combines high-quality hardware systems with cutting edge statistical modeling to measure, understand, and improve human experience.

David is a Fulbright-winning researcher who spent three years as an audio systems engineer in Bose Research before his graduate studies. During his PhD, he worked in Shenzhen on manufacturing under the supervision of Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang and published his work on edge deep learning models as a researcher at Google AI.

Dr. Ramsay created and taught MIT’s first for-credit class focused on psychology’s replication crisis for which he was nominated for MIT’s Goodwin Teaching Award. He has lectured in Dr. Roz Picard’s ‘AI and Mental Health’ class among others. Dr. Ramsay’s publications include two best paper awards, two patents, and has been discussed on NPR and exhibited at the MIT Museum.