Meet the Children Helping Science team
Core Team
Becky Gilbert
Becky is a software engineer for Children Helping Science. She loves helping researchers build experiments, and working on state-of-the-art methods for online data collection.
CJ Green
CJ is Children Helping Science's lead software infrastructure engineer, working on planning and adding features for both participants and researchers.
Melissa Kline Struhl
Melissa is the director of Children Helping Science and a research scientist in the MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab. She loves it when the data surprises her, and loves talking to researchers and families about how to make Children Helping Science better.
Laura Schulz
Laura is the PI of the Early Childhood Cognition Lab. She conducts research about how children arrive at a common-sense understanding of the physical and social world through exploration and instruction.
Mark Sheskin
Mark Sheskin is the co-director of the Project GARDEN Team. Dr. Sheskin is an associate professor of psychology at Minerva University.
Parent Researcher Collaborative
If you are a parent who has participated with your child in a study on this website, or a university-based researcher who has posted a study on Children Helping Science (or its previous incarnation as Lookit), then we consider you a member of the Parent Researcher Collaborative! The team who created the original Children Helping Science platform includes Laura Schulz, Mark Sheskin, as well as:
Elizabeth Bonawitz
Elizabeth is the David Vitale Associate Professor in Learning Sciences and PI of the Computational Cognitive Development Lab at Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on the basic science theories of learning with the broader goal of informing educational practice, and her research bridges two research traditions: cognitive development and computational modeling.
Hyowon Gweon
Hyowon Gweon is an associate professor at Stanford University in the Department of Psychology.
Julian Jara-Ettinger
Julian Jara-Ettinger is an associate professor on term at Yale University in the Department of Psychology.
Candice Mills
Candice is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Affiliated Universities and Researchers
As of March 2023, there are over 950 researchers in our community, and over 90 universities affiliated with Lookit/Children Helping Science, including:
United States:
- American University
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Brown University
- Bucknell University
- Clark University
- Cornell University
- Davidson College
- Duke University
- Duke University School of Medicine
- East Tennessee State University
- Emory University
- Florida International University
- Fordham University
- Franklin & Marshall College
- George Mason University
- Harvard University
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Haskins Laboratories, Yale University
- Hope College
- Kennedy Kreiger Institute, Johns Hopkins University
- Kent State University
- Loyola University Chicago
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Montclair State University
- Morgan State University
- New York University
- Northeastern University
- Northern Illinois University
- Northwestern University
- Rutgers University - New Brunswick
- Rutgers University - Newark
- Sacred Heart University
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- Stanford University
- Stony Brook University
- The New School
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Riverside
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas
- University of Louisville
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of North Carolina, Asheville
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of South Florida
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas, Austin
- University of Texas, Dallas
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Virginia Tech
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
- Yale School of Medicine
- Yale University
- Yeshiva University - Stern College for Women
Canada:
- Brock University
- Concordia University
- Dalhousie University
- McGill University
- McMasters University
- Ryerson University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Toronto
- University of Waterloo
United Kingdom:
- Birkbeck, University of London
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL)
- Nottingham University
- St Andrews University
- Ulster University
- University College London
- University of East Anglia
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Essex
- University of Lincoln
Worldwide:
- Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS (France)
- Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
- CEMIC-CONICET (Argentina)
- Leiden University (Netherlands)
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Germany)
- University of Tokyo 東京大学 (Japan)
- Western Sydney University (Australia)
Coming soon (Agreements in process):
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Florida State University
- Hunter College
- Indiana University
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Oklahoma State University
- Oxford University
- Temple University
- University of Arkansas
- University of Cambridge
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- University of Pittsburgh
- Vanderbilt University
- Villanova University
- Western Washington University
To learn about joining us, visit the guide to getting started!
Staff alumni
Kim
Scott
Founder and Director
Rico
Rodriquez
Software Engineer
Undergraduate student alumni
Joseph
Alvarez
Summer 2015
Skidmore College
Daniela
Carrasco
Spring 2015
MIT
Jean
Chow
Fall 2014
MIT
Junyi
Chu
Summer 2015
Vanderbilt
Annie
Dai
IAP, Spring 2015
MIT
Hope
Fuller-Becker
Spring 2015, 2016
Wellesley College
Kamaria
Kaalund
Fall 2019
Wellesley College
Audrey
Ricks
Summer 2016
MIT
Rianna
Shah
IAP, Sp, Fall 2015; IAP, Sp 2016; Sp 2018
MIT
Alice
Wang
Summer 2017
Wellesley
Jean
Yu
IAP, Spring 2015
Wellesley Colleger
Jessica
Zhu
Fall 2016
MIT