Professor Nathan Eagles

Professor Nathan Eagle, a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute will give a lecture on Thursday, 12th February between 2 and 4pm in L2 (Phase II). Prof Eagle's research is on applying machine learning and network analysis techniques to large human behavioral datasets generated by mobile phones.

Nokia recently named Prof Eagles one of the top mobile phone developers in the world. In 2008, he formed the company txteagle with the goal of enabling the 2 billion mobile phone subscribers living in the developing world to generate income using their phones.  His research is regularly featured in the media including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and CNN.

As a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, Prof Eagles launched MIT's EPROM (Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles) initiative while teaching in universities in Kenya and Ethiopia, and developed a mobile phone programming curriculum that has been adopted by twelve Computer Science departments across Africa.

Eagles graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering. His PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory on Reality Mining was declared one of the '10 technologies most likely to change the way we live' by the MIT Technology Review magazine.