Robert R. Morris, Ph.D.

Robert Morris earned his AB in psychology from Princeton University and his master’s and Ph.D. in media arts and sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he worked in the Affective Computing Lab, where he helped develop emotionally intelligent AI systems. After graduate school, he co-founded Koko, an online mental health intervention that has reached nearly two million people. He is currently at Airbnb, in a cross-disciplinary role, drawing upon research, engineering, and data science to help enhance the safety of the platform.