Past Funded Researchers
Daniel Sweeney, PhD, is a research scientist, lecturer and mechanical engineer at MIT D-Lab. He works with D-Lab community partners on design and evaluation of affordable products and the machines that make them at scale, and he uses technology to responsibly access hard-to-reach information. Dan also instructs courses at D-Lab where students practice design and engineering in low-resource settings.
Prior to MIT, Dan was a Fulbright Scholar and holds B.S. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering. He is a co-founder of social businesses in Uganda and India.