MIMS 2025 Final Project Showcase: Program

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Judges

Michelle Carney, MIMS ’18

Michelle Carney is a UX research lead at Google on AI and large model tooling. She is a leader in the interdisciplinary space of machine learning and user experience, teaching at the Stanford d.School on designing machine learning fostering inclusive community spaces. Her work at Google on interactive no-code machine learning prototyping has won honorable mention in CHI 2023. Michelle studied at UC Berkeley for undergrad (B.A., MCB, CogSci), and graduate school (MIMS, cert. BCNM).

Krista Gettle, MIMS ’04

A product leader with over 15 years of experience driving innovation across retail technology, e-commerce, and logistics platforms. Most recently Krista led the fulfillment product teams at Block (Square), where they've expanded shipping, pickup, and delivery capabilities to over 2 million SMB sellers globally. Previously held leadership roles at dunnhumby, Aptaris, GT NEXUS, and DemandTec, delivering solutions that optimize operations and drive business growth. Their expertise spans platform strategy, team leadership, and partnership development for enterprise tools that process millions of transactions daily. Beyond corporate achievement, Krista served as a lecturer on product management at UC Berkeley's School of Information, in 2024.

Patricia Liu

Patricia Liu is a pitch advisor, instructor, and angel investor. She teaches courses on startup pitch decks and presentations at Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Health Care, startup accelerators, and VC firms. Patricia is a pitch advisor at Inception Studio, a non-profit accelerator built for the most exceptional entrepreneurs and builders at the earliest stages of starting their next AI company. She also advises startups through Harvard Business School’s StartUp Partners and New Venture Competition, Stanford Angels, and Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. Patricia is an angel investor and serves on the selection committee for MIT NorCal Angels. She received SB and MEng degrees in computer science from MIT.

Felix Morio, MIMS ’10

Felix Morio is a technical engineering leader and technology lawyer.  Felix has developed broad expertise in bringing together software engineering, product, and legal teams to develop robust technical programs that meet constantly evolving technical and regulatory requirements.

With a background in software engineering, Felix has created and led software engineering teams for startups, led software security and compliance initiatives for multinational companies, created and managed technical privacy and governance programs, and overseen the development of legaltech products.  As a commercial technology attorney at leading law firms Chapman Tripp in New Zealand and A&L Goodbody in Ireland, Felix advised multinational corporations, such as Microsoft, Meta, Airbnb, Bank of Ireland, and Beca on a broad range of commercial technology matters, including technology outsourcing to Amazon Web Services, data privacy and compliance, core banking SaaS solutions, and SaaS deployment and platform licensing.

Maggie Oren

Maggie Oren is the senior strategic partnership manager at Volvo Group’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley, where she helps shape the future of transportation by bridging the gap between startups, academia, and industry. She leads initiatives that turn emerging technologies into real-world solutions — from digital freight services to sustainability pilots — and creates pathways for early-stage innovation to scale within a global organization. She also builds academic collaborations with top universities, bringing fresh perspectives to industry challenges and helping Volvo Group stay connected to the next generation of thinkers and doers.

Sasha Volkov, MIMS ’17

Sasha Volkov is a senior researcher at YouTube, where she has worked for nearly 8 years. She started on her current team as a summer intern while at the I School, and has since led research across several product areas including notifications, playlists, information architecture, and novel features. She now lives in San Francisco with her husband, two young kids, and cat. She is an avid sci-fi fan, cook, and occasional publisher at CHI. Judging the MIMS final project is a full-circle moment, as Sasha is a James R. Chen award winner from her year. It’s a real honor to be back.