Thank an MIT Community Member: Submission #294

Your Name: Pat Pataranutaporn
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Person or Group You Would Like to Recognize: Kevin Esvelt and Camilo Rojas
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Kevin Esvelt and Camilo Rojas have been the leaders that help educate and organize taskforces at MIT Media Lab to handle the situation of COVID 19. They had done tremendous work even before the pandemic to ensure the safety of our community through various online sessions, hackathon, as well developing the guidelines for the Media Lab community. One of the projects that the lead is Saving Face, an initiative that aim at creating a suite of easily scaled technologies to help people fight the pandemic by warning them when they’re about to touch their faces (https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/saving-face/overview/)