Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI)

Strategy Games and Technology

Girish is a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), an interdisciplinary research initiative housed at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Girish’s eclectic background includes a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology, a master’s degree in business administration, and a doctorate degree in international studies. He has also completed the Stanford LEAD professional certificate, a year-long executive education program in innovation leadership.

In his doctoral studies, he majored in international political economy and development, and minored in modeling and simulation. During this time, he worked at the Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), an interdisciplinary research center. He has presented his research at forums such as the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS).

He previously served as a Fellow at the Donovan Group, a think tank within the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), where he focused on strategic futures at the intersection of technology and security. Specifically, he focused at the intersection on geopolitics and the future of money. He has published whitepapers on related topics for the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), and for the Pentagon’s Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) program. Girish has also served as a Fellow at the NATO Innovation Hub. During this time, he founded the Disruptive Technology Experiment (DTEX) initiative and the Academic Alliance initiative.