Office:
NE48-308

Phone:
617.252.1383

E-Mail:
violeta<at>mit.edu

Violeta Ivanova, Ph.D.

Educational Innovation Consultant - MIT OEIT
Instructor - MIT Edgerton Center

Professional interests

• Curriculum and teaching innovation
• Visualization in science and education
• Film and digital media production

Current, recent, and upcoming activities

• Leader of Visual Arts and Media for Teaching and Learning and Social Media for Education
• Creator of educational 3D visualizations in astronautics (Gordon Research Conference poster)
• Instructor for Digital Video Production (fall) and Digital Video Post-Production (spring; films)
• Manager of iCampus student innovation award (2009 award ceremony planned for Ed Tech Fair)

Academic awards

• Council for the Arts at MIT grant for independent documentary film
• MIT Alumni Class Funds grant for curriculum innovation (shared)

Education

• Ph.D. '98, S.M. '95, MIT
• Dipl. Eng. '91, Bulgaria
• MFA program, UT Austin

Society affiliations

• ACM SIGGRAPH
• Web3D Consortium

Previous employment

• Educational Technology Consultant, math software curriculum integration, MIT IS&T
• Co-Producer/Director/Editor, educational science films, University of Texas at Austin
• Asst Editor/Camera, American Trustees, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation
• Communications Consultant, DOE/NSF technology transfer, ARMA Foundation
• Senior Engineer/Project Manager, 3D subsurface modeling, Schlumberger

Independent projects

• Documentary filmmaker (current production: www.marinedocfilm.com)