Members of the Advisory Board assist the RA team and Heads of House with their previous knowledge whenever possible. This might include sharing insights on previously adopted policies, report experiences with past events, or reach out to contacts in the greater MIT community. Members of the Advisory Board assist with coordinating events whenever the current RA team is experiencing a shortage of people to maintain the planned schedule.  For more information about ABs, see the Resident Assistant FAQ.

Kenny Chen

Kenny is a fifth year PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemistry, where his research focuses on protein folding and protein homeostasis. He received his undergraduate degree from UCLA. His favorite parts of the Northeast include snowfall. His less favorite parts include rapid transit congestion during rush hour. He has been a member of the Warehouse community since 2015.

Ben Sherman

Ben is a fifth-year PhD student in Computer Science, where he's building a programming language for soundly manipulating continuous spaces, such as real numbers or probability distributions. He's an east-coaster: he grew up on Long Island, NY, attended college at Yale in New Haven, CT, and spent two years in the Washington, D.C. area before coming to MIT. Ben loves reading tales from the history of mathematics. His less peculiar hobbies include tennis, basketball, rowing, and guitar.