Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Dr. Oliver Saunders Wilder is a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, and Director of Technology at Tools of the Mind. Saunders Wilder has been involved in teaching physics and electrical engineering to both undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard Extension School (HES), Harvard Summer School (HSS), and Harvard College for more than 20 years, and has served as an instructor at HES since 2018. Saunders Wilder was previously a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and the Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT, where his interdisciplinary research focused on the use of advanced statistial modeling and signal processing to quantify co-regulatory dynamics using psychophysiology data. He previously lead electrical engineering and served as Product Manager at Affectiva, an MIT spin-out which he helped to found with faculty from the MIT Media Lab. While there, he was responsible for taking the iCalm technology from a university prototype to a high-quality commercial product, leading to 12 US and international patents related to this work. Saunders Wilder has presented at both US and international academic conferences, authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, and recently published a book chapter on measuring noncognitive skills using ambulatory psychophysiology. Saunders Wilder holds a joint PhD from the Khoury College of Computer and Information Science and the Bouvé College of Health Science at Northeastern University, and a bachelor of liberal arts, Extension Studies, from HES with a concentration in psychology and a minor in engineering.