Pat Pataranutaporn, PhD is an assistant professor, technologist, and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is the founding director of the Cyborg Psychology research group. He also serves as co-director of the MIT Media Lab Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Research Program.

As founding director of the Cyborg Psychology research group at the MIT Media Lab, he leads a team of interdisciplinary researchers to develop and study how AI can both augment and diminish human learning, decision-making, critical thinking, creativity, and other critical dimensions of human experience.

Pataranutaporn’s research contributions have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, including ACM SIGCHI venues (CHI, IUI, DIS, ISWC, and AHs), ACM SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICML, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Biotechnology, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM AI). His work has been highlighted by the United Nations AI for Good forum and featured in MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Guardian, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, Forbes, the Atlantic, Scientific American, the Wall Street Journal, and more. His work has also been honored as one of TIME's "Best Inventions of 2023" and was included in Fast Company's "2023 World Changing Ideas."

He also served as co-creator and writer of the Netflix sci-fi anthology series Tomorrow and I, which premiered in 2024.