Flavia Sparacino, PhD, is the head of Sensing Places, an MIT Media Lab spinoff that designs and produces innovative museum exhibits, corporate showrooms, retail stores and large-scale interactive installations using cutting-edge media design, immersive and interactive technologies. She is a prolific inventor and was granted by MIT thirteen technology licenses for her inventions, one of the highest number of intellectual property licenses that MIT ever awarded. Her work has been publicized by the international press and television in eight different languages.