This year, I am the Tatelbaum Visiting Scholar in Ethics and Technology at Phillips Academy, as well as a Research Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at MIT. I completed my PhD in philosophy at MIT in 2022. My research is primarily at the intersection of ethics, bioethics, the ethics of technology, and metaphysics. I also have interests in aesthetics and existentialism.

In Spring, 2022, I was the Ethical Thinking Instructor for an engineering course on climate and sustainability within the MIT Department of New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET). In Summer 2021, I served as an Ethics of Technology Teaching Fellow in a program piloted by the Office of Experiential Learning at MIT. In 2020-2021, I held a Teaching Development Fellowship in the MIT Teaching & Learning Laboratory.

You can learn more about my teaching here.

Before MIT, I completed a B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley. I lived at Allen Ginsberg's old cottage address, which he wrote a poem about here. In my spare time, I write long-form fiction.

You can email me at ravanpak@mit.edu or rravanpak@andover.edu.

My CV can be found here.