Nabeel Gillani

Starting 9/1/2026

Nabeel Gillani will join the Stanford faculty in Fall 2026 as an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, where he directs the Plural Connections Group (PCG). PCG’s mission is to use tools from computation and design to foster pluralism—an inclusive response to differences in society—in ways that promote educational, economic, and social inclusion. More specifically, he seeks to apply methods from machine learning, data science, and civic design to foster connection, mutual support, and learning across segregated spaces like: 1) educational inequalities stemming from segregated schools and neighborhoods, and 2) echo chambers and empathy gaps in social and mainstream media environments. 

Nabeel received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a Product Manager and member of the analytics team at Khan Academy, where he helped design digital learning experiences. He studied Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown University as an undergraduate, and received Masters degrees in Education and Information Engineering (Machine Learning) at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.