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He received a Bachelor of Surgery in Mechanical Engineering, a master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering, and a master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University School of Engineering. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, with his thesis project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory on reality engineering.
He is also an adjunct assistant professor at Harvard University, and holds faculty positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern University. In his doctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he gave 100 volunteers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology community smartphones that logged their activity over the 2004-2005 academic year, giving a dataset of more than 350,000 hours of communication, proximity, location and activity information. According to Wired Magazine, “Eagle"s algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Laboratory employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time.” This work illustrated how mobile phones can be used to collect accurate, large-scale data about real social interactions.
The data has been downloaded by thousands of researchers and has been analyzed in hundreds of academic publications.
The project was named one of the "10 Technologies Most Likely To Change The Way We Live" by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review. As a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fulbright Scholar in 2006, Eagle developed a mobile phone programming curriculum that has been adopted by twelve Sub-Saharan computer science departments, leading to hundreds of mobile applications.
As a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in 2010, he and Eric Horvitz launched an initiative called Artificial Intelligence for Development. This initiative led to a diverse set of projects ranging from computational models of food shortages to studies on the dynamics of slums.
As an adjunct assistant professor at Harvard University in 2011, he formed the Engineering Social Systems group, with researchers in fields ranging from epidemiology and public health to statistical physics and urban planning, dedicated to the analysis of large scale data for social purposes.
Based on his experiences in Africa, he co-founded Jana in 2009. The company provides a service to compensate mobile phone subscribers with airtime in exchange for providing information to international businesses and organizations. As of 2011, the firm operates in 49 countries with 220 mobile phone operator partners, and a database of 2.1 billion consumers.
In 2008, Nokia named Eagle one of the world"s top mobile phone developers.
