People

Matt Agboola

oagboola@g.harvard.edu

Resident Tutor

Hey Winthrop! I’m excited to join the community as a resident tutor this year alongside my partner, Michelle. I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and moved with my family to Washington, D.C. at a young age. I attended high school in Rockville, MD, and later...

Michelle Bartolo-Cruz

mbartolocruz@g.harvard.edu

Resident Tutor

Michelle is originally from Mexico City and is excited to be part of the Winthrop House community. She’s a biochemist and molecular biologist by training, focused on infectious disease. Previously worked in academia on point-of-care diagnostics research...

Ben Bograd

bbograd@jd29.law.harvard.edu

Non-Resident Tutor

Hi Winthrop! I'm Ben, a law student in the HLS class of 2029. I'm from New Jersey and studied American politics and diplomacy at Princeton. After graduating college I studied global affairs for a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Schwarzman...

Paulo Carvão

paulo_carvao@harvard.edu

Scholar in Residence

Paulo Carvão is a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, focusing on Tech and AI Policy. A former IBM executive with over 30 years of experience, he advises tech startups and serves as Entrepreneur...

Sambuddha Chattopadhyay

sschatt.3@gmail.com

Non-Resident Tutor

Sambuddha is a 2nd year Physics graduate student at Harvard University (Winthrop, co'2021!!) His research interests lie at the intersection of condensed matter, quantum optics, and statistical physics, specifically in investigating many-body dynamics...

Alejandro De Los Angeles

adelosan@gmail.com

Non Resident Tutor

Alejandro De Los Angeles, DPhil, MPH, MS, is a Filipino-American physician-scientist in training whose work bridges stem cell biology, psychiatry, and the governance of emerging medical technologies. He is completing his MD at the University of Central...

Jack Huang

jackhuang@g.harvard.edu

Resident Tutor

Hey Winthrop! I'm thrilled to be part of the Winthrop family with my wife Michelle. I graduated from Harvard where I started HealthPALs (Health Peer Advisors and Liaisons), a team of students fostering greater collaboration between the campus community...

Theo Lebryk

tlebryk02@gmail.com

Resident Tutor

Hey Winthrop! I grew up in Virginia before coming to Cambridge. I lived in Winthrop House where I worked the grille, studied Social Studies and East Asian Studies and spent a lot of time at PBHA programs. After graduation, I moved to Hong Kong for a year...

John Mikhael

jmikhael@alum.mit.edu

Non-Resident Tutor

John Mikhael, MD, PhD is a recent graduate of HMS and GSAS. His research interests are in computational theories of the dopamine system and reinforcement learning in the brain. Previously, he completed a master’s in neuroscience at Oxford as a Rhodes...

Lia Pikus

liapikus@hds.harvard.edu

Non-Resident Tutor

Hi Winthrop! My name is Lia and I am super excited to be one of your NRTs this year. I graduated from Rice University in 2021 with dual degrees in Political Science and Cello Performance and am currently entering my second year as an MTS student at...

Ciara Sypherd

csypherd@g.harvard.edu

Resident Tutor

Hi Winthrop! My name is Ciara (they/them) and I'm a PhD student in bioengineering. I study animal communication using machine learning and try to answer questions like: "Do chimpanzees have dialects?" and "Do gorillas use names?" I'm from Arizona and I...

William Wang

wwang@mba2025.hbs.edu

Non-Res Tutor

William is an MBA student. Before coming to HBS, he was a Schwarzman Scholars, he served as the Student Body President for the Class of 2023. Prior, he worked for 3.5 years in transportation infrastructure for the PANYNJ. He served as the CEO of Young...