Isaiah Dela Cruz

Isaiah Dela Cruz is the Lab Manager at MIT’s Early Childhood Cognition Lab (ECCL) as of August 2025. He earned his Ed.M. in Human Development and Education, with a concentration in Early Childhood development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and his BSc in Psychology, minor in Data Science from De La Salle University (Philippines). At present, he is working on measuring the transformative experience of becoming a parent; understanding the representations that expectant and current parents might possess about the process and what might be some underlying factors (e.g., beliefs, attitudes, cultural factors, etc.) that encompasses the cognitive transitions to parenting.