Dr. Ruben R. Puentedura is the Founder and President of Hippasus, an educational consulting firm focusing on transformative applications of information technologies to education.

The basis for Hippasus is to be found in Dr. Puentedura's eighteen years of work in educational research and reform. While a teaching fellow at Harvard University, he co-developed new courses in the introductory sciences, aimed at increasing the breadth and depth of science understanding for majors and non-majors alike. This work resulted in a Phi Beta Kappa teaching award, as well as his being named a Harvard Technology Fellow. Over the next twelve years, as a faculty member at Bennington College, and as the Director of the College's New Media Center, Dr. Puentedura designed and implemented new models for teaching that made exemplary use of new media and networking technologies. Finally, as an active participant in the Vermont Common Core Initiative educational reform process, Dr. Puentedura has worked to bring to K-12 education the research that has informed the rest of his work.

In addition to his work in pedagogy, Dr. Puentedura maintains a number of active research projects. These cover a broad range, from complex systems theory, through the creation of new tools and approaches for visualization in the sciences and the arts, to social network theory and interface design for social software spaces. His applications of technology extend beyond the sphere of education and the sciences, and include significant work in the integration of technology and art. He has worked with Cathy Weis and various collaborating artists since 1996 on developing the Live Internet Performance Structure (LIPS) project, which has resulted in performances uniting locations as disparate as the city of Skopje in Macedonia and New York City. His most recent work with Ms. Weis has focused on the creation of "digital marionettes" that can be animated by performers as full partners in live performance.