A total of 108 faculty international research projects received over $2.6 million in funding for the 2023-2024 cycle. These projects were selected from among 226 proposals submitted by faculty and research scientists across the Institute.
108 | $2.6 | 226 |
faculty winners | million in funding | applicants |
Assessing the Impact of PFAS on Mucosal Barrier Function in the Context of Air Pollution
Carbon-Cement Supercapacitor for Energy Independence in Palestine
Community-driven Approaches to Boost Health-related Messaging Interventions
Constructs for Delivering Graphics and STEM to Visually-Impaired Children
Effect of Informal Labor Supply on Firms and Productivity
Fasting and Intestinal Regeneration: Insights from Human Samples
Learning from the Estonia Phenol Bioremediation of 1989
Modular & Recycled: 3D printed glass components for circular construction
Rapidly Deployable Critical Infrastructures for Emergency Response in Urban Areas Under Climate Change Scenarios
Robust Trajectory Estimation in Indian Traffic Conditions for Improved Traffic Safety
Ultrafast thermal transients in fusion structural materials
Understanding nanoparticle-induced changes in membrane permeability
Uranus Magnetometer
Venus Atmosphere
A bespoke comprehensive language learning interaction partner
Accelerating the US-Japan Event Horizon Explorer Mission Development
Cell mechanosensing through matrix nonlinear elasticity in 3D
Monitoring Technologies and Data Science for Environmental Resilience
Unraveling the complex magnetic records of seafloor hydrothermal systems
Artificial Intelligence Assisted Synthesis and Characterization of Two-Dimensional Materials
Flow-Induced Structures in Liquid Crystals
Understanding crustal weathering at the eve of Earth’s Great Oxidation
Climate change on infection-triggered anemia
Developing a plan for implementing Project Prakash in Africa
Investigating the irradiation stability of indigenous carbonitriding agent
Low-Cost Vaulted Earthen Masonry Floor Systems
Pathways@GDL
Reconstructing the History of Madagascar’s Climate and Ecosystems
Amazonia Datathon
Amazonian Urban Futures: Belém do Pará
Intensifying the Bioeconomy Through New Sustainble Products
Brain Drain: The Consequences of High-Skilled Emigration from Armenia
Yekaterine Bakhturian: The Forgotten Writer & Dramaturge from Artsakh
Designing a framework for identifying damage and quantifying uncertainty in floating offshore wind turbines under extreme ocean conditions using deep learning and Bayesian statistics
Quantum Collisions in Space: A MIT-KU Leuven Astrochemical Endeavor
Techno-Economic Optimization of Thermochemical Conversion for Renewable Fuel and Heat Supply
Translating Materials to Membranes with Advanced Testing and Manufacturing
Tides in the oceans of icy satellites and their impacts on tracer transport
Using New Ideas in AI to Reveal the Fundamental Forces In Our Universe
AI Applications for Understanding Planet Formation Dynamics
Detection of tax non-compliance in Colombia – A STEALTH application
Exploring basic nuclear and particle physics phenomena and properties with atoms and molecules using laser spectroscopy
Control Systems for Digital Materials
Development of Additively-Manufactured Electron Sources
The design and synthesis of highly active metallosilicate microspheres for olefin metathesis
Understanding crystallization with ML-powered simulations
AI x Geopolymers Design
Exciton Fine Structure in Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials
Extreme Low Loss Optical Coating
The genomic basis of environmental adaptation in jellyfish
The MIT-Lille Astrochemical Spectroscopy Collaboration
The neural basis of time as a fundamental feature of experience
Unlocking the Full Power of Cosmological Observations to Probe Dark Matter
Algebraic Methods in Fine-Grained Algorithms
Integrating Physical Models and Neural Networks for Monitoring and Control
Advanced Manufacturing using Optics-based and Spectroscopic On-line Sensor Analytics
Greener cities are resilient cities - using AI to map urban greenery and its attributes
Inverse-designed Nanostructures for Tailored Heat Flow
Integrating Geochemistry and Engineering for Mineralization Carbon Capture
Playing for Climate: Nudging Players towards Pro-environmental Behavior
Repurposing coal fired power plants in India: Exploring the best socio-technical interventions
Sustainability in maritime logistics
University-industry engagement: what can IIT Bombay learn from MIT?
Co-development of a Robotic Manipulation Platform with Tactile Sensing
Embedding Artificial Intelligence on chips to see Dark Matter
Multi-sensory Thermo-Tactile Displays for Medical Simulation
Pre-patterned Freestanding Single-crystalline Lithium Niobate Photonic Components for Advanced Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits for etch-free integration process
User-Driven Experiments for Sustainable Lunar Mining Architectures
Zooming in to the Inner Disk: Unveiling Terrestrial Planet Formation
Genometric-DL-US-wearables
Light-activated biohybrid actuator inspired by the human iris musculature
Harnessing architectured lattices for tailorable mechanical damping in aerospace systems
Improving microbial electrochemical technologies with bio-derived materials
Bridging AI and Language Processing in the Brain
Convertible Debt Financing in Competitive Product Markets: The Case of Israel
Deciphering the mRNA Design Principles and Evolutionary Origins of Bacteroidetes, The Predominant Human Gut Bacteria Phylum
Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Crystalline Multilayer Graphene
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Information Processing with Photons and Neutral Atoms
Global Urban Tree Ecophysiology Network
Novel Fiber-Based Electromagnetic Calorimetry
Rational Design of Anti-Amyloidogenic Peptides
Biological Growth by Optimal Principles
Biologically Inspired Extracellular Matrix-like Scaffolds for Advancing In Vitro Heart Tissue Models
Exploring & Evaluating Uses of Generative Large Language Models in Design
In silico screen of small molecules reactivating the inactive X chromosome
Games and Socially Assistive Robots for Arabic-Speaking Learners and Refugees
Innovations in Smart Fare Card Data Processing for Improving Public Transit Planning and Operations
Sensor4Water Pollutants
Danish and French Theater, 1700-1900
UiB-MIT Interdisciplinary Climate Initiative
Constrained geometries of ferronematic liquid crystals emulsions in polymers for sensors and SMART energy saving windows
Light-induced engineering of nanomaterials
Auditory Footprints. Sensor technologies and machine learning for sound-based water and energy waste optimization in industrial textile process.
Chemical Deconstruction of Plastic Waste
Low-level Deep Learning Integration for Enhanced RFID Performance and Sensing
Metallic Lattices and Electromagnetic Fields for Plastic Waste Treatment
Quantum Virtual Twin of Synthetic Fibers
Using language models and chatbots for building virtual assistants in MOOCs
Artificial Intelligence to support Astrodynamics
ASCENT: Aerospace Schools Collaboration for Entrepreneurship and New Teaching methodologies
Liquid Metal Methane Pyrolysis for CO2 Free Hydrogen Production
Modeling Supershear Earthquakes to Forecast Induced Seismicity Hazard
Monitoring corrosion due to carbonation in concrete using graphene sensors
AI in Aggregate Confusion: Interpretability for Accountability
Heterogeneous Aerial Robotic Swarms for Ecological Monitoring
Monitoring and Predicting Transit Network Crowding - International Lessons
Neutron optics for nanomaterial and advanced manufacturing applications
Rethinking State Capacity in Urban Planning
New NMR Tools to Interrogate Photochemical Reactions
Re-Framing Asian Migration and Diasporas
MIT x Smart Living Lab
Mapping out the Dark Matter in Hydrodynamic Simulations
Synchrotron-based infrared spectroscopy of moire quantum matter
Continuous Directed Evolution of RuBisCo to Improve Photosynthesis
Design, manufacture, and characterization of auxetic stents capable of growing with the patient
Big Data Mapping and Correlation of Environmental Containments as Monitored by Biological and Human Isotopic Uptake (Toenails for Citizen Science)
Robust Trajectory Estimation in Indian Traffic Conditions for Improved Traffic Safety
Crowdsourcing Sustainable Cultural Heritage along Silk Roads in Turkey
Digitizing and Archiving the Murals of Mexico's Rural Normal Schools
Co-Design of Renewable Energy Electric Buses in Chile
Fast and Reliable Risk-Aware Large-Scale Multi-agent Motion Planning
Prediction of Complex Structures in High Void Fraction Flows by the VOF Method
mRNA without a leader: defining the mechanism of translation
Nonreciprocal topological materials
Safe and Fast Motion Planning and Control for Autonomous Urban Boats using Model Predictive Control
Understanding flow boiling enhancement via surface functionalization
A 3D High-Order Multi-Resolution Eliptic Solver for Complex Domains
Innovasion: Innovations for creating value from invasive species
Anti-Gentrification Planning in Post-Industrial Woodstock, Cape Town, SA
Participatory Design of Solutions to Address Solid Waste and Energy Challenges in Uganda
Direct Recycling of Battery Electrode Materials in Rwanda
Strenghten MIT-Sudan research cooperation on climate change and agriculture
Monitoring the Injured Brain in Resource-Limited Settings
Applying single-cell genomics to understand the pathogenesis of the yeast Malassezia in skin keratinocytes
ICU Secondary Health Records Analysis using AI and ML Techniques
Land Use Regulation Index Colombia
Reversing the Misrepresentation of the Cross-Border Region of the Amazon: Socio-environmental Integration of the Border between the Andean Amazon and the Brazilian Amazon
Mujeres Mineras Unidas por Colombia
Microbial Ecology and Evolution to Advance Colombian Agricultural Systems
FNS Gamma: Establishing cooperation in the field of fast neutron spectrometry in mixed fields of neutron and gamma radiation
Metabolic adaptation to aspartate synthesis deficiency in cancer
Electron Diffraction for Metal Organic Frameworks
Interaction of ionizing radiation with shielding and cladding materials with engineered strain distributions and phonon spectra
Elucidating ion exchange, chemistry and function of Li anode interfaces
Experimental Study of the Structure of a Radiative Shock Under a Magnetic Constraint
Aluminosilicate materials (zeolites and geopolymers) and sludge fluids: from gel to solid state
Supporting fundamental quantum calculation to enable the atmospheric study of extra-solar planets.
High-dimensional bacterial mixtures
Complex biofluid suspensions: new methods in localized interrogation
Biologically inspired vision models: the role of central and peripheral vision, plausibility, and robustness
Cryptographic Verification of Quantum Computation
Directional Recrystallization Processing of 3D Printed Superalloys
Minimally-Invasive Optical Biosensor for Detecting UV-Induced Skin Cancer
Sustainable structural beam framework for a net-zero future (SustainBeam)
Global Tracker of Climate Change and Mental Health: Building Robust Indicators and Pathways from Interdisciplinary Knowledge
Accelerating the Transition to Circular Economy Futures
Thermomechanical testing of additively manufactured ODS superalloys
In Situ and Continuous Monitoring of Metabolites in Organ-on-Chip Micro-Systems
Causal inference in medical records for drug repurposing towards dementia - Federated learning from patient data in Israel and the US
Developing Sustainable and 3D-Printable Thermoplastic Protein-Based Materials
Solidarity in Fractured Times: Theory, Empirics, and Law
MicroISRAEL-2050: Multi-Layer Explorations of Israel's Urban Microclimates
Semantic Imaging: Merging Computational Imaging and Neural Fields to Advance 3D Scene Understanding
Analyzing the Resilience of the Food System in Israel
Learning-augmented algorithms for motif-counting
Additive manufacturing of mesoporous hierarchical materials for atmospheric water harvesting
Advanced computations anD experiments on boiling heAt transfer (AIDA)
Revealing and exploiting quantumness via quasiprobabilities: from quantum thermodynamics to quantum sensing
AMBItiOuS – Additive Manufacturing for BIOlogy and life Sciences
I_AMSPACE – In-situ Additive Manufacturing for SPACE
Improving estimates of seismic risk associated with geothermal energy exploitation operations
Quantum Structures and Enumerative Geometry
sMall-caliber vAscular Grafts in pulsed-flow microfuidiCs (MAGIC)
Partially ordered soft systems: from prediction to application
Sustainable deoxygenation
Engineering the plant-microbiome interactions for drought resistance in the Middle East
Active Ankle Foot Exoskeleton: Towards Gait Assistance for Stroke Patients
A Materials Approach for Removing Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater Treatment Systems (Water4Reuse)
Frontiers in soudAI. Sensor technologies and machine learning for sound-based activity inference.
Unlocking mechanical limitations of synthetic heart stents with auxetic, silk-based fiber tubular scaffold "BioSTENT"
An autonomous Swarm of Miniaturized Robots for Surface Inspection Applications
HIGHENTROPOL
Hierarchically Porous Hybrid Metal/2D Metal-Organic Framework Films
Straintronic engineering of self-powered flexoelectronic photodetectors
Uncertainty-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Detection of Brain and Eye Diseases
Inertial Focusing Microfluidics for High-Throughput Sorting of Cell Clusters and Circulating Tumor Cells
Advanced Physiological Estimation of Cognitive States in Neurorehabilitation Tasks using Brain-Computer Interfaces and Head-Mounted Displays (BCI-HMD) for Environment Modification
Spectroscopy study of correlated 2D materials
Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Advanced RF Components via Additive Manufacturing
Social Norms as Potential Barriers to Policy Adoption
Using Natural Language Processing to create automatic personalized feedback in Teacher Simulations
Mapping the multidimensional polarization and segregation in US urban areas
System Architecture of Leo Satellite Constellations
Moment-Sum-of-Squares Techniques for Quantum Control
Absolute Control of the Orientation of Single-Photon Emitters in mm-sized 2D Patterns using DNA Origami
Nano-Architected Inorganic Functional Materials for Extreme Environments
Optimal control for quantum computers
Disaster Response Optimization Using Aerial Assets
Toward the holistic digital touch experience: Revealing spatio-temporal processing for multisensory feedback in cutaneous displays
Planning for Aging Societies via Smart Shrinkage in the US and Japan
Low-cost sensing for air quality, heat, and noise in the city. Exploring quantitative methods and citizen engagement strategies towards exposure estimation and mitigation.
New nanotechnologies for solar fuels production
Controlling and imaging chirality and topology in magnetic heterostructures
Identifying cellular regulatory pathways by integrating high-throughput screening transcriptomics and imaging using AI
Microbial Electrochemical Technologies for Pesticide Remediation
Imaging Emergent Quantum Phenomena at Nano-meter Scales
Graphene-heterostructured devices for integrated quantum photonics
Exploring Argentinian lake deposits as analogues of early Earth and Mars
in silico and in vitro lung simulators for an implantable ventilator
Non-Destructive Detection of Spinodal Decomposition and Long-Term Thermal Degradation of Light Water Reactor Structural Materials using SCP/TGS Techniques
Early human arrivals to Greenland
Digging Deeper - enhancing the gravitational-wave dataset
Leveraging US Damage Data to Estimate AI-Based Hurricane Damage in Korea
Tunable Topological Physics in Two-Dimensional Material Heterostructures
Monitoring plant drought survival strategies from space
Development of a quantitative methodology for assessment of novel anesthetic regimens
prediction model using machine learning for postoperative outcomes for patients with preoperative anemia undergoing major non-cardiac surgery
Subduction of the Caribbean tectonic plate revealed by atypical earthquakes
Biodiversity, Natural Climate Solutions and Cities in Colombia
Predicting Function of Terpene Synthases with Machine Learning
Clean Energy Applications with Mixed-Matrix Membranes of 2D MOFs
Institutional Data Shaping Digital History
Q-boost4chemistry
Engineering cytokine receptor signaling for next-generation cell therapy
Blending together seismology and geodesy to unravel slow slip's impact on the earthquake cycle
Wind tunnel experiments of lightning arcs
The Mechanistic Cascade of Anosognosia in Alzheimer's Disease
Experimental constrains on the origin of the first continental crust
Unveiling a central regulatory mechanism of Nature’s most abundant enzyme
ComPunc. Comparative Punctuation
Humans in the Loop: An MIT-Fraunhofer IPA Collaboration on Collaborative Robots and Digitization
Enabling the Scale-Up of Metal Additive Manufacturing by Data-Based Synthesis of Simulation and Experimentation
Autonomous docking with tumbling space junk using gecko-inspired adhesives
Does heavy metal pollution accelerate bone ageing and fracture?
Towards Zero-Pollution Infrastructure Through Structural Optimization
Energy-Efficient Carbon Capture and Chemical Separations using Porous Boron Nitride Adsorbents
Coupling thermodynamics and AI to design durable and sustainable concrete
Megahertz Magnetics for High Density and Efficient IPT Receivers
Automatic 3D Design and Editing
Understanding the behavioral decision making behind chemical discoveries
Israel’s community-based healthcare, urbanization and environment as a basis for developing indicators for pandemic resiliency and planning healthy cities
Non-invasive Acoustic Hyperthermia and Local Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Brain Tumors
Integrating Machine Learning Methods and Discrete Choice Models
Vibrational engineering of ferroic order in van der Waals materials
How abstract is phonology
Time Reversal of Nonlinear Hamiltonians for Quantum Enhanced Metrology
GAP: image-Guided computational and experimental Analysis of fractured Patients
Advanced Safety Assessment of Nuclear Batteries for a Novel Paradigm of Low-Carbon Energy
Learning-Symbolic Programming
Hybrid Metamaterials for Enhanced Diagnosis and dIsease Treatment
New genetic tools to study the role of serotonin in neuropsychiatric disorders
Carving spaces for energy efficient urban micro-farms using visualAI and IoT
Advancing Responsible State Behavior in Outer Space
Living Streets for Livable Cities
Crowd-AI Teams for Engineering Product Design
Unlocking the Potential of Cast Glass Structures through Additive Design
Digital Systems Engineering for Networked Infrastructure Transitions
Metal (Oxy)Nitride Electrocatalysts for Sustainable Ammonia Production
Programmable biomaterials for Bioremediation in Peru using synthetic biology tools
Structural oddities
Self-Optimizing Additive Manufacturing
Magnetic Nanocomposites for Power Conversion
Labor Market Implications of Automation in the United States and the EU
Wastewater monitoring – advanced source of public health information and possible approach for epidemics prediction
Improving the Lifetime of the Next Generation Solid-State Batteries
Novel approaches and tools for fractional-order modeling of complex multiscale materials
Senseable Matter
SE(3)-Equivariant Descriptors for Structural Phase Transitions
New generation of 2D-material-based sensors for wearable applications and textile integration
High Temperature Applications for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage
Quantification of cause-and-effect interactions in turbulent flows
Cross-Cultural Innovations for Gender Equity in Public Transport