Past Seed Fund Winners

Molecular Modelling Of Psii: From Structure To Function In Natural Conditions

• Jianshu Cao, Professor, Chemistry
• Yuan-Chung Cheng, National Taiwan University (NTU)

Acrobatic Flight Control Of A Dragonfly-like Micro-aerial-robot         

• Yufeng Chen, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Pakpong Chirarattananon, City University of Hong Kong    

Ridesharing And Urban Vibrancy: The Value Of Flexible Ride Service In Consumer Cities

• Fabio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist, Urban Studies & Planning
• Ying Long, Tsinghua University

History Of Computing From Mexico

• Hector Beltran, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• Ablavi Fidele Vlavo, Universidad Iberoamericana

Anthropologically-informed Engineering Of Fuel Independence To Preserve Democracy And Combat Climate Change In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

• Manduhai Buyandelger, Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Bum-Ochir Dulam, National University of Mongolia

Electronic Face-mask: Studying Mask-wearing Behaviors In Istanbul, Turkey

• Canan Dagdeviren, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Sondan Durukanoglu Feyiz, Kadir Has University

Feminicide In Latin America: Supporting Data Collection And Strengthening Civic Information Ecosystems Using Machine Learning

• Catherine D'Ignazio, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
• Silvana Fumega, Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos

Oxybot – A Mini-plant For Ward-level Oxygen Production In Low Resource Environments

• Nevan Hanumara, Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
• Johnes Obungoloch, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Augmented Historical Pedagogies - The Case Of Tiergarten

• Mark Jarzombek, Professor, Architecture
• Jorg H. Gleiter, Technical University Berlin

Wafer-level Packaging Of Silicon Photonic Chips

• Lionel Kimerling, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Peter O'Brien, Tyndall National Institute

Designing A Revolution: Histories Of Design And Political Change In Chile

• Eden Medina, Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Society
• Hugo Palmarola, Catholic University of Chile

Geophysical And Geochemical Monitoring Of Carbon Sequestration In Iceland

• Shuhei Ono, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences
• Andri Stefánsson, University of Iceland

Workshop On Analysis Of Electron Backscattered Diffraction Data

• Matej Pec, Victor P. Starr CD Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences
• Rüdiger Kilian, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

Kolkata Jute Mills Redevelopment Project

• Brent D. Ryan, Associate Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
• Souvanic Roy, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Application Of Structured Light Beams In Quantum Information Science

• Vladan Vuletic, Lester Wolfe Professor, Physics
• Dorilian Lopez-Mago, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Understanding The Role Of Intestinal Ketone Bodies On The Microbiome

• Omer Yilmaz, Associate Professor, Biology
• Aysun Cebeci Aydin, Abdullah Gül University

Vertical Seismic Isolation For Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

• Peter Fritschel, Senior Research Scientist, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
• Joris van Heijningen, Université Catholique de Louvain

Tailored Zeolite Nanocrystals As Building Blocks Towards Advanced Multifunctional (Bio-)Catalysts For The Upgrading Of Bio-based Platform Chemicals

• Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Damien Debecker, Université Catholique de Louvain

Adjustable Capsules To Enable Oral Delivery Of Biologics Within Foam-based Drug Delivery Systems

• Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ana Beloqui Garcia, Université Catholique de Louvain

Field Experiment To Reduce Hiv Spread Among Chilean University Students

• David Rand, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Denise Laroze, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Structural Determination Of Lipids From Unique Antarctic Extremophiles

• Roger Summons, Schlumberger Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences
• Jenny Blamey, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Rapid Detection Of Pneumonia Associated To Covid19 By Deep Neural Networks

• Regina Barzilay, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• David Fernando Ramirez-Moreno, Universidad Autonoma de Occidente

Eco-epidemiology Model Of Dengue Vulnerability

• Leo Anthony Celi, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Diego Lopez, Universidad del Cauca

Barrios 4d: Using Lidar And Machine Learning To Unravel The Mathematical Morphological Rules Of Informal Settlements In Cali, Colombia

• Fabio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist, Urban Studies & Planning
• Victor Romero Cano, Universidad Autonoma de Occidente

Sexual And Reproductive Health In Artisanal And Small-scale Gold Mining Settings

• Amy Smith, Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
• Maria Escobar, Fundación Valle del Lili

Understanding The Effects Of Liver Circadian Rhythms In Infectious Diseases

• Sangeeta Bhatia, John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Liliana Mancio Silva, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

Integrating Genomics Into Forestry Models For Improving Climate Prediction

• David DesMarais, Walter Henry Gale (1929) Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Isabelle Chuine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Paris Facing The Climatic Crises Of The Little Ice Age: 15th-19th Centuries

• Anne EC McCants, Professor, History
• Emmanuel Garnier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Morphometrics And Paleomechanics Of Prehistoric Artifacts: A New Cross-disciplinary Technological Approach To Studying The Emergence Of Human Language

• Christine Ortiz, Morris Cohen Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Francesco d’Errico, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Bordeaux

Super: Solution For Uncertainty And Personalization In Emotion Recognition

• Rosalind Picard, Professor, Media Arts and Science
• Christelle Godin, CEA/LETI

A Completely Biological And Human Heart Valve Repair Strategy For Pediatric Applications

• Ellen Roche, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Nicolas L'Heureux, INSERM and University of Bordeaux

An Ultrasensitive And Point-of-care Test For Malaria Surveillance

• Martha Gray, J. W. Kieckhefer Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Barbara Kappes, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Scalable Quantum Technologies Enabled By Hybrid Integration Of Quantum Dots Onto Silicon Photonics

• Dirk Robert Englund, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Simone Luca Portalupi, University of Stuttgart

Biomechanical Cues As Drivers Of Clonal Evolution: How 3d-positioning Affects Cancer Cell Fate

• Ming Guo, Class '54 Career Development Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Cristiana Lungu, University of Stuttgart

Hybrid Strategies For Stream Restoration

• Heidi Nepf, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Sebastian Schwindt, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems (IWS) at the University of Stuttgart

Smart Underground Space Exploration And Analysis - Susana

• Herbert Einstein, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Christoph Butscher, Technical University of Bergakademie Freiberg

Advancing Nuclear Fusion Via Machine Learning And Uncertainty Quantification

• Robert Granetz, Principal Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
• Udo Von Toussaint, Max Planck Institute For Plasma Physics

Machine Learning-assisted Side Channel Analysis Of Secure Hardware Systems

• Mengjia Yan, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Jean-Pierre Seifert, Technical University of Berlin

Battery-free Machine Learning

• Fadel Adib, Associate Professor, MIT Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization, MIT Media Lab & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Hamed Haddadi, Imperial College London

“Individual Pollution Exposure Doses” (Ipeds) - Personalized Air Quality Data For Behavioral Change And Civic Action

• Fabio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist, Urban Studies & Planning
• Gary Fuller, Imperial College London

Developing A New Technology For Low-cost Chemical Sensors For Environmental Monitoring

• Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Robert Hoye, Imperial College London

Nasca - Nature-based Solutions For Accelerating Climate Action

• Sergey Paltsev, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative
• Joeri Rogelj, Imperial College London

A Systems Approach To Zero Pollution: Integrating Atmospheric Modeling And Epidemiological Modeling To Assess Societal Effects Of Mixtures

• Noelle Selin, Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society & Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Jessica Laine, Imperial College London

Green Nitrate Electrosynthesis Using Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts

• Yang Shao-Horn, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ifan Stephens, Imperial College London

Magneto-optic Materials For Low Power Computing

• Timothy Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor, Chemistry
• Matthew Fuchter, Imperial College London

Accurate Optical Sensing For Efficient Fertilizer Use And Increased Yield In Small Farms

• Rajeev Ram, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Rajesh Kumar, Indian Institute for Technology Ropar

Uncovering The Design Parameter Space For 3d Microwoven Materials

• Carlos Portela, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering 
• Igor Berinskii, Tel Aviv University

Thermochemistry And Irradiation Damage Of Wtacrtiv Multi-principal Element Alloys (Mpeas) As Optimized Fusion Plasma Facing Materials

• Michael Short, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Shmuel Hayun, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

How To Stay In The Zone - Theoretically Motivated Intervention For Optimizing Attentional States

• Pattie Maes, Professor, Media Arts and Sciences 
• Ayelet N. Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Boosting Vision On The Go - Perceptual Learning Through Visuo-motor Engagement

• Pawan Sinha, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Roy Mukamel, Tel Aviv University

Launching The Technion Center For Computational Intelligence In Medicine

• Leo Anthony Celi, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Joachim Behar, Technion-IIT

Fundamentals And Applications Of Highly-polarizable Semiconductors

• Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Omer Yaffe, Weizmann Institute of Science

Extreme Black Hole Accretion

• Erin Kara, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Iair Arcavi, Tel Aviv University

Digital Glass, Traditional Materials And Architectural Memory

• Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Eran Sharon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nanoengineered Silk Bioelectronics

• Kripa Varanasi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ulyana Shimanovich, Weizmann Institute of Science

Uncertainty Quantification And Reduced Order Modelling For Advanced Nuclear Reactors Deployment

• Emilio Baglietto, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science & Engineering
• Gianluigi Rozza, SISSA

Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics Of Dissipative Quantum Systems

• Paola Cappellaro, Professor, Nuclear Science & Engineering & Physics
• Andrea Trombettoni, University of Trieste

A Bayesian Approach For Multi-fidelity Data Assimilation And Inverse Problems Enhanced By Roms

• Youssef Marzouk, Professor, Aeronautics and Astrophysics
• Gianluigi Rozza, SISSA

Coherent Magnon Spectroscopy With Optical And Euv Transient Gratings

• Keith Nelson, Haslam and Dewey Professor, Chemistry
• Filippo Bencivenga, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste

Ecological Macroeconomics For A Resilient & Inclusive Post-covid Transition

• Nicholas Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Tiziano Distefano, University of Pisa

Quantum Enhanced Techniques For Future Gravitational Wave Detectors

• Lisa Barsotti, Principal Research Scientist, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
• Francesco Fidecaro, University of Pisa

Enhancing Flow Boiling Chf Limits With Active And Passive Techniques

• Matteo Bucci, Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science & Engineering
• Paolo Di Marco, University of Pisa

Transnational Networks And Cognitive Remittances Using Big Data And Opal

• Alex Pentland, Toshiba Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Gabriele Tomei, University of Pisa

Investigation Of Dynamics And Structure Of Porous Polymers For Gas Separation Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

• Timothy Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor, Chemistry
• Francesca Martini, University of Pisa

Machine-learning Driven Diatom-inspired Design

• Markus Buehler, Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano

Towards The Smart Villages Of Italy

• Brent D. Ryan, Associate Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
• Giovanna Fossa, Politecnico di Milano

Analysis And Experiments To Explore The Potential Of Paraffin And Beeswax As Fuel For Small Satellites

• Danielle Wood, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences & Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Camilla Colombo, Politecnico di Milano

Superprotonic Conductivity In Metal-organic Frameworks For Proton-exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

• Mircea Dinca, W. M. Keck Professor, Chemistry
• Kyle Cordova, Royal Scientific Society

Ipsc And Crispr Gene Editing To Study Rare Diseases

• Ernest Fraenkel, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Nidaa Ababneh, University of Jordan

Use Of Distributed Low-cost Sensor Networks For Air Quality Monitoring In Amann, Jordan

• Jesse Kroll, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Tareq Hussein, University of Jordan

Radiation Effects On Medical Devices Made By 3d Printing

• Ju Li, Battelle Energy Alliance Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Belal Gharaibeh, University of Jordan

Mapping Urban Air Quality Using Mobile Low-coast Sensors And Geospatial Techniques

• Sarah Williams, Associate Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
• Khaled Hazaymeh, Yarmouk University

Low-cost Renewable-powered Electrodialysis Desalination And Drip Irrigation

• Amos Winter, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Samer Talozi, Jordan University of Science and Technology

Optimizing Small Modular Reactor Attributes To Support Global Decarbonization

• Koroush Shirvan, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering   
• Jeong Ik Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science andTechnology (KAIST)                                       

Raman Spectroscopy System Based On A Wavelength-tunable Laser

• Peter So, Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Biological Engineering
• Hongki Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science andTechnology (KAIST)

Clue: Using Smartphone And Air Quality Data To Explore Endocrine Disrupting Effects Caused By Air Pollution To Women Living In Mexico

• Fabio Duarte, Principal Research Scientist, Urban Studies & Planning
• Roberto Zagal-Flores, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Discovery Of Digital Biomarkers In Schizophrenia To Enable Global Collaborations In Mental Health And Ai

• Elazer R Edelman, Edward J. Poitras Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Adolfo Guzman Arenas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Defining Single-cell Epigenetic Landscapes In The Plant Female Germline

• Mary Gehring, Associate Professor, Biology
• Noé Valentín Durán Figueroa, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Carbon Capture Assessment For Naturally Recovering Forests In The Sierra Gorda

• Danielle Wood, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences & Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Joaquin Salas, Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Next Generation High-temperature Electrochemical Reactors For Renewable Fuel Production And Energy Storage

• Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Jose Manuel Serra, Instituto de Tecnología Química, Universitat Politècnica de València, CSIC

Recycling And Regenerating Silk Fabrics With Optimized Fiber Spinning

• Benedetto Marelli, Paul M Cook Career Development Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Begoña González de Prado, Universidade de Vigo

Streamlining The Conversion Of Wood Into Carbon Fibers

• Gareth McKinley, SoE Professor of Teaching Innovation, Mechanical Engineering
• Pablo Sanchez, Universidade de Vigo

Role Of Chipless Rfid In Efficiency Improvements Of Plastics Recycling

• Sanjay Sarma, Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Daniel Valderas, Universidad de Navarra

Smarten: A Peer To Peer Communication Infrastructure For Electricity Market

• Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
• Jesús Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Shrinking Electromagnetics Into A Simple Circuit: Advanced Cem Codes For 5g Applications

• Luca Daniel, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Valentin de la Rubia, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Sub-10 Ingaas Finfets For Thz

• Jesus del Alamo, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Jesus Grajal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

In Vivo Mri-based Diagnostics And Tracking Of Dementia

• Polina Golland, Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Bryan Strange, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Objective Evaluation Of Neurological Disorders From The Speech

• Stefanie Shattuk-Hufnagel, Principal Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics
• Juan Ignacio Godino Llorente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Pre To Post: Detailed Disaster Timelines To Improve Communication

• Miho Mazereeuw, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus