Past Seed Fund Winners

African Politicians Project Workshop

A collaboration between:

• Evan Lieberman, Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, Political Science 
• David Everatt, Head of School, University of Witwatersrand

Characterizing Molecular Mechanisms of Cutis Laxa through Multiscale Simulation and Experiment of Elastin

A collaboration between:

• Markus Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Anthony S. Weiss, Dr., University of Sydney

Enabling New Water Planning Regions with Data Analytics, Visualization, and DSS Tools

A collaboration between:

• James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor, Architecture
• Abubakr Muhammad, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Interrogating Isolated Active Sites in Lewis Acid Zeolites with NMR

A collaboration between:

• Yuriy Roman, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering  
• Irina Ivanova, Professor, Moscow State University

Measuring the Stored Energy Fingerprints of Radiation Damage

A collaboration between:

• Michael Short, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering 
• Oleg Maksimkin, Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics at Almaty

Novel Neuropathological Imaging in the Development of a Treatment for Stroke

A collaboration between:

• Myron Spector, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery (Biomaterials), Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology  
• Adriano Aguzzi, Director, University Hospital of Zurich

Promoting Urban Sustainability in the Russian Arctic

A collaboration between:

• Brent Ryan, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning  
• Ksenia Mokrushina, Director, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Resource-effective Materials Management: Developing Global Material Flows and Demand-Supply Forecasting

A collaboration between:

• Elsa Olivetti, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering 
• Daniel Müller, Professor of Material Flow Analysis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Search for Records of the Ancient Geodynamo from Zircons

A collaboration between:

• Benjamin Weiss, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences  
• Richard Harrison, Reader, University of Cambridge

General Fund Single Cell RNA-Sequencing of Peripheral Blood from Tuberculosis Patients in South Africa: Large-Scale Efforts to Discover Novel Immune Correlates of Disease and Diagnostic Biomarkers of Latent Infection

A collaboration between:

• Alex Shalek, Assistant Professor, Chemistry  
• Alasdair Leslie, Principal Investigator, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB-HIV

Automatic Transfer of 2D Materials to Flexible Substrates and Benchmarking as Chemical Sensors

A collaboration between:

• Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Akira Uedono, Professor, Tsukuba University
• Fernando Calle, Professor, Polytechnic University of Madrid

Dynamic Probing of Strain Dependent Electronic and Ionic Transport Properties in Oxides for Energy and Information Technologies

A collaboration between:

• Bilge Yildiz, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Necmi Biyikli, Assistant Professor Dr., Bilkent University
• Mehmet Yilmaz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bilkent University

Induced Pluripotent Stems Cells, Proteomics, and the Collagen Misfolding-Related Diseases

A collaboration between:

• Matthew Shoulders, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• John Bateman, Professor, Theme Director for Cell Biology, Group Leader for Skeletal Biology and Disease, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital

Microbial Diversity of Antarctic Lake Microbial Mats

A collaboration between:

• Roger Summons, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Ian Hawes, Professor, University of Canterbury,  NZ
• Anne Jungblut, The Natural History Museum

On the Hydrodynamics of Colloidal Gelation

A collaboration between:

• James Swan, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Jan Vermant, Professor, ETH - Zurich

Quantum Optoelectronics with 2D Materials

A collaboration between:

• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Professor, Physics
• Dirk Englund, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Frank Koppens, Assistant Professor, Institut de Ciències Fotòniques

Resonator Jordan

A collaboration between:

• Azra Aksamija, Assistant Professor, Architecture
• Dave Levin, Chief of Network Services, KIPP FOundation

Using Live Cell Infection Dynamics and Single Cell RNA-Seq to Understand M. Tuberculosis Latency and Reactivation

A collaboration between:

• Alex Shalek, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Alexander Sigal, Assistant Investigator, Kwazulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV; Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Using Mobile Technology for Viral Crop Disease Identification & Analysis

A collaboration between:

• Lalana Kagal, Principal Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Ernest Mwebaze, Lecturer of Computer Science, Makerere University
• John Quinn, Senior Lecturer, Makerere University

Valuing Sustainability in the Artic: Analysis of Discourse and Practice in Iceland

A collaboration between:

• Janelle Knox-Hayes, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Silja Bara Omarsdottir, Faculty Member, University of Iceland
• Pia Hansson, Director, University of Iceland

Cosmic Rays and the Heliosphere

A collaboration between:

• John Richardson, Principal Research Scientist, Physics
• John Belcher, Professor, Physics
• Marius Potgeiter, Professor, North-West University
• Stefan Ferreira, Professor, North-West University
• Roelf du Toit Strauss, North-West University

Demonstration of GaN Vertical Super Junction Device for Power Electronics

A collaboration between:

• Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Yuhao Zhang, PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Nicolas Grandjean, Full professor, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Insights into Past Southeast Asian Monsoon Variability from Vietnamese Stalagmites

A collaboration between:

• David McGee, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Hieu Nguyen, Professor, Vietnam National University - University of Science
• Nguyet Vu Thi Minh, Director, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

Mixing, Spreading and Reaction in Porous Media: Application to Managed Aquifer Recharge in Korea

A collaboration between:

• Ruben Juanes, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Seunghak Lee, Senior Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Precision Jet Physics for Higgs Boson Production

A collaboration between:

• Iain Stewart, Professor, Physics
• Frank Tackmann, Research Scientist, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg
• Wouter Waalewijn, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam

Resiliency Research in Metro Manila

A collaboration between:

• Mary Anne Ocampo, Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
• Stephen Gray, Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
• Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor, History
• Mary Ann Espina, Dean, University of the Philippines
• Mario Delos Reyes, Dean, University of the Philippines
• Yan Zhang, Senior Urban Economist, World Bank

Swapping Virus Across the Pond – Investigating the Pandemic Potential of Influenzas Shared Between Marine Mammals and Seabirds in Greenland and the East Atlantic

A collaboration between:

• Wendy Puryear, Research Scientist, Biological Engineering
• Jonathan Runstadler, Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering
• Rune Dietz, Professor, Aarhus University
• Christian Sonne, Research Professor MSO, Aarhus University

The Call of the Wild

A collaboration between:

• Harriet Ritvo, Professor, History
• Sally Shuttleworth, Professor, University of Oxford

Uncovering the Connectivity of Coral Reefs

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ryan Lowe, Professor, University of Western Australia
• Greg Ivey, Professor, University of Western Australia

Uncovering the Phenotypic and Functional Heterogeneity in the Human TB Granuloma

A collaboration between:

• Alex Shalek, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Alasdair Leslie, Principle Investigator and Assistant Professor, KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (K-RITH)

Critical Data Workshop 2014

A collaboration between:

• Roger Mark, Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Leo Celi, Senior Research Scientist, Health Sciences and Technology
• Thomas Brennan, Research Scientist, Health Sciences and Technology
• Djillali Annane, Professor in Medicine, University of Paris Versaille
• Mervyn Singer, Senior Lecturer, University College London

Elucidating How Adenoviral Evolution is Enabled By the Host Cell's Protein Folding Machinery

A collaboration between:

• Matthew Shoulders, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Rob Hoeben, Professor and Head of the Virus and Stem Cell Biology Lab, University of Leiden

Field Collaboration between MIT Terrascope Program and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

A collaboration between:

• Samuel Bowring, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Maarten de Wit, DirectorAEON (Africa Earth Observatory Network), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
• David Bell, Professor DST/NRF Research Chair in Earth Systems Science., NMMU

Governing physical principles for synthesis of composite hydrogels

A collaboration between:

• Patrick Doyle, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Huseyin Burak Eral, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering
• Paolo Oresta, Assistant Professor, INSTITUTION Polytechnic of Bari
• Francesco Fornarelli, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Salento

Loading Jammed Architectural Structures

A collaboration between:

• Skylar Tibbits, Architecture
• Matthias Kohler, Professor, ETH Zurich
• Fabio Gramazio, Professor, ETH Zurich

Mobile Diagnostic Tools for Early Detection and Monitoring of COPD in Rural India

A collaboration between:

• Richard Fletcher, Senior Research Scientist, N/A
• Rahul Kodgule, Chief Researcher, Clinical Staff, Chest Research Foundation

Mongolia and East Asia: Media Socialization in Blended Learning Groups

A collaboration between:

• Manduhai Buyandelger, Assistant Professor, Management
• Susan Silbey, Professor, Anthropology
• Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren, Professor, National University of Mongolia
• Bumochir Dulam, Professor, Department Chair, National University of Mongolia
• Enkhmunkh Zurgaanzhin, Principal, Sant Provate School

Monitoring Soil Moisture and Vegetation Health from Space

A collaboration between:

• Dara Entekhabi, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Kaighin McColl, Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Alexandra Konings, Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Mercè Vall-llossera, Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Maria Piles, Research Scientist, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Miriam Pablos, Ph.D. student, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• David Chaparro, Ph.D. student, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Paleoenvironmentary and Paleodietary Reconstruction of Early Hominin Sites

A collaboration between:

• Roger Summons, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Carolina Mallol Duque, Assistant Professor, Universidad de La Laguna
• Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo, Professor, Universidad Complutense

Advanced Neuromonitoring: Data, Algorithms, and Clinical Inference

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Heldt, Principal Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• George Verghese, Professor
• Nicola Toschi, Assistant Professor, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Biogeochemical Cycling and Metabolic Transformation of Sulfur in Extreme Environmental Conditions of Africa

A collaboration between:

• Shuhei Ono, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Harry Oduro, Research Scientist, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Joseph Fening, Professor (PhD), University of Science Technology
• Asfawossen Asrat, Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University

Changes in Global Air Quality Over the Last Quarter-Century: Analysis of Archived Aerosol Samples from Cape Grim, Australia

A collaboration between:

• Jesse Kroll, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Melita Keywood, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
• Paul Selleck, Analytical chemist, CSIRO

Direct and In-Situ Characterization of Surface Plasmons on Novel Complex Metal Nanostructures (DIPMeN)

A collaboration between:

• Silvija Gradecak, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Jordi Arbiol, ICREA Research Professor, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

Inhibition of Nucleation Through Surface Modification

A collaboration between:

• Allan Myerson, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Efrem Curcio, Assistant Professor, University of Calabria (UNICAL)
• Gianluca Di Profio, Researcher, Institute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council of Italy (ITM-CNR)

Integrated Care for Mental Health in Israel

A collaboration between:

• John Carroll, Professor, Management
• Wiljeana Glover
• Eitan Naveh, Associate Professor, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
• Margalit Goldfracht, Director of Quality Improvement, Clalit Health Services

Mitigating the Effects of Parkinson's Disease using a Smart Walker

A collaboration between:

• Steven Dubowsky, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Vered Aharonson, Senior Lecturer and Director of Afeka ACLP Laboratory, Afeka Academic College of Engineering
• Amos Korczyn, Professor of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Mobilizing for Adequate, Accessible, and Affordable (A3) Water and Sanitation Services

A collaboration between:

• Gabriella Carolini, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Anselmo Cani, Architect and Planning Lecturer, University of Eduardo Mondlane
• Filipe Zaqueu Manguele, Coordinator, Associacao dos Jovens Unidos da KaTembe

Precise Control of Drug Delivery Using a Lorentz-Force Actuated Needle-Free Jet Injector

A collaboration between:

• Ian Hunter, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• N. Catherine Hogan, Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
• Andrew Taberner, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland

Role of wild birds in the spread and maintenance of avian influenza virus in Egypt

A collaboration between:

• Islam Hussein, Senior Research Scientist, Biological Engineering
• Jonathan Runstadler, Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering
• Basma Sheta, PhD student and teaching assistant, Damietta University
• Lotfy Habbak, Assistant professor, Damietta University

Atomic Level View toward the Surfaces of Cathodes in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

A collaboration between:

• Bilge Yildiz, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
• John Kilner, B.C.H.Steele Professor of Energy Materials, Imperial College, United Kingdom

Graphene Plasmonics and Quantum Optoelectronics

A collaboration between:

• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Frank Koppens, Assistant Professor, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain

MIT-ITQ Valencia Collaboration on High-Throughput Methodology for the Synthesis of Catalytic Porous Materials

A collaboration between:

• Mircea Dinca, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Yuriy Roman, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Avelino Corma, Professor, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica de Valencia, Spain

Nanoengineered Surfaces and Coatings for Enhanced Water Recovery

A collaboration between:

• Kripa Varanasi, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Daniel Beysens, CEA and ESPCI-ParisTech, France
• Anne Mongruel, Universite Pierre Marie Curie (Paris 6), France

Probing a New Energy Frontier with Jets at the Large Hadron Collider

A collaboration between:

• Iain Stewart, Associate Professor, Physics
• Jesse Thaler, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Gavin Salam, Staff Scientist & Associate Researcher, CERN, Switzerland & LPTHE-CNRS, France
• Andre Hoang, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria

Scroll Expander Optimization for Solar Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Power Systems

A collaboration between:

• Harold Hemond, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Vincent Lemort, Professor, University of Liege, Belgium, Lesotho
• Kopano Tsenoli, Chief Engineer, Government of Lesotho, Lesotho

Searching for the Origin of Lunar Magnetism

A collaboration between:

• Benjamin Weiss, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Mark Wieczorek, Directeur de Recherche, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

Structured Control Law Design for Spacecraft Formation Flying: Application to SPHERES

A collaboration between:

• Alvar Saenz Otero, Research Scientist, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Kerri Cahoy, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Daniel Alazard, Professor, ISAE, France
• Caroline Bérard, Professor, ISAE, France

TIsHom: Tissue Homeostasis via Synthetic Biology

A collaboration between:

• Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Gregory Batt, Assistant Professor, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France

Prototypical Sustainable Residential Communities for Israel 2025

A collaboration between:

• Eran Ben-Joseph, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Tali Hatuka, Head Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Eran Neuman Chair, School of Architecture Tel Aviv University, Faculty of the Arts, Israel

Design of a Satellite Research Platform for Pollution Monitoring in Mexican Cities: Quetzal 1st Stage

A collaboration between:

• Paulo Lozano, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Saul Daniel Santillan-Gutierrez, Head of CAT, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Creative Capacity Building in Uganda

A collaboration between:

• Amy Smith, Senior Lecturer, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• John Bosco Aludi, Executive Director, Caritas Internationalis, Uganda
• Sharad Sapra, Country Director, UNICEF, Uganda

Graphene-Based Bioelectronics

A collaboration between:

• Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Jose Antonio Garrido, Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dielectrophoretic Selection of Microorganisms for Bioelectrochemical Systems

A collaboration between:

• Cullen Buie, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Korneel Rabaey, Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia

Developing a New Post-Extiction Model for the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction Event

A collaboration between:

• Rogers Summons, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scienes
• Julio Sepulveda, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scienes
• Laia Alegret, Professor, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

ODAS: Opinion Formation and Decision Making in Multi-Agent Social Networks

A collaboration between:

• John Tsitsiklis, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Media Arts and Sciences
• Julien Hendrickx, Assistant Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Vincent Blondel, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Co-Innovation: Bringing Rural Africa into the MIT Class, Taking the MIT Class to Rural Africa

• Clapperton Mavhunga, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society

Seeds of Reform: Analysis of Recent North Korean Civilian Economic Activity and its Implications for North Korean Integration into the Global Community

A collaboration between:

• Annette Kim, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Myoungkyu Park, Director and Professor Seoul National University, North Korea
• Byung-Yeon Kim, Head of Division of Unification Studies and Professor Seoul National University, North Korea

Fundamental Growth Studies of Carbon Nanotubes from Revolutionary Non-Metallic Catalysts

A collaboration between:

• Brian Wardle, Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Stephan Hofmann, Professor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mechanobiology of Blood Vessel Cells after Stent Implantation by Using Microparticles

A collaboration between:

• Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Biological Engineering
• José A. Bea-Cascarosa, Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Empower the Teachers

A collaboration between:

• Charles Sodini, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Bertram Shi Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Victor Li, Associate Dean of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

From the Lab to the Ocean: Assessing the Impact of Continental Shelves on Internal Tides

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Greg Ivey Winthrop, Professor University of Western Australia, Australia

Users as Designers: Rapid Prototyping of Alternative Prostheses in Jaipur, India

A collaboration between:

• Amy Smith, Lecturer, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Neil Gershenfeld, Professor, MIT Department of Media Arts and Sciences
• Pooja Sandeepan, Jaipur Foot Organization, India

Biophysical Analyses of Fibronectin Isoforms Relevant to Vascular Development

A collaboration between:

• Richard Hynes, Professor, MIT Department of Biology
• Kaan Certel, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
• Viola Vogel, Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Domenick Grasso, Postdoctoral Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Regional, Economic, and Environmental Implications of Dual Ethanol Technologies in Brazil

A collaboration between:

• Karen Polenske, Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Joaquim Guilhoto, Head, Department of Economics, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Spring School on Methods and Tools for Computational Engineering (March 2009)

A collaboration between:

• Markus J. Buehler, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Marek Behr, Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

University of Queensland MIT STEM Instrumentation Project

A collaboration between:

• Steven Lerman, Vice Chancellor and Dean for Graduate Education, Prof. CEE, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Jesus del Alamo, Donner Professor, Mac Vicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
• Phillip Long, Professor of Innovation and Technology, University of Queensland, Australia

Nanotechnological Studies of Stem-Cell Based Engineered Tissues for Intervertebral Disc Regeneration

A collaboration between:

• Christine Ortiz, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Alan Grodzinsky, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Dan Gazit, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Haddassah Medical Center, Israel

Sports Innovation Collaboration with Longborough University

A collaboration between:

• J. Kim Vandiver, Professor, Dean for Undergraduate Research, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Kim Blair, Director Sports Innovation @ MIT, MIT Edgerton Center; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Michael Caine, Professor, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Origin and Evolutionary Dynamics of H3N2 Influenza Virus A/Fujian/411/02

A collaboration between:

• Jianzhu Chen, Professor, MIT Department of Biology
• Taijiao Jiang, Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Origin of Conical Stromatolites: Experiments, Theory, Observations

A collaboration between:

• Tanja Bosak, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Daniel Rothman, Professor of Geophysics, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Andrey Maslov, Doctor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Instantons and Holomorphic bundles

A collaboration between:

• Katrin Wehrheim, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Marcos Jardim, Professor Associado, UNICAMP - IMECC, Brazil

From Regulation to Performance: Improving Industrial Pollution Regulations in India

A collaboration between:

• Esther Duflo, Professor, MIT Department of Economics
• Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, MIT Department of Economics
• Thomas Bossuroy, Head, Institute for Financial Management and Research, India

Performing (Fan) Cultures: MIT Dance Theater Ensemble in Tokyo

A collaboration between:

• Thomas DeFrantz, Professor, MIT Department of Music and Theater Arts/Women's and Gender Studies
• Ian Condry, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
• Sachio Ichimura, Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

Chinese Science in Context: A Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of the Social Organization of Scientists and their Laboratories

A collaboration between:

• Fiona Murray, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Yasheng Huang, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Drone Based Construction of Timber Space Structures

A collaboration between:

• Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor, Architecture 
• Pierre Latteur, Professor, UCL

Superconducting Magnet Topology Optimization

A collaboration between:

• Joseph Minervini, Assistant Director, Plasma Science & Fusion Center
• Bruno Dehez, Associate Professor, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

Technological Fluency through Creative Learning: Addressing Inequities in Belgian Children's Educational Trajectories

A collaboration between:

• Natalie Rusk, Research Scientist & Scratch Learning Lead, Media Arts and Sciences 
• Neda Bebiroglu, Research Scientist, University College London

Microfluidic Platforms for Multifunctional Heterogeneous Catalysts Engineering

A collaboration between:

• Klavs Jensen, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Alain Jonas, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain
• Antony Fernandes, Université catholique de Louvain

Mixed Redox Centers in MOFs: towards High Performance Energy Storage Systems

A collaboration between:

• Mircea Dinca, Associate Professor, Chemistry
• Alexandru Vlad, Associate Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)

Optimization and Control Techniques Applied to New Computational Challenges

A collaboration between:

• Pablo Parrilo, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Raphaël Jungers, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain

Drone-Based Additive Manufacturing of Architectural Structures

A collaboration between:

• Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor, Architecture
• Pierre Latteur, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain

First-Order Methods in Convex Optimization, with Applications to Big Data Issues

A collaboration between:

• Robert Freund, Professor, Management
• Yurii Nesterov, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain

Convex Relaxation and Wave-Based Imaging

A collaboration between:

• Laurent Demanet, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
• Laurent Jacques, Professor and F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate, UCL
• Benoit Macq, Professor, prorecteur, UCL

Energy Efficient Artificial Leg

A collaboration between:

• Hugh Herr, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Renaud Ronsse, Associate Professor, Universite catholique de Louvain
• Bruno Dehez, Associate Professor, Universite catholique de Louvain

Vibrational Spectroscopy: a Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach

A collaboration between:

• Gerbrand Ceder, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Mildred Dresselhaus, Professor, Physics
• Gian-Marco Rignanese, Professor, Universite Catholique de Louvain
• Jean-Christophe Charlier, Professeur ordinaire, Universite Catholique de Louvain
• Xavier Gonze, Professeur ordinaire, Universite Catholique de Louvain

Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC

A collaboration between:

• Jesse Thaler, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Fabio Maltoni, Professeur, Université catholique de Louvain

Property Rights From Below: Rethinking Property Rights Over Natural Resources

A collaboration between:

• Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Olivier De Schutter, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain
• An Ansoms, Lecturer, Université catholique de Louvain

Understanding Social Mobilization Through Timing

A collaboration between:

• Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Julien Hendrickx, Assistant Professor, Université catholique de Louvain

Development of Co-Crystal Applications: Co-Crystallization as a Purification Tool

A collaboration between:

• Allan Myerson, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Bernhardt L. Trout, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Tom Leyssens, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium

Nonnegative, Positive Semidefinite and Cone Ranks: Algebraic, Geometric, and Complexity Aspects

A collaboration between:

• Pablo Parrilo, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• François Glineur, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium

Properties of High-Technology Materials at the Nanoscale

A collaboration between:

• Gerbrand Ceder, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Mildred Dresselhaus, Professor, Physics
• Xavier Gonze, Professeur ordinaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Jean-Christophe Charlier, Professeur ordinaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Role of Planar Polarity Protein Celsr1 in Adult Neural Stem Cells

A collaboration between:

• Li-Huei Tsai, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Andre Goffinet, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Fadel Tissir, Chercheur Qualifié FNRS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

MIT-Chile - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Seed Fund

Participatory Design for Sustainable Public Transportation Planning: Applications in Different Socio-cultural Contexts

A collaboration between:     

• Chris Zegras, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Patricia Galilea, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica

Studying MOOC-based Hybrid Learning Initiatives: Analyzing Curriculum Alignment and Institutional Implications

A collaboration between:     

• David Pritchard,  Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Physics
• María del Mar Perez-Sanagustin, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica

Wave Scattering in Complex Media: Application to Source Identification in Copper Mines

A collaboration between:     

• Laurent Demanet, Associate Professor, Mathematics
• Carlos Jerez-Hanckes, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica

MIT-Chile - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Seed Fund

Design Without a Discipline   

 A collaboration between:     

• George Stiny, Professor, Architecture         
• Alexandros Tsamis, Professor, Director Post Professional Studies, Adolfo Ibanez University

Igneous Tectonics  

 A collaboration between:     

• Cristina Parreno, Lecturer, Architecture         
• Sergio Araya, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

MIT-Chile - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Seed Fund

Changes in Cerebrospinal Fluid during Amphibian Nervous System Regeneration

A collaboration between:

• Hazel Sive, Professor, Biology
• Juan Larrain, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Experimental and Numerical Analysis on Sheet Formability in Deep Drawing Processes

A collaboration between:

• Tomasz Wierzbicki, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Diego Celentano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

High-Resolution Analysis for Last-Mile Operations

A collaboration between:

• Edgar Blanco, Principal Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Ricardo Giesen, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

High-Throughput In Vivo Zebrafish Screening Platform

A collaboration between:

• M. Fatih Yanik, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Julio Amigo, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Improving Copper Electrowinning Eficiency at High Altitudes

A collaboration between:

• Donald Sadoway, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Alvaro Videla, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Technology and Sustainability of the Chilean Manufacturing Industry Related to Mining Equipment

A collaboration between:

• Timothy Gutowski, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Jorge Ramos, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

MIT-Chile - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Seed Fund

Biomimetic Design Inspired on Chitons Structural Articulated Armor

A collaboration between:

• Christine Ortiz, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Ekaterina Zolotovsky, Research Assistant, Materials Science and Engineering
• Sergio Araya, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Cedric Little, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Research on Biomaterials in Architecture

A collaboration between:

• John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Sergio Araya, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Synthetic Biology Platform

A collaboration between:

• Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Jonathan Babb, Research Associate, Biological Engineering
• Deepak Mishra, Graduate Fellow, Biological Engineering
• Cedric Little, Professor, Director, Bioengineering Innovation Center, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Sergio Araya, Professor, Director Design Lab School of Design, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Ana Zuniga, Post Doctorando, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

MIT-Chile - Universidad Diego Portales Seed Fund

School Choice Reform in Chile

A collaboration between:

• Nikhil Agarwal, Assistant Professor, Economics
• Parag Pathak, Professor, Economics
• Alonso Bucarey, Graduate Student, Economics
• Gregory Elacqua, Director, Universidad Diego Portales

MIT-Chile - Unviersidad Técnica Federico Santa María Seed Fund

Magnetic Relaxation Phenomena in Ferromagnetic Thin Films with Tilted Anisotropy

A collaboration between:

• Caroline Ross, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Carlos Garcia, Associate Professor, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
• Pedro Landeros, Assistant Professor, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
• Rodolfo Gallardo, PostDoc, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Numerical Modeling and Other Engineering Tools for the Ambulatory Assessment of Vocal Function

A collaboration between:

• John V. Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Robert E. Hillman, Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Matías Zañartu, Associate Professor (AI), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
• Juan Yuz, Associate Professor, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

MIT-Chile Seed Fund

Assistive Technologies for Healthcare - Phase II

A collaboration between:

• John Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Dorothy Curtis, Research Scientist
• Esteban Pino, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Concepcion
• Pablo Aqueveque, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Concepcion

Developing Affordable Strategies for Crowdsourced Sensing for Disease and Environmental Monitoring

A collaboration between:

• Lee Gehrke, Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Jose Gomez Marquez, Instructor
• Anna Young, Instructor
• Jose Manuel Robles, Dean, Universidad del Desarrollo
• Camilo Rodriguez Beltran, Head of Innovation and Associate Professor, Universidad del Desarrollo

Effects of Analgesia in Electroencephalographic Indicators of Pain Perception

A collaboration between:

• Emery Brown, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Jose Egana, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile

Measuring Em-Préndete: Developing Alternative Metrics for Economic and Social Outcomes in Southern Chile

A collaboration between:

• J. Phillip Thompson, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Ester Fecci, Professor; Director of the Centro de Emprendizaje, Universidad Austral de Chile
• Guy Boisier, Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile

MIT-Chile - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Seed Fund

Cholesterol is Bad for Eggs as Much as Eggs are Bad for Cholesterol

A collaboration between:

• Monty Krieger, Professor, Biology
• Dolores Busso, Professor, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Attilio Rigotti, Professor, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Phase-Two: Development, Characterization and Optimization of Hybrid Solar Energy Conversion Systems: Phase 2

A collaboration between:

• Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Amador Guzman, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Rodrigo Escobar, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Sergio Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Andres Diaz, Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales

Smoke-Free Legislation and Heart Attack Incidence in Chile

A collaboration between:

• Jeffrey Harris, Professor, Economics
• Ramón Corbalán, Profesor Titular, Pontificia Universidad Catolica
• Carolina Nazzal, Profesor Asistente, Universidad de Chile

Solar Integration in the Chilean Energy System

A collaboration between:

• Robert Armstrong, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Hugh Rudnick, Emeritus Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• David Watts, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Matias Negrete-Pincetic, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Urban Public Transport Operations Planning and Control

A collaboration between:

• Nigel Wilson, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Juan Carlos Muñoz-Abogabir, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

MIT-Chile - Universidad Adolfo Ibanez Seed Fund

From Natural Exoskeleton to Design

A collaboration between:

• Christine Ortiz, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Sergio Araya, Professor, Director Design Lab School of Design, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Synthetic Biology Platform

A collaboration between:

• Ron Weiss, Associate Professor, Biological Engineering
• Jonathan Babb, Research Associate, Biological Engineering
• Deepak Mishra, Graduate Fellow, Biological Engineering
• Cedric Little, Profesor Asistente, Director Centro de Innovacion en Bioingenieria, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Sergio Araya, Professor, Director Design Lab School of Design, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Ana Zuniga, Post Doctorando, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

MIT-Chile - Universidad Diego Portales Seed Fund

Mobile Content Centric Networks

A collaboration between:

• Hari Balakrishnan, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Diego Dujovne, Professor, Universidad Diego Portales

MIT-Chile - Unviersidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

Voice Health Monitoring: Developing Measures of Ambulatory Voice Quality and Dysphonia

A collaboration between:

• John V. Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Robert E. Hillman, Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Matías Zañartu, Academic Research Associate, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
• Agustín González, Assistant Professor, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

MIT-Chile Seed Fund

A New Fundamental Insight on Noble Metal Electrodeposition

A collaboration between:

• Antoine Allanore, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Tomas Vargas, Associate Professor, University of Chile
• Melanie Colet, Instructor Professor, University of Chile

A New In vitro Migration Assay for Functional Isolation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Subpopulation (MSCs) and Therapeutic Quality Control

A collaboration between:

• Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Juan Pablo Acevedo Cox, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes
• Mauron Khoury, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes

Analysis of Copiapo's Water Metabolism with the Aim to Propose Water Deficit Mitigation Strategies

A collaboration between:

• John Lienhard, Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
• John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Maria Christina Fragkou, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
• Barbara Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor, Universidad de Chile

Collaborative Decision-Making in the Realm of Hydropower Projects in Southern Chile - Phase II

A collaboration between:

• Lawrence Susskind, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Teodoro Kausel, Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile

Effects of Built Environment and Land Use Factors on Child Pedestrian Crashes in Santiago, Chile

A collaboration between:

• Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Carola Blazquez, Associate Professor, Universidad Andres Bello

Long Term Components of an Integrated, Microsimulation and Agent-Based Model of Urban Systems and Land Use

A collaboration between:

• Moshe Ben-Akiva, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Joseph Ferreira, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• C. Angelo Guevara, Research Professor, Universidad de los Andes
• Francisco Martínez, Professor, Universidad de Chile

Megacity Logistics Lab - Profiling Santiago de Chile

A collaboration between:

• Chris Caplice, Principal Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Edgar Blanco, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Julio Villalobos, Director, Universidad Andrés Bello

MIT-Chile Collaboration for Medical Text Summarization for Patient Literacy

A collaboration between:

• John Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Dorothy Curtis, Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• John Atkinson, Professor, Universidad de Concepcion
• Javier Vidal, Associate Professor, Universidad de Concepcion

Multiferroic Materials and Their Applications: Experiments and Theoretical Simulations

A collaboration between:

• Caroline Ross, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Patricio Vargas Cantin, Doctor Physical Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
• Juan Manuel Florez Uribe, Doctor Physical Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Structural Analysis of Knowledge Complexity

A collaboration between:

• César A. Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Marcelo Mendoza, PhD, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

MIT-Chile - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Seed Fund

Assessing the Impact of Labor Flexibility in Shift Scheduling

A collaboration between:

• David Simchi-Levi, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Juan-Carlos Ferrer, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Juan-Carlos Muñoz, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Designing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridors

A collaboration between:

• Jan Wampler, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Rosanna Forray Claps, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Rocio Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Development, Characterization and Optimization of Hybrid Solar Energy Conversion Systems

A collaboration between:

• Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Rishi Raj,  Mechanical Engineering
• Amador Guzman, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Rodrigo Escobar, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Modeling and Simulation of Wire Forming Processes

A collaboration between:

• Raúl Radovitzky, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Diego Celentano,Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Daniel Hurtado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Mining Project Risk Management (MPRM)

A collaboration between:

• Roy Welsch, Professor, Management
• Alexander Samarov, Research Scientist, Management
• Jose Botin, Professor and Chair, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)
• Ronald Guzman, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)

New Color Centers for Metrology and Quantum Information Applications

A collaboration between:

• Paola Cappellaro, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Jeronimo Maze, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Reconstructing Climate Change in Chile Over the Last 11,000 Years

A collaboration between:

• David McGee, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Roger Summons, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Claudio Latorre, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Blas Valero Garces, Research Professor, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia (Pyrenean Institute of Ecology)

The Fog Harvesting Challenge

A collaboration between:

• Gareth McKinley, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Robert Cohen, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Juan de Dios Rivera, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Pilar Cereceda, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Theoretical and Practical Issues in Convex Optimization

A collaboration between:

• Robert Freund, Professor, Management
• Jorge Vera, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Fernando Ordóñez, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile
• Enzo Sauma, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

What can Twitter Teach Us About Social Protests?: Discovering the Global Connections of the Chilean Student Movement through Network Analysis

A collaboration between:

• Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, Management
• Cristobal Garcia, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Marisa von Bülow, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

MIT-Chile - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Seed Fund

Advanced Decomposition Techniques for Non-Linear Optimization

A collaboration between:

• Juan Pablo Vielma, Assistant Professor, Management
• Marcos Goycoolea, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
• Eduardo Moreno, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Introduction to Synthetic Biology Course at UAI-CHILE

A collaboration between:

• Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Jonathan Babb, Biological Engineering
• Sergio Araya, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Cedric Little, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Real-Time Metropolitan Atlas of Chile: Defining Urban Structure Through Digital Social Networks

A collaboration between:

• Marta Gonzalez, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Dennis Frenchman, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Luis Valenzuela, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Ricardo Trufello, Geographer, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Understanding the Social Impact of Exogenous Shocks to the Urban Environment

A collaboration between:

• César A. Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Dennis Frenchman, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Luis Valenzuela, DDes, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
• Sergio Araya, PhD, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

MIT-Chile Seed Fund

Collaborative Decision-making in the Realm of Hydropower Projects in Southern Chile

A collaboration between:

• Lawrence Susskind, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Teodoro Kausel, Auxiliar Professor, Economics and Administration Faculty Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
• Jose Aylwin, Adjunct Professor of Indigenous Law, Faculty of Juridical and Social Studies Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile

Information Technologies for Supporting Disaster Relief Operations in Chile

A collaboration between:

• Jarrod Goentzel, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Yossi Sheffi, Professor, Engineering Systems Division
• Raquel Jimenez, Master of Science, Andres Bello University, Chile
• Nicolas Bronfman,  Andres Bello University, Chile

MIT-Chile Collaboration for Assistive Technologies in HealthCare

A collaboration between:

• John Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Dorothy Curtis
• Esteban Pino, Assistant Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile
• Pablo Aqueveque, Assistant Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile

Phasing the Atacama Large Telescope Array for Observing a Black Hole Event Horizon

A collaboration between:

• Sheperd Doeleman, Principal Research Scientist, Physics
• Neil Nagar, Professor, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

Relating the Structure and Acoustical Properties of Solid-State Interfaces

A collaboration between:

• Michael Demkowicz, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Fernando Lund, Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Nicolas Mujica, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Roadmap to Internationalize and Orient Engineering Education towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Collaboration

A collaboration between:

• Dava J. Newman, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Juan Carlos de la Llera, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• Andrea Detmer, Deputy Director for Innovation, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• Pedro Bouchon, Associate Professor and Director for Research, Innovation and Graduate Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

The Biogeochemistry of the Oxygen Minimum Zone of Northern Chile in a Warming World: Present and Past Evolution Using Novel Lipid Biomarkers

A collaboration between:

• Roger Summons, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Julio Sepulveda, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Carina Lange, Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile
• Silvio Pantoja, Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile

The Development of Ambulatory Biofeedback Approaches to More Effectively Treat Common Voice Disorders

A collaboration between:

• John V. Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Robert E. Hillman, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Matias Zanartu, Academic Research Associate, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile
• Agustin Gonzalez, Professor, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile

Urban Metabolism of the Talca Region of Chile

A collaboration between:

• John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Eduardo Aguirre, Professor, Universidad de Talca, Chile

MIT-Chile - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Seed Fund

Damage to Chilean High-rise Buildings During Large Thrust Earthquakes

A collaboration between:

• Eduardo Kausel, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Juan Carlos de la Llera, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• Rosita Junemann, Ph.D. Candidate, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Enhancing Sustainability of Concrete by Using High-Volume Fly Ash as SCM in Cement Paste and for Low Cost Production LWA

A collaboration between:

• Franz-Josef Ulm, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Mauricio Lopez, Assistant Professor, PhD, MSc, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
• Carlos Videla Javier Castro, Assistant Professor,Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile

Environmentally-Adaptive Vision-Based Navigation

A collaboration between:

• Nicholas Roy, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Alvaro Soto, Profesor Asociado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Implementing Bus Rapid Transit: Institutional Dimensions

A collaboration between:

• P. Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Manuel Tironi, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Information on Vocational Education in Chile

A collaboration between:

• Esther Duflo, Professor, Economics
• David Autor, Professor, Economics
• Francisco Gallego, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Nitrogen Fixation in the Polar Ocean and its Contribution to Global Nitrogen Budgets

A collaboration between:

• Martin Polz, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Beatriz Eugenia Diez Moreno, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Role of the Good Cholesterol HDL in Female Fertility

A collaboration between:

• Monty Krieger, Professor, Biology
• Ayce Yesilaltay, Research Scientist, Biology
• Attilio Rigotti, Pontificia Universidad Católica, School of Medicine, Chile
• Dolores Busso, Pontificia Universidad Católica, School of Medicine, Chile

Sparse Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cardiovascular Applications

A collaboration between:

• Elfar Adalsteinsson, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Pablo Irarrazaval, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
• Cristian Tejos, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

The Fog Harvesting Challenge

A collaboration between:

• Gareth McKinley, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Robert Cohen, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Juan de Dios Rivera, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
• Pilar Cereceda, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Urban Public Transport Operations Control

A collaboration between:

• Nigel Wilson, Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Juan-Carlos Muñoz, Associate professor, Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

MIT-Chile - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Seed Fund

Compose_It House. Robotic Fabrication for Architectural Applications.

A collaboration between:

• Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Alexandros Tsamis, Associate professor, Adolfo Ibanez University, Chile

Synthetic Biology Design Project

A collaboration between:

• Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Sergio Araya, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile
• Manuel Gidekel, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Developing a Game-based MOOC

A collaboration between:

• Eric Klopfer, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning  
• Francois Taddei, Director of Research, Center de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI)

Exosomes Isolation and Sorting: A New Platform for Cancer Diagnosis

A collaboration between:

• Scott Manalis, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor, Biological Engineering 
• Vincent Agache, Research Scientist, CEA/LETI

Preserving and Understanding the Amerindian Microbial Heritage

A collaboration between:

• Eric Alm, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Laure Segurel, Research Associate, Musée de l’Homme

Shear-Induced Structuration of Attractive Dispersions

A collaboration between:

• Swan James, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Sébastien Manneville, Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Understanding the Atmospheric Evolution of Organic Carbon Using State-of-the-Art Measurement and Modeling Tools

A collaboration between:

• Jesse Kroll, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering  
• Bernard Aumont, Professor, Université Paris Est Créteil

Biomimetic Wing Morphing

A collaboration between:

• Michael S. Triantafyllou, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Marianna Braza, Director of Research, CNRS, Universite de Toulouse

In-core Insturmentation Development Collaboration between MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, CEA and Aix-Marseille University

A collaboration between:

• Gordon Kohse, Principal Research Scientist,
• Abdallah Lyoussi, Proffesseur INSTN, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
• Christelle Reynard-Carette, Maitre de Conferences, Universite de Aix-Marseille

Phonological Typology and Learnability

A collaboration between:

• Donca Steriade, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Adam Albright, Associate Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Juliet Stanton, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Giorgio Magri, Researcher, CNRS

Planning Data Analysis for Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with ELISA 

A collaboration between:

• Scott Hughes, Professor, Physics
• Edward Porter, Charge de Recherche 1ere Classe, Universite Paris Diderot

Probe the Quark Gluon Plasma with Charm and Beauty Quarks

A collaboration between:

• Yen-Jie Lee, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Matthew Nguyen, Chargé de recherche (staff scientist), Ecole Polytechnique

Serious Games for Innovation

A collaboration between:

• Scot Osterweil, Research Scientist, Comparative Media Studies
• Hélène Michel, Professor, Director of the Chair: "Serious Games & Innovation", Grenoble Ecole de Management

Smart Electron Sources

A collaboration between:

• Tayo Akinwande, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Stephen Purcell, CNRS

The Sickle Cell Disease Trait in Blood Transfusion

A collaboration between:

• Ming Dao, Principal Research Scientist, Materials Science and Engineering
• Sabia Abidi, Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Science and Engineering
• Olivier Hermine, Director, Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex
• Pierre Buffet, Group Leader "Erythrocytes Parasites Pathogenesis", Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) Paris 6

Two-dimensional Interface Growth and Anisotropic KPZ Equation

A collaboration between:

• Alexei Borodin, Professor, Mathematics
• Fabio Lucio Toninelli, CNRS and Université Lyon 1

Creep and Brittle Rupture of Biopolymer Gels

A collaboration between:

• Gareth McKinley, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Thibaut Divoux, Tenured CNRS scientist, CNRS
• Sébastien Manneville, Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

Development of Ultra-high Sensitivity Magnetometry for Analyzing Ancient Rock Magnetism

A collaboration between:

• Eduardo Andrade Lima, Principal Research Scientist, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Benjamin Weiss, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

• Laurent Baratchart, Directeur de Recherche, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

High Temperature Liquid Repellant Surfaces

A collaboration between:

• Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Brian Solomon, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
• David Quéré, Directeur de Recherches, ESPCI ParisTech & École Polytechnique

Influence of the Antarctic Continent on the Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Mercury

A collaboration between:

• Noelle Selin, Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems Division
• Aurélien Dommergue, Head, Department of Atmospheric and Snow Chemistry, University Grenoble Alpes

Migration Networks among Russian Computer Scientists

A collaboration between:

• David Kaiser, Professor, Science, Technology, and Society
• Vincent Lepinay, Associate Professor, Sciences Po

Silica-supported Cyclometaphosphate Organometallics as Heterogeneous Selective Oxidation Catalysts

A collaboration between:

• Christopher Cummins, Professor, Chemistry

• Elsje Quadrelli, CNRS

Tunable Hydrogels with Engineered Relaxation Time Scales

A collaboration between:

• Niels Holten-Andersen, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Martin Lenz, CNRS

Unraveling Nuclear Dynamics and Organization with Single Molecule Imaging and Computational Modeling

A collaboration between:

• Leonid Mirny, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Maxime Dahan, Research Director CNRS, Director of the Laboratoire Physico-Chimie (the Biophysics Department at Institut Curie), Institut Curie

France: Media Socialization and Blended Learning Communities

A collaboration between:

• Susan Silbey, Professor, Anthropology
• Graham Jones, Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Emmanuel Grimaud, Associate Research Professor, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense/ CNRS

Fundamental Fluid mechanics of Fragmentation: Pathogens at the Interface

A collaboration between:

• Lydia Bourouiba, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Emmanuel Villermaux, Professor, Universite de Provence and Institut Universitaire de France

Promoting and Exploiting Low-Dimensional Structure in Bayesian Data Assimilation

A collaboration between:

• Youssef Marzouk, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Lionel Mathelin, Research scientist, CNRS

The Propagation and Interaction of Colliding Astrophysical Jets

A collaboration between:

• Richard Petrasso, Senior Research Scientist,
• Chikang Li, Senior Research Scientist,
• Michel Koenig, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, CNRS–CEA–Université Paris VI–Ecole Polytechnique

From Frustrated Failure to Functionality: Tailoring Crack Paths By Geometrical and Localized Constraints

A collaboration between:

• Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Daniel Bonamy, CEA Researcher, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
• Benoit Roman, Chargé de Rercherches, Ph.D., CEA-SACLAY (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique)

Genome in 3D: Fractal and Topological Properties of DNA Folding

A collaboration between:

• Leonid Mirny, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Serguei Nechaev, CNRS, University Paris-Sud

Investigating the Influence of Background Rotation and Complex Stratification on Arctic Internal Waves

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Philippe Odier, Associate Professor, ENS de Lyon

Jets and Medium: Tomography of Quark-Gluon Plasma

A collaboration between:

• Gunther Roland, Professor, Physics
• Matteo Cacciari, Professeur des universites, Universite Paris 7
• Gregory Soyez, CNRS Associate Scientist, CEA Saclay

Metabolic Pathway Engineering of Ralstonia Eutropha for Biofuel Production from Inexpensive Carbon Source

A collaboration between:

• Anthony Sinskey, Professor, Biology
• Christopher Brigham, Research Scientist, Biology
• Stephane Guillouet, Associate Professor, INSA Toulouse
• Nathalie Gorret, Research Scientist, INRA

Microfluidic Technologies to Created Gel Microbead Bioarrays

A collaboration between:

• Patrick Doyle, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Charles Baroud, Professeur Chargé de Cours (Associate Professor), Ecole Polytechnique

Micro-Mechanical Modeling of Natural Granular Media

A collaboration between:

• Ken Kamrin, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Franck Radjai, Directeur de Recherche 1iere Classe, CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) and University Montpellier 2
• Jean-Yves Delenne, Directeur de Recherche 2ieme Classe, CNRS and INRA (Institut National de Recherche Agro-Alimentaire)

Nanofluidics and Nanomechanics of Plasmodium Falciparum Rosetting

A collaboration between:

• Ming Dao, Principal Research Scientist, Materials Science and Engineering
• Monica Diez-Silva, Research Scientist, Matierals Science and Engineering
• Odile Mercereau-Puijalon, Director, Institut Pasteur
• Inès Vigan-Womas, Institut Pasteur

Combined Growth and Electron Tomography Studies of Nanowire Heterostructures: From Basic Properties to Advanced Applications

A collaboration between:

• Silvija Gradecak, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Narciso Gambacorti, Nanocharacterization Program Manager, CEA, France
• Georg Haberfehlner, PhD student, CEA, France

Coiling Spaghetti: Periodic Patterns in the Deposition of a Thin Filament onto a Moving Substrate

A collaboration between:

• Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Basile Audoly, Chargé de Recherches, CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France

Quantum Mechanics on a Macroscopic Scale

A collaboration between:

• John W.M. Bush, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Tristan Gilet, Instructor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Emmanuel Fort, Associate Professor, Université Paris Diderot/ ESPCI ParisTech, France
• Yves Couder, Professor Emeritus, Université Paris Diderot, France

The Mathematics of Liouville Quantum Gravity

A collaboration between:

• Scott Scheffield, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Bertrand Duplantier, Directeur de Recherche, CEA, France

Who Will Serve? Recruiting and Retention in Contemporary All-Volunteer Forces

A collaboration between:

• Cindy Williams, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for International Studies
• Bastien Irondelle, Research Fellow, Sciences Po Paris, France
• Martial Foucault, Associate Researcher/ Assistant Professor University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sarbonne/ University of Montreal, France

Do Interactions Between Turbulence and Motility Generate Phytoplankton Patchiness?

A collaboration between:

• Roman Stocker, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Eric Climent, Professor, University of Toulouse, France

Unlocking the Secret of Water Confined in Cementitious Materials: Computational Simulation of Water in Cement Nanopores

A collaboration between:

• Krystyn Van Vliet, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Roland Pellenq, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Centre Interdisciplinaire des Nanosciences de Marseille (CINAM, CNRS), France

Flexible Objects in Granular Media

A collaboration between:

• Anette Hosoi, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Evelyne Kolb, Maître de conférences, University Paris 6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, ESPCI, France

Realistic Laboratory Modeling of Three-Dimensional Internal Tide Generation

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Sylvain Joubaud, Assistant Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
• Thierry Dauxois, CNRS Directeur de Recherche, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Eukaryotic Life in the Aftermath of the First Neoproterozoic Global Freeze

A collaboration between:

• Tanja Bosak, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Anders Meibom, Professor, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle France

Numerical Simulation and Quantum Adiabatic Algorithms

A collaboration between:

• Edward Farhi, Professor, MIT Department of Physics
• Florent Krzakala, Assistant Professor, CNRS et de l’ESPCI ParisTech, France
• Alberto Rosso, Assistant Professor, Universite Paris-Sud, France

The Comédie-Française Registers Project

A collaboration between:

• Jeffrey Ravel, Associate Professor, MIT Department of History
• Christian Biet, Professor, Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, France
• Agathe San Juan, Director, Comédie-Française Archives Comédie-Française, France

Predictive Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields

A collaboration between:

• David Kaiser, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society; Physics
• David Jones, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society
• Pablo Jensen, Director of Research CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France
• Andrei Mogoutov, Researcher, Universite Paris Est - Marne La Vallee, France

Ground Truthing: Exploring the Social Implications of Real-Time Mapping Endeavors

A collaboration between:

• Carlo Ratti, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Architecture
• Antoine Picon, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France
• Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, France

Exploration of the Potential of Ionic Liquid Ion Sources for Nanofabrication

A collaboration between:

• Paulo Lozano, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Jacques Gierak, Research Engineer, CNRS, France

Supercritical Microfluidics for Green Chemistry and Hierarchically Advanced Materials

A collaboration between:

• Klavs F. Jensen, Professor - Department Head, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
• Cyril Aymonier, Doctor - Chargé de recherche (CR), CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research), France

Joint Experimental/Theoretical Investigation of Immiscible Element Nanocomposites

A collaboration between:

• Michael Demkowicz, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
• Ludovic Thilly, Maître de Conférences, Université de Poitiers, France

Biologically Inspired Flapping Foils For Flow Energy Recovery

A collaboration between:

• Michael Triantafyllou, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Franz Hover, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Didier Lucor, Research Associate CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), France

Neuronal Recruitment in Adult Brain Circuits

A collaboration between:

• Carlos Lois, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Science
• Pierre-Marie Lledo, Director of the Lab, Pasteur Institute, France

Elasticity and Interfaces

A collaboration between:

• Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Sunghwan Jung, Instructor, MIT Department of Department of Mathematics
• Benoit Roman, CNRS, France

Tracking the Rule of Law: A Ten Nation Study of Legal Consciousness

A collaboration between:

• Susan Silbey, Professor, MIT Department of Anthropology
• Jerome Pelisse, Maître de conférence; Chercheur l’Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne; ENS Cachan, France

Self-Locating Beliefs: New Empirical and Conceptual Approaches

A collaboration between:

• Alex Byrne, Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
• Robert Stalnaker, Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
• François Recanati, Directeur de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Supérieure (CNRS), France

Impact of the Environment on the Virulence of Marine Microorganisms

A collaboration between:

• Yan Boucher, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Éric Bapteste, CNRS, France

Climate Variability and Malaria Transmission in Africa

A collaboration between:

• Elfatih Eltahir, Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Jean-Bernard Duchemin, Head-Chief, Parasitology Unit, CERMES / Head-Chief, Climate, Environment & Health Unit, CERMES / Project leader, IRD Pasteur Institute, France

Radar Measurements of West African Rainfall Linked with Satellite Remote Sensing and with Applications to the Urban Malaria Problem

A collaboration between:

• Earle Williams, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Marielle Gosset, Chargée de Recherche, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France

Internal Tide Scattering and Ocean Mixing

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Peacock, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Thierry Dauxois, CNRS Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Nonlinear Wave Evolution and Wave-Particle Interactions in Fusion Plasmas

A collaboration between:

• Abhay Ram, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Plasma and Fusion Center
• Didier Benisti, Research Scientist, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France

Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bond Rearrangements in Water

A collaboration between:

• Andrei Tokmakoff, Professor, MIT Department of Chemistry
• Damien Laage, Chargé de Recherche CR1, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Improved Imaging in Non-Smooth Media

A collaboration between:

• Alison Malcolm, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Jérôme Le Rousseau, Maître de Conférences, Université de Provence, France

Geometric Analysis and Applications to General Relativity

A collaboration between:

• Tobias Colding, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Emmanuel Hebey, Professor, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Perturbative Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Quantum Gravity

A collaboration between:

• Daniel Freedman, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• David Kosower, Ingénieur CEA, Saclay, France

Labor Market Regulation in France: The Management and Evaluation of the Inspecton du Travail

A collaboration between:

• Michael Piore, Professor, MIT Department of Economics
• Gilles Raveaud, Lecturer, Institut d'Etudes Européennes - Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France

Mapping Controversies Across the Atlantic

A collaboration between:

• Vincent-Antonin Lepinay, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology and Society
• Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, France

From Technopole to Techno-Region

A collaboration between:

• Christopher Zegras, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Catherine Maumi, Maitre-Assistant Associe, University of Grenoble, France

Design of a Glucodialdose to Glucuronic Acid Converting Enzyme for Glucaric Acid Production in E. coli

A collaboration between:

• Kristala Jones, Prather Joseph R. Mares (1924) Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
• Alfonso Jaramillo, Maitre de Conferences, École Polytechnique, France

Climate Variability and Malaria Transmission in Africa

A collaboration between:

• Elfatih Eltahir, Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Paul Reiter, Director, Pasteur Institute, France

Mapping and Scheduling for Multicore Processors

A collaboration between:

• Saman Amarasinghe, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Frédéric Vivien, INRIA junior researcher, École normale supérieure de Lyon, France

PLUTON

A collaboration between:

• Una-May O'Reilly, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Marc Schoenauer, Senior Researcher, INRIA, France

New Chemical Sensors based on Quantum Dot Structures

A collaboration between:

• Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Henri Mariette, Directeur de Recherche DR2, Université Joseph Fourier - CNRS, France

Energy Flow and Energy Harvesting in Nanoscale Systems

A collaboration between:

• Nicola Marzari, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Francesco Mauri, Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France

ECLAIRS

A collaboration between:

• George Ricker, Senior Research Scientist, Principal Investigator HETE, MIT Department of Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
• Bertrand Cordier, Chief Payload Scientist, Centre de l'Energie Atomique, France

Flash Pyrolysis of Biomass by Microwave-Generated Plasma

A collaboration between:

• Kamal Hadidi, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Plasma Science and Fusion Center
• Laurent Fulcheri, Professor, L'Ecole de Mines de Paris, France

Spin-transport with Complex Oxide Materials

A collaboration between:

• Jagadeesh Moodera, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Physics
• Manuel Bibes, Research Scientist, CNRS, France

Spin Filtering Studies for Spintronic Applications

A collaboration between:

• Jagadeesh Moodera, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Department of Physics
• Jean-Baptiste Moussy, Junior Research Scientist, Comissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) - Saclay, France

Radio Frequency Heating of Magnetically Confined Plasmas for Fusion Energy

A collaboration between:

• Abhay Ram, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
• Yves Peysson, Research Scientist, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique France

Impact Demagnetization of Geological Materials

A collaboration between:

• Benjamin Weiss, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Jerome Gattacceca, Director of Research, CNRS, France

Direct Numerical Simulation of Inhomogeneous Systems and Suspensions

A collaboration between:

• Jean-Christophe, Nave Instructor of Applied Mathematics/Postdoctoral associate, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Rodolfo Ruben Rosales, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Anael Lemaitre, Researcher, Institut Navier, France

Combinatorics and Geometry of Convex Polyhedra

A collaboration between:

• Igor Pak, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Jean-Marc Schlenker, Professor, University Paul Sabatier-Toulouse, France

Fluctuation Induced Interactions

A collaboration between:

• Mehran Kardar, Professor, MIT Department of Physics
• Thorsten Emig, Chargee de Recherche (CR1), University Paris Sud (Orsay), France

Generalizing Geometry in String Theory

A collaboration between:

• Washington Taylor, Professor, MIT Department of Physics
• Ruben Minasian, Chargee de Recherche de 1ère classe, CEA-Saclay, France

Presuppositions and Implicatures

A collaboration between:

• Danny Fox, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
• Paul Égré, Chargee de Recherche, CNRS, France

Magnetic Fields and Accretion Physics for Black-Hole Binaries in the Galaxy

A collaboration between:

• Ronald Remillard, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Physics
• Michel Tagger, Senior Scientist, Service d'Astrophysique of CEA (Saclay), France
• Paggy Vaniere, Chargee de Recherche, 2nd classe, Grenoble Observatory, France

Aggregation Kinetics of Polydisperse Paramagnetic Suspensions

A collaboration between:

• Patrick Doyle, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
• Eric Climent, Assistant Professor UMR, CNRS-INPT-URS, France

Data Assimilation for Geophysical Fluids

A collaboration between:

• Carl Wunsch, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Dennis McLaughlin, H.M. King Bhumipol Professor of Water Resources Management, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Francois-Xavier Le Dimet, Professor, INRIA/IMFT, France
• Rachid Ababou, Professor, INRIA/IMFT, France

Information Theory and Practical Applications

A collaboration between:

• Muriel Medard, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Ramesh Pyndiah, Professor and Head of Signal & Communications, Department ENST Bretagne, France
• Thierry Chonavel, Professor, France

The Nanoscale Constituents of Trochus Niloticus Nacre: Direct Visualization, Crystallinity, and Relationship to Nanomechanical Properties

A collaboration between:

• Christine Ortiz, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Alain Baronnet, Professor, University of Marseille-Luminy, France

Spatial Frequency Characterization of Long Sub-Micron Period Gratings

A collaboration between:

• Ralf Heilmann, Research Scientist, MIT Department of Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
• Yves Jourlin, Maitre de Conferences, University of Saint Etienne, France

Learning Patterns: Behavior, Neural Coding and Plasticity of Natural Tactile Stimuli

A collaboration between:

• Christopher Moore, Mitsui Career Development Chair, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Daniel Schulz, Research Director, CNRS, France

Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

A collaboration between:

• David Jerison, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Gigliola Staffilani, Professor,MIT Department of Mathematics
• Didier Smets, Professor, Paris 6, France
• Jean-Yves Chemin, Professor, Paris 6, France

LIGO-VIRGO Joint Data Analysis Collaboration for the Detection of Gravitational Waves

A collaboration between:

• Eric Katsavounidis, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Physics
• Benoit Mours, Director of Research, CNRS, France

Structural Analysis of Historic Masonry Vaulting

A collaboration between:

• John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Francois Guena, Assistant Professor, EAPLV; ARIAM Architecture et Modélisation (ARIAM), Ecole d'Architecture de Paris La Villette (EAPLV), France
• Louis-Paul Untersteller, Assistant Professor, EAPLV; ARIAM, France

Fusion Networks: Principled Approaches to Fusion of Information from Distributed, Heterogeneous Sensors in a Network Environment

A collaboration between:

• Alan Willsky, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Albert Benveniste, Researcher, INRIA, France

Technological and Scientific Aspects of Nanoparticle Stability in Polycrystalline Microstructures

A collaboration between:

• Craig Carter, Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Dominique Chatain, Centre de Recherche sur les Mécanismes de la Croissance Cristalline (CRMC2), CNRS, Campus de Luminy, France
• Florence Baras, Chargee de Recherche, CNRS, Laboratoire de Recherches sur la Réactivité des Solides, CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, Dijon

Self-assembled Magnetic Nanoparticles

A collaboration between:

• Caroline A. Ross, Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Maris-Paule, Pileni Professeur; Directeur Universite Paris 6, France

Studies of Electrochemically Active Materials by: Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

A collaboration between:

• Yang Shao-Horn, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Christian Colliex, CNRS Research Director (DRCE1), Head of the Electron Microscopy Group Université Paris-Sud, France

Transcriptional Networks of HNF1 α and β in Liver, Pancreas and Kidney

A collaboration between:

• Richard Young, Professor, MIT Department of Biology
• Moshe Yaniv, Professor, Institut Pasteur, France

Quantifying the Uncertainty Associated with Projections of Future Climate Change

A collaboration between:

• James Hansen, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Christophe Cassou, Researcher, CNRS, France

Molecular Signatures of the Methane Cycle

A collaboration between:

• Rogers Summons, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Pierre Albrecht, Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionelle, Directeur Laboratoire de Géochimie Organique (LCO), CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg CNRS- Universite Luois Pasteur, France

Micromechanics of Biological Molecules and Cells

A collaboration between:

• Patrick Doyle, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
• Benoit Ladoux, Maître de Conférence, Universite Paris 7, France

Modeling and Tracking People Using Digital Cameras For Virtual Studio Application

A collaboration between:

• David Dermidjian, Research Scientist, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Trevor Darrell, Associate Professor, Vision Interface Group, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Cordelia Schmid, Research Director, INRIA, France
• Edmond Boyer, Assistant Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier, France

Signal Decomposition for Computer Graphics

A collaboration between:

• Fredo Durand, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Francois Sillion, Directeur de Recherche, Projet Artis INRIA Grenoble, France
• George Drettakis, Chargé de Recherche, Projet Reves, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Noise of a Self-Phase Locked 3-to-1 Optical Parametric Oscillator

A collaboration between:

• Franco Wong, Principal Research Scientist, Optical Communications Group, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Jean-Jacques, Zondy Research Engineer, Observatoire de Paris, France

Free-Surface Flows and Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids

A collaboration between:

• Gareth McKinley, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Anette Hosoi, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Jose Bico, Lecturer, ESPCI Paris, France
• Marc Fermigier, Professor, ESPCI, France

Language Comprehension Across Languages

A collaboration between:

• Edward Gibson, Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Barbara Hemforth, Chargé de Recherche 1ère classe CNRS, France
• Joel Pynte, Directeur de Recherche 2ème classe, CNRS; LPL, Aix en Provence, France

MIT-France Workshop on Molecular Photonics at Micro- and Nano-scale: From Fundamentals to Appplications

A collaboration between:

• Robert Silbey, Dean of Science, Professor, MIT Department of Chemistry
• Joseph Zyss, Professeur, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan; Directeur, Institut D'Alembert de Photonique Moléculaire pour les Télécommunications et les Biotechnologies, France

Nonlinear Diffuse-Charge Dynamics in Electrochemical and Microfluidic Systems

A collaboration between:

• Martin Bazant, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Armand Ajdari, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, France

Flexible Rendering: Generic Methods for Real-Time, Non-Photorealistic Rendering and Geometry

A collaboration between:

• Fredo Durand Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Francois Sillion, Directeur de Recherche, Projet Artis INRIA Grenoble, France
• George Drettakis, Chargé de Recherche, Projet Reves, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

Novel Nanostructured Materials for Fuel Cell Catalysis and for Active Contaminant Sensing

A collaboration between:

• Nicola Marzari, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Francesco Mauri, Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France

Analysis of Chemical and Physical Properties of Sediments to Understand the Evolution of the Earth's Climate

A collaboration between:

• Edward Boyle, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Julian Sachs, Visiting Associate Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Jean-Claude Duplessy, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS; LSCE, France
• Laurent Labeyrie, Professor, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay

Convection and Cloud Parameterization Schemes

A collaboration between:

• Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Meteorology, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Sandrine Bony, Chargée de Recherche CNRS, Université Paris VI, France

Air-sea Interaction and Climate Variability Analysis of Chemical and Physical Properties of Sediments to Understand the Evolution of the Earth's Climate

A collaboration between:

• John Marshall, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Claude Frankignoul, Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France

On the Importance of the Earth's Tilt in the Climate System

A collaboration between:

• Julian Sachs, Visiting Associate Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Francoise Vimeux, Chargee de Recherche CNRS, Universite Paris VI, France

Upper Mantle Anisotropy Beneath Japan From Shear Wave Splitting

A collaboration between:

• Robert van der Hilst, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Neil Ribe, Researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

Factors that Define the Molecular Architecture of the N-Glycome

A collaboration between:

• Matthew Shoulders, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Anne Dell, Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
• Stuart Haslam, Reader, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London

Feasibility Study of Nonaqueous Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries with a Solid Positive Electrode and an Ionic-liquid based Negative Electrode

A collaboration between:

• Fikile Brushett, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Nigel Brandon, Professor, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London
• Vladimir Yufit, Research Fellow, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London

Miniaturized Flexible Multifunctional Biosensing Probes for Monitoring Engineered Regenerative Tissue

A collaboration between:

• Polina Anikeeva, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Molly Stevens, Professor, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
• Martyn Boutelle, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
• Marsilea Harrison, Dr., Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Stabilizing M13 Phage in Ionic Liquids as Scaffolds for Novel Ionogels

A collaboration between:

• Angela Belcher, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Nimrod Heldman, Research Scientist, Biological Engineering
• Jason Hallett, Reader, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
• Alex Brogan, Research Associate, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Control of Interfaces for Increasing the Power Density and Durability of Solid State Batteries

A collaboration between:

• Bilge Yildiz, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
• John Kilner, Professor, Imperial College London
• Ainara Aguadero, Lecturer, Imperial College London

Engineering Living Functional Materials

A collaboration between:

• Timothy Lu, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Tom Ellis, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London

Photonic Quantum Information Processing

A collaboration between:

• Dirk Englund, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Terence Rudolph, Professor, Imperial College London

MIT-Israel - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund

New Tools for Predictive Computational Catalysis Through Collaboration

A collaboration between:

• Heather Kulik, Joseph R. Mares '24 Career Development Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering 
• Sebastian Kozuch, Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Systems Ecology of Biopolymer Degrading Communities in the Cow Rumen

A collaboration between:

• Otto Cordero, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering 
• Ithzik Mizrahi, Associate Professor, BGU

MIT-Israel Seed Fund

Comparative Internet Policy and Technology Research Workshops

A collaboration between:

• Daniel Weitzner, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative Director, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  
• Niva Elkin-Koren, Professor, University of Haifa

Extreme Light-Matter Interactions

A collaboration between:

• Marin Soljacic, Professor, Physics 
• Meir Orenstein, Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Probing the Evolution and Ecology of a Bacillus Subtilis Mobile Genetic Element

A collaboration between:

• Alan Grossman, Praecis Professor and Department Head, Biology
• Avigdor Eldar, Tel-Aviv University

Quantum Digital Noise Spectroscopy

A collaboration between:

• Paola Cappellaro, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering 
• Nir Bar-Gill, Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The BLOSSOMS-AW Project: Technology-enhanced Project-based Pedagogy for the Promotion of Scientific Thinking and Motivation towards STEM-related Careers

A collaboration between:

• Richard Larson, Mitsui Professor of Data, Systems, and Society, Engineering Systems Division
• Miri Barak, Assistant Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

The Climate Impact of Semi-solid and Glassy Aerosol Particles

A collaboration between:

• Daniel Cziczo, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences 
• Carynelisa Haspel, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

tRNA MODIFICATIONS IN ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA

A collaboration between:

• Peter Dedon, Professor, Biological Engineering  
• Serge Ankri, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

MIT-Israel Seed Fund

Advanced Pumped Hydropower Reverse Osmosis System to Provide Power and Desalinated Water to the Aqaba-Eilat Region of the Red Sea

A collaboration between:

• Alexander Slocum, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Jacob Karni, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Bridging the Theory and Practice of Pseudo-random Functions

A collaboration between:

• Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Alon Rosen, Associate Professor, The Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya

Flipped Classroom for STEM Students: Benefits and Challenges

A collaboration between:

• Albert Meyer, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Yehudit Judy Dori, Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

High-Resolution Mapping of Histone Variants Dynamics During iPSC Reprogramming

A collaboration between:

• Laurie Boyer, Associate Professor, Biology
• Jacob H. Hanna, Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Hydrodynamics in Quantum Materials

A collaboration between:

• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Professor, Physics
• Leonid Levitov, Professor, Physics
• Eli Zeldov, David and Inez Myers Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Gregory Falkovich, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Schur Positivity and Smith Normal Form

A collaboration between:

• Richard Stanley, Professor, Mathematics
• Alexander Postnikov, Professor, Mathematics
• Ron Adin, Professor, Bar-Ilan University
• Yuval Roichman, Professor, Bar-Ilan University

MIT-Israel – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund

Effect of Sunlight Intensity on Functional Inhomogeneity and Stability of Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

A collaboration between:

• Vladimir Bulović, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Anna Osherov, Postdoctoral Associate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Yuval Golan, Professor of Materials Engineering , Director Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Eric Samson Chair of Advanced Materials and Processing, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Eugene Katz, Professor of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Microbial Reduction of Iron and the Formation and Transformation of Natural Clays

A collaboration between:

• Tanja Bosak, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Orit Sivan, Senior Lecturer, BGU

Switchable Nanocomposite Liquid Crystal Smart Windows

A collaboration between:

• Gareth McKinley, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• George Barbastathis, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Professor, Ben-Gurion University

MIT-Israel - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund

Channel Photocurrent Spectroscopy – Characterization Tool for Heterostructure Transistors

A collaboration between:

• Jesus A. del Alamo, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Ilan Shalish, Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Guiding Students' Learning Using On-line Collaborative Annotation Tools

A collaboration between:

• David Karger, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Yakov (Kobi) Gal, Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Identification of Epigenetic Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Tomato Seed Germination

A collaboration between:

• Mary Gehring, Assistant Professor, Biology
• Aaron Fait, Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Improving the Delivery of Treatments in Spinal Cord Injury Using Ultrasound

A collaboration between:

• Robert Langer, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Timothy O'Shea, Graduate Student, Health Sciences and Technology
• Joseph (Yosi) Kost, Dean, Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Abraham and Bessie Zacks Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Self-Sustained Agriculture Based on Marginal Water

A collaboration between:

• John Lienhard, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Amos Winter, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Jack Gilron, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Naftali Lazarovitch, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• David Faiman, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Eilon Adar; Professor; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dissecting Cortical Circuits Vulnerable to Major Psychiatric Disorders

A collaboration between:

• Kwanghun Chung, Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering 
• Seung-Hee Lee, Assistant Professor, KAIST

The Next Generation Nuclear Reactor Technology & Neutron Science

A collaboration between:

• Kord Smith, KEPCO Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering 
• Sung-Min Choi, Professor, Dept. Head, KAIST

MIT - Peru Seed Fund

Machupicchu Digital Heritage UNSAAC - MIT   

A collaboration between:  

• Takehiko Nagakura, Associate Professor, Architecture    
• Rene Navarro Halanocca, Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco

MIT-Peru Collaboration for Point-of-Care Tuberculosis Diagnostics   

A collaboration between:  

• Jongyoon Han, Professor, Biological Engineering    
• Mirko Zimic, Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Reducing Risk through Urban Ecological Systems in Amauta, Ate District of Lima Peru  

 A collaboration between:  

• Miho Mazereeuw, Ford Assistant Professor, Architecture    
• Luis Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

MIT-Peru - Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) Seed Fund

Development of a Comparative Product Evaluation Center for the Peruvian Market

A collaboration between:  

• Daniel Frey, Professor, Mechanical Engineering    
• Samuel Charca Mamani, Professor, UTEC

The Role of Vegetation to Stabilize Islands in Anabranching Systems   

A collaboration between:   

• Heidi Nepf, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Jorge Darwin Abad Cueva, Professor and Chair, UTEC

MIT-Peru Seed Fund

Air Pollution Exposure and High-Altitude Boundary Layer Processes in Arequipa, Peru: Observations and Modeling

A collaboration between:

• Dara Entekhabi, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Andrés Vitaliano Pérez Pachari, Professor, Civil Engineering, National University of Saint Agustin
• Nataly Perez Manrique, Graduate Student, National University of Saint Agustin
• Anai Perez Manrique, Undergraduate Student, National University of Saint Agustin

Flexible and Resistant to Water Monitoring System for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Health Parameters Located Inside a Brassiere

A collaboration between:

• Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Francisco Cuellar, Director of CETAM (Center of Advanced Technologies for Manufacturing), Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru

INCA:  Ionosphere, Navigation, Communication, and Aeronomy

A collaboration between:

• Anthea Coster, Principal Research Scientist, N/A
• Kerri Cahoy, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Juha Vierinen, Research Scientist,
• Edgardo Pacheco, Principal Research Scientist, Instituto Geophysico del Peru

MIT-Peru – Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) Seed Fund

Air Quality Model & Interactive Web Application for Lima, Peru - Identifying Public Health Benefits Related to Transportation Policies

A collaboration between:

• Carlo Ratti, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Marguerite Nyhan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Urban Studies and Planning
• Rex Britter, Principal Research Scientist, Urban Studies and Planning
• Julien Noel, Professor and Department Head, Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia
• Norvic Chicchon Ugarte, , Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia

MIT-Peru – Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) Seed Fund

Coordinated Control for Microgrids Sources

A collaboration between:

• James Kirtley, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Jorge Elizondo, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Julien Noel,  Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnológica del Perú
• Pedro Muñoz, Undergraduate student,Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnológica del Perú
• Anthony Flores, Undergraduate student, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnológica del Perú

Innovative Thermal Insulation Solutions for Houses in the Andean Region

A collaboration between:

• Leslie Norford, Professor, Architecture
• Samuel Charca Mamani,  Professor, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnológica del Perú

Soft Mechatronic Device for Hand Rehabilitation after Stroke

A collaboration between:

• Hermano Krebs, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
• Emir Vela,  Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnológica del Perú

MIT-Spain - CEI Moncloa Seed Fund

BALLISTIC TRANSPORT IN SELF-ALIGNED SUB-10 nm InGaAs FinFETs

A collaboration between:

• Jesus del Alamo, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Jesus Grajal, Associate Professor, Technical University of Madrid

MISTI Madrid: Towards a Clinical System for Data Linkage and Collaboration

A collaboration between:

• Leo Anthony Celi, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Maria Teresa Arredondo, Professor (UPM) and Director (Life Supporting Tech.), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Predicting Multiphase Flow in Porous Media at the Pore Scale

A collaboration between:

• Ruben Juanes, ARCO Associate Professor in Energy Studies, Civil and Environmental Engineering  
• Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Research Scientist, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

Tile Vaulting for Low Carbon Construction

A collaboration between:

• John Ochsendorf, Class of 1942 Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering 
• Santiago Huerta Fernandez, Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

MIT-Spain/La Cambra de Barcelona Seed Fund

Soil Moisture on Planet Earth

A collaboration between:

• Dara Entekhabi, Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Maria Piles Guillem, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
• Adriano Camps Carmona, Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

Stochastic Dynamic Models for Advanced Electric Power Systems Planning

A collaboration between:

• Mort Webster, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Engineering Systems Division
• Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Professor, MIT Department of Engineering Systems Division
• Javier Garcia Gonzalez, Tenured Assistant Professor, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain
• Andres Ramos Galan, Tenured Full Professor, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain

Development of GMI Autobiased Sensors Based on Exchange Bias Effect

A collaboration between:

• Caroline A. Ross, Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Julian Maria Gonzalez Estevez, Professor, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
• Carlos Garcia, Research Scientist, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain

MIT-Spain/La Cambra de Barcelona Seed Fund

Anomalous Transport in Random Networks

A collaboration between:

• Ruben Juanes, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Marco Dentz, Research Professor, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish National Research Council (IDÆA-CSIC), Spain
• Jesus Carrera, Professor, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish National Research Council (IDÆA-CSIC), Spain

Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Thermophotovoltaics

A collaboration between:

• Clifton G. Fonstad, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Pablo Aitor, Postigo Research Scientist, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

Vessel-like Structures: In Vitro Models to Predict Outcome of Vascular Interventions

A collaboration between:

• Elazer R. Edelman, Professor, MIT Department of Health Sciences and Technology
• Jose Javier Molins, Associate Professor, Institut Quimic de Sarria, Spain
• Jordi Martorell, PhD Candidate, Institut Quimic de Sarria, Spain

Quantum Entanglement and Entanglement Entropy

A collaboration between:

• Daniel Freedman, Professor, MIT Department of Mathematics
• Jose Ignacio Latorre, Professor, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Graphene NEMS for Quantum Electronics and Nanosensing

A collaboration between:

• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Physics
• Adrian Bachtold, Research Professor, Centre Investigacions Nanociencia Nanotecnologia (CSIC-ICN) Barcelona, Spain

MIT-Spain/La Cambra de Barcelona Seed Fund

Magnetic Nanostructures for Data Storage

A collaboration between:

• Caroline Ross, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Fernando Castano, Universidad Pais Vasco

Nanophotonic Technologies for the Treatment of Atherosclerotic Plaque: Nanoparticles vs. Molecular Bioconjugates

A collaboration between:

• Mercedes Balcells, Research Scientist, Health Sciences and Technology
• Santiago Nonell, Professor, Institut Quimic de Sarria / Universitat Ramon Llull

Predictive Solar Cell Performance Modeling by Defect Engineering

A collaboration between:

• Tonio Buonassisi, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Carlos del Cañizo, Profesor Titular de Universidad, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The Role of Microbes in the Ocean Sulfur Cycle and the Role of Sulfur in Ocean Microbial Interactions: A Pioneering Microfluidic Approach

A collaboration between:

• Roman Stocker, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Rafel Simó, Senior Researcher, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)