Past Seed Fund Winners

Dominican Republic Caves and Climate Collaboration

• William McGee, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Nick Scroxton, Visiting Scientist, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Renato Rímoli, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo

Fingers and Fractures: Morphologies of Failure Modes in Shear-Jamming Suspension

• Irmgard Bischofberger, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Ivo Peters, University of Southampton

Infrastructure, Public Space, and Housing Prototype Studies: Alternative Concepts for Low Income Neighborhoods in Georgetown, Guyana

• Adele Santos, Professor, Architecture
• Barbara Reynolds, University of Guyana

Investigating the Existence of Partially Differentiated Asteroids

• Benjamin P Weiss, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• James Bryson, University of Cambridge

Measuring the Impact of Zika Virus Infection in Columbia

• Lee Gehrke, Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Irene Bosch, Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Carlos Narváez, South Colombian University

Migrating The City

• Rafi Segal, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Dunya Bouchi, The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory

MISTI-Italy

• Christopher Cummins, Professor, Chemistry
• Alexander Radosevich, Associate Professor, Chemistry
• Alberto Modelli, University of Bologna

New Zealand Conservation

• Kevin Esvelt, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Neil Gemmell, University of Otago

NPLIN (Non-photochemical laser induced nucleation)

• Allan Myerson, Professor, Chemical Engineerin
• Huseyin Burak Eral, Delft University of Technology
• Herman Kramer, Delft University of Technology
• Johan Padding, Delft University of Technology
• Antoine van der Heijden, Delft University of Technology

NUI Galway - MIT MISTI

• Ellen Roche, Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Claire Conway, National University of Ireland Galway

Patagonia - Antarctica Fungi Biomaterials PUC - MIT

• Christine Ortiz, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Skylar Tibbits, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Takehiko Nagakura, Associate Professor, Architecture
• Paloma Gonzalez, Research Assistant - PhD, Architecture
• Emilio De la Cerda Errazuriz, Catholic University of Chile
• Francisco Chateaux, Catholic University of Chile
• Anibal Fuentes, Catholic University of Chile

Quexistentials

• Sabine Iatridou, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Floris Roelofsen, University of Amsterdam
• Pieter Cornelis (Kees) Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam

Scintillating Detectors: The Quest for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

• Lindley Winslow, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Gioacchino Ranucci, University of Milan

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

MIT-Brazil - TVML Seed Fund

Home-based Neuromodulation and Robotic Therapy for Upper Limb Paresis in Stroke: a Novel Rehabilitation Strategy

• Hermano Igo Krebs, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
• Adriana Bastos, University of São Paulo

MIT-Brazil Lemann Seed Fund

Education Politics in Brazil in Comparative Perspective

• Ben Schneider, Professor, Political Science
• Fernando Abrucio, Getúlio Vargas Foundation
• Lara Simielli, Getúlio Vargas Foundation

Learning Maps

• Eric Klopfer, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Jennifer Groff, PhD Candidate, Media Arts and Sciences
• Alexandre Martinazzo, University of São Paulo
• Roseli Lopes, University of São Paulo

MIT-Brazil - Lemann Seed Fund for Collaborative Projects

Fostering Creative Computing in Brazilian Public Schools

A collaboration between:

• Leo Burd, Project Director, Media Arts and Sciences 
• Marcos Augusto Francisco Borges, Dr., UNICAMP - University of Campinas (Brazil)

Promise Tracker | Data Collection for Civic Action

A collaboration between:

• Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences 
• Gisele Craveiro, Professor, University of São Paulo

Teacher Allocation in Brazil

A collaboration between:

• David Atkin, Assistant Professor, Economics  
• Vladimir Ponczek, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas

MIT-Brazil - TVML Seed Fund

Electronic Health Record Data Sharing

A collaboration between:

• Leo Anthony Celi, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Rodrigo Deliberato, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Edson Amaro Junior, Head of Big Data Analytics, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Immersive and Multidisciplinary Educational Program for Deep Understanding of Complex Problems in Underserved Communities

A collaboration between:

• Hashim Sarkis, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Architecture 
• Carolina da Costa, Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Insper, professor founder of Insper Center of Leadership and Innovation, Insper
• Alexandre Holthausen Campos, Director, School of Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

MIT-Brazil Seed Fund

Adaptive Variable Impedance Applied to Robotic Rehabilitation of Walking

A collaboration between:

• Hermano Igo Krebs, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
• Adriano Siqueira, Associate Professor, University of São Paulo / Engineering School of São Carlos
• Glauco Augusto de Paula Caurin, Associate Professor, University of São Paulo / Engineering School of São Carlos
• Linamara Rizzo Battistella; Professor, University of São Paulo / Medical School (FMUSP)

Biocompatible Lasers from Natural Materials

A collaboration between:

• Bradley Olsen, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Sidney Ribeiro, Professor, UNESP - São Paulo State University

Dark Matter Searches with AMS - MIT - USP São Carlos

A collaboration between:

• Paolo Zuccon, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Manuela Vecchi, Assistant Professor, USP São Carlos

Engineering Co-resistant WGS Catalysts for Hydrogen Gas Clean-up

A collaboration between:

• Yuriy Roman, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Daniela Zanchet, Associate Professor, Campinas State University

High-Resolution GPS Data Analysis of Urban Logistics Activities to Improve the Operational Performance and Sustainability of Last-Mile Distribution in São Paulo

A collaboration between:

• Chris Caplice, Principal Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Matthias Winkenbach, Research Associate, Engineering Systems Division
• Claudio Barbieri da Cunha, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
• Mariana Abrantes Giannotti, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Noninvasive Intracranial Pressure Monitoring for Resource-limited Regions

A collaboration between:

• Thomas Heldt, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Sergio Mascarenhas, Professor, Director, University of São Paulo, São Carlos

Singular G2-instantons over Twisted Connected Sums

A collaboration between:

• Tomasz Mrowka, Professor, Mathematics
• Thomas Walpuski, Postdoc/Instructor, Mathematics
• Marcos Jardim, Professor, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
• Henrique Sá Earp, Professor, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
• Lazaro Díaz; Postdoc, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
• Grégoire Menet; Postdoc, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)

MIT-Brazil Lemann Seed Fund

Programming and Robotics in the Brazilian Context and its Extensions to Children with Visual Impairment

A collaboration between:

• Mitchel Resnick, Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Leo Burd, Research Scientist, Media Arts and Sciences
• Roseli de Deus Lopes, Associate Professor, Universidade de São Paulo
• Irene Karaguilla Ficheman, PhD in Electrical Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo
• Cassia de Oliveira Fernandez; Physicist and Electrical Engineering Graduate Student, Universidade de São Paulo
• Isabela Martins Angelo; Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering Graduate Student, Universidade de São Paulo

Promoting Interaction and Engagement in Synchronous Online Learning Communities

A collaboration between:

• Philipp Schmidt, Research Scientist, Media Arts and Sciences
• Sergio Branco, Director / faculty, Institute for Technology & Society (ITS) - Rio de Janeiro / Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV)
• Ana Luisa Santos, Cofounder, MobGeek

MIT-Brazil Seed Fund

Electromicrobiology and Energy Storage: Development of Microbial Fuel Cell/ Supercapacitors Based on Polypyrrole/ Graphene Oxide Electrodes Immersed in Aqueous Media of Bacteria From Soil and Sater of Brazilian Semiarid

A collaboration between:

• Timothy Swager, Professor, Chemistry
• Helinando de Oliveira, Professor, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco
• Mateus Matiuzzi da Costa, Professor, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco

(co-funded with FACEPE)

Enabling Efficient Energy Usage with Data Mining and Integrated Demand

A collaboration between:

• Marta Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Alexandre Gonçalves Evsukoff, Getúlio Vargas Foundation Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(with support from the Itaú Fund for research on sustainability in Latin America, via the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan)

Gas Sensor Response of Thin Films: Impact of p-n Junctions

A collaboration between:

• Harry Tuller, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Jose Arana Varela, Professor, São Paulo State University (UNESP)
• Marcelo Orlandi, Professor, São Paulo State University (UNESP)

(co-funded with FAPESP)

Human Mobility and Networks Research towards Urban Livability

A collaboration between:

• Marta Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Ascanio Araujo, Doctor of Science - Universidade Federal do Ceará - Fortaleza - Brasil, 2002, University Federal of Ceara
• Michael Souza, Doctor in Engineering Systems and Computing, University Federal of Ceara
• Jose Andrade, Doctor of Science - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil, 1992, University Federal of Ceara

(with support from the Itaú Fund for research on sustainability in Latin America, via the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan)

MIT-Brazil Collaboration for Research in Gravitational-wave Astrophysics

A collaboration between:

• Erik Katsavounidis, Senior Research Scientist, Physics
• Riccardo Sturani, Jovem Pesquisador, Universidade Estadual Paulista

(co-funded with FAPESP)

Nanometer-thin Semiconductors Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for Solar Cell Applications

A collaboration between:

• Tonio Buonassisi, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Francisco das Chagas Marques, Professor, Unicamp
• Douglas Galvão, Professor, Unicamp

(co-funded with FAPESP)

Novel Nanobiomaterials Based on Tridimensional Peptides with Drug Delivery Properties to Tissue Engineering

A collaboration between:

• Jeremiah Johnson, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Anderson Lobo, University of Vale do Paraiba
• Fernanda Marciano, University of Vale do Paraiba
• Maira Costa, University of Vale do Paraiba

(co-funded with FAPESP)

Pilot-wave Hydrodynamics: Boundary Interactions

A collaboration between:

• John Bush, Professor, Mathematics
• Andre Nachbin, Professor, IMPA

Study and Development of Methodologies for Applications in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A collaboration between:

• Brian Williams, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• José Cuminato, Professor, University of São Paulo
• Claudio Toledo, Professor, University of São Paulo

(with support from the Itaú Fund for research on sustainability in Latin America, via the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan)

Table-Top Coherent Soft X-ray Sources and Their Applications to Attosecond Spectroscopy

A collaboration between:

• Kyung-Han Hong, Principal Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Edilson Falcao-Filho, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal De Pernambuco (UFPE)

(co-funded with FACEPE)

MIT-Brazil Seed Fund

Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Livestock Systems in Brazilian Semi-Arid Regions

A collaboration between:

• Courtney Adam Schlosser, Senior Research Scientist
• Diana Signor, Pesquisadora, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária

(co-funded with FACEPE)

Biopolymers and Bioactive Peptides for Sustainable Food Packaging (co-funded with CNPq)

A collaboration between:

• Bradley Olsen, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Carlos Prentice-Hernandez, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
• Vilasia Martins, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

(co-funded with CNPq)

Development of a Framework for Risk-Aware Heterogeneous Multi-agent Cooperative Manipulation

A collaboration between:

• Julie Shah, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Bruno Adorno, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
• Leonardo Tôrres, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

(co-funded with CNPq)

Program Analysis with Human-In-The-Loop (co-funded with FACEPE)

A collaboration between:

• Martin Rinard, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Marcelo d'Amorim, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

(co-funded with FACEPE)

Recovering Brazil's Democratic History: A USP-MIT Data-Gathering Initiative

A collaboration between:

• Fernando Daniel Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Political Science
• Fernando Limongi, Professor Titular, Universidade de São Paulo

(co-funded with FAPESP)

Synthetic Biology, Optimized Codons and MicroRNAs for Replacement Therapy for Patients with Gaucher Disease

A collaboration between:

• Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Natalie Kudell, Instructor, Biological Engineering
• Aparecida Maria Fontes, Asssitant Professor, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - USP    
• Carlos Carlotti, Professor, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - USP    

(co-funded with FAPESP)

The Evolution of Corporate Governance and Mandatory Disclosure Practices in Brazil

A collaboration between:

• Rodrigo Verdi, Associate Professor, Management
• Jairo Procianoy, Professor of Finance, UFRGS and Unisinos University

Toxoplasma Gondii and Neospora Caninum Interaction with Host Innate Immune Pathways

A collaboration between:

• Jeroen Saeij, Associate Professor, Biology
• José Roberto Mineo, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
• Tiago Wilson Patriarca Mineo, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

(co-funded with CNPq)

MIT-Brazil Seed Fund

Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) of Dengue Virus Infection in Humanized Mice

A collaboration between:

• Jianzhu Chen, Professor, Biology
• Aishwarya Sridharan, Graduate Student, Biology
• Mauro Teixeira, Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Characterization of the Microbiota of Patients With Pelvic Endometriosis

A collaboration between:

• Eric Alm, Associate Professor, Biological Engineering
• Linda Griffith, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Mauricio Abrão, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine - University of São Paulo
• Esper Kallas, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine - University of São Paulo

Developing the Next Generation of Scanning Magnetometers for the Geosciences

A collaboration between:

• Eduardo Andrade Lima, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Benjamin Weiss, Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Antonio Carlos Oliveira Bruno, Associate Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Fabrication and Characterization of Thin Films of Natural Polymers Through Layer-By-Layer Technique Aiming Antimicrobial Properties

A collaboration between:

• Michael Rubner, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Robert Cohen, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Marisa Masumi Beppu, Professor, UNICAMP

Forage Tracking - Investigating Participatory Waste Infrastructures

A collaboration between:

• Carlo Ratti, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Lúcia Helena Xavier, Brazilian PI, coordinator at Fundaj

Isolation and Synthesis of Cytotoxic Polyacetylenes

A collaboration between:

• Rick Danheiser, Professor, Chemistry
• Maique Biavatti, Professor, Universidade Federal de Saånta Catarina
• Moacir Pizzolatti, Professor, Universidade Federal de Saånta Catarina

Learning-Based Model Predictive Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A collaboration between:

• Jonathan How, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Fabio Almeida, Professor, Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE)
• Karl Heinz, Professor, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA-IEE)

Megacity Logistics Lab - Profiling Rio de Janeiro

A collaboration between:

• Chris Caplice, Principal Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Edgar Blanco, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Marcio Dagosto, Coordenador, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
• Cristiane Souza, Researcher, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

MIT and CNPq Space Weather Investigations

A collaboration between:

• Kerri Cahoy, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Anthea Coster, Research Scientist
• Paulo Fagundes, Professor, head of Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universidade do Vale do Paraíba – UNIVAP

Modeling Effects of Sensor Response of Semiconducting Oxides with Functionalized Nanoparticles

A collaboration between:

• Harry Tuller, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Jose Arana Varela, Professor, São Paulo State University (UNESP)
• Marcelo Ornaghi Orlandi, Professor, São Paulo State University (UNESP)

Numerical Modeling of a Hydrodynamic Pilot-Wave System

A collaboration between:

• John W. M. Bush, Professor, Mathematics
• Andre Nachbin, Professor, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)

Optical Characterization of Homogenous Carbon Nanomaterials

A collaboration between:

• Michael Strano, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Cristiano Fantini Leite, University Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Phytoplankton Competition, co-Existence and Marine Turbulence: Multi-scale Physical Biological Interactions in the South Atlantic Ocean

A collaboration between:

• Michael Follows, Senior Research Scientist, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Oliver Jahn, Research Scientist, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Paulo Calil, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Biopolymer from Vinasse Using Metabolically Engineered Ralstonia Eutropha

A collaboration between:

• Anthony Sinskey, Professor, Biology
• Claudia Santos Gai, Biology
• Glaucia M.F. Aragão, Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)
• Willibaldo Schmidell, Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)

The Age of the Neoproterozoic Bambuí Group, Brazil:  High Precision U-Pb Geochronologic Constraints on the Age and Duration of Glacial Deposits

A collaboration between:

• Samuel Bowring, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Jahandar Ramezani, Research Scientist, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Marcio Pimentel, Professor,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SUl
• Leonardo Gruber, Graduate Student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SUl

Tracking the Historical Development of Combustion Practices (From Colonial to Modern Times) Using Molecular and Isotopic Markers in Shelf Sediments of SE Brazil

A collaboration between:

• Edward Boyle, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Angela Wagener, Professor, PUC-Rio

Using Economic Models to Explore Financial Growth & Intermediation in Brazil

A collaboration between:

• Robert Townsend, Professor, Economics
• Juliano Assuncao, Assistant Professor, Pontificial Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
• Gabriel de Abreu Madeira, Assistant Professor, University of São Paulo

MIT-Brazil Seed Fund

Cognitive Computational Models of Natural Languages

A collaboration between:

• Robert Berwick, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Suzanne Flynn, Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Marco Idiart, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Electrokinetic Transport in Dental Enamel Nanochannels

A collaboration between:

• Jongyoon Han, Associate Professor, Biological Engineering
• Hiong Yap Gan,  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Frederico Barbosa de Sousa, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil
• Sandra Sampaio Vianna, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Electronic and Optical Properties of Disorder in Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

A collaboration between:

• Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Mildred Dresselhaus, Professor, Physics
• Jing Kong, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Ado Jorio de Vasconcelos, Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
• Antonio Gomes Souza Filho, Associate Professor, Universidade Federale do Ceara (UFC) , Brazil

Immunological Derangement and Invasive Mechanisms in Endometriosis

A collaboration between:

• Douglas Lauffenburger, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Linda Griffith, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Mauricio Abrão, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
• Jorge Kalil, Full Professor, Heart Institute (InCor) , Brazil

Landslide Modeling and Prediction for the Regiao Serrana of the Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil

A collaboration between:

• Alison Malcolm, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• J. Taylor Perron, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Nelson Fernandes, Professor of Geology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil

Megacity Logistics in Emerging Markets: The São Paulo Context

A collaboration between:

• Edgar Blanco, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Chris Caplice, Principal Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
• Hugo Yoshizaki, Associate Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil
• Cláudio Cunha, Associate Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Role of Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Tissue Engineered Endothelial Cell Regulation of Vascular Repair

A collaboration between:

• Elazer R. Edelman, Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
• Helena Nader, Professor and Head Molecular Biology Program, Federal University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, Brazil

Studies of Atomic Quantum Gases

A collaboration between:

• Wolfgang Ketterle, Professor, Physics
• Martin Zwierlein, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Vanderlei Bagnato, Professor of Physics, IFSC/Univeristy of São Paulo, Brazil
• Phillippe Courteille, Professor of Physics, IFSC-Univeristy of São Paulo, Brazil

The Political Economy of the Energy Sector:  Oil and Gas Industries Leading Economic Development in Emerging Economies

A collaboration between:

• Alice Amsden, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Flavio Vasconcelos, Professor and Dean, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
• Monica Pinhanez, Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil

Towards Robust Robotic Manufacturing

A collaboration between:

• Brian Williams, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Geovany Borges, Doctor of Science, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• Guilherme Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

MIT-Brazil Seed Fund

Impact of International Agricultural Markets' Liberalization on the Brazilian Amazon Forest

A collaboration between:

• Karen R. Polenske, Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Joaquim Guilhoto, Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Systems Engineering a Brazilian University Pico-satellite: A Focus on Test & Evaluation

A collaboration between:

• Ricardo Valerdi, Research Scientist, MIT Department of Engineering Systems Division
• Deborah Nightingale, Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Geilson Loureiro, Technologist/Professor, Brazilian Institute for Space Research/Aeronautics Technology Institute, Brazil
• Marcio Branco, Technologist, Brazilian Institute for Space Research, Brazil

Metatranscriptomic-based Diagnostics of Abrolhos Bank Coral Health

A collaboration between:

• Janelle Thompson, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Fabiano Thompson, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Semiconducting Nanostructured Films for Gas Sensors

A collaboration between:

• Harry Tuller, Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Jose Arana Varela, Professor, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil

High-Throughput Processing for Scalable Silicon Photovoltaics

A collaboration between:

• Tonio Buonassisi, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Izete Zanesco, Professora, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brazil
• Adriano Moehlecke, Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brazil

Rehabilitation Robotics: Ankle Impedance and Neural Ionic Channel to Muscle Control Simulator

A collaboration between:

• Neville Hogan, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Hermano Igo Krebs, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Andre Fabio Kohn, Professor, Escola Politecnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
• Daniel Gustavo Goroso, Research Professor, Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes and Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of HC-FMUSP, Brazil

Overexpression of EMT Genes in Endothelial Cells During Endothelial Mesenchymal Transition

A collaboration between:

• Robert Weinberg, Professor, MIT Department of Biology
• Leonardo Rodrigues, Research Scientist, MIT Department of Biology

Injectable Biopolymers and Cells Therapy: Improvement of Cardiac Repair After Myocardium Infarction

A collaboration between:

• Elazer R. Edelman, Professor, MIT Department of Health Sciences and Technology
• Jose Krieger, Professor of Medicine, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil

Bus Rapid Transit Origin-Destination Estimation for Bogota

• Carolina Osorio, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Andrés Medaglia, University of los Andes

MISTI Colombia Faculty Seed Fund

• P. Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Mariana Arcaya, Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
• Philipp Hessel, University of los Andes
• Olga Sarmiento, University of los Andes

MISTI2017Uniandes

• Luis Fernando Velásquez, Principal Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Alba Ávila, University of los Andes
• Felipe Muñoz, University of los Andes

The Effect of Specific Molecular Interactions on the Flow-Induced Non-Equilibrium Conditions

• Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Shahrzad Yazdi, Postdoctoral Associate/Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
• Camilo Andrés Aponte Santamarí­a, University of los Andes
• Helman Alirio Amaya Espinosa, University of los Andes

Wilson-MIT-Uniandes

• Matthew Wilson, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Mario Valderrama, University of los Andes

Complex Fluid Based High Efficiency Thermoelectric Generator For Waste Heat

• Yang Shao-Horn, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Botao Huang, Postdoc Associate, Mechanical Engineering
• Sawako Nakamae, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Cryogenic Neutrino Detectors

• Joseph Formaggio, Professor, Physics
• Julien Billard, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Impact of Bacterial Swimming on Viscous Fingering Dynamics

• Ruben Juanes, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Harold Auradou, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Magnetic Survey of Iron Meteorites: Preparing the Nasa Discovery Mission Psyche

• Benjamin P. Weiss, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Jérôme Gattacceca, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Metallophores and Metal-Sequestering Proteins: Transition Metal Competition at the Host Pathogen Interface

• Elizabeth Nolan, Associate Professor, Chemistry
• Pascal Arnoux, Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnology Aix-Marseille (BIAM)

Pathogen Transmission in Crops: Seed INRA-MIT Collaboration

• Lydia Bourouiba, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Sébastien Saint-Jean, AgroParisTech and National Institute of Agricultural Research

RNNTIME

• Mehrdad Jazayeri, Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Srdjan Ostojic, École Normale Supérieure (ENS)

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

Assessing Energy Requirements for Recovering Materials from Spent Lithium Batteries

• Antoine Allanore, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Geoffrey Kelsall, Imperial College London

Estimating Mantle Temperature And Composition Below Hawaii

• Robert Van der Hilst, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Ian Bastow, Imperial College London
• Elizabeth Day, Imperial College London
• Saskia Goes, Imperial College London

Formalizing Fairness Criteria and Detecting Biases in AI

• Iyad Rahwan, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Imperial College London
• Nick Jennings, Imperial College London

Physics of Solvent-in-Salt Liquids for Energy

• Martin Bazant, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Alexei Kornyshev, Imperial College London

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

An Innovative Computational Framework for Dynamic Assortment Planning

• Retsef Levi, Professor, Management
• Danny Segev, University of Haifa

Ancient Roman Construction Technologies: Fundamental Insights to Inform the Future

• Admir Masic, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Elisabetta Boaretto, Weizmann Institute of Science

Designer Antibodies: An End-to-End Computational Framework for Identification

• Joseph Jacobson, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute of Science

Information-Optimal Exploration of Excited State Dynamics

• Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Yoav Shechtman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Networks of Knowledge: How a New Field of Knowledge is Created and Maintained

• Michael Fischer, Professor, Science, Technology, and Society
• Uri Shwed, Ben Gurion University

US Israel Reading

• John D. E. Gabrieli, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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 “la Caixa” Foundation Seed Fund

Architecture at the nanoscale: Building pores for next-generation catalysis

• Yuriy Roman, Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Manuel Moliner, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Bioengineering Against Cancer

• Roger Kamm, Professor, Biological Engineering
• Josep Samitier, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)

Chalcogenide Ferroelectric Materials for Solar Energy Conversion

• Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Ignasi Fina Martínez, Institute of Material Science of Barcelona

Ear Project

• Mercedes Balcells-Camps, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Santi Nonell, Ramon Llull University
• Martí Lecina Veciana, Ramon Llull University

Genomics Computations using Flash and Accelerators

• Arvind Mithal, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• David Carrera, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Integrated Characterization For Calcific Aortic Stenosis Will Change Treatment Strategies

• Elazer Edelman, Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
• Jose Maria De la Torre Hernandez, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital
• Tamara Garcia Camarero, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital
• Gabriela Veiga Fernández, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital

Metallic porous electrodes for redox flow batteries

• Fikile Brushett, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
• Antoni Forner Cuenca, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering
• Javier García Martínez, University of Alicante

Multi-Qubit Couplings in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

• William D. Oliver, Professor, Physics
• Simon Gustavsson, Principal Research Scientist, Physics
• Pol Forn-Díaz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

MyBubble: Influence of Algorithms in Users Filter Bubbles

• Iyad Rahwan, Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Manuel Cebrian, Senior Research Scientist, Media Arts and Sciences
• Esteban Moro, Visiting Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
• Andrés Abeliuk, Postdoctoral Associate, Media Arts and Sciences
• Antonio Fernández Anta, IMDEA Networks Institute
• Rubén Cuevas, Charles III University of Madrid
• Ángel Cuevas, Charles III University of Madrid