MIT-Israel seed funds support new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts. Learn more about MIT-Israel seed funds here.
MIT-Israel Seed Funds
MIT-Israel Broshy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fund
In Situ and Continuous Monitoring of Metabolites in Organ-on-Chip Micro-Systems
- Joel Voldman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Hadar Ben-Yoav, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Causal inference in medical records for drug repurposing towards dementia - Federated learning from patient data in Israel and the US
- Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
- Bella Vakulenko-Lagun, Haifa University
MIT-Israel Lockheed Martin Seed Fund
Developing Sustainable and 3D-Printable Thermoplastic Protein-Based Materials
- Admir Masic, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Noy Cohen, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Advanced Packaging Reliability Concerns in Electronic and Photonic Devices
- Duane Boning, Clarence J. LeBel Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Joseph B. Bernstein, Ariel University
MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund
Solidarity in Fractured Times: Theory, Empirics, and Law
- Andrea Campbell, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science
- Rachel Friedman, Tel Aviv University
MicroISRAEL-2050: Multi-Layer Explorations of Israel's Urban Microclimates
- Kent Larson, Principal Research, Media Arts and Sciences (MAS)
- Jonathan Natanian, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Semantic Imaging: Merging Computational Imaging and Neural Fields to Advance 3D Scene Understanding
- Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences (MAS)
- Or Litany, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Analyzing the Resilience of the Food System in Israel
- Retsef Levi, Professor of Operations Management, School of Management
- Nir Ohad, Tel Aviv University
Learning-augmented algorithms for motif-counting
- Ronitt Rubinfeld, Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Talya Eden, Bar Ilan University
Additive manufacturing of mesoporous hierarchical materials for atmospheric water harvesting
- Svetlana Boriskina, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
- Shlomo Magdassi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MIT-Israel - MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund
Automatic 3D Design and Editing
- Justin Solomon, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Raja Giryes, Tel Aviv University
MIT-Israel Broshy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fund
Understanding the behavioral decision making behind chemical discoveries
- Heather Kulik, Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Ori Plonsky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund
Israel’s community-based healthcare, urbanization and environment as a basis for developing indicators for pandemic resiliency and planning healthy cities
- Mariana Arcaya, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
- Noam Shomron, Tel Aviv University
Non-invasive Acoustic Hyperthermia and Local Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Brain Tumors
- Natalie Artzi, Assistant Professor at BWH, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
- Haim Azhari, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Integrating Machine Learning Methods and Discrete Choice Models
- Moshe Ben-Akiva, Edmund K. Turner Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Tomer Toledo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Vibrational engineering of ferroic order in van der Waals materials
- Nuh Gedik, Professor, Physics
- Dominik Juraschek, Tel Aviv University
How abstract is phonology
- Donca Steriade, Class of 1941 Professor of Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy
- Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University
Time Reversal of Nonlinear Hamiltonians for Quantum Enhanced Metrology
- Vladan Vuletic, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Physics
- Michael Rosenbluh, Bar-Ilan University
MIT-Israel - MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund
Uncovering the Design Parameter Space for 3D Microwoven Materials
A collaboration between:
- Carlos Portela, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Igor Berinskii, Tel Aviv University
Thermochemistry and Irradiation Damage of WTaCrTiV Multi-Principal Element Alloys (MPEAs) as Optimized Fusion Plasma Facing Materials
A collaboration between:
- Michael Short, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Shmuel Hayun, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
MIT-Israel Broshy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fund
How to Stay in The Zone - Theoretically Motivated Intervention for Optimizing Attentional States
A collaboration between:
- Pattie Maes, Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
- Ayelet N. Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MIT-Israel Broshy Brain and Cognitive Sciences Fund and MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund
Boosting Vision on the Go - Perceptual Learning Through Visuo-Motor Engagement
A collaboration between:
- Pawan Sinha, Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Roy Mukamel, Tel Aviv University
MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund
Launching the Technion center for computational intelligence in medicine
A collaboration between:
- Leo Anthony Celi, Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
- Joachim Behar, Technion-IIT
Fundamentals and applications of highly-polarizable semiconductors
A collaboration between:
- Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Omer Yaffe, Weizmann Institute of Science
Extreme black hole accretion
A collaboration between:
- Erin Kara, Assistant Professor, Physics
- Iair Arcavi, Tel Aviv University
Digital Glass, Traditional Materials and Architectural Memory
A collaboration between:
- Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor, Architecture
- Eran Sharon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nanoengineered Silk Bioelectronics
A collaboration between:
- Kripa Varanasi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Ulyana Shimanovich, Weizmann Institute of Science
MIT-Israel - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund
Improving High-Throughput Dna Sequencing Analysis Through Universal K-Mer Hitting Sets
A collaboration between:
- Professor Bonnie Berger, Mathematics
- Yaron Orenstein, Ben-Gurion University
Inferring And Overcoming Students’ Misconceptions In Visual Programming Environments
A collaboration between:
- Hal Abelson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Kobi Gal, Ben-Gurion University
Spectroscopy Of Molecules In Unusual States
A collaboration between:
- Robert W. Field, Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry
- Joshua Baraban, Ben-Gurion University
MIT-Israel - MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund
Bottom-Up Synthesis Of High Performance Aerogel Fuel Cell Catalysts
A collaboration between:
- Professor Yogesh Surendranath, Chemistry
- Lior Elbaz, Bar-Ilan University
Model And Experiments Developing Metal-Bromine Flow Batteries
A collaboration between:
- Martin Bazant, E.G. Roos Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Matthew Suss, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Resolving Near Order Structure Of Poly-Amorphous Li-Garnet For Solid State Battery Electrolytes
A collaboration between:
- Jennifer Rupp, Thomas Lord Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Igor Lubomirsky, Weizmann Institute of Science
MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund
A Bone Microstructure Approach To Studying Animal Domestication In The Levant
A collaboration between:
- Professor Christine Ortiz, Materials Science and Engineering
- Filipe Natalio, Weizmann Institute
Artificial Proteins For Energy Transport Devices
A collaboration between:
- Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor, Chemistry
- Nadav Amdursky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Elucidating The Neural Mechanisms Of Expectancy-Based Effects In Psychotherapy
A collaboration between:
- John Gabrieli, Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Sigal Mano-Zilcha, University of Haifa
The Quest For Dark Matter Interactions
A collaboration between:
- Jesse Thaler, Associate Professor, Physics
- Tomer Volansky, Tel-Aviv University
Transient Strongly Nonlinear Dynamics: Opportunities And Challenges
A collaboration between:
- Themistoklis Sapsis, Mechanical Engineering
- Oleg Gendelman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Ultrasound-Induced Immunotherapeutic Nanomedicine Delivery To Brain Tumours Under MRI Guidance
A collaboration between:
- Natalie Artzi, Research Affiliate, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
- Haim Azhari, Technion Institute of Technology
MIT-Israel - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Seed Fund
Boneh - Pec Rheology of Subducted
A collaboration between:
- Slab Matej Pec, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Yuval Boneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Digital Archaeology and Virtual Narratives
A collaboration between:
- Mark Jarzombek, Professor, Architecture
- Takehiko Nagakura, Associate Professor, Architecture
- Eliyahu Keller, PhD Student, Architecture
- Eytan Mann, Researcher, Architecture
- Yuval Yekutieli, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Photoconductivity Chemical Sensors for Agriculture
- Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Yuval Golan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
MIT-Israel Seed Fund
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
MIT-Jordan Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Seed Fund
MIT-Jordan Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Seed Fund
Superprotonic Conductivity in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
A collaboration between:
- Mircea Dinca, W. M. Keck Professor, Chemistry
- Kyle Cordova, Royal Scientific Society
iPSC and CRISPR gene editing to study rare diseases
A collaboration between:
- Ernest Fraenkel, Professor, Biological Engineering
- Nidaa Ababneh, University of Jordan
Use of Distributed Low-Cost Sensor Networks for Air Quality Monitoring in Amann, Jordan
A collaboration between:
- Jesse Kroll, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Tareq Hussein, University of Jordan
Radiation Effects on Medical Devices Made by 3D Printing
A collaboration between:
- Ju Li, Battelle Energy Alliance Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Belal Gharaibeh, University of Jordan
Mapping Urban Air Quality Using Mobile Low-coast Sensors and Geospatial Techniques
A collaboration between:
- Sarah Williams, Associate Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
- Khaled Hazaymeh, Yarmouk University
Low-Cost Renewable-Powered Electrodialysis Desalination and Drip Irrigation
A collaboration between:
- Amos Winter, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Samer Talozi, Jordan University of Science and Technology