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Faithfully supporting well-being
Transportation Planning at MIT, Zhao founded and directs the JTL Urban Mobility Lab. He brings behavioral science ... diversity are attributes Zhao works hard to develop in the Urban Mobility Lab. In under seven years at MIT ... member of his lab is paramount to Youcef-Toumi. Kamal 1024.jpg Professor Youcef-Toumi joined the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faithfully-supporting-well-beingNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, are the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentEngineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ... through an image processing task, programming the memristors to alter an image, in this case of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-put-tens-thousands-artificial-brain-synapses-single-chipEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they ... much less N95 material than a traditional N95 mask. mask_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and Brigham and ... restrict ourselves to methods that could scale,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskInnovations in water accessibility
her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... point, Klise had focused on medical devices throughout her undergraduate experience at MIT. Concerned ... individual glasses. Last fall, she worked as a student researcher for MIT Sea Grant, helping develop an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibilityBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ... startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... 2013 and 2014. Melocchi had been creating drugs by hand in the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
(LEES) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ... investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracy2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans
In fall 2020, MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited launched the ... MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration to support members of the MIT community working at the intersection of ... Mohapatra is also pursuing an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management as part of the Leaders for Global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-22-takeda-fellows-leaning-ai-advance-medicine-humansA lasting — and valuable — legacy
Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... of her life: electrochemistry. As an undergraduate at MIT, Gallant did an Undergraduate Research ... earned three degrees at MIT (’08, SM ’10, and PhD ’13). Before joining the MIT faculty in 2016, she was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyOcean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
and highly contested. Now MIT ocean scientists have shed some light on the topic, with a new study on ... surface. Through a sequence of carefully conceived maneuvers. the MIT scientists used the vehicle to ... of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-scientists-measure-sediment-plume-stirred-deep-sea-mining-vehicleKeeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ... Society Interface, the MIT team reports that maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 ... the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Indoor ventilation is still critical,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-193D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ... by MIT News Even though advances in 3D printing enable rapid fabrication of rotational mechanisms, ... a mechanism and potentially limit its motion. Instead, the new system the MIT researchers developed enables ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... bound to the beads. The MIT team found a faster way to confirm the presence of Dynabead-bound pathogens, ... Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Additionally, we hope this approach will eventually ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... on Body Sensor Networks in October. The study’s MIT authors are first author Peijun Zhao, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
At the Open House for the Edgerton Center Clubs and team this past fall, MIT Technical Instructor ... (46).jpg McAtamney came to MIT in 2002, having worked as a research machinist on NASA's Hubble Space ... a good way. “Don't ever underestimate the MIT student. They're always capable of surprising the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teamsAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ... MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... says MIT graduate student Eunice Aissi. “The whole system would allow us to give a computer a materials ... improving solar energy to transparent electronics and transistors,” adds MIT graduate student Alexander ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ... by adding a common stimulant: caffeine. zero-emissions fuel.jpg MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and ... author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; and Shervin Ardeshir, a senior research scientist at Netflix. The paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... EECS graduate student; Tong Qiu, an MIT postdoc; Honghao Cao, an EECS graduate student; Fan Wang, ... Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissue