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Professors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
feature stories of caring that inspire the MIT community, and highlight the ways that research supervisors ... Propulsion Research, is revered among his students for his understanding nature and support of their ... development as individuals. Encouraging his students to develop their own ideas and pursue their own research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringFour from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows
achieved “extraordinary accomplishments” in their research fields by naming them IEEE Fellows. The recently ... science. In 2004, he founded the high-computing startup Interactive Supercomputing, but after it was ... needs in radar, electronic warfare, and communications. He is leading research and development in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-are-named-2018-ieee-fellowsCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
two research workshops produced by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) on ... together to learn about the latest research results from J-WAFS-funded teams, to hear about newly funded ... a project that connects the work on prokaryotic gene clusters in his lab to research at the Max Planck ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsPesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Varanasi Research Group as a graduate student, Jayaprakash was instantly drawn to Varanasi’s work on ... I’ve always wanted to work on research that made farmer’s lives easier,” says Jayaprakash, who serves ... as CEO of the startup AgZen. Helping droplets stick Varanasi and his lab at MIT work on what is known ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pesticide-innovation-takes-top-prize-collegiate-inventors-competitionEngineering and matters of the heart
Roche was gaining research experience in the medical device industry. In her third year at the National ... heart, enable research and testing of other therapies. She encourages her students to find ways to ... model, the researchers can then apply different treatments, such as prosthetic valves or other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-and-matters-heartDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
and electric future, Field effectively has to lead a fast-moving startup inside the legacy carmaker. ... “It is incredibly hard, figuring out how to do ‘startups’ within large organizations,” he concedes. If ... says. When Field joined Tesla in 2013, he was drawn to the way the brash startup upended the approach to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitDoug Field
and electric future, Field effectively has to lead a fast-moving startup inside the legacy carmaker. ... “It is incredibly hard, figuring out how to do ‘startups’ within large organizations,” he concedes. If ... says. When Field joined Tesla in 2013, he was drawn to the way the brash startup upended the approach to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-fieldPresident Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea visits MIT
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a confluence of established and startup firms, academic research ... David H. Koch Institute Professor, outlined the model of research-driven biotech startups he has helped ... discussion with Institute leaders and faculty about biomedical research and discussing the fundamentals of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/president-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-visits-mitMIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech
startups at a disproportionately low rate compared with their male colleagues, according to research led by ... for Integrative Cancer Research and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, in an interview ... and being optimistic.” Inspired by generous funding from Northpond Labs, the research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-future-founders-initiative-announces-prize-competition-promote-female-entrepreneursMIT students advance solutions for water and food with the help of J-WAFS
encouraging MIT student involvement through a variety of programs and mechanisms that provide research ... undergraduate and graduate students to engage in the advancement of water and food systems research. These ... include graduate student fellowships, travel grants for participation in conferences, funding for research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-advance-solutions-water-and-food-help-j-wafsTemperature difference propels droplets
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ... Image courtesy of N. Bjelobrk/Varanasi Research Group The differences in temperature on a surface, the ... researchers report, cause a change in the amount of surface tension across the droplet. That causes the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsMaking life friendlier with personal robots
Alghowinem, a research scientist in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group (PRG). Growing up in Saudi Arabia, ... the founder of the Personal Robots Group (PRG) and the social robot startup Jibo Inc., MIT Professor ... and Dean for Digital Learning Cynthia Breazeal. Breazeal's research explores the potential for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-life-friendlier-personal-robotsThe MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
program, and her research involves applying data science and machine learning to fluid dynamics, with ... a specific focus on ocean and climate modeling. The NSF Graduate Research Fellow is now building upon prior ... research focused on ocean acidification as part of her PhD thesis, while she is also involved in other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningLet your car tell you what it needs
listening for when it starts to snore,” Joshua Siegel says. Image: MIT News The MIT research behind this ... Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The new paper’s co-authors include research scientist ... to a misfire, was deliberately induced. Often, in order to test different models, the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needsFinding love in the lab
date while working in my lab.” The research they conducted with Hardt focused on microcontact printing. ... In August of 2014, the two filed a patent application for a startup idea they developed, which later ... ideas Nill and Nietner had during their master’s research. For her PhD, Nietner worked with David ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-love-labA Makerspace for Students, by Students
momentum. The founders wanted to create a place where hobby and research machining didn’t interfere with the ... prototype parts for their research, and undergrads use it for research needs as well. The engineering While ... startups. Together the two spaces have built a community of engineers and entrepreneurs who benefit from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/makerspace-students-studentsA new era for cell therapies
making it difficult to produce personalized therapies at scale. The startup Kytopen, co-founded by ... years later, we participated in the NSF Innovation Corps program, which helps researchers translate ... identified this as the problem area we wanted to solve and raised more research funding to develop a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-cell-therapiesShih-Ying Lee, longtime mechanical engineering professor, inventor, and entrepreneur, dies at 100
hydraulic power research engineer for the Chinese government. Eager to continue his education in the United ... Architects, Lee returned to MIT as a research engineer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Lab. He joined the ... classrooms of MIT. He shared an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in startups with his brother, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/shih-ying-lee-longtime-mechanical-engineering-professor-inventor-and-entrepreneur-diesClass Close-Up: 2.729 Design for Scale
researchers determine which cookstoves are safest. “The devices are all Bluetooth connected, so researchers ... manufacture your device?” says Quintus-Bosz. Companies and start-ups have to determine whether to manufacture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2729-design-scaleKevin Rustagi
because of its renowned entrepreneurial network, the iconic culture of MIT startups. “The thing that ... Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate Undergraduate Alumni ...
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