MIT Skoltech Seed Fund awards $1,200,000 in First Year of Seed Grant Funding
The MIT Skoltech Seed Fund has awarded the first year seed grants to 13 projects for 1 year, to researchers from 9 MIT departments, representing 3 schools, and 1 program.
The call for proposals by the MIT Skoltech Seed Fund welcomed submissions for innovative projects that have the potential to benefit the development of Skoltech or the mission of the Skolkovo Foundation, and strongly encouraged proposals that involve collaborative research with Skoltech or other Russian academic and research institutions.
The MIT Skoltech Seed Fund awardees address a wide range of topics:
Boundary Element Methods for Shape Analysis
Justin Solomon, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
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Massive Multiple-Access for the Internet of Things
Yury Polyanskiy, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
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Towards Theoretical Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning
Aleksander Madry, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
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Identifying Aggregation-Prone and Aggregation-Resistant Conformations of Amyloid Beta
Collin Stultz, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
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A Novel Product Design Environment for Health Monitoring Wearables
Stefanie Mueller, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT
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Programming and Reprogramming Cardiac Tissue
Laurie Boyer, Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, MIT
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Photo-Ferroelectric Materials for Photovoltaics and Photonics
Rafael Jaramillo, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
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Big Data Challenges and International Collaborative Programs in Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy
Erik Katsavounidis, Department of Physics, MIT
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Building Bridges Between MIT and Skoltech
Elizabeth Wood, School of Humantieis, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT
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MIT Global Startup Lab in Russia: Fostering Technology Entrepreneurship
Elizabeth Wood, School of Humantieis, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT
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Russia in the Post-Paris World: New Energy Landscape
Sergey Paltsev, MIT Energy Initiative
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Developing Novel STING Agonists and STING Agonist Delivery Vehicles
Karl Wittrup, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
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Model Reduction for High-frequency Wave Scattering
Laurent Demanet, Department of Mathematics, MIT
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