Keynote: MATERIALS, MEDICINE, HEALTH: SENSING THE WORLD AROUND US AT ALL SCALES Elazer Edelman Director, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT Democratizing Single Molecule Nanoarrays Ashwin Gopinath Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Interferometric Imaging for Studying Sickle Cell Disease and Cancer Metastasis Peter So Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering Dynamic Lens Systems for Biosensing Timothy Swager John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry
Non-Contact Laser Ultrasound Xiang (Shawn) Zhang Postdoctoral Associate, Computational Instrumentation Lab at Mechanical Engineering
Hand-Held Magnetic Resonance Imaging Jacob K. White
Mobility and transportation are at the dawn of the most profound changes with an unprecedented combination of new technologies (autonomy, computation, and AI) meeting new and evolving priorities and objectives (decarbonization, public health, and social justice). And the timeframe for these changes – decarbonization in particular – is short in a system with massive amounts of fixed, long-life assets and entrenched behaviors and cultures. It’s this combination of new technologies, new purposes, and urgent timeframes that makes an MIT-led Mobility Initiative critical at this moment.
The MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is designed to effect fundamental changes in the longterm trajectory of sustainable mobility development. It serves to coalesce all mobility and transportation activities at MIT, knitting together our efforts on research, education, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement at the Institute into a greater whole. This series of webinars will highlight just a few of the key research areas to be explored. We will also discuss how industry can participate in the MMI as a research partner through the MIT Mobility Initiative Consortium.
Principal Investigator James LeBeau