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MIT-Chile Seed Funds 2011-2012
Grant Recipients

 

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Compose_It House. Robotic Fabrication for Architectural Applications.

A collaboration between:

  • Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor, Architecture
  • Alexandros Tsamis, Associate professor, Adolfo Ibanez University, Chile

 

Synthetic Biology Design Project

A collaboration between:

  • Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
  • Sergio Araya, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile
  • Manuel Gidekel, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

 

>MIT-Chile - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Seed Fund


Damage to Chilean High-rise Buildings During Large Thrust Earthquakes

A collaboration between:

  • Eduardo Kausel, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Juan Carlos de la Llera, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  • Rosita Junemann, Ph.D. Candidate, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

Enhancing Sustainability of Concrete by Using High-Volume Fly Ash as SCM in Cement Paste and for Low Cost Production LWA

A collaboration between:

  • Franz-Josef Ulm, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Mauricio Lopez, Assistant Professor, PhD, MSc, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
  • Carlos Videla Javier Castro, Assistant Professor,Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile

 

Environmentally-Adaptive Vision-Based Navigation

A collaboration between:

  • Nicholas Roy, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Alvaro Soto, Profesor Asociado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Implementing Bus Rapid Transit: Institutional Dimensions

A collaboration between:

  • P. Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Manuel Tironi, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

Information on Vocational Education in Chile

A collaboration between:

  • Esther Duflo, Professor, Economics
  • David Autor, Professor, Economics
  • Francisco Gallego, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

 

Nitrogen Fixation in the Polar Ocean and its Contribution to Global Nitrogen Budgets

A collaboration between:

  • Martin Polz, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Beatriz Eugenia Diez Moreno, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Role of the Good Cholesterol HDL in Female Fertility

A collaboration between:

  • Monty Krieger, Professor, Biology
  • Ayce Yesilaltay, Research Scientist, Biology
  • Attilio Rigotti, MD, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica, School of Medicine, Chile
  • Dolores Busso, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica, School of Medicine, Chile

 

Sparse Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cardiovascular Applications

A collaboration between:

  • Elfar Adalsteinsson, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Pablo Irarrazaval, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
  • Cristian Tejos, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

The Fog Harvesting Challenge

A collaboration between:

  • Gareth McKinley, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Robert Cohen, Professor, Chemical Engineering
  • Juan de Dios Rivera, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  • Pilar Cereceda, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Urban Public Transport Operations Control

A collaboration between:

  • Nigel Wilson, Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Juan-Carlos Muñoz, Associate professor, Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


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Collaborative Decision-making in the Realm of Hydropower Projects in Southern Chile

A collaboration between:

  • Lawrence Susskind, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Teodoro Kausel, Auxiliar Professor, Economics and Administration Faculty Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
  • Jose Aylwin, Adjunct Professor of Indigenous Law, Faculty of Juridical and Social Studies Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile

 

Information Technologies for Supporting Disaster Relief Operations in Chile

A collaboration between:

  • Jarrod Goentzel, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
  • Yossi Sheffi, Professor, Engineering Systems Division
  • Raquel Jimenez, M.Sc., Andres Bello University, Chile
  • Nicolas Bronfman, Ph.D., Andres Bello University, Chile

 

MIT-Chile Collaboration for Assistive Technologies in HealthCare

A collaboration between:

  • John Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Dorothy Curtis, Other,
  • Esteban Pino, Assistant Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile
  • Pablo Aqueveque, Assistant Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile

 

Phasing the Atacama Large Telescope Array for Observing a Black Hole Event Horizon

A collaboration between:

  • Sheperd Doeleman, Principal Research Scientist, Physics
  • Neil Nagar, Professor, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

 

Relating the Structure and Acoustical Properties of Solid-State Interfaces

A collaboration between:

  • Michael Demkowicz, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Fernando Lund, Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Nicolas Mujica, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile

 

Roadmap to Internationalize and Orient Engineering Education towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Collaboration

A collaboration between:

  • Dava J. Newman, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Juan Carlos de la Llera, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  • Andrea Detmer, Deputy Director for Innovation, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  • Pedro Bouchon, Associate Professor and Director for Research, Innovation and Graduate Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

 

The Biogeochemistry of the Oxygen Minimum Zone of Northern Chile in a Warming World: Present and Past Evolution Using Novel Lipid Biomarkers

A collaboration between:

  • Roger Summons, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Julio Sepulveda, Other, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Carina Lange, Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile
  • Silvio Pantoja, Professor, University of Concepcion, Chile

 

The Development of Ambulatory Biofeedback Approaches to More Effectively Treat Common Voice Disorders

A collaboration between:

  • John V. Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Robert E. Hillman, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
  • Matias Zanartu, Academic Research Associate, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile
  • Agustin Gonzalez, Professor, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile

 

Urban Metabolism of the Talca Region of Chile

A collaboration between:

  • John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Architecture
  • Eduardo Aguirre, Professor, Universidad de Talca, Chile