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MIT-Chile Seed Funds 2012-2013
Grant Recipients

 

> MIT-Chile - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Seed Fund


Advanced Decomposition Techniques for Non-Linear Optimization
A collaboration between:

  • Juan Pablo Vielma, Assistant Professor, Management
  • Marcos Goycoolea, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
  • Eduardo Moreno, Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

 

Introduction to Synthetic Biology Course at UAI-CHILE
A collaboration between:

  • Ron Weiss, Professor, Biological Engineering
  • Jonathan Babb, Biological Engineering
  • Sergio Araya, PhD, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
  • Cedric Little, Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

 

Real-Time Metropolitan Atlas of Chile: Defining Urban Structure Through Digital Social Networks
A collaboration between:

  • Marta Gonzalez, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Dennis Frenchman, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Luis Valenzuela, DDes, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
  • Ricardo Trufello, Geographer, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

 

Understanding the Social Impact of Exogenous Shocks to the Urban Environment
A collaboration between:

  • César A. Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
  • Dennis Frenchman, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Luis Valenzuela, DDes, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
  • Sergio Araya, PhD, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

 

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


Assessing the Impact of Labor Flexibility in Shift Scheduling
A collaboration between:

  • David Simchi-Levi, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Juan-Carlos Ferrer, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Juan-Carlos Muñoz, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Designing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridors
A collaboration between:

  • Jan Wampler, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Architecture
  • Rosanna Forray Claps, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Rocio Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Development, Characterization and Optimization of Hybrid Solar Energy Conversion Systems
A collaboration between:

  • Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Rishi Raj, Other, Mechanical Engineering
  • Amador Guzman, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Rodrigo Escobar, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Modeling and Simulation of Wire Forming Processes
A collaboration between:

  • Raúl Radovitzky, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Diego Celentano, Dr Ing, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Daniel Hurtado, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Mining Project Risk Management (MPRM)
A collaboration between:

  • Roy Welsch, Professor, Management
  • Alexander Samarov, Research Scientist, Management
  • Jose Botin, Professor and Chair, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)
  • Ronald Guzman, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)

 

New Color Centers for Metrology and Quantum Information Applications
A collaboration between:

  • Paola Cappellaro, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Jeronimo Maze, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

Reconstructing Climate Change in Chile Over the Last 11,000 Years
A collaboration between:

  • David McGee, Assistant Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Roger Summons, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
  • Claudio Latorre, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Blas Valero Garces, Research Professor, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia (Pyrenean Institute of Ecology)

 

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
  • Pilar Cereceda, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

Theoretical and Practical Issues in Convex Optimization
A collaboration between:

  • Robert Freund, Professor, Management
  • Jorge Vera, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Fernando Ordóñez, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile
  • Enzo Sauma, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

 

What can Twitter Teach Us About Social Protests?: Discovering the Global Connections of the Chilean Student Movement through Network Analysis
A collaboration between:

  • Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
  • Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, Management
  • Cristobal Garcia, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Marisa von Bülow, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

> MIT-Chile Seed Fund


A New Fundamental Insight on Noble Metal Electrodeposition
A collaboration between:

  • Antoine Allanore, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Tomas Vargas, Associate Professor, University of Chile
  • Melanie Colet, Instructor Professor, University of Chile

 

A New In vitro Migration Assay for Functional Isolation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Subpopulation (MSCs) and Therapeutic Quality Control
A collaboration between:

  • Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor, Health Sciences and Technology
  • Juan Pablo Acevedo Cox, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes
  • Mauron Khoury, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes

 

Analysis of Copiapo's Water Metabolism with the Aim to Propose Water Deficit Mitigation Strategies
A collaboration between:

  • John Lienhard, Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
  • John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Architecture
  • Maria Christina Fragkou, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
  • Barbara Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor, Universidad de Chile

 

Collaborative Decision-Making in the Realm of Hydropower Projects in Southern Chile - Phase II
A collaboration between:

  • Lawrence Susskind, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Teodoro Kausel, Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile

 

Effects of Built Environment and Land Use Factors on Child Pedestrian Crashes in Santiago, Chile
A collaboration between:

  • Christopher Zegras, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • Carola Blazquez, Associate Professor, Universidad Andres Bello

 

Long Term Components of an Integrated, Microsimulation and Agent-Based Model of Urban Systems and Land Use
A collaboration between:

  • Moshe Ben-Akiva, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Joseph Ferreira, Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
  • C. Angelo Guevara, Research Professor, Universidad de los Andes
  • Francisco Martínez, Professor, Universidad de Chile

 

Megacity Logistics Lab - Profiling Santiago de Chile
A collaboration between:

  • Chris Caplice, Principal Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
  • Edgar Blanco, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division
  • Julio Villalobos, Director, Universidad Andrés Bello

 

MIT-Chile Collaboration for Medical Text Summarization for Patient Literacy
A collaboration between:

  • John Guttag, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Dorothy Curtis, Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • John Atkinson, Professor, Universidad de Concepcion
  • Javier Vidal, Associate Professor, Universidad de Concepcion

 

Multiferroic Materials and Their Applications: Experiments and Theoretical Simulations
A collaboration between:

  • Caroline Ross, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Patricio Vargas Cantin, Doctor Physical Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  • Juan Manuel Florez Uribe, Doctor Physical Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

 

Structural Analysis of Knowledge Complexity
A collaboration between:

  • César A. Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences
  • Marcelo Mendoza, PhD, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María