Collaborative ResearchCollaborative Research

Active One-to-One Research Projects

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Electrical Power Engineering

• Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Power Systems: Modeling and Topology Studies
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor James Kirtley, Professor David Perreault
  Principal Investigators at Masdar Institute: Professor Vinod Khadkikar, Professor Weidong Xiao
• Novel Control Strategies for Smart Grid Interface wtih High Penetration of Wind Power Generation
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor James Kirtley
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Mohamed Elmoursi
• Sustainable Networks: From Smart Grids to Green Robust Information Networks
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Eytan Modiano
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Sid Chi-Kin Chau

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Engineering Systems and Management

• Influencing Collective Human Behavior Using Distributed Intelligent Systems
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Alex Pentland
  Principal Investigators at Masdar Institute: Professor Iyad Rahwan
• Sustainable Healthy Leaving: Developing Early Warning Markers and Health Monitoring Tools for Chronic Diseases Using Mobile Monitoring Technology
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Kent Larson, Professor Alex Pentland
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Inas Khayal

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Materials Science and Engineering

• Computational Methods to Analyze Microbial Community Resilience in Bioenergy Systems with Application to Algae-Based Biofuels
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Martin Polz
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Andreas Henschel
• Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Silvija Gradecak
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Amal Al Ghaferi
• Solar Spectral Splitting Parallel Multi Junction High Efficiency Concentrating Photovoltaics (S3PMcpv)
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Dr. Jurgen Michel, Professor Lionel Kimerling
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Marco Stefancich
• Thin Cost-effective Silicon Wafers for Heterojunction Based Photovoltaic Devices: High Throughput Surface Passivation
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Tonio Buonassisi and Professor Harry Tuller
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Adel Gougam

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Mechanical Engineering

• CO2 Capture by Using Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC)
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Ahmed Ghoniem
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Tariq Shamim
• High-Concentration Solar Electric/Thermal Cogeneration System: Optimal Design, Transient Analysis, and Prototype Unit Development
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Evelyn N. Wang
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Tiejun Zhang
• Reliable Power Grid Operation & Control in the Presence of Increasing Penetration of Variable Energy Resources
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Amro M. Farid
• Transforming Material Architecture
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Mary C. Boyce
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Kumar Shanmugam

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Microsystems Engineering

• Design of Ultra-Low Power Variation Aware, Time-Interleaved A/D Converters
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Duane Boning, Professor Hae-Seung Lee
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Ibrahim Elfadel
• Electronic Photonic Integrated Circuits
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Vladimir Stojanović, Professor Franz Kärtner
  Principal Investigators at Masdar Institute: Professor Anatoly Khilo
• Energy Efficient Wearable Sensor with Body Area Network
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Anantha Chandrakasan
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Jerald Yoo
• Design Strategies for Very High Data Rate Short Range Wireless Communication Links
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Hae-Seung Lee, Gregory Wornell, Lizhong Zheng
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Ayman Shabra
• Optical Signal Generation, Processing and Detection at Extended IR Wavelengths
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Erich P. Ippen, Professor Leslie A. Koldziejski
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Jaime Viegas
• PZT Transducers for Advanced Ultrasound Imaging Systems
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Sang-Gook Kim
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Firas N. Sammoura
• Thin Film Photovoltaics
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Judy Hoyt, Professor Dimitri Antoniadis
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Ammar Nayfeh

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Water and Environment

• Atmospheric Circulation Signatures of the Space-Time Water Resources Distribution across Arid and Semi-Arid Middle Eastern Climates
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Dara Entekhabi
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Annalisa Molini
• Developing Pre-Launch Experiments for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Environments to the Future NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Dara Entekhabi
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Hosni Ghedira
• Development of New Sorbent Systems for CO2 Post-Combustion Capture
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor T. Alan Hatton
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Mohammad Abu Zahra
• Development of Renewable Energy Powered Membrane Distillation Process
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor John H. Lienhard, Professor Greg Rutledge
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Hassan A. Arafat
• Engineering Open Anaerobic Microbial Fermentations for Conversion of Organic Waste into Biofuel
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Gregory Stephanopoulos, Professor Eric Alm
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Jorge Rodriguez
• Experimental and Computational Studies of CO2 Sequestration Processes in Deformable Porous Media
  Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Ruben Juanes
  Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Mohammad Sassi
• Photoreception and Regulation of Carbon Metabolism of a Prochloroccus Originating from the Arabian Sea: A Model Organism for Developing Bioenergy Systems
  Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Sallie Chisholm
  Principal Investigators at Masdar Institute: Professor Lina Yousef