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Active One-to-One Research Projects

The projects below were still active as of May 31, 2018, and will be completed at various times between then and February 28, 2021.


Chemical Engineering

Multiscale Design and Analysis of CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage Networks
Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Paul Barton
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Ahmed Al Hajaj

Solar Thermochemical Decomposition of Hydrogen Sulfide to Hydrogen
Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor William H. Green
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Khalid Al-Ali


Computing and Information Sciences

Strategic Network Diffusion
Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Cesar Hidalgo
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Aamena Ali Alshamsi


Electrical Power Engineering

Study and Development of Intelligent Multi-Microgrids with Interactive Capabilities
Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor James L. Kirtley, Jr. and Professor Konstantin Turitsyn
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Mohamed Yaseen Al Hosani


Mechanical Engineering

Fabrication of High Efficiency III-V on Si Photovoltaic Cells Using Advanced Layer Transfer
Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Jeehwan Kim
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Ibraheem Almansouri

Intelligent Water-Energy Micro Nexus
Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor Konstantin Turitsyn, Professor James Wescoat at MIT
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Ameena Al Sumaiti

Multifunctional Nanoporous Evaporator for an Efficient Water Desalination System
Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Evelyn Wang
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Faisal AlMarzooqi


Sustainable Critical Infrastructure

Multi-Vehicle Coordination with Bounded Risk
Principal Investigator at MIT: Professor Brian Williams
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Professor Majid Khonji


Water and Environmental Engineering

Modeling Physical-Biogeochemical Interactions in the Marine System of the Arabian Gulf
Principal Investigators at MIT: Professor John Marshall
Principal Investigator at Masdar Institute: Dr. Maryam Al Shehhi

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