About SMART

The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre is a major new research enterprise established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF). The SMART Centre serves as an intellectual hub for research interactions between MIT and Singapore at the frontiers of science and technology.

Established in 2007, the SMART Centre is MIT’s first research centre outside of Cambridge, MA and its largest international research endeavor. The Centre is also the first entity in the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) currently being developed by NRF. >> read more

News

29.10.2009 Future Urban Mobility is SMART’s Fourth IRG

23.09.2009 Singapore-MIT Undergraduate Research Fellows at SMART (SMURF)

09.07.2009 SMART Celebrates Opening of BioSyM IRG Office

18.05.2009 SMA Graduate Fellowship at SMART

News Coverage

17.07.2009 Innovation: CENSAM and Singapore's Environment

04.07.2009 Channel News Asia: Singapore on track to increase expenditure on R&D

04.07.2009 Straits Times: Research shows why virus is acting more like local blazes

04.03.2009 MIT: Engineers use 'nano-origami' The Economist: Nanotechnology: Creased Lightning

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The SMART BioSyM IRG has three major areas of focus. First and foremost is the development of new technologies to address critical medical and biological questions applicable to a variety of diseases but focusing on liver disease... >> read more

The grand challenge of the centre for environmental sensing and modeling (CENSAM) is to provide proof of concepts in the paradigm of pervasive monitoring, modeling and control within the highly developed and carefully managed... >> read more

The SMART Infectious Disease IRG (ID-IRG) seeks fundamental understanding of host-pathogen interactions as well as direct impact on human heath through translational research. The ID-IRG focuses on infectious diseases that have major impact on human... >> read more