TinyTech Advisors

   

Scientific Advisors

 

Henry I. Smith, Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering , is a principal investigator in the Quantum-Effects Devices Group of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and director of the NanoStructures Laboratory.

 

 

 

 

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Institute Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, has attracted wide attention are in the areas of carbon nanotubes, bismuth nanowires and low dimensional thermoelectricty.

 

 

 

Joseph Jacobson

Joe Jacobson, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, leads the Molecular Machines group of the Center for Bits and Atoms. His research is aimed at reinventing microelectronics by developing processes for directly and continuously printing communication, computation, and displays onto arbitrary substrates.

 

 

Commercialization and Business Advisors

 

Kenneth P. Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, studies the international sales and marketing challenges faced by fast-growing high-tech firms.

 

 

 

 

Advisory Institute Sponsors

 

Colbert photograph

Isaac M. Colbert continues his leadership of the Graduate Education Office in the capacity of Dean for Graduate Students. The role of the Dean for Graduate Students is to provide a senior voice on behalf of graduate student issues and concerns and to work with the Graduate Student Council to articulate relevant matters to senior administration. As the manager of the Graduate Students Office, the Dean serves as the local fiscal agent for a wide variety of federal, foundation, and corporate sources of graduate financial support.
 

 

 

Robert J. Silbey is the Dean in the School of Science and the Class of '42 Professor of Chemistry.  Professor Silbey's research is in theoretical studies of a) the low temperature thermal properties of glasses, b) energy and electron transfer and relaxation in molecular aggregates, c) the optical and electronic properties of conjugated polymers, and d) in collaboration with Professor Field, the dynamics of highly vibrationally excited molecules.