SENSE.nano Annual Symposium

SENSE.nano, the first Center of Excellence powered by MIT.nano, focuses on sensors, sensing systems, and sensing techniques.  Our research in sensing science and sensing engineering leads to groundbreaking innovations in advanced manufacturing, healthcare, environmental remediation, smart infrastructure, and the creation of advanced machines and materials. Novel sensing technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for advancing our understanding and use of nanoscale phenomena.

Inexpensive, small, smart sensors enable local sensing capabilities vital to
(*) individual health and wellness monitoring
(*) autonomous vehicle operations
(*) condition monitoring of machinery and infrastructure  

Massively distributed networks of inexpensive smart sensors enable large-scale, global, data collection important to
(*) agriculture and water distribution
(*) environmental monitoring
(*) disaster recovery
(*) disease outbreak detection and intervention
(*) supply chain operations
(*) urban operations

MIT is poised to address the engineering, science, policy, and commercial challenges required to realize sensing innovations, to translate them to scale, and to positively impact society and the environment.

The 2021 SENSE.nano symposium focused on human subjects research, exploring how sensors and sensing systems can enable current medical studies and future clinical practice. SENSE.nano 2021 also celebrated the re-opening of the expanded Clinical Research Center (CRC) at MIT, now known as MIT's Center for Clinical and Translational Research.