Mobility and transportation are at the dawn of the most profound changes with an unprecedented combination of new technologies (autonomy, computation, and AI) meeting new and evolving priorities and objectives (decarbonization, public health, and social justice). And the timeframe for these changes – decarbonization in particular – is short in a system with massive amounts of fixed, long-life assets and entrenched behaviors and cultures. It’s this combination of new technologies, new purposes, and urgent timeframes that makes an MIT-led Mobility Initiative critical at this moment.
The MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is designed to effect fundamental changes in the longterm trajectory of sustainable mobility development. It serves to coalesce all mobility and transportation activities at MIT, knitting together our efforts on research, education, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement at the Institute into a greater whole. This series of webinars will highlight just a few of the key research areas to be explored. We will also discuss how industry can participate in the MMI as a research partner through the MIT Mobility Initiative Consortium.
Principal Investigator James LeBeau
Introducing Analog Devices’ Digital Health business and the role of sensors in Medtech Brendan Cronin Director, Digital Healthcare Group at Analog Devices
Peek into research
Rapid Antigen Diagnostics for Emerging Pathogens Lee Gehrke Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences GI device development in a few movements Giovanni Traverso Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Electronic Textile Conformable Suit (E-TeCS) Canan Dagdeviren LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab MR relaxometer for improving clinical outcomes in hemodialysis Michael Cima David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
A Framework for Biomarkers of COVID-19 Based on Neuromotor Coordination in Speech Thomas F. Quatieri Senior Staff, Human Health and Performance Systems Group, Lincoln Laboratory Senseable Cities Carlo Ratti Director, MIT Senseable City Lab Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media David Rand Erwin H. Schell Associate Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management