Funded Initiatives

Faculty Seed Fund Collaborations

Mathematical Modeling and Signal Processing for Integrative Patient Monitoring

MIT: George Verghese. Politecnico: Giuseppe Baselli. Field of collaboration: Computer Science and Bioengineering.

Failure Movement Ecology at the Microscale: experiments and models with predator-prey bacteria

MIT: Roman Stocker; Politecnico : Marino Gatto and Renato Casagrandi. Field of collaboration: Environmental Engineering and Electronics.

Computational modeling of controlled drug release and arterial uptake from biodegradable material implants

MIT: Elazer Edelman and Vijaya Kolachalama; Politecnico: Luca Formaggia, and Sara Minisini. Field of collaboration Computer science and bio-engineering.

Chalcogenide Glass micro-resonators for advanced low power non-linear optics

MIT: Lionel Kimerling and Anuragha Agarwal; Politecnico: Andrea Melloni, Electronics and Materials Science and Engineering

Self-Adaptive Autonomic Systems

MIT: Anant Agarwal; Politecnico:Donatella Sciuto. Field of collaboration:EECS-AI.

Iso-dielectophoretic separation and impedance measurement for intrinsic cell sorting

MIT: Joel Voldman; Politecnico: Marco Sampietro. Field of collaboration:EECS- Bioengineering.

Development of numerical Simulations and Modelling tools for MEMS and Emerging Technologies

MIT: Luca Daniel and Jacob White; Politecnico: Attilio Frangi and Alberto Corigliano. Field of collaboration: EECS.

Failure analysis of inertial MEMS sensors subject to impacts: A multiscale-statistical approach

MIT: Raul Radovitzky; Politecnico: Stefano Mariani, Anna Pandolfi, and Dr. Anna Ferrara. Field of Collaboration: Computational Engineering.

Multi-scale computational study of tendon hierarchical structure and collagen-related diseases

MIT: Markus Buehler; Politecnico: Alberto Redaelli. Field of collaboration: Bioengineering.

Tumour Real-Time Targeting in High-Precision Radiation Therapy

MIT-Harvard, HST – MGH Radiation Oncology: Rakesh Kumar Jain, Dava J Newman, George TY Chen; Politecnico: Antonio Pedotti, Guido Baroni, Bioengineering. Field of collaboration: Biomedical Engineering.

Tissue Engineering in Human Cartilage in Bioreactors

MIT: Lisa Freed, Dr. Matteo Moretti, Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology: Politecnico: Manuela Raimondi, Riccardo Pietrabissa, Bioengineering. Field of collaboration: Bioengineering.

Optoelectronic Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement During Short-Radius Centrifugation

MIT: Larry Young, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Politecnico: Antonio Pedotti, Biomedical Engineering. Field of collaboration: Mechanical Engineering.

Thermophoretic Effects in Nanofluids

MIT: Jacopo Buongiorno, Nuclear Engineering; Politecnico: Roberto Piazza, Soft Condensed Matter Laboratory. Field of collaboration: Materials Science.

Computational Fracture Mechanic

MIT: Tomasz Wierzbicki, Mechanical and Ocean Engineering: Politecnico: Chiara Bisagni. Field of collaboration: Materials Science-Mechanical Engineering.

Design and Modeling of Microconduits for Oxygenation and Artificial Respiration.

MIT: Todd Thorsen, Mechanical Engineering; Politecnico: Alberto Redaelli, Biomechanics. Field of collaboration: Biomechanical-Biomedical Engineering.

Reduced Basis Methods for Fluid Mechanics Problems

MIT: Anthony Patera, Mechanical Engineering: Politecnico Alfio Quarteroni, (MOX modeling and Scientific Computing). Field of collaboration: Mechanical Engineering.

Analysis of the Interactions Among Quality and Productivity Performance Measures in Production System

MIT: Stanley Gershwin, Mechanical Engineering; Politecnico: Tullio Tolio. Field of collaboration: Mechanical Engineering.

High-energy, Phase-controlled, Few-Optical-cycle Light Pulses and Attosecond Pulse Generation

MIT: Erich Ippen, Electrical Eng & Computer Science; Politecnico: Giulio Cerullo. Field of collaboration: Physics and Materials Science.

Collision Avoidance in Large Transportation Networks

MIT: Domitilla Del Vecchio, Mechanical Engineering. Polimi: Alessandro Colombo, Electronics and Information 2012.

Stochastic Dynamics of Wind Turbines

MIT: Konstantin Turitsyn, Mechanical Engineering. Polimi: Carlo Luigi Bottasso, Aerospace Engineering, 2012.

Coupled Flow and Geo-mechanics of Fault - Application to CO2 Sequestration

MIT: Juanes Ruben, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Polimi: Luca Formaggia, Mathematics. 2013.

Bone-Inspired Materials

MIT: Markus J. Buehler, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Polimi: Laura Vergani, 2014.

Correlating Grain Boundary Crystallography to the Onset of Localized Corrosion

MIT: Michael Demkowicz, Materials Science and Engineering; Polimi: Matteo Seita, Maria Vittoria Diamanti and Marco Ormellese, 2014.

Development of Macro-modeling and Simulation Techniques for Uncertainty Quantification and Noise Analysis in Oscillatory Devices

MIT Luca Daniel, EECS; Polimi: Paolo Maffezzoni, 2014.

Dynamic Modelling for Surgery

MIT: Dava Newman, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Polimi: Guido Baroni, 2014.

Nonlinear Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

MIT: Sang-Gook Kim, Mechanical Engineering; Polimi: Alberto Corigliano, 2014.

Bioactive Coating for Accelerated Bone Regeneration: A Pathway to Enhance Implant Fixation Nonlinear Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

MIT: Ming Dao; Polimi: Mario Guagliano, 2015.

Development of Efficient Stochastic Simulation and Modeling Techniques for Photonic Design Automation

Bioelectrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT: Luca Daniel; Polimi: Andrea Melloni, 2015.

Exploring and Modelling Interacting Cracks: Toward a Crack Network Model

MIT: Ken Kamrin; Polimi: Mario Guagliano, 2015.

Advanced Model Order Reduction for Analysis and Control of Flexible Structures

MIT: Luca Daniel, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Polimi: Gianni Ferretti, DEIB ( Electronics and Bioengineering), 2016.

SAMM - Smart Additive Manufacturing for Metals

MIT: John Hart, Mechanical Engineering; Polimi: Bianca Colosimo, Mechanics, 2016.

Characterizing Hypotensive Episodes in the Intensive Care Unit

MIT: Roger Mark, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Polimi: Riccardo Barbieri, DEIB ( Electronics and Bioengineering) 2016.

Multimodal and Multiscale Experimental and Modeling Approach to Explore the Role of Microstructural Organization in Bio-mineralized Complex Materials

MIT: Admir Masic, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Polimi: Flavia Libonati, Mechanics, 2017.

Predictive Model of Urban e-Mobility Integrated with Renewable Energy Sources

Luca Daniel, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Polimi: Michela Longo, Department of Energy, 2017.

Tailor-Made Composites: Using Engineered Design & Manufacturing, Modeling and Experiments to Create New Functional Materials

MIT: Markus Buehler, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Polimi: Laura Vergani, Mechanics, 2017.

Disorder-Aware Engineering of Meta-surfaces for Advanced Photonics

MIT: Luca Daniel, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Polimi: Giuseppe Della Valle, Physics, 2018.

Testing the Link between Autism and Predictive Disorder

MIT: Pawan Sinha, Brain and Cognitive Science; Polimi: Riccardo Barbieri DEIB ( Electronics and Bioengineering), 2018.

Studying the world’s thinnest superconductor with x-ray spectroscope

MIT: Riccardo Comin, Physics; Polimi: Giacomo Ghiringhelli, Physics, 2018.

Adipose Tissue on a Chip

MIT :Benedetto Marelli, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Polimi: Silvia Fare’ & Nicola Contessi Negrini, Bio-Chemistry and Materials, 2019.

Characterizing Interventions in the Intensive Care Unit

MIT: Roger Mark, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Li-wei Lehman; Polimi: Riccardo Barbieri, DEIB, Electronics, Information and Biology, 2019.

Computational Design and Experimental Validation of TRAF6-binding Peptides

MIT: Amy Keating, Biology; Polimi: Alfonso Gautieri, Biomechanics, 2019.

Designing and Optimizing the Control of Integrated Photovoltaic-Powered Des

MIT: Amos Winter, Mechanical Engineering; Polimi: Sergio Savaresi, DEIB, Electrical Engineering, 2019.

Reduced Models for Nonlinear and Multi-Physics Micro-Systems

MIT: Luca Daniel, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Polimi: Alberto Corigliano, Civil& Environmental Engineering, 2019.

Sedimentation Kinetics and Instabilities

MIT: James Swan, Chemical Engineering; Polimi: Roberto Piazza, Physics, 2019.

UNmanned Additive Manufacturing – UNAM, MIT

John Hart, Mechanical Engineering & Cem Tasan, Materials Science and Engineering; Polimi: Bianca Maria Colosimo, Mechanical Engineering, 2019.

VALIDATE: CardioVascuLar Medical Devices: from Images to Bedside

MIT: Elazer Edelman, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science; Polimi: Francesco Migliavacca, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 2019.

MIT Faculty Travel Grants

Todd Thorsen

MIT, Mechanical Engineering, “Development of microfluidic devices for biomedical applications, including modeling, fabrication and manufacture of devices for diverse applications such as DNA diagnostics, artificial respiration, and modeling biofilm formation in tooth decay.” 2005.

Tomasz Wierzbicki

MIT, Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, “ Collaboration between the impact and crashworthiness lab at MIT and the department of aerospace engineering at Politecnico.” 2005.

Laurence R. Young

MIT, Aeronautics and Astronautics, “Exploratory visit to advance collaboration with Prof Antonio Pedotti at Politecnico.” 2005.

Roman Stocker

MIT, Civil Engineering, “Application of fluid dynamics – in particular microfluidics – to environmental and biological questions.” 2006.

Ali Khademhosseini

Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, “Mathematical modeling of cell based diagnostic devices”, 2007.

Federico Casalegno

Mobile Experience Lab, “Sustainable Mobility and Design,” May 2008.

Anant Agarwal

MIT, EECS, “Building a Self-Aware Operating System for Multicores and Clouds”, Summer 2010 (http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/FPL2010/kn_aa.htm)

Barbara Liskov

MIT Institute Professor, “The power of abstraction” Polimi department of Electronics and Information, September 2010.

Ahmed Ghoniem

MIT Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2011.

Laurence Young

MIT, Aero Astro, Summer 2011

Giampaolo Manzolini

Politecnico di Milano, Energy, Summer 2011.

Peter Dourmashkin

MIT, Physics, Summer 2013.

Gregory Rutledge

MIT, Chemical Engineering, Summer 2013.

Alessandro Colombo

Polimi, EECS, Summer 2013.

Paolo Maffezzoni

Polimi, EECS, Summer 2013.

Joe Formaggio

MIT, Physics Spring 2014.

Mario Guagliano

Polimi, Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2014.

Ken Kamrin

MIT, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2014.

Giacomo Ghiringhelli

Polimi, Physics, 2017.

Benedetto Marelli

MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017.

Elazar Edelman

Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, 2018.

Leo Anthony Celi

Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, 2019

Roger Mark

Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, 2019.

Workshops and Colloquia

Reduction Strategies for the Simulation of Complex Problems

a Workshop organized by professors Anthony Patera and Karen Willcox –MIT –Center for Computational Engineerig– and Alfio Quarteroni–Politecnico MOX. To be held in January 2011.

Self- AwarE Computing

(SEEC) , Professors Anant Agarwal and Marco Santambrogio, January 2012 l.

Analysis and design of recycling technologies and systems.

Dr. Stanley B. Gershwin, MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Prof. Tullio Tolio, Technology and Production Systems group – Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano

NB: The Progetto Rocca no longer support these initiatives.