Rocca Fellows

Chemical Engineering, “Interaction of Functionalized Surfaces with Biomolecules.” Polimi: Maurizio Masi, MIT Host: Robert Langer; 2006.

Biomedical Engineering “Computation Systems for Neurodegenerative Diseases.” Polimi: Sergio Cerutti; MIT Host, Ernest Fraenkel; 2006.

Mechanical Systems Engineering, “Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems and Mechanical Design.” Polimi: Massimiliano Gobbi; MIT Host: Jean Jacques Slotine; 2006.

Nuclear Engineering, “Optical Window for Nanoparticle Concentration Measurements.” Polimi: Roberto Piazza; MIT Host: Jacopo Buongiorno, 2006.

Mathematics, “Advection-diffusion processes related to environmental applications,” Polimi: Alfio Quarteroni. MIT Host: Anthony Patera; 2006.

“Nuclear Engineering, “Anomalous Diffusion,” Polimi: Marzio Marseguerra. MIT Host: Mehran Kardar, 2006-7.

Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, “Relationship between a crystallographic structure of a metal surface and its anodizing behavior,” Polimi: Pietro Pedeferri; MIT Host: Christopher Schuh; 2007.

Mathematics, “Computational Modelling of Drug Delivery,” Polimi: Luca Formaggia. MIT Host: Elazer Edelman, 2007.

Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, “Multiscale Modelling and Simulation of Micro-fuel Reformers,” Polimi: Carlo Cavallotti. MIT Host: Klavs Jensen, 2007.

Electrical Engineering, “Implantable Electrodes and Cortical Recording,” Polimi: Alessandro Spinelli. MIT Host: Emilio Bizzi; 2008.

Computer Engineering, “Intrinsic Microfluidic Cell Separation,” Polimi: Advisor: Marco Sampietro. MIT Host: Joel Voldman, 2008.

Biological Engineering, “Nanomechanics of Structural Biological Materials: Integrating Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Testing,” Polimi: Roberto Contro. MIT Host: Christine Ortiz, 2008.

Physics, “High Energy, Phase-controlled, Few Optical Cycle Light Pulses and Attosecond Pulse Generation,” Polimi: Giulio Cerullo. MIT Host, Franz Kaertner, 2008.

Geothermical Engineering, “Flowslides along Natural Slopes.” Polimi: Roberto Nova MIT Host, Andrew Whittle, 2008.

Civil Engineering, “The microfluidics of biofilm formation in porous media.” Polimi: Marco Mancini. MIT Host, Roman Stocker, 2008-9.

Nuclear Engineering, “Simulation methods for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of physical-mathematical models of safety-critical systems.” Polimi: Enrico Zio. MIT Host, George Apostolakis, 2008-9.

Structural, Seismic and Geographical Engineering,” Computational Multiscale Fast Solutions for MEMS/NEMS Analysis.” Politmi: Alberto Corigliano. MIT Host : Jacob White, 2009.

Physics, “ Functional Infrared Spectroscopy on Human Brain.” Politecnico Advisor: Rinaldo Cubeddu. MIT Host: Elfar Adalsteinsson, 2009.

Industrial Engineering, “Sustainable Manufacturing and Product Lifecycle Management.” Polimi: Marco Garetti. MIT Host: Timothy Gutowski, 2009.

Department of Design, “ Wearable Design for Smart Electronic Textiles,” Polimi: Francesco Trabucco. MIT Host : Hugh Herr, 2009.

Department of Design, “Evaluating the Department of Design,“ Evaluation Trash Track Tag project in NYC,” Polimi: Alberto Colorni. MIT Host: Carlo Ratti, 2009.

EECS, “Nanostructured photovoltaic Structures,” Polimi: Marco Sampietro. MIT Host: Vladimir Bulovic, 2009.

EECS, “Quantum Imaging using a multi-pixel single-photon counting array,” Polimi: Franco Zappa. MIT Host: Jeffrey Shapiro, 2009-10.

Materials Science, “Neurophysiological mechanisms of motor skills acquisition,” Polimi: Pietro Luigi Cavallotti. MIT Host: Emilio Bizzi, 2009.

Bioengineering, ““High-Throughput Analysis Of Cell Response To Chemical Libraries, “Polimi: Alberto Redaelli, MIT Host: Ali Khademhosseini, 2010-11.

Computer Science and Automation, “Feedback Control of Computing Systems,” Polimi: Alberto Leva, MIT Host: Anant Agarwal, 2010.

Biomedical Engineering, “Adaptive radiation and proton Therapy: Closing the Loop, Polimi: Guido Baroni, MIT Host: Polina Golland, 2010.

Bioengineering, Computer Science and Automation, “3D anatomical deformation model of the basal ganglia for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease.” Polimi: Gabriella Signorini; MIT Host: Elfar Adalsteinsson, 2010.

Structural Engineering, “Modeling the evolution of thermal cracks in brittle materials.” Polimi: Anna Pandolfi; MIT Host: Raul Radovitzky, 2010.

Civil and environmental engineering “ Extraction of power from fossils with carbon capture,“ Polimi: Ennio Macchi & Emanuela Colombo MIT Host: Ahmed Ghoniem, 2011.

Nuclear Engineering ” Numerical investigation of heat and mass ” Polimi: Fabio Inzoli; MIT Host: Jacopo Buongiorno, 2011.

“Hybrid devices for Solar Light Harvesting, ” Polimi: Marco Sampietro; MIT Host: Vladimir Bulovic, 2011.

EECS-CSAIL “ A new programming representation suitable for heterogeneous architectures,” Polimi: Stefano Crespi Reghizzi; MIT Host: Saman Amarasinghe, 2011.

EECS “Context Adaptive Programming,” Polimi Advisor: Carlo Ghezzi; MIT Host: Barbara Liskov, 2011.

Bioengineering ”Exploring the relationship between anatomical and functional brain structure,” Polimi: Giuseppe Baselli; MIT Host: Elfar Adalsteinsson, 2011.

Mechanical Engineering “Multiscale approach for damage analysis of composites,” Polimi: Laura Vergani; MIT Host: Markus Buehler, 2011-2.

EECS “Electric Vehicle Integration with a Multi-Organizational Sharing Model of Keyless Mobility,” Polimi: Sergio Savaresi; MIT Host: Carlo Ratti, 2011.

Mechanical Engineering and manufacturing, Polimi: Tullio Tolio; MIT Host: Stanley Gershwin, 2011.

Bioengineering ‘Fetal wellbeing ” Polimi: Maria Gabriella Signorini; MIT Host: George Verghese, 2011-2.

EECS, “Operating System Support for Many-Cores Architectures: from Time-Sharing to Spatial-Sharing Task Scheduling.” Polimi: Marco Santambrogio. MIT Hosts: Anant Agarwal & Frans Kaashoek. 2012-3.

Bioengineering, “Study of affective engagement through cardiorespiratory and eye-tracking signals.” Polimi: Luca Mainardi. MIT Host: Emery Brown, 2012.

EECS, “Analysis and synthesis of complex object interactions.” Polimi: Carlo Ghezzi; MIT Host: Armando Solar-Lezama, 2012.

EECS, “Resource Allocation in Virtual Machines for Energy Efficient Data Centers and Clouds.” Polimi: Barbara Pernici. MIT Host: Una-May O’Reilly, 2012.

Mechanical Engineering. “Material constitutive laws that can describe ductile fracture in metals.” Polimi: Marco Giglio. MIT Host: Tomasz Wierzbicki, 2012.

Bioengineering, “Cancer metastasis using advanced microfluidic systems.” Polimi: Gabriele Dubini. MIT Host: Roger D. Kamm, 2013.

Materials Science and Microphotonics,“ Materials and Devices for adaptive integrated Optics.” Polimi: Andrea Melloni. MIT Host: Lionel Kimerling, 2013.

Energy and Nuclear Science, “Advanced ORC Systems Optimization.” Polimi: Ennio Macchi. MIT Host: Ahmed Ghoniem, 2013.

Mechanical Engineering, “Cold Spray Coating Applications for Aeronautical Repairs,” Polimi: Mario Guagliano. MIT Host: Ming Dao, 2013.

Materials Science, “All-solid-state thin-film batteries.” Polimi: Silvia Franz. MIT Host Carl V. Thompson, 2013-4.

Electronics and Aero-Astro “Control and Optimization of Systems with an Unknown Matched Disturbance and Distributed Control Applications,” Polimi: Patrizio Colaneri. MIT Host: Emilio Frazzoli, 2013.

Electronics, “The integration of electronic circuits into photonic integrated circuits,” Polimi: Marco Sampietro. MIT Host: Lionel Kimerling, 2013.

Chemistry and Materials Science, “A fundamental understanding of the relationship between environment, microstructure and stress on precursors to crack initiation,” Polimi: Fabio Bolzoni & Luciano Lazzari. MIT Host: R. G. Ballinger 2013.

Mechanical Engineering, “Innovative applications of selective membranes in Energy plants solid state thin batteries,” Polimi: Ennio Macchi. MIT Host: Ahmed Ghoniem, 2014.

EECS,” Shared Microarchitectural Resource Management to Maximize Datacenter Efficiency.” Polimi: Marco Santambrogio. MIT Host: Daniel Sanchez, 2013-4.

Electronics and Materials Science, “Inkjet patterning of QD LEDs” Polimi: Marco Sampietro MIT Host: Vladimir Bulovic, 2014.

Mechanical Engineering, “Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) phenomenon,” Polimi: Laura Vergani, MIT Host:Ju Li, 2014.

Electronics and Bioengineering, “Biomed Novel Lab on a Chip for recapitulating the cardiac stem cell niche micro-environment,” Polimi: Monica Soncini. MIT Host: Roger Kamm, 2014.

Physics Engineering Master Program Alta Scuola Politecnica, Polimi M. Pedeferri, MIT Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero. 2015-6.

Materials Science and Engineering, “Spintronic Devices Controlled by Magnetic Ionic Effects.” Polimi: Riccardo Beltracco. MIT Host: Geoffrey Beach, 2015.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, “A new superconductor detector deposed on an optical waveguide.” Polimi: Alberto Tosi. MIT Host: Karl Berggren. 2015.

Structural mechanics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, “A Topological Optimization of Phononic Crystals.” Polimi: Raffaele Ardito. MIT Host: Dana Weinstein, 2015.

Mechanical Engineering and Math, “Modeling and Simulation of Crack Propagation in Brittle Materials.” Polimi: Anna Scotti & Luca Formaggia MIT Host: Raul Radovitzky, 2015.

Energy and Environment- CEEPR, “The Management and Optimization of Micro-grids for Rural Energy Access.” Polimi: Ennio Macchi; MIT host: Ignacio Perez Arriaga, 2015.

Environmental and Civil Engineering, “Developing a Smart Shading System.” Polimi: Tiziana Poli. MIT Host: Carlo Ratti, 2015.

Electronics, Informatics and Engineering,“Reiterated robots -children interactions.” Polimi: Franca Garzotto. MIT Host: Cynthia Breazeal, 2016.

Chemistry and Engineering, Integrative Cancer Research Lab, David H. Kocs Institute, “Smart Delivery of SiRNA into Cells.” Polimi: Davide Moscatelli. MIT Host: Daniel G. Anderson, 2016.

Nuclear Science and Engineering “Second generation Turbulence for industrial application.” Polimi: Angelo Onorati; MIT Host: Emilio Baglietto, 2016-17.

DEIB-Mechanical Engineering,” A microscale biomimetic platform for 3D vascularized cardiac in vitro model generation.” Polimi: Marco Rasponi. MIT Host: Roger Kamm, 2017.

Chemistry- Civil and Environmental Engineering, “Scaffold vascularization by 3D printed sacrificial network in adipose tissue regeneration.” Polimi: Silvia Fare’; MIT Host: Benedetto Marelli, 2017.

Energy Department, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), “Realtime Robust Energy Management System for Multigood Smart Grids.” Polimi: Ennio Macchi. MIT Host: Ignacio Perez Arriaga, 2017.

DEIB-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, “A unified environment for distributed and hardware accelerated Iterative Stencil Loop computations.” Polimi: Marco Domenico Santambrogio, MIT Host: Saman Amarasinghe. 2017.

Center for Propulsion Research /Reacting Gas Dynamics Lab “CFD simulation to model the thermochemical conversion of biomass.” Polimi: Tiziano Favarelli; MIT Host: Ahmed Ghoniem, 2017.

Chemistry and Engineering-David Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer research, “Synthesis of Enteric Delivery System.” Polimi: Davide Moscatelli MIT Host: Robert Langer, 2017-8.

Industrial Bioengineering-Mechanical Engineering, “Computational and Experimental Approaches to Renal Disease and Microcirculatory in Vitro Models to Study Microcirculation Alterations in Uremic Patients.“ Polimi: Maria Laura Costantino& Paolo Zunino; MIT Host: Roger Kamm, 2018.

Biomechanics, “Durability prediction of self‐expandable Nickel-Titanium peripheral stents”, Polimi: Francesco Migliavacca; MIT Host: Elazer Edelman, 2018.

Electronics, “Electronic circuits for enhancing the performance of photonic sensing devices”, Polimi: Guido Raos; MIT Host: Lionel Kimberling, 2019.

Mechanical Engineering, “IAM4.0: Novel solutions for Intelligent Additive Manufacturing.” Polimi: Biancamaria Colosimo; MIT Host: John Anastasios Hart, 2019.

Physics, “Optical Modules of Stem Cells Fate.” Polimi: Guglielmo Lanzani; MIT Host: Peter T.C. So, 2019.

Electronics, Bioengineering and Computer Science, “Computational Science Methods to Characterize Political Phenomena on Social Networks.” Polimi: Marco Brambilla; MIT Host: Deb K.Roy. 2019.

Electronics and Computer Science, “A DSA for operations on sparse matrices targeting FPGAs.” Polimi: Marco Santambrogio; MIT Host: Saman Amarasinghe, 2019.

Department of Design, “ “Living the Campus. Spaces and Services fostering interactions in the Community,” Polimi: Luisa Collina & Davide Fassi; MIT Host: Carlo Ratti, 2019.

Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, “The mechanical and viscoelastic properties of polymers by Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation.” Polimi: Guido Raos MIT Host: Markus Buehler, 2019.

Chemistry , Materials and Chemical Engineering ” The contribution of stem cells, nuclear pore complexes (NPC) as stretch-activated channels to the regulation of gene expression,” Polimi: Manuela Raimondi MIT Host: Thomas Schwartz, 2019.

Chemical& Industrial Engineering and Electronics, Computer Science & Bioengineering, “The development of automatic tools for data acquisition, integration, exploration and kinetic model validation,” Polimi: Barbara Pernici; MIT Host: William Green, 2019.

Materials Science, “the synthesis and characterization of bifunctional carbon-based electrodes for metal-air rechargeable flow battery,” Polimi: Luca Magagnin; MIT: Yang Shao-Horn, 2019.

Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. “Using layer-by-layer (Lbl) nanoplexes to deliver plasmids encoding the shRNA for BCL11a .” Polimi: Davide Moscatelli MIT: Paula Hammond, 2019.

Energy and Nuclear Science Technology, “Measuring the Rheology of Foams using Custom 3D-Printed Fractal Vanes,” Polimi: Luigi Colombo MIT: Gareth mc Kinley, 2019.

Materials and Chemical Engineering, “Computational models to investigate the effects of paclitaxel when drug-coated balloons are used in peripheral arteries,” Polimi: Francesco Migliavacca MIT: Elazer Edelman, 2019.

Automation and Control,” Analysis and development of a dynamic model and an adaptive control for low-cost micro-irrigation systems,” Polimi: Sergio Savaresi MIT Amos Winter, 2019.

Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, “ The integration of rapid liquid printing and 4D printing and their large scale potential,” Polimi: Ingrid Paoletti& Marco Scaioni MIT: Skylar Tibbits, 2019.

Information Technology, “Improving communication on biological circuits,” Polimi: Maurizio Magarini MIT: Domitilla del Vecchio, 2019.

“Bio-Design for Earth and Space: Synergism Between Humans and Machines.” MIT: Dava Newman Polimi: Francesco Trabucco; 2006.

“Realization of a bio MEMS device able to perform blood oxygenation directly from the water content of the blood.” MIT: Todd Thorsen; Polimi: Alberto Redaelli; 2007.

“Real Time Tumor Targeting in High Precision Radiation Therapy.” MIT: Jeffrey Coderre; Polimi: Guido Baroni; 2008.

“Raster City: Urban Data collection for Environmental Prediction.” MIT: Carlo Ratti; Polimi: Alessandro Balducci; 2008.

“Self Aware Computing Systems.” MIT: Anant Agarwal; Polimi Donatella Sciuto; 2009.

“Single-cycle pulse synthesis by coherent superposition of ultra-broadband optical parametric amplifiers Self Aware Computing Systems.” MIT: Franz Kaertner, Polimi: Giulio Cerullo; 2009-2010.

“Theoretical and experimental multi-scale studies of collagen tissues in the context of Osteogenesis Imperfecta disease.” MIT: Markus Buehler, Polimi: Alberto Redaelli; 2009-2010.

“Bone Tissue Engineering as an Alternative to bone graft.” MIT: Ali Khademhosseini; Polimi: Gianfranco Fiore; 2010.

” Qualified Numerical Modelling of Boiling and two-phase Transport Phenomena in Energy Applications.” MIT: Jacopo Buongiorno; Polimi: Emanuela Colombo; 2010.

“Carbon nanotubes/metal oxides composites electrodes for super-capacitors: Synthesis and characterization oxides enforcing the link between requirements and software behavior through model synthesis.” MIT: Yang Shao-Horn ;Polimi: Luigi Cavallotti 2011.

“Enforcing the link between requirements and software behavior through model synthesis.” MIT: Daniel Jackson; Polimi: Carlo Ghezzi 2011-12.

“Continuum and Atomistic Computational Study of En Passant Cracks in Brittle Materials.” MIT :Ken Kamrin; Polimi: Mario Guagliano; 2013.

“New Technology for Testing genomic materials.” MIT: Matthew Hancock, Broad Institute, 2013.

“Self organization strategies for cooperative resources sharing in Mobile Peer-to –Peer Networks.” MIT: Henry Holtzman, Media Lab, 2013.

“Application of cold spray coating for development of bio-functional surfaces with improved mechanical and biological properties.” MIT: Ali Khademhosseini, HST, 2013-2014.

“From nanostructured powders to bulk nano-crystalline pieces: An attempt to exploit kinetic rather than thermal energy.” Polimi: Mario Guagliano MIT: Christopher Schuh.

“Sharing Proximity-Based Computation and Services in Infrastructureless Pervasive Spaces.” Polimi: Luciano Baresi: MIT: Michael Bove.

“ Optimization and Implementation of CNTF carpets in capacitive deionization devices.” MIT: Carl V. Thompson and Evelyn Wang, Polimi: Mario Guagliano,Massimiliano Bestetti and Maurizio Masi. 2015-16.

“An Open-source platform for 4D human body surface reconstruction and representation.” MIT: Jeffrey A. Hoffman; Polimi: Guido Baroni, 2016-17.

“Moon exploration habitats using 3-D printed in situ resources.” MIT: Caitlin Mueller; Polimi: Claudio Chiesi. 2016-2017.

“An integrated computational/experimental route to understanding the binding specificity of scaffolding protein.” MIT: Amy Keating; Polimi: Alfonso Gautieri, 2019.

BS in Civil Engineering, hosted by Polimi Gianluigi Cedolin to work on finite structure modeling.2006.

PhD candidate. MIT advisor: James Fujimoto. Politecnico Host: Roberto Cerullo. Research Topic “Femtosecond fabrication of Mach-Zehnder interferometers in fused silica.” 2008.

EECS PhD candidate. MIT advisor: Franz Kaertner. Politecnico Host: Roberto Cerullo. Research Topic “Optical Cycle pulsed light source with stabilized carrier envelope phase at 800mm.” 2008-09.

BS in Mechanical Engineering, hosted by Polimi Alberto Redaelli for research on fluidics applications to biology, 2010.

PhD Candidate, EECS, 2011.

PhD candidate in Aero Astro; MIT Advisor: Raul Radovitzky Polimi host: Anna Pandolfi for research on numerical modeling of ductile fractures, 2011.

PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering, 2011.

Post-doc, Mech-Eng. MIT advisor: Tim Gutowski Polimi Host: Tullio Tolio “Environmental impact of product and material end-of-life treatment.” 2012-13.

BS Materials Science. MIT Advisor Thomas Eagar; Polimi Host: Maurizio Vedani “New energy efficient metal processing techniques” 2013.

BS Chemical,” Engineering Behavior of colloidal suspensions and gels under gravitational stresses Environmental impact of product and material end-of-life treatment.” Polimi Host: Roberto Piazza MIT advisor: Michael Strano, 2014.

BS Chemistry; “Synthetizing nanoparticles gfor oil drilling applications,” Polimi Host: Davide Moscatelli, 2016.

Grad. Chem., “Colloidal gels, “Polimi Host: Roberto Piazza, 2016.

BS Mech eng; “Polipo: a toys for children with neurodevelopmental disorders; Polimi Host: Franca Garzotto, 2017.

BS mech eng, “Mouvement analysis for Motor Rehabilitation”, Polimi Host: Carlo Frigo, 2017.

U Computer and Materials science, dendrimers, molecular structures that could prove useful in drug delivery and gene therapy.Polimi host: Simone Vesentini, 2017.

Ph.D candidate, Architecture and planning, “computational geometry and structural engineering and its applications to mechanical design and analysis. Polimi Host: Ingrid Paoletti MIT: Caitlin Mueller, 2017-8.

U Chemistry, “Lithium-Ion Batteries,”Polimi Host; Tullio Tolio and Maurizio Colledani, 2018.

GS, Buehler-Libonati Collaboration, 2018.

BS Mech. Eng, “Mouvement analysis for Motor Rehabilitation”, Polimi Host: Carlo Frigo, 2017.

U Computer Science and Biology, “Diatom Frustule Structure”, Polimi Host: Flavia Libonati, 2018.

U EECS, Sensory processing in autism spectrum disorder” Polimi Host: Riccardo Barbieri, 2018.

U EECS, Polimi Host: Mirko Gelsomini.

U. Nuclear Science and Engineering, Polimi Host: Stefano Agosteo.

U. Biology, Polimi Host: Riccardo Barbieri.