Ideastream 2013

April 5, 2013
Hyatt Regency, Cambridge

Welcome & Introduction

IdeaStream Forum: Session A.  Presentations by Deshpande grantees at different points in their lifecycle alongside other MIT projects.  Projects with an asterisk are Deshpande projects

• *Ensemble-based Processing of Noisy Images: Dennis McLaughlin King Bhumipol Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT and Rafal Wojcik, Research Scientist, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
•  Subsurface Sensing and Navigation Using Ground Penetrating Radar: Byron Stanley, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• * Buccal Delivery of Chemotherapy for Oral Cancer: Manijeh Goldberg, Technical Associate, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
• Magnetic Separation Method for Oil Spill Cleanup: Markus Zahn, T. and G. Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director VI-A Intern Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT
• Mutltimaterial functional fibers: Yoel Fink, Professor, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT and Guillaume Lestoquoy, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
• * Drug Delivery System for Treating Oestroarthritis: Alan Grodzinsky, Professor of Mechanical, Electrical, and Biological Engineering, MIT and Director MIT Center for Biomedical Engineering and Ambika G. Bajpayee, PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• *Medication Dispensing Intraocular Lens (mdIOL) for Cataract Surgery: Paula Hammond, David H. Koch Professor in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT and Kenneth Mandell, MIT Affiliate
• Programmable Matter: Daniela Rus, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT

Networking break with poster session
IdeaStream Forum: Session B. Presentations by Deshpande grantees at different points in their lifecycle alongside other MIT projects

• *Stable Carbenes As General Surface Anchors: Jeremiah Johnson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, MIT and Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy, PhD Candidate, Department of Chemistry, MIT
• Enabling Cost-Effective Security for Applications and Devices with a Powerful, Self-Contained, Seamless, Crypto Solution: Roger Khazan, Senior Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Daniil Utin, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Mucin biopolymers for antimicrobial materials and coatings: Katharina Ribbeck, Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
• *Enabling Big Computation on Big Data for Business Analysts and Scientists: Alan Edelman, Professor of Mathematics, MIT
• Singlet exciton fission: Marc Baldo, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, and Director of the Center for Excitonics, MIT
• *RetiCue: Portable Device for Retinal Imaging: Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and Co-founder EyeNetra
• *Sensors for Food and Agriculture: Selectivity for Key Markers and the Development of Scalable Manufacture: Tim Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry, MIT and Jan Schnorr, Postdoctoral Candidate, Department of Chemistry, MIT
• From An Idea to A Company: The Liquid Metal Battery Story: David Bradwell, Chief Technolgy Officer, Founder, and SVP Commercialization, AMBRI, Inc.

Innovation Lunch
Tables will be hosted by grant recipients with moderated discussions around applications and market opportunities.
Closing Keynote

• Why Does it Matter and Where Are We Going? Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-Founder, Synthetic Genomics, Inc.

Networking and Afternoon Café