Ambient Sensing—May 18

a header image showing people in a city with ambient sensors.

Join the MIT.nano Immersion Lab for a half-day symposium focused on applications and approaches to ambient sensing and monitoring. This virtual event will feature MIT faculty talks, student research presentations, and a live demo from inside the Immersion Lab.

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM ET
Location: Virtual on Zoom
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Tentative agenda

Time Talk title Speaker
9:00AM — 9:10AM Welcome + opening remarks Brian Anthony
Co-director of MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center
Associate Director of MIT.nano
9:10AM – 9:25AM Our evolving understanding of the flow, deformation, and fracture of glacier ice Brent Minchew
Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
9:25AM – 9:40AM Estimate of OH trends over a decade in North American cities Qindan Zhu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
9:40AM – 9:55AM Autonomous marine sensing systems Michael Benjamin
Principal Research Scientist​
Center for Ocean Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
9:55AM – 10:15AM Question + answer session  
10:50AM – 10:55AM Zero-power technology for underwater sensing Sayed Saad Afzal
Graduate student
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
10:20AM – 10:50AM Live demo from inside the MIT.nano Immersion Lab  
10:15AM – 10:20AM Sensing the grounding zone: Where ice meets ocean meets earth in Antarctica Faye Hendley Elgart
Graduate student
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
10:55AM – 11:00AM Break  
11:00AM – 11:15AM Sensing through terahertz-wave semiconductor chips Ruonan Han
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
11:15AM – 11:30AM Ambient sensing and monitoring of the underwater world Fadel Adib
Associate Professor​
Program in Media Arts & Sciences
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
11:30AM – 11:45AM Talk title to be announced James Kinsey
Chief Executive Officer
Humatics
11:45AM – 12:05PM Question + answer session  
12:05PM – 12:10PM High-precision Sub-THz imaging/sensing system Xibi Chen
PhD candidate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
12:10PM – 12:15PM Closing remarks Brian Anthony
Co-director of MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center
Associate Director of MIT.nano

 

Please note: This event will take the place of this year’s SENSE.nano symposium, with a shorter and fully virtual format for greater accessibility. You may have received a save the date for SENSE.nano on May 18 & 19, 2023 – please join us for Ambient Sensing instead!