This is a tentaitve agenda and is subject to change. Please check back often for updates and additional speakers.

7:30 AM                      Registration opens

8:15 – 8:30 AM           Opening Remarks

8:30 – 9:30 AM           IdeaStream Forum: Water, Agriculture & Energy

                                    Presentations by Deshpande grantees at different points in their lifecycle

Developing Intelligent Selective Electrodialysis for 21st Century Agriculture: John Lienhard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering with Kishor Nayar, Ph.D. Candidate and Amit Kumar, Research Scientist

Low-Cost Water Filter Using Sapwood Xylem: Rohit Karnik, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Amy Smith, Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering Co-Director, MIT D-Lab with Krithika Ramchander, Graduate Student, Luda Wang, Postdoctoral Associate, Kendra Leith, Evaluation Manager, MIT D-Lab, Megha Hedge Research Associate, D-Lab, Anish Paul Antony, Postdoctoral Associate 

Bulk Heterojunction Structural Batteries: Angela Belcher, Professor of Biological Engineering with Alan Ransil, Graduate Student and Kieran Strobal, Research Assisant 

Reducing Runoff and Environmental impact of Agricultural Sprays: Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering with Maher Damak, Ph.D. Candidate

Rapid Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria: Timothy Swager, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Alexander Klibanov, Professor of Biological Engineering and Chemistry with Kent Harvey, Graduate Student 

Convection Enhanced Electrochemical Energy Storage: Fikile Brushett, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering with Thomas Carney, Graduate Student

Optically Transparent Thermally Insulating Retrofits for Single-pane Windows: Evelyn Wang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Gang Chen, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Xuanhe Zhao, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering with Elise Strobach, Graduate Research Assistant and Bikram Bhatia, Postdoc Associate

9:30 – 10:10 AM         Poster & Networking Break 

10:15 AM –  11:15 AM IdeaStream Forum: Devices, Materials & Healthcare

            Presentations by Deshpande grantees at different points in their lifecycle

Digital Tools for In-Field Data Collection:  Chris Zegras, Associate Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning with Daniel Heriberto Palencia Arreola, Software Engineer, and Sri Vardhini Suresh, Software Engineer

Solid-State Color Pixel for E-Paper Displays: Geoffrey Beach, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering with Mantao Huang, Graduate Student

Digital 3D Printing of Microparticles: John Hart, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with Justin Beroz, Graduate Student, Ulrich Muecke, Research Engineer and Henry Merrow, Graduate Student

Low-cost Spectroscopy Solutions for Raman Sensing and Beyond: Rajeev Ram, Professor of Electrical Engineering with Amir Atabaki, Research Scientist   

Engineered Protein Treatments for Hair Repair and Long-Lasting Color Retention: Bradley Olsen, Professor of Chemical Engineering with Sieun Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lavinia Popescou

Engineered Binding Proteins as Replacements for Antibodies in Immunoassays Hadley Sikes, Associate Professor Chemical Engineering, with Eric Miller Ph.D. Candidate and Ki Joo Sung Graduate Student

Structured Nucleic Acid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Delivery Platform: Mark Bathe, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering, Darrell Irvine, Professor of Biological Engineering and Feng Zhang, Professor of Biological Engineering with Remi Veneziano, Postdoctoral Associate, Matthew Stone, Postdoctoral Researcher, Martin Tomov, Postdoctoral Researcher and Tyson Shepherd, Postdoctoral Researcher

11:15 – 12:00 PM        Poster & Networking Break

12:05 – 1:05 PM        IdeaStream Forum: Healthcare

Presentations by Deshpande grantees at different points in their lifecycle

An Efficient Discovery Engine for Combinatorial Antibiotics: Paul Blainey Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, with Anthony Kulesa Graduate Student, and Jared Kehe Graduate Student

Synthetic Substrate for the Homogenous Growth and Expansion of Neural Stem Cell Populations: Linda Griffith, Professor of Biological Engineering, Paula Hammond, Professor of Chemical Engineering with Marianna Sofman, Graduate Student Researcher

Non-invasive White Cell Count Prototype: Martha Gray Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science with Carlos Castro-Gonzalez, M+Vision Fellow

Bedside Testing of Coagulation Function: James Fox, Divison of Comparative Medicine & Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, Galit Frydman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Local Drug Delivery for Facilitating Expedited Urinary Stone Passage: Michael Cima, Professor of Engineering with Christopher Lee, Graduate Student and Brian Eisner, Massachusetts General Hospital 

Mucin-inspired Virulence Neutralizing Agents for the Management of Infections: Katharina Ribbeck, Professor of Biological Engineering

Non-Invasive Physiological Hydration Sensor for Improved Elderly Care: Martha Gray Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Luca Daniel, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science with Ian Butterworth, Biomedical Research Engineer

1:05 –2:15 PM          Lunch and Keynote

Frank Van Mierlo, CEO of 1366 Technologies

"Breaking the solar PV cost barrier. Using MIT technology to build competitive US-based solar cells"

2:15 – 3:00 PM            Networking in Poster Session Room