The 2021 SENSE.nano symposium focused on human subjects research, exploring how sensors and sensing systems can enable current medical studies and future clinical practice. SENSE.nano 2021 also celebrated the re-opening of the expanded Clinical Research Center (CRC) at MIT, now known as MIT's Center for Clinical and Translational Research.
Broken into two half-day webinars, SENSE.nano 2021 investigated human health through various technologies including motion capture, physiological monitoring, and sensing tools for the study of bodily fluids. Over a series of invited technical talks, panel discussions, presentations by MIT-launched startups, and views into MIT research today with current graduate students, this event provided needs context and solution perspectives in the domains of sensing for medical engineering and science, and for the care of humans in their environment.
The 2021 SENSE.nano Symposium was sponsored by MIT.nano, MIT's Center for Clinical and Translational Research, and the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP).
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Monday, October 25, 2021
| Welcome and Keynote | |
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| 1:00 PM | Welcoming remarks |
| Brian Anthony | Associate Director, MIT.nano Vladimir Bulović | Director, MIT.nano; Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Chair in Emerging Technology; Professor of Electrical Engineering, MacVicar Fellow |
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| Elazer Edelman | Director, MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science | |
| 1:10 PM | Opening keynote |
| Dr. Cecilia Stuopis | Director, MIT Medical | |
| Session 1: Movement and Motion | |
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| 1:45 PM | Session introduction |
| 1:50 PM | Towards interventions for improving hemodynamics in single ventricle physiology patients - Benchtop, computational, and clinical models |
| Ellen Roche | Associate Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering | |
| 2:05 PM | Long-term reliable physical health monitoring by sweat pore–inspired perforated electronic skins |
| Jeehwan Kim | Associate Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering | |
| 2:20 PM | The challenge of measuring human motor behavior |
| Neville Hogan | Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering; Professor, MIT Brian & Cognitive Sciences | |
| 2:35 PM | Panel Q&A |
| 2:55 PM | Break |
| 3:05 PM | Peek into research: Flexible nanoelectronic sensors to enable long-term reliable physical health monitoring |
| Samantha Cheung | Undergraduate Researcher | |
| 3:10 PM | Peek into research: Towards the development of an adaptive balance rehabilitation device |
| Kaymie Shiozawa | Graduate Research Assistant | |
| Session 2: Physiological Monitoring | |
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| 3:15 PM | Session introduction |
| 3:20 PM | Functional genomics through the microscope |
| Paul Blainey | Associate Professor, MIT Biological Engineering | |
| 3:35 PM | Multimodal representation learning via maximization of local mutual information |
| Ruizhi (Ray) Liao | Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab | |
| 3:50 PM | Detection of low-abundance pathogens via selective electrokinetics concentration |
| Jongyoon Han | Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | |
| 4:05 PM | Panel Q&A |
| 4:25 PM | Peek into research: Patient-specific intraoral device for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea |
| Debkalpa Goswami | Postdoctoral Associate | |
| 4:30 PM | Closing remarks |
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
| Welcome | |
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| 12:10 PM | Welcoming remarks |
| Brian Anthony | Associate Director, MIT.nano Vladimir Bulović | Director, MIT.nano; Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Chair in Emerging Technology; Professor of Electrical Engineering, MacVicar Fellow |
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| 12:15 PM | Presenting the MIT Center for Clinical and Translational Research |
| Catherine Ricciardi | DNP, ANP-BC, MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Tatiana Urman | Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator, MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Xiang (Shawn) Zhang | Postdoctoral Associate |
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| Startups | |
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| 12:20 PM | Startups: Introduction to the Sandbox Brian Anthony | Associate Director, MIT.nano |
| 12:25 PM | The Innovation Ecosystem at MIT Vladimir Bulović | Director, MIT.nano; Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Chair in Emerging Technology; Professor of Electrical Engineering, MacVicar Fellow |
| 12:45 PM | Pison Technology: Neural interface gesture control for robots |
| Dexter Ang | Executive Chairman & Co-founder | |
| 12:50 PM | Strategen Bio: Novel tissue oxygen sensors to enable personalized care |
| Gregory Ekchian | CEO & Co-founder | |
| 12:55 PM | Leuko: Non-invasive at-home white blood cell monitoring |
| Ian Butterworth | CTO & Co-founder | |
| 1:00 PM | Panel Q&A |
| 1:30 PM | Peek into research: Identifying natural human balance dynamics and control |
| Rika Sugimoto-Dimitrova | Graduate Research Assistant | |
| 1:35 PM | Break |
| Session 3: Imaging | |
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| 1:50 PM | Session introduction |
| 1:55 PM | Autofluorescence in the near infrared and short wave infrared for liver disease tracking |
| Moungi Bawendi | Professor, MIT Chemistry | |
| 2:10 PM | Imaging through flat fisheye lenses |
| Juejun Hu | Associate Professor, MIT Materials Science & Engineering | |
| 2:25 PM | Equivariant filters for efficient tracking in 3D imaging |
| Daniel Moyer | Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab | |
| 2:40 PM | Panel Q&A |
| 3:00 PM | Peek into research: Miniaturization of a frequency domain near infrared spectroscopy (fdNIRS) Instrument |
| Alper Kilic | Research Assistant | |
| Session 4: Specimens and Biopsies | |
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| 3:05 PM | Session introduction |
| 3:10 PM | Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination |
| Praneeth Namburi | Research Scientist, MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science | |
| 3:25 PM | HemoSensis: A non-invasive, point-of-care device for absolute tissue and cerebral oximetry |
| Valencia Koomson | Visiting Associate Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | |
| 3:40 PM | A new ultrasound based framework for dynamic muscle functional imaging |
| Micha Feigin-Almon | Research Scientist, MIT Mechanical Engineering | |
| 3:55 PM | Panel Q&A |
| 4:15 PM | Peek into research | Acoustically-driven optical-interferometric microscope for cell characterization |
| Rebecca Zubajlo | Ph.D. Candidate | |
| 4:20 PM | Closing remarks |
