2022-2023 MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM fund winners

The MIT-Israel Seed Fund Selection Committee accepted six proposals for the 2022-2023 MIT-Zuckerman STEM Fund. Here are the winning projects:

2022-2023

Analyzing the Resilience of the Food System in Israel
Retsef Levi, J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, will collaborate with Prof. Nir Ohad, member of the faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University.


Learning-augmented Algorithms for Motif-counting
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT’s School of Engineering, will collaborate with Talya Eden, assistant professor of computer science at Bar Ilan University.


MicroISRAEL-2050: Multi-Layer Explorations of Israel’s Urban Microclimates
Kent Larson, principal research scientist at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, will collaborate with Jonathan Natanian, assistant professor of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


Semantic Imaging: Merging Computational Imaging and Neural Fields to Advance 3D Scene Understanding
Ramesh Rasker, associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, will collaborate with Or Litany, senior research scientist at NVIDIA and assistant professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.


Additive Manufacturing of Mesoporous Hierarchical Materials for Atmospheric Water Harvesting
Svetlana Boriskina, principal research scientist at MIT’s School of Engineering, will collaborate with Shlomo Magdassi, professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.


Solidarity in Fractured Times: Theory, Empirics, and Law
Andrea Campbell, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, will collaborate with Rachel Friedman, assistant professor at the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.