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| PROJECT TITLE | GRAND CHALLENGE (GC) | DESIGN RESEARCH THRUST (DRT) | PI, CO-PI & TEAM MEMBERS |
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| A Strategy to Accelerate Ideation Through Rapid Prototyping and Early Stage Design | – | Fostering Creativity | PI: Maria C. Yang (MIT)
Team Member: Anders Haeggman (MIT) |
| Active Flow Separation Control | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PIs: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD), Kenneth Tracy (SUTD), Christine Yogiaman (SUTD) |
| Ageing Friendly Cities | – | Global Collaboration | PI: Michael Fischer (MIT)
Team Members: Chong Keng Hua (SUTD), Kien To (SUTD) |
| An Intelligent Optical Nanoscope | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design, Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Herman Chen Zaichun (SUTD)
Co-PI: Ai Ye (SUTD) |
| An Intelligent System for Understanding and Matching Perceived Emotion from Video with Music | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity | PI: Gemma Roig (SUTD)
Co-PI: Dorien Herremans (SUTD) |
| An Original and Novel Method for Utility Optimization of Traffic Flow | Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design, Design Computation, Decision Making |
PI: Cheong Kang Hao (SUTD) |
| Applying Social Science Methods to Analyze the Impact of Input Data on the Design Outcomes from Student Designers |
Design with the Developing World | Fostering Creativity | PI: Arlindo Silva (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Nilanjan Raghunath (SUTD), Christine Yogiaman (SUTD), Matt McCambridge (MIT) Team Members: Marco Leite (University of Lisbon), Lillian Ng-Thamrin (Thales Solutions Asia) |
| Augmented and Virtual Reality Prototypes for Design Representation: Case Studies for Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore and Borobudur, Indonesia | Sustainable Built Environment ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living |
Experimental Design, Visualisation and Prototyping, Global Collaboration |
PI: Takehiko Nagakura (MIT)
Co-PIs: Yeo Kang Shua (SUTD), Foong Shaohui (SUTD) Team Member: Takuro Kikuchi (MIT) |
| “Big Data” and Theoretical Calculations Aided Molecular Design of Fluorophores: from Trial-and-Error to Molecular Engineering | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation | PI: Liu Xiaogang (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Richmond Lee (SUTD), Keegan Kang (SUTD), Michinao Hashimoto (SUTD) Team Members: Chi Weijie (SUTD), Margaret Tan (SUTD) |
| Building Resilience in Southeast Asian Coastal Cities | Design with the Developing World | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Miho Mazereeuw (MIT)
Team Members: Stefano Galelli (SUTD), Andres Sevtsuk (SUTD), Brent Ryan (SUTD) |
| Consumer-Centric Energy Management for Buildings: Design Innovation Technique for Sustainability | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living, Sustainable Built Environment
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Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity |
PI: Yuen Chau (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Wayes Tushar (SUTD), Sumbul Khan (SUTD), Ryan Arlitt (SUTD) Team Members: Li Wen-Tai Li (SUTD), Benny Ng Kai Kiat (SUTD), Sanjana K. Viswanath (SUTD) |
| Conceptual Design for Software and Other Complex Systems | – | Design Computation | PI: Daniel Jackson (MIT) |
| Crowd Sourced Water Quality Diagnostics | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT)
Team Members: Jose Gomez-Marquez (MIT), Anna Young (MIT) |
| Cultivating and Harnessing the Spirit of Competitions to Enhance Hands-on Design Process |
ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity | PI: Foong Shaohui (SUTD)
Co-PI: Soh Gim Song (SUTD) |
| Cultivating Creative Communities: Citizen Innovators and Ground Up Projects in Singapore | Sustainable Built Environment | Fostering Creativity | PI: Samson Lim (SUTD)
Co-PI: Julienne Chen (SUTD) Team Member: Chong Keng Hua (SUTD) |
| Data Mining, Machine Learning and Strategic Prediction in Technological Change | – | – | PI: Chris Magee (MIT)
Team Members: InChae Park (MIT), Maryam Najafian (MIT), Bowen Yan (MIT), Chris Benson (MIT), Giorgio Triulzi (MIT) |
| Data-Driven Design of Last-Mile Urban Logistics Solutions to Address E-Commerce Growth | Sustainable Built Environment | Visualisation and Prototyping, Decision Making | PI: Lynette Cheah Wan Ting (SUTD)
Co-PIs: André Romano Alho (SMART), Moshe Ben-Akiva (SMART), P. Christopher Zegras (SMART) Team Members: Costas Courcoubetis (SUTD), Samuel Chng (SUTD) |
| Design Defects-Rich Nanostructure for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries and Electro-Catalytic Water Splitting Reactor | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD) |
| Design as a Strategy for Sustainable Economic Growth | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | – | PI: Chris Magee (MIT)
Team Member: Luo Jianxi (SUTD) |
| Design Defects-Rich Nanostructure for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries and Electro-Catalytic Water Splitting Reactor | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD) |
| Design for Additive Manufacturing | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | – | PI: Karen Willcox (MIT)
Team Member: Max Opgenoord (MIT) |
| Design Heritage | Sustainable Built Environment | – | PI: Takehiko Nagakura (MIT)
Team Members: Woongki Sung (MIT), Wenzhe Peng (MIT), Paloma Gonzalez (MIT), Nikolaos Vlavianos (MIT), Eytan Man (MIT) |
| Design Intelligence | – | – | PI: Takehiko Nagakura (MIT)
Team Members: Woongki Sung (MIT), Wenzhe Peng (MIT) |
| Design of a Robust Collective Computation System for Pervasive Monitoring and Surveillance by a Multi-Robot System | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design, Design Computation | PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD)
Co-PI: Soh Gim Song (SUTD) |
| Design of a Microfluidic Device and Method for Measurement of the Directed Cell Motility of White Blood Cells | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD)
Co-PI: Ye Ai (SUTD) Team Members: Zhu Xiaoying (SUTD), Dick K.P. Yue (MIT) |
| Design of a Swarm Computing Framework for IoT Systems | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design, Design Computation | PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD)
Co-PI: Robert Kooij (SUTD) Team Members: Jabez Leong Kit (SUTD), Nikolaj Horsevad Sørensen (SUTD) |
| Design of the Last Mile Transportation System: What Does the Customer Really Want? | Sustainable Built Environment | Decision Making | PI: Karthik Natarajan (SUTD)
Co-PI: Selin Damla Ahipasoglu (SUTD) Team Members: Ugur Arikan (SUTD), Anulekha Dhara (SUTD) |
| Design of Water Systems with Climate Change Uncertainty | – | Decision Making | PI: Richard de Neufville (MIT)
Team Member: Stefano Galelli (SUTD) |
| Design Under Uncertainty | – | Design Computation | PI: Karen Willcox (MIT)
Co-PI: Anthony Patera (MIT) Team Member: Ng See Kiong (SUTD) |
| Design Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD) |
| Development of a Geolocation‐based AR Game for Climate Change Awareness and Action | Sustainable Built Environment | Global Collaboration | PI: Lucienne Blessing (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Dorien Herremans (SUTD), Lynette Cheah Wan Ting (SUTD), Takehiko Nagakura (MIT) |
| Digital Thread and Digital Twin for Engineering Design | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | – | PI: Karen Willcox (MIT)
Team Members: Victor Singh (MIT), Michael Kapteyn (MIT) |
| Empowering Traditional Trades and Forging Sustainable Households with Smart Recycling Platform | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living, Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design | PI: Lyle Fearnley (SUTD)
Co-PI: Poon King Wang (SUTD) Team Members: Andy Zheng Cheng (SUTD), Gabriel Tusinski (SUTD), Julienne Chen (SUTD) |
| Engineering Options: Which Approaches Are Preferable for Different Kinds of Infrastructure Projects? | – | Decision Making | PI: Richard de Neufville (MIT)
Team Member: Juan Pedro Duarte (MIT) |
| Establishing Predictive Design Principles for Deterministic Pore Architectures in Membranes for Environmental Applications | Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design, Fostering Creativity | PI: Low Hong Yee (SUTD)
Co-PI: Tan Mei Chee (SUTD) Team Members: Ong Shi Ke (SUTD), Wong Him Cheng (SUTD) |
| Fault-Tolerant, Passively Integrating in Vivo Dosimeters for Feedback-Enabled Radiation Therapy (IF2D, or Integrating Feedback F-Center Dosimeter) | Design with the Developing World | Fostering Creativity | PI: Michael Short (MIT)
Team Members: Cody Dennett (MIT), Sara Ferry (MIT), Daniel Schumaker (MIT), Rossana Iturbide (MIT) |
| Flexibility in Design | – | Decision Making | PI: Richard de Neufville (MIT) |
| Fluid Vision: Design and Optimization of Soft Whisker-like Sensors | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design, Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity
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PI: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD), Michael Triantafyllou (MIT) Team Members: Wang Yan (SUTD), Sreetej Lakkam (SUTD) |
| Improving Cognition of the Elderly by Design | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity, Global Collaboration | PI: Yow Wei Quin (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Lucienne Blessing (SUTD), Suranga Nanayakkara (SUTD) Team Member: Hyowon Lee (SUTD) |
| Improving Design Decisions Through Data Visualisations | Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design, Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping, Decision Making | PI: Sam Conrad Joyce (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Ate Poorthuis (SUTD), Caitlin Mueller (MIT) |
| InnoGPS: A Data-Driven System for Design Opportunity Conceptionl | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity, Decision Making | PI: Luo Jianxi (SUTD)
Co-PI: Subburaj Karupppasamy (SUTD) Team Members: Yan Bowen (SUTD), Srinivasan Venkataraman (SUTD), Jeffrey Alstott (SUTD-MIT), Song Binyang (SUTD), He Yuejun (SUTD), Cartus Guo (SUTD), Manuj Dhariwal (SUTD-MIT), Isabell Essien (SUTD-MIT) |
| In Situ Radiation Materials Science with Transient Grating Spectroscopy | – | Experimental Design, Fostering Creativity | PI: Michael Short (MIT)
Team Member: Cody Dennett (MIT) |
| Irradiated Plastic Reinforced Concrete | Sustainable Built Environment | Fostering Creativity | PI: Michael Short (MIT)
Team Member: Oral Buyukozturk (MIT) |
| Living Forms: Cultivating Building Materials for Sustainable Urban Development | Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design, Design Computation | PI: Christine Yogiaman (SUTD)
Co-PIs: Kenneth Tracy (SUTD), Ioannis Panageas (SUTD) Team Members: Skylar Tibbits (MIT), Anariba Franklin Edwin (SUTD) |
| Mapping Outcomes and Topics Across the Design Curriculum | – | Design Computation | PI: Karen Willcox (MIT) |
| MEMS Energy Harvesting Video |
ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity | PI: Kim Sang-Gook (MIT)
Team Member: Zhao Rong (SUTD) |
| Next Residential High-Rise: Comparative Study and Analytical Modelling for Adaptive Housing Typologies Based on Modularity and Composite Structural Systems | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping, Decision Making | PIs: Michael Budig (SUTD), Oliver Heckmann (SUTD)
Team Member: Lynette Cheah Wan Ting (SUTD) |
| New Generation of Lithium Sulfur Battery Based on Nanostructured Open-Hollow Sulfur@MnO2 Cathode | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD)
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| Photothermal μPAD for Point-of-Care Chemical Synthesis | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design, Global Collaboration | PI: Michinao Hashimoto (SUTD)
Team Members: Jose Gomez-Marquez (MIT), Anna Young (MIT) |
| Predicting Mechanical Behaviour of Composites with Long Natural Fibers |
Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Arlindo Silva (SUTD) |
| Rational Food Design – Digital Fabrication of Edible Structures | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design, Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Michinao Hashimoto (SUTD)
Co-PI: Avinash Baji (SUTD) |
| Singapore as STS Testbed for 21st Century | – | Global Collaboration | PI: Michael Fischer (MIT)
Team Members: Chong Keng Hua (SUTD), Samson Lim (SUTD), Alan Kolata (SUTD) |
| Singapore, Resilient Futures – UV Awareness Design and Products | Sustainable Built Environment | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Miho Mazereeuw (MIT)
Team Members: Kristin Wood (SUTD), Delane Foo (SUTD), Brad Adam (SUTD), Kenneth Teo (SUTD), Zack Huang (SUTD), Chia Pei Zhu (SUTD), Larisa Ovalles (MIT) |
| The Stored Energy Fingerprints of Radiation Damage | – | Fostering Creativity | PI: Michael Short (MIT)
Team Member: Charles Hirst (MIT) |
| Universal Design Rules for High Figure of Merit Optical Systems | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Decision Making | PI: Dawn T. H. Tan (SUTD)
Co-PI: Dawn C-I. Koh (SUTD) |