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The Singapore MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART)

An MIT Research Facility in Singapore

Daniel Hastings CEO/Director SMART

Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT

11 March 2015

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O U T L I N E

§  Singapore R&D Strategy

§  NRF Strategy for CREATE

§  MIT Global Strategy

§  Review of SMART

SINGAPORE R&D STRATEGY

Schein (1996) “strategic pragmaIsm”

•  R&D and Education as National Imperative

•  Centralized, Long term, Planning (PM down)

•  Strong Industrial Policy

•  Sending Best and Brightest Abroad and Attracting Best and Brightest to Government Ø  1000+ International PhD Scholarships (2001-2011)

•  Importing Talent (People and Institutions)

•  Serious Benchmarking and High level Global Advisors

•  Creating World-class Facilities

•  Celebrating R&D

Singapore Public R&D Expenditures

8 Fold Growth over 25 Years

Biomedical Sciences Environmental and Water Technologies Interactive and Digital Media

Plus: Energy Land and Livability Security …


Increasing Investment in R&D

Singapore target 3.5

2011 US 2.77 Israel 4.38 OECD Ave 2.37


Signs of Success

•  WEF (2012) Ø  Singapore 2nd most competitive economy

•  Bloomberg (2014) Ø  Singapore 7th most innovative economy

•  OECD 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 15 year olds Ø  Singapore 2nd in Math, in Science, in Reading Ø  Singapore 1st in Creative Problem Solving Real Life Problems

•  QS University Rankings (2014) Ø  NUS 22 (Top Asian University) Ø  NTU 37 (Top University under 50)


Economic Progress


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SMART is the largest part of CREATE

INTERNATIONAL MIT ETH TU Munich UC Berkeley Cambridge Shanghai Jao Tung Peking University Hebrew University Ben Gurion University Technion -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ LOCAL NUS NTU SUTD SMU

Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise

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NRF STRATEGY FOR CREATE

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NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE SINGAPORE

Interdisciplinary Research Themes

Environmental Systems

Human Systems

Energy Systems

Urban Systems

Environmental Systems

• Carbon Reduction (CARES, SPURc)

• Carbon Capture (SPURc) • Building Efficiency and

Sustainability (SinBerBEST)

• Harnessing Solar Energy (SinBeRISE)

• Low Energy Electronic Systems (SMART-LEES)

• Nanomaterials for Energy and Water Management (BGU-HUJ-NTU)

• Environmental Sensing and Modelling (SMART-CENSAM)

• Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation (NUS-HUJ-CREATE)

• Infectious Diseases (SMART-ID) • Biosystems and

Micromechanics (SMART-BioSyM)

• Regenerative Medicine in Cardiac Restoration

Therapy (START)

• Energy and Environmental Sustainability (E2S2)

• Urban Mobility (TUM CREATE, SMART FM, SEC FCL)

• Urban Design and Territorial Planning (SEC FCL)

System of Systems

NRF STRATEGY FOR CREATE

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•  MIT Mission The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and education in students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will be best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to work with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges

•  MIT Global Strategy Develop/support a global network first rate institutions for MIT faculty to address world’s greatest challenges and experiment with educational innovation Ø  Singapore: SMART, SUTD Ø  Russia: Sktech Ø  Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates: Masdar Institute Ø  Portugal: Five universities Ø  Hong Kong: HKUST

Attract the best people in the world to MIT Ø  Students, visiting postdocs, visiting faculty, faculty

MIT GLOBAL STRATEGY

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MIT and Singapore Timeline

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

1961-‐1963 LKY and Jerry Wiesner

1966 First Graduates (Post Independence)

1990 Sloan and NTI Accountancy

2007

2010 1999

MIT GLOBAL STRATEGY

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Environmental Scan •  Singaporean Government

Ø  Wants to establish Singapore as a major center on the globe for R&D which returns tangible economic and social benefit

Ø  Wants to establish an Educational Center in Asia that attracts learners from all over Asia Ø  Needs to do it in a way that articulates why the resources should not be just given to the

Singapore universities

•  NRF Ø  Outstanding Research Ø  Singapore as a second home for MIT Ø  Engagement in Singapore Ø  Reputation

•  What is the product that MIT offers? Ø  High Quality Prestigious Education and Research with a Focus on Translation Ø  A Reputation for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ø  Produce Eminent Educators and Scholars evident by Awards: Nobel Laureates, Field Medals,

National Academies, and Marshall & Rhodes Scholars

MIT GLOBAL STRATEGY

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•  Competitive Positioning Ø  MIT has a good reputation in Asia

o  Large focused US university entity in Singapore

Ø  Other Schools are also here in major ways o  Yale (Yale-NUS Liberal Arts) o  Duke (Duke-NUS Medical School) o  Imperial (Imperial-NTU Medical School) o  CREATE entities (ETH, TUM, Technion, Ben Gurion, Hebrew University,

Cambridge University, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Peking University, UC Berkeley)

•  Industry Structure Ø  Higher Education in Asia – external factors driving attractiveness

o  Local universities are looking for partnerships as equals o  High Asian demand for quality education o  Interest in MOOC experiments o  Interest in new collaborations with industry

MIT GLOBAL STRATEGY Environmental Scan

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SMART IN A NUT SHELL

A Large MIT Research Facility in Singapore •  834 researchers (MIT faculty, Singaporean faculty, Research Scientists, Postdocs,

PhD students, Undergrads)

•  Substantial annual research funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) in Singapore

•  Stable 5-year funding for Five Interdisciplinary Research Themes (currently to 2019)

•  Many ties with local industry, government agencies and hospitals

•  Outstanding physical research facility and excellent state of the art equipment

•  Largest entity in the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) (30% of the space; 50% of the people)

•  Has embedded a Deshpande-like Innovation Center – birthed 15 companies so far

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A Large MIT Research Facility in Singapore

SMART exemplifies a new model for global scientific collaboration. A well supported global partnership between leading research universities with the following elements: •  Excellent collaborative interdisciplinary research •  A flow of people (to and from MIT, Singapore) •  Addressing important global and regional problems •  Translation into societal impact

SMART IN A NUT SHELL

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SMART CENTRE ORGANISATION CHART

Director

Innovation Centre

Governing Board Provost

Vice President (MIT)

HQ

IRGs Scientific Advisory

Boards

ID IRG LEES IRG FM IRG CENSAM IRG BioSyM IRG

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SMART CENTRE’S MISSION

•  Support the MIT mission to advance knowledge and education in ways that best serve the world in the 21st century

•  Be a world-class research centre maintaining the same standards of excellence as at MIT.

•  Identify and carry out research on critical problems of societal significance of interest to Singapore.

•  Develop robust collaborations with researchers from local Universities and Institutions. Co-advise local doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers.

•  Be a magnet for attracting and anchoring global research talent to Singapore.

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SMART VALUES

•  Excellence Ø Research Ø Operations

•  Integrity Ø Research Ø Financial

•  Meritocracy

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CORE COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies that MIT brings: •  High quality research •  Analytically oriented education •  Mens et Manus – learning by doing

SMART has the following core competencies: •  Interdisciplinary high quality research •  Interest in and connections to real world regional issues •  Translation into start-up companies •  Knows how to train future technology leaders

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SMART IRG AND INNOVATION RENEWALS

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2014 2016 2017 2018

InfecIous Diseases IRG

SMART Centre start-‐date

Environmental Sensing & Modeling IRG

BioSystem & Micromechanics IRG

Future Urban Mobility IRG

Low Energy Electronic System IRG

SMART Centre revised end-‐date

InfecIous Diseases IRG ID

2019 2020

Environmental Sensing & Modeling IRG

BioSystems & Micromechanics IRG

FM to submit renewal proposal

SMART Centre original end-‐date

InnovaIon Centre

Phase 1 (5 years)

End of Phase 1

ConInuaIon of InnovaIon Centre

Proposed Phase 2 of FM FM

2021

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SMART RESEARCH TEAM MIT Total

MIT Faculty (40 PIs and other faculty 17) 57

MIT Collaborators 14

MIT Postdoctoral Researchers 28

MIT Doctoral Researchers 76

MIT Graduate Students (SM) 33

MIT Undergraduate Students 18

SMART Team (Research ScienIst, Postdocs, Technical and Non-‐Technical Staff, AdministraIve staff including HQ and MIT staff)

236

Faculty from Singapore UniversiIes 102

CollaboraIng ScienIst from S’pore Agencies & Research InsItute 21

Postdoctoral Researchers from Singapore UniversiIes and Technical and Non-‐Technical Staff

54

Graduate and Undergraduate Students from Singapore UniversiIes 191

VisiIng Faculty and Students and External Collaborators 34

TOTAL = 864 MIT (226) & SMART (236) = 462

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DEPARTMENTS INVOLVEMENT WITH SMART IRGs Infectious Diseases (Biology, Chemistry, BE) [Chen, Cao, Dao, Dedon, Hammond, Sasisekharan, Tannenbaum] Understand pathogen-host interactions: cellular & molecular levels; Develop/use technology platforms

Biosystems & Micromechanics (DMSE, BE, CHEME, EECS, ME) [Van Vliet, Asada, Barbastathis, Doyle, Han, Kamm, Lang, So, Tidor] Invent novel biotechnologies (e.g. imaging, microfluidic); Use in science and human health

Future Urban Mobility (A&A, Arch, CEE, DUSP, OR, EECS) [Frazzoli, Amarasinghe, Barnhart, Ben-Akiva, Britter, Ferreria, Gonzales, Jaillet, Karaman, Katabi, Modiano, Odoni, Peh, Ratti, Rus, Zegras] Improve coordination of moving units (vehicles and people); Advance vehicle autonomy and explore its potential impacts

Environmental Sensing and Modeling (Arch, A&A, CEE, EAPS, ME) [Norford, Adams, Barbastathis, Barrett, Boyle, Britter, Elfatih, Harvey, Hemond, Hover, Madsen, Patrikalakis, Rizzoli, Shanahan, Thompson J, Triantafyllou, Wang, Whittle] Develop new environmental sensor technology, networks & platforms; Develop predictive environmental models

Low Energy Electronic System (DMSE, EECS, ME) [Fitzgerald, Antoniadis, Buonassisi, Michel, Palacios, Peh, Shao-Horn, Thompson C, Wang] Identify new integrated circuit technologies that become the new added value for reduced energy per function, low power consumption and higher performance in our electronics infrastructure

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MIT PIs INTERACTION WITH SINGAPORE PIs

MIT NUS NTU SUTD OTHERS

Faculty of Science

Faculty of Engineering

Faculty of Science

Faculty of Engineering

ID 8 3 1 1 2 0 DUKE-NUS 1 NUHS 1 NITD/NOVARTIS 1

BIOSYM 9 13 10 7 7 0 DUKE-NUS 2 NUHS 1 NCCS 1 IMCB 1 A*Star 1

FM 13 9 6 0 5 4 SMU 3

CENSAM 18 4 6 4 7 0 NIE 1

LEES 9 0 4 0 7 0 DSO 1

TOTAL 57 29 27 12 28 4 14

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SMART COLLABORATORS IN SINGAPORE CollaboraIng UniversiIes

Research InsItutes

Government Agencies

Hospitals and Industry

TMSI

Fraunhofer IDM 12

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INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Diseases Technologies Impacts

Vaccines

Bio-‐ markers

Dengue Program

Malaria Program

Microbial Program

Thera-‐peuIcs

Integration & Convergence

Dengue

Malaria

Microbial

Humice

Eng. & Modeling

Biomarker

Vaccine

Drug High Density Measurement

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