2021 Conference Program

  • Opening remarks by Andreas Mershin

    “What the dog’s nose knows, and what it can teach us” - Dr. Claire Guest

    "What have Alan Turing and the Future Science of Smell in Common?” - Prof. Ann-Sophie Barwich, Indiana University

    “Talking Scents” - Michael Benson, Author - Space Odyssey, MIT/NASA

    Panel discussion with Q&A

  • “E-nose Technology: The Beginning” - Dr. Susan S. Schiffman, PhD North Carolina State University

    "Connecting Human Perception to Artificial intelligence, AI.” - Michael McGinley, Laboratory Director St. Croix Sensory, Inc.

    “Odeuropa – Olfactory Heritage & Sensory Mining” - Prof.dr. Inger Leemans, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & VU University Amsterdam, Odeuropa

    “Pathways to Instrumenting Scent Detection” - Pat Moran, President at Aptect Corp

    “Presence and Intention with Olfaction” - Prof. Matthew Waldman, Keio University

    “Combining Peptides , Silicon Photonics and Universal Representation to detect and analyze smells” - Dr. Tristan Rousselle, Founder & deputy CEO at Aryballe technologies

    Panel discussion with Q&A

  • "Scentian Bio - a new way to sense the world" - Dr. Andrew Kralicek

    "Mimicking dogs to sniff out cancer" - Konstantinos Papakonstantinou

    “Smart-shoe. Smart-wear” - Phil Sarazen

    “Diffusion fails to make a stink” - Dr. Gerard McCaul

    "Improving incontinence care with Enose technology" - Stephanie Brener, Weizmann Institute, MSc student, Machine olfaction

    Presentations will be followed by the panel discussion with Q&Atext goes here

  • During the session we will work together to reflect, ask questions and think of possible applications of scent technologies.

    Participants will be working on their ideas , and panelists will field questions regarding olfaction. During the session, olfaction pioneers will accompany participants and discuss different aspects of the technology.

    We will have separate rooms to share different dimensions of olfaction, and time to rethink initial projects and works of art, data, hardware, applications, ethics/law, and everything else!

    Nikhil Lal / Karolina Sulich / Chris Rose

  • “Beginnings. Hope”

    Closing remarks by Professor Chris Rose who will introduce us to thoughts full of hope

Day 1 - Thursday, October 28th, 2021

Opening Session

Session 2

Session 3

Ideathon Session

Closing Remarks

  • “EI_AI” - Sissel Tolaas, Smell Researcher & Artist

    “Olfaction Technology Review”- Nikhil Lal

    “Ideation in Space - How olfaction can influence Space Exploration. Conclusions after M5 Sensoria analog astronaut mission at habitat Lunares” - Karolina Sulich

    “Sensing the City: Spatial Spectrogramy” - Joris Daniel Komen, PhD Candidate: MIT PhD Candidate: MIT Computation Group

    “OVR - Spatial Olfactory Virtual Reality for Behavioral Outcomes” - Aaron Wisniewski, CEO/Co Founder OVR Technology

    Panel discussion with Q&A

  • Dimitrios Ioannidis Esq. - Introduction to Problem

    Opening of argument by Clerk of the Supreme Court - Introduction of Justices

    Judges- Arguments by 4 students - 2 on each side - Claimant (Cassie Nedder and Dionisio Antonio Mulone) and Respondent (Zelda Bank and Madison Bush)- 15 min each student.

    Some remarks/comments by Justices 30-40 min- analysis of an issues

    The Moot Court Problem

  • “Olfaction Vindicates Creativity Machine Paradigm” - Dr. Stephen L. Thaler, President, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Imagination Engines Inc.

    “Creating a Digital Archive of Scent Objects” - Saskia Wilson-Brown, Founder of The Institute for Art and Olfaction

    “Recognizing molecules with nanomaterial corona phases” - Dr. Xun Gong, Strano laboratory MIT

    Michael Benson & Chris Rose in conversation

    Panel and Q&A

  • “No Conscent: Imminent emanations oblige data subject preeminence”

    - Prof. David Carroll, associate professor, Parsons School of Design, The New School

Day 2 - Friday, October 29th, 2021

Opening Session

Introduction of Moot Court Competition

Session 2

Closing Remarks

  • “Challenges of human centered design driven Innovation” - Prof. Federico Casalegno, Head of Samsung Design Innovation Center and Next Generation Product Strategy

    “MITRealNose - nanonose” - Dr. Andreas Mershin, MIT

    “Canine and Machine Olfaction in Human Prostate Cancer Diagnosis” - Thomas Johnson, “Prostate Cancer Foundation”

    “Some serious sniffing around: Harnessing dogs to detect GI disease” - Dr. Joshua Korzenik, Director of Crohn's and Colitis Center, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

    "Cancer Metabolism: Outrunning Evolution" - Dr. Bruce J. Trock, Director, Division of Epidemiology, Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Professor of Urology

    Panel discussion with Q&A

  • Presentation of works and ideas developed during the conference

  • "Cancer Metabolism: Outrunning Evolution" - Dr. Bruce J. Trock, Director, Division of Epidemiology, Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Professor of Urology

    “Sniff ‘em out early – Early detection is real…and important!” - Dr. Adam Feldman, Urologist | Urologic Oncologist , Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Urology

    “Title: Olfaction and Neuroimmunity: Scent as adjuvant in vaccines and mental health” - Dr. Simmie L. Foster MD, PhD Depression Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

    “Seeing the unseen” - Prof. Cecília Roque, Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    Q&A

  • Dr. Shuguang Zhang MIT Media Lab, Laboratory for Molecular Architecture

    "Measuring smell and taste for actionable product development insights" - Dr. Ilya Kolb, Senior Project Manager at Aromyx

    “Dogs can do it. Can we do better?” - Dr. Wen-Yee Lee, University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

    “Distributed olfaction for augmented awareness” - Dr. Joseph Azzarelli, Azztek

    "Bringing Artificial Olfaction from the Lab to the Industry" - Lucas Lopez from Volatile AI

    “On demand bio-production of aromas to enhance flavors and food experience for astronauts “ - Sara Nejad Designer

    Q&A

  • Presentation of works and ideas developed during the conference

  • “Nosetrodamus” - Joe Davis, Artist/Scientist at Harvard Medical School/MIT

Day 3 - Saturday, October 30th, 2021

Session 1

Ideathon Sharing - Part I

Session 1

Session 2

Ideathon Sharing - Part II & Closing Remarks

2021 Conference Speakers

  • Dr. Andreas Mershin

    Director MIT Label Free Research Group
    www.mershin.org

  • Dr. Claire Guest

    Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer Medical Detection Dogs

    medicaldetectiondogs

  • Prof. Ann-Sophie Barwich

    Indiana University

  • Prof. Federico Casalegno

    Head of Samsung Design Innovation Center and Next Generation Product Strategy, MIT Associate Professor

  • Michael Benson

    Author - Space Odyssey, MIT/NASA

    www.michael-benson.com

  • Prof. Chris Rose

    RISD

  • Prof. David Carroll

    Associate professor, Parsons School of Design, The New School

    https://twitter.com/profcarroll

  • Joe Davis

    Artist/Scientist at Harvard Medical School/ MIT

  • Dr. Shuguang Zhang

    MIT Media Lab, Laboratory for Molecular Architecture

    www.media.mit.edu

  • Sissel Tolaas

    Professional inBEtweener.
    Smell Researcher & Artist :
    Smell RE_searchLab Berlin

    www.afmuseet.no

  • Nikhil Lal

    Engineer and olfaction enthusiast.
    Past: E25Bio, Biobot Analytics, Sensata Technologies, Cornell

    niklal.me

  • Dimitrios Ioannidis Esq.

    Founder of Innovationmoot.com

  • Karolina Sulich

    Bio Designer and researcher, analog astronaut

  • Konstantinos Papakonstantinou

    CEO, Scentient

    www.scentient.ai

  • Lucas Lopez

    CTO Volatile AI

    www.volatile.ai

  • Dr. Xun Gong

    Strano Research Group MIT

    www.xungong

  • Dr. Gerard McCaul

    Tulane University

    www.bondar.tulane.edu

  • Dr. Susan Schiffman

    Department of
    Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State
    University

  • Stephanie Brener

    Weizmann Institute, MSc student, Machine olfaction

  • Dr. Ilya Kolb

    Senior Project Manager at Aromyx

    www.aromyx

  • Thomas Johnson

    Assistant Chief of Staff, Coordinator, PCF UK
    Prostate Cancer Foundation

    Profiling of urine to detect lethal prostate cancer

  • Prof.dr. Inger Leemans

    Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & VU University Amsterdam,Odeuropa

    www.odeuropa

  • Saskia Wilson-Brown

    Founder of The Institute for Art and Olfaction

    artandolfaction.com

  • Dr. Tristan Rousselle

    Founder & deputy CEO at Aryballe technologies

    www.aryballe

  • Patrick Moran

    President at Aptect Corp

    www.patrickmoran

  • Dr. Andrew Králíček

    Chief Technology Officer Scentian Bio

    www.scentianbio

  • Phil Sarazen

    www.bikearts.ca

  • Dr. Wen-Yee Lee

    University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

    www.wylee

  • Dr. Stephen L. Thaler

    President, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Imagination Engines Inc.

    www.imaginationengines, The Creativity Machine Paradigm, Vast Topological Learning and Sentient AGI

  • Joris Komen

    PhD Candidate: MIT Computation Group | School of Architecture + Planning
    MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism Fellow

    www.dnkmn

  • Dr. Joseph Azzarelli

    Founder, Azztek

    www.azztek.one

  • Michael McGinley

    Laboratory Director St. Croix Sensory, Inc.

    fivesenses.com

  • Dr. Joshua R. Korzenik

    Director of Crohn's and Colitis Center
    Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

    www.joshuakorzenik

  • Dr. Bruce J. Trock

    Director, Division of Epidemiology, Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins
    Professor of Urology

    www.hopkinsmedicine.org

  • Prof. Matthew Waldman

    Keio University

    www.keio.jp

  • Aaron Wisniewski

    CEO/Co Founder OVR Technology

    www.ovrtechnology.com

  • Dr. Simmie L. Foster MD, PhD

    Depression Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Adam Feldman

    Urologist | Urologic Oncologist , Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Urology

    www.adamfeldman

  • Prof. Cecilia Roque

    Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    www.sites.fct.unl.pt

  • Sara Nejad

    Sara Nejad Design

    www.saranejad.design

2021 Moot Court Session Judges