Past Funded Researchers
Chintan Vaishnav is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a member of the founding team of MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. He is a socio-technologist, an engineer trained to understand human as well as technological complexity in large systems. Vaishnav is interested in creating socio-technical systems for improving lives in underserved communities, and in analyzing the implications of promoting and managing such technologies for policymakers, managers, and society at large. Vaishnav holds a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MS in Technology and Policy, and a PhD in Engineering Systems from MIT. He also holds a BA in Indian Classical Music from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, India.
J-WAFS-funded projects
- A checklist-based advisory to minimize the cost and duration of worse-before-better in transitioning from chemical to organic smallholder farming
- QuantiSoil: Commercialization of an on-site soil analysis system for smallholding farmers
- Enabling distributed water quality management by dry sample preservation and centralized analysis
News
- J-WAFS researcher Chintan Vaishnav, with a Stanford team, is mobilizing the production of one billion PPE masks India
- Bulldoze the curve or let COVID-19 simmer? J-WAFS PI Chintan Vashinav describes the "continuum" of mitigation approaches
- Two new J-WAFS Solutions grants are advancing technologies for sustainable agriculture