Funded Researchers

Loza Tadesse
- The Latham Family Career Development Professor
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
Loza Tadesse is the Latham Family Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a member of the J-Clinic for AI and Health and the Ragon Institute. She received her PhD in bioengineering from Stanford University and previously was a medical student at St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College in Ethiopia. She also did a postdoctoral training at the UC Berkeley. Tadesse’s research program at MIT develops next generation disease diagnostic devices using spectroscopy, optical, and machine learning tools. She has been listed on Forbes 30 Under 30, SPIE Women in Optics, and received the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Career Development Award.
J-WAFS-funded projects
News
- J-WAFS PIs receive awards for excellence
- J-WAFS PI Loza Tadesse named to MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 list
- Loza Tadesse and Bin Zhang honored for outstanding mentorship
- J-WAFS PI finds a new way to quickly assess quality of materials
- J-WAFS awards 11th round of seed grants to cohort of ten MIT faculty