Joshua E. Siegel

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Joshua E. Siegel
BornSeptember 1988 (age 35)
Alma mater MIT
Awards Lemelson–MIT Student Prize
Scientific career
Fields Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering
Thesis Data Proxies, the Cognitive Layer, and Application Locality: Enablers of Cloud-Connected Vehicles and Next-Generation Internet of Things  (2016)
Doctoral advisor Sanjay Sarma
Other academic advisorsSanjay Sarma, Warren Seering, Maria Yang
Website www.mit.edu/~j_siegel/

Joshua Siegel is an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. While in school Siegel and his companies were awarded a Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work developing platforms to collect and analyze vehicle data.

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Early life and education

Siegel grew up near Detroit, Michigan, with one sibling. He attended Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he learned programming, mechanics, and electronics as a member of the robotics team. [1] From an early age, his passions revolved around restoring and improving vehicles, and these hobbies led him to continue researching vehicles when he left home to attend MIT in pursuit of his undergraduate degree. While at MIT, Siegel ran the Entrepreneurs Club [2] and briefly co-led the Electric Vehicle Team [3] as it finalized its electrification of a Porsche 914.

His undergraduate thesis described the development of an aftermarket solution for connecting vehicles to the Internet, while his master's work explored the creation of a tamper-resistant vehicle data collection device to support the deployment of a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. His dissertation work developed architectures for the Internet of Things and applied connected vehicle data to predicting mechanical failures.

Research

In his capacity as a connected vehicle expert, Siegel has appeared in popular media including PRI's Science Friday [4] and AOL Media's Translogic. [5] Additionally, he has been interviewed and cited in the likes of WIRED [6] and the New York Times . [7]

Awards

In 2008, Siegel and his cofounder at Course Zero Automation won the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Boeing Prize for their work on developing a soldier-portable inertial navigation unit. [8]

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References

  1. Cranbrook Tradition Magazine - "Joshua Siegel Profile"
  2. Chandler, David. MIT News - "Outside the classroom, students create future businesses"
  3. MIT Undergraduate Association "MIT UA Guide to Sustainability"
  4. PRI's Science Friday - "Imagining the ‘Connected’ Car of the Future"
  5. AOL Translogic - "CarKnow Car Hacking"
  6. Klint Finley. WIRED (November 17, 2014) - "The Internet of Anything: The Little Box That Hooks Your Old Car Up to the Internet". Accessed June 1, 2015.
  7. Hall-Geisler, Kristen. The New York Times (May 11, 2014) - "Owners Who Are Happy When the Engine Doesn’t Start"
  8. Chandler, David (April 18, 2008). "Tomorrow's soldier: powered, spring-loaded and located" MIT News. Retrieved 30 May 2015.