Joshua E. Siegel

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Joshua E. Siegel
BornSeptember 1988 (age 33)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materMIT
AwardsLemelson–MIT Student Prize, MassChallenge MassIT Government Innovation Competition Winner, MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology Soldier Design Competition Boeing Prize Winner
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering
ThesisData Proxies, the Cognitive Layer, and Application Locality: Enablers of Cloud-Connected Vehicles and Next-Generation Internet of Things (2016)
Doctoral advisorSanjay Sarma
Other academic advisorsSanjay Sarma, Warren Seering, Maria Yang
Websitewww.mit.edu/~j_siegel/

Joshua Siegel is an American Mechanical Engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. As of January 2019, he is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University.[1][2] Previously, he was a Research Scientist at MIT,[3] the lead instructor of MIT's Internet of things Bootcamp,[4] a parallel entrepreneur and founder of the connected car startup and consultancy CarKnow LLC as well as the vehicle prognostic startup DataDriven. His research areas include connected vehicle technologies, pervasive sensing, and secure and efficient architectures for connectivity.[5] Siegel and his companies have been recognized with several awards for his work developing platforms to collect and analyze vehicle data, including the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize and the MassIT Government Innovation Prize.

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.[6] 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[7] and briefly co-led the Electric Vehicle Team[8] as it finalized its electrification of a Porsche 914.

Siegel received his S.B. from MIT in 2011, S.M. in 2013, and Ph.D in 2016.[9] 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[]

Siegel's work focuses on designing platforms for collecting and analyzing vehicle data, with an emphasis on prognostics (failure prediction) and user experience improvements. His academic work in these areas led him to found CarKnow LLC, which allows vehicle owners and operators take advantage of their vehicle's data through the use of an open application development platform.

Siegel additionally researches techniques for improving vehicle security and he has provided consulting services to identify and address faults within internal and wide area vehicle networks.

In his capacity as a connected vehicle expert, Siegel has appeared in popular media including PRI's Science Friday[10] and AOL Media's Translogic.[11] Additionally, he has been interviewed and cited in the likes of WIRED[12] and the New York Times.[13] He has additionally authored opinion pieces printed in The Detroit News[14] and ComputerWorld.[15]

Siegel today continues his research developing a secure and efficient architecture for the Internet of Things. He is preparing to commercialize his work identifying vehicle faults using pervasively sensed data from conventional smartphone devices.

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.[16]

In 2014, Siegel's startup, CarKnow LLC, was awarded the MassChallenge MassIT Government Innovation Competition Prize, a $25,000 award with the opportunity to pilot the company's technology with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[17] In this same year, Siegel was also a member of the team winning BMW-EURECOM's "Ideation Award" at the BMW Summer School program.

In 2015, he was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work in developing vehicle data collection platforms, including his work on the Carduino car-to-Cloud interface.[18][19]

Siegel and his sole-proprietor company CarKnow have been recognized with numerous other accolades. CarKnow was a semi-finalist in the 2014 IPSO Alliance Challenge,[20] a Cloud Hero of the Year,[21] a finalist in Telematics Update's "Industry Newcomer" award,[22] a finalist in the Global Automotive Innovation Challenge,[23] an IoT/M2M Hero of the Year[24] and a finalist for the Innovation World Cup's Mobility and Geo Awards.[25]

References[]

  1. ^ "Home|Computer Science and Engineering"
  2. ^ "Josh Siegel, Ph.D."
  3. ^ "MECHE People: Joshua Siegel"
  4. ^ "TEAM | MIT IoT Bootcamp"
  5. ^ "Google Scholar"
  6. ^ Cranbrook Tradition Magazine - "Joshua Siegel Profile"
  7. ^ Chandler, David. MIT News - "Outside the classroom, students create future businesses"
  8. ^ MIT Undergraduate Association "MIT UA Guide to Sustainability"
  9. ^ Barr, Julie. Slice of MIT Blog - "Cars, Data, and Internet of Things"
  10. ^ PRI's Science Friday - "Imagining the ‘Connected’ Car of the Future"
  11. ^ AOL Translogic - "CarKnow Car Hacking"
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Hall-Geisler, Kristen. The New York Times (May 11, 2014) - "Owners Who Are Happy When the Engine Doesn’t Start"
  14. ^ Siegel, Joshua. The Detroit News (May 5, 2016) - "Lansing stunts the automotive technological revolution" The Detroit News. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  15. ^ Sarma, Sanjay and Siegel, Joshua. Computerworld (November 30, 2016) - "Bad (internet of) things" Computerworld. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  16. ^ Chandler, David (April 18, 2008). "Tomorrow's soldier: powered, spring-loaded and located" MIT News. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  17. ^ Witter, Crystal. Mass Government Blog (November 14, 2014) - Astra IDentity and CarKnow win the Commonwealth’s First MassIT Government Innovation Prize Mass Innovation Blog. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  18. ^ Lemelson-MIT - "Josh Siegel" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winners. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  19. ^ Lemelson-MIT - "National Collegiate Student Prize Competition Winners Announced" Lemelson-MIT News. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  20. ^ IPSO Alliance - "IPSO ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES CHALLENGE 2014 WINNERS"
  21. ^ Innovation World Cup - "Here are the Cloud Heroes 2015"
  22. ^ GPS World - "TU-Automotive Announces Connected Car Award Finalists"
  23. ^ NextEnergy - "2015 Global Automotive Innovation Challenge Semi-Finalists Accounted"
  24. ^ Innovation World Cup - "IoT Heroes of the Year 2015 – Finalists of the IoT / M2M Innovation World Cup 2015 selected"
  25. ^ Cloudeo - "Cloud Innovation World Cup 2015 finalists officially announced"
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