Prof. Siqi Zheng Leads Future City Innovation Connector w/Tsinghua Univ. and MIT SA+P - MIT Center for Real Estate

Prof. Siqi Zheng Leads Future City Innovation Connector w/Tsinghua Univ. and MIT SA+P

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September 20, 2017

September 19, 2017

MIT News Office

 

The Future City Innovation Connector (FCIC) has been established within the MIT China Future City Lab. Professor Siqi Zheng serves as founder and faculty director of this lab, as well as the Samuel Tak Lee Assoc. Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship, in MIT’s DUSP and CRE. 

The program will run in conjunction with the MIT School of Architecture and Planning’s entrepreneurship accelerator, DesignX. FCIC will also work extensively with Chinese municipal governments and industry leaders to support research and startup teams.

FCIC is the first program of its kind that explicitly aims to apply the frontiers of urban research and technology to the immense urbanization occuring in China, which should be powered by technological innovation and new business ventures, FCIC leaders believe.

Pictured from left: Siqi Zheng, Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor and faculty director of China Future City Lab; Bin Yang, vice president and provost of Tsinghua University; Martin Schmidt, MIT provost; Richard Lester, MIT associate provost for international activities; Zhengzhen Tan, executive director of China Future City Lab.

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Prof. Siqi Zheng Leads Future City Innovation Connector w/Tsinghua Univ. and MIT SA+P