Nissia Sabri

Nissia Sabri

Greater Boston
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With over fifteen years of technical and business experience most recently in the MedTech…

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Experience

  • Novanta Inc. Graphic

    Novanta Inc.

    Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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    Greater Boston Area

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    Greater Boston Area

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    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Greater Boston Area

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    Greater Boston

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    Greater Boston Area

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    Gainesville, Florida Area

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    Paris Area, France

Education

  • MIT Sloan School of Management Graphic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

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    Focus on innovation and technology strategy and how to use strategic games for competitive advantage.

    Featured Coursework:
    - Business dynamics including market dynamics, product diffusion, and market entry
    - Organization design and management
    - Global strategy and organization
    - Game theory for strategic advantage
    - Operation management
    - Managerial Finance

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    Graduated with the highest rank in core cohort (1/131).

    Featured classes and projects:
    - System architecture, project management, system integration, change management
    - Complexity and change management
    - Cyber security in industrial systems
    - Product design and development
    - Fabrication and rapid prototyping (3D printing, CAD, parametric design, electronics and wireless modules)

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    Activities and Societies: • The University of Florida International Center`s Award for outstanding achievement in 2006 and 2007. • SPIE photonics

    Major: X-Ray Imaging Systems

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    Major: Industrial Instrumentation Engineering

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Professional member

    EWB-USA, Northeast Region

    Science and Technology

  • EIT Digital Graphic

    Hackathon participant

    EIT Digital

    - Present 9 years 3 months

    Environment

    Part of the Boston Climathon 2015 with the European Institute of Technology's Climate-KIC Program.

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graphic

    Lead Business Instructor

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    - Present 9 years 1 month

    Economic Empowerment

    Lead Business Instructor - Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
    MIT Africa Program - Global Startup Labs
    Prepared and delivered the first MIT entrepreneurship boot camp in North Africa in collaboration with the largest local Telecom provider (Ooredoo). Mobile tech start-ups.

Patents

Projects

  • Boston - Smart City Sensor Integration

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    An urban laboratory in the heart of downtown Boston, stocked with sensors, staffed by Boston's best technologists, and open to community groups.
    A pilot with the City of Boston (The mayor's office of new urban mechanics) to deploy a sensor testbed in Downtown Crossing.
    Role: design of sensor network, deployment, cloud integration and data analysis.

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  • Boston Climathon 2015 - Flooding Evacuation App

    "On June 18th, 2015, cities around the world joined together in an intercontinental collaboration to find innovative solutions for climate change problems through a 24-hour hackathon event challenging students and citizens to take direct climate action within their own communities." With Uflood we were part of it, working on evacuation apps for flooded areas.

    Featured Article in Takepart.com - An App Helps You Escape Rising Seas
    "In Boston, former risk analyst Nissia Sabri and her…

    "On June 18th, 2015, cities around the world joined together in an intercontinental collaboration to find innovative solutions for climate change problems through a 24-hour hackathon event challenging students and citizens to take direct climate action within their own communities." With Uflood we were part of it, working on evacuation apps for flooded areas.

    Featured Article in Takepart.com - An App Helps You Escape Rising Seas
    "In Boston, former risk analyst Nissia Sabri and her team developed the idea for uFlood, a Web platform and mobile app to generate turn-by-turn evacuation routes in the metropolitan area."

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Honors & Awards

  • MIT Sandbox - Entrepreneurship Grant

    MIT Sandbox

    MIT's Innovation Fund.

  • Global City Teams Challenge Leadership Prize

    NIST and NSF Competition

    Prize awarded to exceptional Smart City Action Cluster teams that foster public-private partnerships to build, deploy, and test transformative IoT applications. The Local Sense Lab is a smart city sensor testbed for testing IoT technology in Boston with a focus on environmental and human sensing and planning applications.

  • MIT Graduate School Leadership Institute - Founding Fellow

    MIT Graduate School Leadership Institute

    It is a peer-led collaboration across all MIT graduate schools to further develop the leadership skills and network of outstanding MIT graduate students who have already exhibited strong leadership.

  • MIT System Design & Management - Student Leadership Award

    MIT System Design & Management

    An annual MIT SDM Student Award for Leadership, Innovation, and Systems Thinking.

  • Propel Program. Finalist.

    Greentown Labs & Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE

    PROPEL is a startup acceleration program for prototype development. With the vision of a smarter, interconnected, resource-efficient world, PROPEL is sought complementary innovations in self-powered Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks (WSANs). During the program, startups built their individual products toward integrated solutions and viable business models that can radically change how we interact with our environment.

  • Boston Climathon 2015. Finalist team presented at the UN's COP21 Paris Conference.

    Tufts Institute for the Environment & the European Institute of Technology's Climate-KIC Program

    Finalist team presented at the UN's COP21 climate change conference in Paris.

  • Clean Tech Open Northeast. Semi-Finalist.

    Clean Tech Open Accelerator

    Entrepreneurship competition. Project on Industrial IoT security.

  • MIT Clean Energy Prize. Semi-Finalist.

    MIT Clean Energy Prize

    Entrepreneurship competition. Project on Industrial IoT security.

  • Engineer of the Year

    AREVA Inc.

    Engineering award.

  • International Student Award for Outstanding Achievement

    University of Florida

Organizations

  • MIT DesignX

    BitSence Co-founder

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