Integrating Crowds into Academic Labs

LISH is transforming the processes in which traditional academic research labs work through the integration of crowds and crowdsourcing methodologies. As the lab has had success with the use of crowds to solve complex problems with external partners, such as NASA and the Broad Institute, LISH wanted to test and transfer the same methodologies to academic research labs.

Microrobotics Lab

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Microfluidics Lab

MIT Media Lab

LISH is working with members of these labs to identify problems and design contests that will solve both computational and non-computational problems and advance the research of each lab. The goal of the project is to fundamentally change how labs operate, while broadening the scope of resources available via the crowd and solving complex problems.