Joshua E. 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.

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. 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 and briefly co-led the Electric Vehicle Team 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 and AOL Media's Translogic. Additionally, he has been interviewed and cited in the likes of WIRED and the New York Times.

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.