It's exciting that people are using an NVidia TX2 for research such as this paper. I have a few at work, and one at home for some projects I'm doing.
I had no idea that this is what the MIT people were doing. Awhile ago they asked for Model S owners who would volunteer, but I believe that was for a different project. I imagine some of them carried over onto this one.
I would have volunteered, but I don't live in Boston.
I might play around with this just to experiment.