At the EECS Celebrates event, department leaders present awards to outstanding students, faculty, and staff. Invitations have been sent out for the 2017 event, to be held on May 21 at the Museum of Science in Boston.
Here you can see photos and details from EECS Celebrates 2016. EECS honored the Department's award recipients for the 2015-2016 academic year in a ceremony at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Sunday, May 15. Click below to scroll through photos of the event. All images are courtesy of Gretchen Ertl and the MFA.
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The 2016 award winners were:
EECS Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship
Manolis Kellis
Frank Quick Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship
Jongyoon Han
Polina Golland
Louis D. Smullin ('39) Award for Teaching Excellence
Thomas Heldt
Jerome H. Saltzer Award
Yury Polyanskiy
Burgess ('52) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching
Regina Barzilay
Samuel Madden
Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award
Luca Daniel
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
EECS Outstanding Educator Award
Katrina LaCurts
StartMIT Competition First Place
De-Ice team: Alexandru Bratianu-Badea, Ruben Toubiana, Jelena Stojakovic, Hayden K. Cornwell
StartMIT Competition Runner Up
Steph Speirs
Paul L. Penfield Student Service Award
Pratheek Nagaraj
Joel Jean
Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award
Jessica Noss
Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award
Ilia A. Lebedev
Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award
Atulya Yellepeddi
Tarek A. Lahlou
Jonathan D. Terry
Harihar G. Subramanyam
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) Award
Austin J. Liew
Ethan C. Payne
SuperUROP TA Award
Zoya Bylinskii
Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award
Eric C. Chen
Fernando A. Yordan
Project: 3-D Arm Reconstruction for Lymphedema Detection
Supervisor: Regina Barzilay
Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) Award
Rachel Devlin
Eric Ponce
Project: Practical Magic
Supervisor: Steve Leeb
Anna Pogosyants UROP Award
Hayke Saribekyan
Project: Big Data Agglomeration for Connectomics
Supervisor: Nir Shavit
Lidlicker UROP Award
Ian M. Reynolds
Project: Human Echolocation in a Wearable Mobility
Supervisory: Aude Oliva
SuperUROP Outstanding Research Project Award
Julia Belk
Project: Control of DC Electrical Networks to Enable Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing
Supervisor: David Perreault
SuperUROP Outstanding Research Project Award
Damon Doucet
Project: Creating a Compiler Instrumentation Framework
Supervisor: Charles Leiserson
SuperUROP Technical Report Award
Tally E. Portnoi
Project: Lipid Suppression for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Infants: Improving Lipid-Basis Penalty Reconstruction with Multiple-TE Acquisition
Supervisor: Elfar Adalsteinsson
SuperUROP Technical Report Award
Nischal Bhandari
Project: Plane-Based Depth Image Completion
Supervisor: John Fisher
SuperUROP Technical Report Award
Alyssa P. Cartwright
Project: Optical Control of Engineered Mammalian Cells
Supervisor: Rajeev Ram
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award Best 6.111 Project
Samuel M. Jacobs
Valerie Y. Sarge
Project: Surfing on a Sine Wave
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award Best 6.111 Project
Kevin S. Chan
David J. Gomez
Battushig Myanganbayar
Project: Autonomous RC Car
George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Prize: 6.111
Yanni E. Caroneos
Valentina I. Chamorro
Project: A DSP Audio PreAmplifier
David A. Chanen Writing Award for writing in 6.033
Dustin Doss
Project: Critique 2: MapReduce
Morris Joseph Levin Award Masterworks Thesis Presentation
Curtis Northcutt
Project: Detecting and Preventing "Multiple-Account" Cheating in Massice Open Online Courses
Supervisor: Isaac Chuang
Morris Joseph Levin Award Masterworks Thesis Presentation
Preet Garcha
Project: Fully Integrated Therman Energy Harvesting System to Start up at 20 mV
Supervisor: Anantha Chandrakasan
Charles & Jennifer Johnson CS MEng Thesis First Place
Jeevana Priya Inala
Project: Synthesis of Domain Specific CNF Encoders for Bit-Vector Solvers
Supervisor: Armando Solar-Lezama
Charles & Jennifer Johnson CS MEng Thesis Second Place
Casey M. O'Brien
Project: Solving ANTS with Loneliness Detection and Constant Memory
Supervisor: Nancy Lynch
David Adler EE MEng Thesis Award
Max H. Dunitz
Project: Predicting Hyperlactatemia in the ICU
Supervisors: Thomas Heldt, George Verghese
J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in VI-A Industrial Practice Award
Rebecca Kekelishvili
Faculty Advisor: Katrina LaCurts
Company Supervisor: Padmanabhan Iyer (NetApp)
ACM/IEEE Best Advisor Award
Bob Berwick
HKN Best Instructor Award
Katrina LaCurts
Richard J. Caloggero Award
Myron (Fletch) Freeman
Department Head Special Recognition Award
Lisa Bella
Kate Boison
Presentation from the cermony (all photos are courtesy of Gretchen Ertl and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)