EECS Staff
Students, faculty, staff, and special guests came together for EECS Celebrates, the department's annual awards ceremony and reception. The department presented nearly 60 awards during the May 18 event.
A highlight of this year's celebration was the new Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion, and Diversity. Named for the late EECS professor, the award honors members of the MIT community who embody those three values through work, research, or educational innovation.
The inaugural winners are: Irene Chen, a PhD candidate in EECS, and Marzyeh Ghassemi, a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Both were honored for serving as mentors and undertaking other activities to improve diversity and inclusion. Teller's widow, Rachel Zimmerman, and daughters, Sophia and Julia, attended the ceremony to present the awards.
Click below to see a photo slideshow, which is followed by a full list of this year's awards. All photos by Gretchen Ertl.
Created with flickr slideshow.
FACULTY AWARDS
Frank Quick Faculty Research and Innovation Fellowship (FRIF)
Devavrat Shah, Professor of EECS
EECS Faculty Research and Innovation Fellowship (FRIF)
Nickolai Zeldovich, Professor of EECS
Louis D. Smullin (’39) Award for Excellence in Teaching
Joseph Steinmeyer, Extraordinary Lecturer
Jerome H. Saltzer Award for Excellence in Teaching
Robert C. Berwick, Professor, Computational Linguistics and Computer Science & Engineering
Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Prizes for Excellence in Teaching
Erik Demaine, Professor of EECS
Dennis M. Freeman, Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ruth and Joel Spira Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Regina Barzilay, Delta Electronics Professor of EECS
John Tsitsiklis, Clarence J. LeBel Professor of EECS
EECS Outstanding Educator Awards
Stefanie Mueller, X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Tao B. Schardl, Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL
Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
IEEE/ACM Best Advisor Award
Gim P. Hom, Lecturer, EECS
HKN Best Instructor Award
Hari Balakrishnan, Fujitsu Professor of EECS
Department Head Special Recognition Award
Igor Gilitschenski, Senior Postdoctoral Associate, CSAIL
Lukas B. Murmann, PhD Candidate
Feras Saad, PhD Candidate
Richard J. Caloggero Award
Rob Miller, EECS Education Co-Officer and Distinguished Professor in Computer Science
STUDENT AWARDS
Paul L. Penfield Student Service Award
Alex Jordan Hanson
Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award
Megan Marie Fuller
Harold Hazen Teaching Award
Fabian A. Kozynski Waserman
Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Awards
Timothy Kaler
Anne K. Kelley
Remi Mir
Tally Portnoi
Shraman Ray Chaudhuri
Mayuri Sridhar
Xuhong (Lisa) Zhan
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) Award
Olivia Brode-Roger
Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award
Uma Roy
Project: Distributed Uncertainty Estimation for Variational Inference
Supervisor: Tamara Broderick, ITT Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) UROP Award
Rujie Yao
Project: Continuous Removal of Nonviable Suspended Mammalian Cells and Debris from Bioreactors Using Inertial Microfluidics
Supervisor: Jongyoon Han, Professor of EECS and Biological Engineering
Anna Pogosyants UROP Award
Douglas Stryker
Project: Splines in Shape Difference Space
Supervisor: Justin Solomon, X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Licklider UROP Award
Xin Wen
Project: ColorMod: Recoloring 3D Printed Objects Using Photochromic Inks
Supervisor: Stefanie Mueller, X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Robert M. Fano UROP Award
Ekin Karasan
Project: An Enhanced Mechanistic Model for Capnography, with Application to CHF-COPD Discrimination
Supervisor: George Verghese, Professor of EECS
2017-2018 SuperUROP Awards
Andrew Ilyas
Project: Training GANS with Optimism
Advisor: Constantinos Daskalaskis, Associate Professor of EECS
Andrew Rouditchenko
Project: The Sound of Pixels
Advisor: Josh McDermott, Middleton Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science
Diana Wofk
Project: Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Network for Depth Prediction
Advisor: Vivienne Sze, Associate Professor of EECS
George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Prize (6.111)
Katherine Shade & Melinda Szabo
Project: Virtual Softball
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award: Best 6.111 Project
Nicholas Waltman & Mike M. Wang
Project: Live-Action Pong
David A. Chanen Writing Awards (for Writing in 6.033)
David J. Amirault
6.033: System Critique: MapReduce
Temi T. Taylor
System Critique: Map Reduce
Morris Joseph Levin Award for Masterworks Thesis Presentation
Mazdak Abulnaga
Title: Visualizing the Placenta in a Familiar Way
Supervisors: Polina Golland, Professor of EECS; Justin Solomon, X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Tathagata Srimani
Title: Energy-Efficent Computing: From Nanotubes to Negative Capacitance
Supervisor: Max Shulaker, Emmanuel E. Landsman (1958) Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
David Adler Electrical Engineering MEng Thesis Awards
First Place: Catherine Medlock
Title: Optimality of Empirically Generated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves
Supervisor: Alan V. Oppenheim, Ford Professor of Engineering
Second Place: Saumil Bandyopadhyay
Title: Frequency Down-Conversion for Quantum Networking with Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond
Supervisor: Dirk Englund, Associate Professor of EECS
Charles & Jennifer Johnson MEng Computer Science Thesis Awards
First Place (1 of 2): Andres Erbsen
Title: Crafting Certified Elliptic Curve Cryptography Implementations in Coq
Advisor: Adam Chlipala, Associate Professor of Computer Science
First Place (2 of 2): Jade Philipoom
Title: Correct-by-Construction Finite Field Arithmetic in Coq
Advisor: Adam Chlipala, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Second Place: Bowen Baker
Title: Towards Practical Neural Network Meta-Modeling
Advisors: Cesar Hidalgo, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Nikhil Naik, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT and Harvard
Francis Reintjes Excellence in 6-A Industrial Partnership Award
Alex Sloboda
Project: AC-Coupled Ripple Reduction Method for Chopper-Stabilized Amplifiers
Supervisor: Charles Sodini, LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering
Company: Analog Devices
STARTMIT AWARDS
StartMIT Hard Tech Problem & Solution Citation: ECTOTHERM
Anton Cottrill
Volodymyr Koman
Wei Sun Leong
StartMIT Hard Tech Problem Solution Citation: METASTORAGE
Gian Carlo Correa
Antoni Forner Cuenco
Laureen Meroueh
Ruitao Wan
StartMIT Most Promising Business Idea: NEXTILES
George Sun
Jodie Zuo
StartMIT Most Promising Business Idea: TANK IT EASY
Aymar Christian de Lichterveldte
Lina Gonzalez
Francesco Maurelli
Sayuri Ozaki
StartMIT Best Undergraduate Pitch: SILOS
Mesert Kebed
Marla E. Odell
StartMIT Student Audience Choice: FOCUS
Jesus A. Mathus
Alex Nordin
ADDITIONAL AWARDS
The following additional awards to EECS faculty were also acknowledged during the EECS Celebrates ceremony:
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching (presented by the School of Engineering)
Srini Devadas, Webster Professor of EECS
Innovative Seminar Award (presented by the Office of the Vice Chancellor as part of the Freshman Advisors Awards)
Dennis M. Freeman, Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering
MIT Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award (presented to junior faculty members for exceptional teaching, research, and service)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Associate Professor of EECS
MIT Gordon Y Billard Award (presented in recognition of “special service of outstanding merit”)
Christopher Terman, Senior Lecturer, EECS
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