MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Awards and Honors, Academic Year 1996-97

Since 1990 the department has issued a booklet listing awards and honors made to its faculty, staff, and students. Starting in AY 1994-95 this booklet has also been available on the Web.

Welcome to the Web form of this booklet for AY 1996-97. A version without pictures (text only) is also available, for faster viewing.

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Awards and Honors for other years: 1995-96 . . 1997-98 . . current

Faculty

New Faculty

SAMAN P. AMARASINGHE Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering		JOHN M. CHAPIN Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
LEONARD MCMILLAN Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering		ALEXANDRE MEGRETSKI Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
RAJEEV J. RAM Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Faculty Promotions

Promotion to Professor

JESÚS A. del ALAMO		JACOB K. WHITE

Promotion to Associate Professor

DUANE S. BONING		STEVEN B. LEEB		MITCHELL D. TROTT

Chair Appointments

Ford Professors of Engineering

BARBARA H. LISKOV		ALAN V. OPPENHEIM		PATRICK H. WINSTON

Ray and Maria Stata Professor

DIMITRI A. ANTONIADIS

Fujitsu Professor

RODNEY A. BROOKS

ITT Career Development Associate Professor

DUANE S. BONING

RSA Professor

SHAFRIRA GOLDWASSER

Bernard M. Gordon Adjunct Professor

G. DAVID FORNEY, JR.

NEC Professor

NANCY A. LYNCH

X-Consortium Assistant Professor

SETH TELLER

Elected Fellow of the ACM

NANCY A. LYNCH

MacVicar Faculty Fellow

ALAN V. OPPENHEIM

John F. and Virginia B. Taplin Faculty Fellows in HST

DENNIS M. FREEMAN		W. ERIC L. GRIMSON

Sloan Research Fellows

DAVID R. KARGER		SETH J. TELLER

Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

RODNEY A. BROOKS

Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching

STEVEN B. LEEB

Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award

M. FRANS KAASHOEK

The Frank E. Perkins Award

KENNETH N. STEVENS
GEORGE C. VERGHESE
In recognition of a professor who has served as an excellent advisor and mentor to graduate students

American Medical Women's Association President's Recognition Award

MARTHA L. GRAY

Association for Computing Machinery, Grace Murray Hopper Award

SHAFRIRA GOLDWASSER

The Austrian Research Foundation, Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize

HERMANN A. HAUS

Honorary Doctorate

Polytechnic University of Crete, Chania Greece
MICHAEL ATHANS

Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Science Scholar

LYNN ANDREA STEIN

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997 Melville Medal

ALAN J. GRODZINSKY

American Carbon Society, Great Lakes Carbon Award

MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS

1997 Informs/CSTS Prize

DIMITRI P. BERTSEKAS
JOHN N. TSITSIKLIS

Department Head's Special Recognition Award

TOMÁS LOZANO-PÉREZ
STEPHEN D. SENTURIA
As chairs of the DOCS committee, Tomás and Steve worked for a year examining the department's doctoral program. Their results were delivered to the faculty and were well received.

1997 Marconi International Fellowship in New Delhi

G. DAVID FORNEY, JR.

1996 Cristoforo Colombo Award, International Communication in Genoa, Italy

G. DAVID FORNEY, JR.

Staff

Richard J. Caloggero Award

ANNE M. HUNTER

Anne has counseled and guided hundreds of EECS undergraduates and M.Eng. students. She has put a human, caring face on our department

Graduate Students

Teaching Awards

Instructor-G

PATRICK J. LOPRESTI

Patrick has been associated with 6.004 for 5 terms; in three of these terms he taught recitation sections. In addition to being an excellent and devoted teacher, he has been a prolific and dependable contributor to the operation and development of 6.004. Pat has a deep understanding of the material, and a keen sense of how best to communicate that understanding to students. Pat's intellect, level of care, breadth of knowledge and talent for teaching are quite extraordinary.

Instructor-G

MATTHEW J. SECOR

Matthew has been a TA for 6.041, 6.341 and 6.011. This spring he worked on 6.011 and 6.341 development simultaneously. Matthew is always looking for new and more challenging assignments to enrich his learning experience and refine his teaching skills. He has demonstrated his attentiveness and ease with students and his ability to work with faculty as a sophisticated partner in developing and running these subjects. Matt is knowledgeable, confident, resourceful and resilient, and maintains a good sense of humor throughout.

Instructor-G

KATHLEEN E. WAGE

Kathleen is a talented and dedicated teacher who is committed to a teaching career. She is generous with her time and intellect, and spends substantial time outside of class tutoring students. She is creative and innovative in the development of new material. She has been a role model and mentor for several younger graduate students in the MIT/Woods Hole joint program. Kathleen's classroom style is interactive and she has the ability to draw students into open conversation regarding course material. She has been a TA for 6.341, 6.011 and twice for 6.003.

Carlton E. Tucker Award

O. PATRICK KREIDL

Pat has been a TA for 6.041 twice and 6.003 three times. Pat's teaching style is highly interactive. He establishes a "students-first" attitude, including a personal commitment to maximizing students' access to helpful resources. Pat is quiet, a supreme listener, eager to know all about the situation of a student or colleague before deciding how best to help. Pat's efforts have earned him the respect of the students and TAs around him.

Harold L. Hazen Award

LON E. SUNSHINE

Lon has been a TA for 6.002 and 6.341 twice and once for 6.003. His commitment and performance is exceptional, and he brings unusual enthusiasm, dedication, and energy. Lon's demonstrated commitment combined with his outstanding teaching ability has made him a great teacher.

Frederick C. Hennie III Award

JAMES C. HOE

James has been a TA for 6.823 for two terms. He helped rewrite 6.823 from scratch with enthusiasm and unbounded energy. In addition, he helped prepare all exams and problem sets, bringing his characteristic brilliance, precision, and sense of fairness to the job. Going beyond the call of duty, James helped in many aspects of the course, always striving to improve the quality of instruction.

SEAN C. WARNICK

Sean was a TA in 6.003, and 6.241 twice and 6.002 twice. When Sean taught recitations for 6.241 he did it with outstanding commitment and energy, constantly reflecting on what he could do to make information more understandable for his students. He made adjustments with regard to the pace of recitations based on how he felt the students were understanding the material.

George M. Sprowls Award

The Sprowls Award is given by the department for outstanding research contributions in the field of electronic computer and investigation research.

ROBERT D. BLUMOFE
PhD '95
"Executing Multithreaded Programs Efficiently"

JON M. KLEINBERG
PhD '96
"Approximation Algorithms for Disjoint Paths Problems"

IGNACIO S. MCQUIRK
PhD '96
"An Analog VLSI Chip for Estimating the Focus of Expansion"

CARL A. WALDSPURGER
PhD '95
"Lottery and Stride Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management"

Master's Thesis Awards

Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award

MATTHEW H. FREDETTE
"An Implementation of SDSI - The Secure Distributed Security Infrastructure"

David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize

Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award

EMIJIA SIMIC
First Prize
"A Bandpass Sigma Delta Modulation IF Receiver"

ABRAM P. DANCY
Second Prize
"Power Supplies for Ultra Low Power Applications"

PAOLO L. NARVAEZ-GUARNIERI
Second Prize
"Design and Analysis of Flow Control Algorithms for Data Networks"

Morris Joseph Levin Memorial Award,
Best Master Works Oral Thesis Presentation

Spring Term 1997

LAURA K. JOHNSON
"Using Computer Microvision to Characterize the Motions of a Microfabricated Gyroscope"

MICHAEL E. LEVENTON
"A Registration, Tracking and Visualization System for Image Guided Surgery"

NIMISHA V. MEHTA
"A Fine-Grained Control of Java Applets Using a Simple Constraint Language"

ERIK G. MILLER
"An Analysis of Surface Area Estimates of Binary Volumes Under Three Tilings"

DAVID M. MURPHY
"Building an Active Node on the Internet"

WENDI BETH RABINER
"Network Driven Motion Estimation for Wireless Video Terminals"

STEVEN R. SHAW
"Numerical Methods for Identification of Induction Motor Parameters"

MATTHEW VARGHESE
"Resistive Damping of Pulse-Sensed Capacitive Position Sensors"

Department Head's Special Recognition Award

NIMISHA V. MEHTA

For outstanding leadership and enthusiasm as President of Eta Kappa Nu

1997 MIT 50K Entrepreneurship Competition

SATYAJIT RAO
PAMELA R. LIPSON, PHD '96
PAWAN SINHA, PHD '95

Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts

GRANT I. HO

Kristen E. Finnegan Prize

EDWARD W. KOHLER

William L. Stewart, Jr. Award

RONALD CAO
JACOB J. SEID

For outstanding contributions to extracurricular life by individual or student organization

Karl Taylor Compton Prize

DOUGLAS K. WYATT

For outstanding contributions in promoting high standards of achievement and good citizenship within the MIT community

Straight T Award

JOHN L. WALLBERG
indoor track & pistol

The highest award given for athletic performance

Lotfi A. Zadeh Outstanding Student Paper Award

REZA OLFATI-SABER

MIT Skiing Team, Most Valuable Player Award 1996-97

JIRI SCHINDLER

Undergraduate Students

Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award

Spring Term 1996

WILLIAM A. LENTZ, '97

"Maze Generation and Solution"

Fall Term 1996

CALVIN J. LIN, '98 REX K. MIN, '98 ALVAR SAENZ-OTERO, '98

"Personal Location and Navigation System at MIT"

George C. Newton Prize

GUANG-IEN CHENG, '97
ALLEN C. SUN, '97
MICHAEL SUNG, G

"The Sentinel"

Robert M. Fano UROP Award

M. JOSEPHINE AMMER, '97

"Separations of Reversible and Irreversible Space-Time Complexity Classes"

EKATERINA DOLGINOVA, '98

"Safety Verification for Automated Platoon Maneuvers: A Case Study"

DAMIAN J. MEGNA, '97

"A Linear, H-bridge 1kW Current Source Design"

6.004 Design Competition

Each year 6.004 students are challenged to modify the computer they build in class and increase its speed. It must execute its original instruction, but contestants are given a new program on the day of the competition. This year, with revisions to the lab kits the competition was divided between the old version and the newer version.

KEVIN W. WILSON, '99
HE-RIM WOO, '99
New Lab Kit

JAMES W. CLARK, '99
ROGER R. DINGLEDINE, '99
PETER J. LUKA, '99
ANDREW D. PARKER, '99
MARTIN T. STIASZNY, '99
JEREMY D. SYLVAN, '99
Old Lab Kit

Arnold L. Nylander Advanced Undergraduate Project Prize

GRANT I. HO

David A. Chanen Writing Prize

LUKASZ A. WEBER, '98

"Computer Systems Design Project: Updating Web Sites on Read Only Media"

Boit Manuscript Prize

For exceptional writing

LAWRENCE K. CHANG, '97
First Prize - Drama

GUANG-IEN CHENG, '97
First Prize - Essay

MARC A. LEBOVITZ, '98
Honorable Mention - Fiction

ANTHONY J. YOUNG-GARNER, '99
Second Prize - Poetry

ROBERT W. MARCATO, '97
Third Prize - Short Story

Reinhold Rudenberg Memorial Prize

For an outstanding undergraduate thesis relating to energy conversion

PETER C. L. JAFFE, '97

Eta Kappa Nu
Norman R. Carson Outstanding Junior Award

ASHWIN VISWANATHAN, '98

For outstanding scholastic achievement, leadership and service

Tau Beta Pi Fellow

DANAI KUANGPARICHAT, '98

Anna Pogosyants UROP Award

EYTAN ADAR, '97

Association of MIT Alumnae Award

DICLE YESILLETEN, '97

William L. Stewart, Jr. Award

RUSSELL S. LIGHT, '98

For outstanding contributions to extracurricular life by individual or student organization

Albert G. Hill Prize

NOVICE M. JOHNSON, '98

To minority juniors or seniors who have maintained high academic standards and have helped improve the quality of life for minorities

Peter J. Eloranta Award

SALMAN A. KHAN, '98

For outstanding student-oriented or student-directed undergraduate research in the summer months

Straight T Award

MATTHEW B. W. LAW, '97
water polo

N. KATHERINE MERRILEES, '97
field hockey

The highest award given for athletic performance

Malcolm G. Kispert Award

N. KATHERINE MERRILEES, '97
BEN W. LEONG, '97

To the male and female senior scholar athletes of the year

Admiral Edward L. Cochrane Award

ROBERT A. COOPER, '97

To a male senior who has shown the highest qualities of humility, leadership, and inspiration in intercollegiate athletics

Phi Beta Kappa

Class of 1997

Anthony J. Accardi
Derek L. Bruening
Debajit Ghosh
Kenneth S. Hon
Kenneth B. Russell
Emilija M. Simic

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

XINGHENG WANG, '99

Footprint's Headstart Java Applet Contest

Ivan Gonzales-Gallo, '98
Alexander Sherman, '98
Benjamin M. Adida, '98
Ekaterina Dolginova, '98
Igor B. Lyubashevshky, '98
Martin O. Szummer, G
Timothy A. Chklovski, '97

Eta Kappa Nu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Honorary Society

Class of 1997

Danilo D. Almeida
M. Josephine Ammer
Berenice Belizaire
Marco Bitran
Helen Chen
Michelle Y. Eng
Sevgi Ertan
Grant I. Ho
Stephanie A. Hong
Nikhil Iyengaf
Steven C. Lee
Ben W. Leong
John H. Liu
Jooyoun Park
Jonna J. K. Peat
Brandon W. Porter
Helen H. Ruan
Peter Sun
Michael Sung
Keith D. Szolusha
Austina M. Vainius
Alexander Vladimirov
Alice Wang
Heemin Y. Yang

Class of 1998

Benjamin M. Adida
Matthew D. Blum
Derek L. Bruening
Susan A. Dey
George S. Dolina
Mingxi Fan
David S. Feinberg
Yuan W. Feng
Luke T. Fu
Ivan Gonzalez-Gallo
Michael J. Guidry
Raymond W. Hwang
Leaf A. Jiang
Sabra-Anne Kelin
Kristopher R. Kendall
David A. Korka
Irene Y. Kuo
Jeremy Lin
David H. Manowitz
Abraham R. McAllister
Rex K. Min
Owen W. Ozier
Tsvetomir P. Petrov
Lisa A. Poyneer
Matthew S. Rimer
Ramon L. Rivera
Maya R. Said
Russell R. Sammon
Venkatesh Satish
Jeremy Sawicki
William R. Schneider
Elliot Schwartz
David D. Shue
Victor C. Su
Diego A. Syrowicz
Erwin Tam
Ralph Torello
Nicholas J. Tornow
Christopher R. Vincent
Ashwin Viswanathan
Shan J. Wang
Lukasz A. Weber
Tony S. Wu
Bob Yang
Mark L. Zarkhin

Tau Beta Pi

In recognition of excellence in academic studies

Class of 1997

Danilo D. Almeida
George M. Candea
Frederick W. Chen
Guang-Ien Cheng
Barbara M. Cutler
Surya Ganguli
Daniel F. Lohmeyer
Rahul Pathak
Brandon W. Porter
Ameet D. Ranadive
Mark C. Roh
Helen H. Ruan
Wandy Sae-Tan
Van C. Van

Class of 1998

Derek L. Bruening
Mingxi Fan
Raymond W. Hwang
David A. Korka
Hur Koser
Irene Y. Kuo
Daniel C. Letzler
Jeremy H. Lin
Durodami J. Lisk
Leandro M. Lorilla
Rex K. Min
Lisa A. Poyneer
Ramon L. Rodriguez
Maya R. Said
Jeremy J. Sawicki
Elliot Schwartz
Scott T. Smith
Ashwin Viswanathan
Ruogu Zhang