MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Faculty Promotions 1999

April 7, 1999

The EECS Department would like to extend heartiest congratulations to each Faculty member who will be promoted effective July 1, 1999.

Promoted from Assosciate Professor to Full Professor:

Dr. Srinivas Devadas. Professor Devadas received the BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1985, and the MS (1986) and PhD (1988) from the University of California at Berkeley. An expert in computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems, he joined MIT as an assistant professor in 1988. He was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and associate professor with tenure in 1995. He has made breakthroughs in testing, synthesis, low-power computing, hardware-software codesign, functional synthesis, and simulation and design of embedded systems. His work has provided circuit and system designers with tools for the design of circuits with high levels of quality assurance. Professor Devadas, whose advances have been incorporated into commercial VLSI CAD software, helped develop MIT's program in VLSI computer-aided design.

Dr. Leslie A. Kolodziejski. Professor Kolodziejski, a world leader in the epitaxial growth of compound semiconductors for optoelectronics, received the BS (1983), MS (1984) and PhD (1986) from Purdue University. She joined MIT as an assistant professor in 1988 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and associate professor with tenure in 1996. In addition to being a dedicated and effective teacher of undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering students, she has been a strong mentor for graduate students. As part of an effort to create channel-dropping filters for fiber-optic communications, Professor Kolodziejski has shown how to preserve crucial grating structures during epitaxial overgrowth of the wavelength cladding layer. As part of her group's work on photonic bandgap microcavities, they have helped create the first photonic bandgap air-bridge resonator that operated at the 1.5mm communication wavelength.

Promoted from Assistant Professor to Assosciate Professor:

Dr. Paul Viola. Professor Viola received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. Before returning to MIT as a professor, he spent two years as a visiting scientist in the Computational Neurobiology of the Salk Institute in San Diego. He has a broad background in advanced computational techniques, publishing in the fields of computer vision, neurobiological vision, medical imaging, mobile robotics, machine learning, and automated drug design. In addition to several grants from DARPA and corporate sources, Professor Viola is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Career award, and in 1998 he was named the Jamieson Career Development Associate Professor. He has worked on research and development with a number of companies including: IBM Research, Arris Pharmaceuticals and Intarka.

Dr. Alexandre Megretski. Professor Megretski received MS (1985) and PhD (1988) from the Leningrad University, USSR. After holding research positions at the Leningrad University, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), and University of Newcastle (Australia), and a faculty position at Iowa State University, he joined MIT as an assistant professor in 1996. Alex has made significant contributions in the theory of analysis and design of uncertain and nonlinear dynamical systems. His work has also provided a unique set of software tools for rigorous analysis of complex control systems.

Dr. Amos Lapidoth. Professor Lapidoth was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He received the B.A. degree in Mathematics (summa cum laude) and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) concurrently in 1986, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990, all from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995. In the years 1987-1992 he conducted research and development in wireless communications in the Signal Corps Research Labs (IDF). He has been with the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1995, and is the KDD Career Development Assistant Professor in Communications and Technology. His research interests are in Digital Communication and Information Theory.