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Thursday, June 7, 2007

EECS Spring Fling Awards 2007 . . . Full Announcement

Full Announcement

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT observed its annual end of academic year celebration on May 20, 2007 at the Museum of Fine Arts with awards and recognition to students, faculty and staff who made major contributions to the department over the 2006-2007 academic year. Congratulations to all awardees!!!
Prizes for teaching and mentoring were announced and awarded by Associate Department Head Duane Boning to the following recipients. (Click any image for an enlarged or alternate image):
Shawn Staker (far right) receives the Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence — for repeated exceptional terms as TA and head TA in EECS undergraduate subject, 6.041 and also for outstanding teaching of 6.041 recitations.
	Melanie Rudoy (far left) receives the Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence — for outstanding work as TA and recitation instructor in EECS signals/systems/inference header, 6.011, plus recent help in graduate discrete stochastic processes, 6.262.
Chris Laughman (immediate right) receives the Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence — for work of unusual distinction as a TA in EECS basic devices and circuits class, 6.002, and for EECS popular feedback control subject, 6.302.
	Zahi Karam (immediate left) receives the Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence — for superb initiative and reliability as TA and head TA in 6.011
Tiffany Dohzen (far right) receives the Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence — for all-around excellence and dedication as a TA in the new introductory EECS subject, 6.01, and for taking responsibility for its 6.188 Scheme companion.
Not pictured: Chung Chen was awarded the Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence — for amazing work as a TA in 6.441, information theory, where all 15 students who filled out evaluations gave him a 7/7
	Hubert Pham (far left) receives the inaugural award from the School of Engineering, school-wide award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring
EECS Professor Frédo Durand (far right) receives the Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award — for extended excellence in teaching
2007 marks the inaugural year for presenting the newly established Jamieson Prizes for Excellence in Teaching thanks to the generosity of Burge and Libby Jamieson. The awards are intended to recognize innovations in curricular development, excellence in classroom teaching, and other contributions to the teaching mission of the EECS Department. The awards are also to be made in the following week.
	EECS Professor Tomás Lozano-Pérez (far left) receives the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Not pictured, EECS Professor Jeffrey Lang is also recipient of the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching
EECS Professor Rob Miller (far right) receives the Smullin Award for exceptional contributions, especially in the core undergraduate areas.
Nicole DiLello and Vanessa Wood from the EECS Graduate Student Association present the annual award to recognize outstanding counselors to EECS Professor Leslie Kolodziejski, pictured in the two images below.

EECS Professor Anantha Chandrakasan (far right) receives the Eta Kappa Nu award for teaching presented by Peter Kruskall.
	EECS Professor Dennis Freeman (immediate left) receives the IEEE/ACM Award for undergraduate advising from Jorge Zuniga.
Associate Department Head Srini Devadas presented prizes for outstanding research projects to:
Igor Ginzburg (far right) receives the Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award (in 6.111) for Spring Term 2006
	(Pictured and from left) Jonathan Burnham, Kevin Miu and Christopher Hoffman receive the Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award (in 6.111) for Fall Term 2006
(Pictured in right photo from immediate left) Irene Zhang and Maura Cordial recieve the Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award (in 6.111) for Fall Term 2006
	(Pictured far left) Masood Qazi receives the inauguaral presentation of the J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in VI-A Industrial Practice Award.
John J. Cooley (immediate right) receives the Morris Joseph Levin Award for Outstanding MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation
	Eitan Reich (pictured immediate left) receives the Morris Joseph Levin Award for Outstanding MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation
Robert Pilawa (pictured immediate right) receives the Morris Joseph Levin Award for Outstanding MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation
Not pictured: Arvind Thiagarajan and Archana Venkataraman, both recipients of the Morris Joseph Levin Award for Outstanding MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation Not pictured: Hyeyoun Chung, recipient of the George C. Newton Prize for best undergraduate laboratory project — first prize
	Charles S. Fisher, Mariela Buchin and Won Ron Cho (immediate right) pictured with EECS Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, receive the second place George C. Newton Prize for best undergraduate laboratory project.
Not Pictured: Alexander V. Valys, recipient of the David A. Chanen Writing Award for best paper in 6.033.
Sean Liu (immediate right) receives the Licklider UROP Award
	Matthew Papi (far left) receives the Morais and Rosenblum UROP Award.
Ryan Bavetta, Zachary Remscrim and Sara L. Campbell (from left in the image to the right) receive the Robert M. Fano UROP Award
	Bo Zhu (far left) receives the Anna Pogosyants UROP award
Stephan Green (immediate right) receives the Nylander Advanced Undergraduate Project Award
Department Head Eric Grimson presented thesis and special recognition awards to the following individuals.
	Pawan Deshpande ( far left) receives the charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award for Outstanding computer Science M.Eng. Thesis
Not pictured: Matthew S. Tschantz (first place) and Joshua Grochow (second place) recipients of the Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis award for Outstanding computer Science M.Eng. Thesis.
Eitan Riech (far right) receiving the Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award for Outstanding Computer Science M.Eng. Thesis (second place).
	Jonathan Ragan-Kelly (pictured far left) receiving the William A. Martin Memorial Thesis Award for Outstanding Computer Science S.M. Thesis
John J. Cooley (immediate right) receiving the David Adler Memorial Thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering M.Eng. Thesis
	Jaime Lien (immediate left) receiving the David Adler Memorial Thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering M.Eng. Thesis
Vanessa Wood (immediate right) receiving the Ernst A. Guillemin thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering S.M. Thesis — first place.
	Noah Stein (far left) receives the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering S.M. Thesis — first place.
Anthony Sagneri (far right) receiving the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for Outstanding Electrical Engineering S.M. Thesis — second place. Not pictured: Leonardo Gomez, also second place recipient of the Guillemin Award.
	Michael Coen (immediate left) receiving the George M. Sprowls Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science (from 2006).
Not pictured: Yael Tauman Kalai, recipient of the George M. Sprowls Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science, and Nicholas Greer Feamster, Erik B. Sudderth and Robert W. Sumner recipients of Honorable Mention for the Sprowls Award.
The EECS Department recognizes exemplary contributions to the department through a series of Special Recognition Awards, which are intended to acknowledge contributions far and beyond normal expectations, often over extended periods of time.
Max van Kleek (far right) receives the Department Head's Special Recognition Award for the development, maintenance and extension of the department's information kiosk.
	(Pictured from left) Sourav Dey, Mario Valenti and Keith Santarelli receive the Department Head's Special Recognition Awards for founding the EECS REFs program, which provides mediation services to graduate students in the department.
Cynthia Skier (far right) receives the Department Head's Special Recognition Award for the remarkable efforts that make the Women's Technology Program (WTP) a major outreach success.
Not pictured: Frederick C. Hennie III, recipient of the Department Head's Special Recognition Award.