In the Media

An area chair in the department, Frishkopf was affiliated with both the Communications Biophysics group in RLE and the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, where his research focused on the biophysics of auditory systems.

The Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS), will be led by the University of California San Diego in partnership with MIT; San Diego-based National University; the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Texas at Austin; and Yale University. TILOS is also partially supported by Intel Corporation.

EECS juniors Guang Cui and Daniel Sun are best friends—and now, alumni of the long-running TV competition “American Ninja Warrior”.

EECS student Eeshan Tripathii is working with his sister to engineer an intuitive brain-controlled interface for upper-limb prosthetics.

The award honors “those exemplary professionals who have significantly and consistently supported the personal and professional development of their students and colleagues, have enduringly engaged minds, elevated spirits and stimulated best efforts.”

The newly launched award recognizes exemplary faculty and teaching staff for outstanding contributions to MIT’s educational mission.

The five-year award aims to empower “the most promising innovators in science and technology.”

Selective global honor supports early-career scientists and engineers in taking on new pursuits.

These new alums of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation Program worked together remotely from across the globe to design thinking machines.

Ranked at the top for the 10th straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.

Natasha Joglekar ’21 is eager to apply her MIT education, with a major in computer science and biology and a minor in women’s and gender studies, to a career in medical research.