Summit speakers included (L to R) Jay Bradner of the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research; MIT Institute Professor Phillip Sharp; Andrew Plump of Takeda; summit organizers and EECS Professors Regina Barzilay and Dina Katabi; MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield; and Robert Califf of Duke University. Photo: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering.
L to R: Sitan Chen, Lilly Chin '17, Suchita Nety. Illustration: MIT News Office
Two EECS graduate students, Sitan Chen and Lillian Chin '17, are among the 30 recipients of the 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. They're joined by Suchita Nety, who is working toward an MD/PhD from MIT and Harvard.
Image: Courtesy of the researchers
New technique enables use of more modern transistor technologies. Image: Amir Atabaki
Photo: John Parrillo, courtesy MIT System Design & Management
Professor Dina Katabi. Photo: Simon Simard
Dina Katabi, an EECS professor who created a wireless device that “sees through walls,” has won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Prize in Computing for her significant contributions to wireless systems. The prestigious award comes with a $250,000 cash prize.
Professor Pablo Parrilo
EECS Professor Pablo Parrilo has been named to the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows Class of 2018.
Parrilo is among 28 new SIAM Fellows nominated for exemplary research and outstanding service to the professional community. He is specifically being “foundational contributions to algebraic methods in optimization and engineering,” according to SIAM.
L to R: Professors Constantinos Daskalakis, Ruonan Han, Caroline Uhler, Nickolai Zeldovich
EECS Staff
Four EECS faculty members have received significant promotions, department head Asu Ozdaglar has announced.
Professor Rob Miller
Rob Miller has been appointed as the inaugural Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, EECS department head Asu Ozdaglar has announced.
SoFi was developed with the goal of being as nondisruptive to ocean life as possible, swimming alongside real fish for several minutes at a time. Photo: CSAIL
