2021 EECS Awards
It’s nearing the end of 2021, and we want to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our incredible EECS community by sharing some of the awards given by the department this year. Congratulations to all the winners!
Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion, and Diversity
Award: Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion, and Diversity
Recipient: Caris Mariah Moses
Award: Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion, and Diversity
Recipient: Arvind Satyanarayan, NBX Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Teaching Awards
Award: Burgess (’52) and Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Isaac “Ike” Chuang, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Award: Burgess (’52) and Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Russell L. Tedrake, Toyota Professor
Award: EECS Outstanding Educator Award
Recipient: Justin Solomon, Associate Professor of EECS
Award: EECS Outstanding Educator Award
Recipient: Lizhong Zheng, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Award: Jerome H. Saltzer Award for Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Adam Belay, Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Award: Jerome H. Saltzer Award for Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Karen R. Sollins, Principal Research Scientist, CSAIL
Award: Kolokotrones Education Award
Recipient: Jacob Andreas, X-Window Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor of EECS
Award: Louis D. Smullin (’39) Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Michael Carbin, Associate Professor
Award: Ruth and Joel Spira Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Polina Golland, Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor
Award: Ruth and Joel Spira Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Recipient: Gregory W. Wornell, Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor in Engineering
Special Recognitions
Award: Department Head
Special Recognition Award
Recipient: Adam Chlipala, Associate Professor of CS
Award: Digital Innovation Award
Recipient: Duane Boning, Associate Director, MTL;
Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering;
Engineering Faculty Co-Director, LGO
Award: Richard J. Caloggero Award
Recipient: Frans Kaashoek, Charles A. Piper (1935) Professor
Award: Richard J. Caloggero Award
Recipient: Robert Tappan Morris, Professor of CS and Engineering
Student Teaching Awards
Award: Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award
Recipient: Hannah Field
Award: Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award
Recipient: Linda Z. Gong
Award: Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award
Recipient: Dheekshita Kumar
Award: Harold Hazen Teaching Award
Recipient: Miles J. Dai
Award: Harold Hazen Teaching Award
Recipient: Héctor Javier Vázquez
Award: Harold Hazen Teaching Award
Recipient: Tony Wang
Award: Frederick C. Hennie III
Teaching Award
Recipient: Abigail C. Bertics
Award: Frederick C. Hennie III
Teaching Award
Recipient: Dylan D. Doblar
Award: Frederick C. Hennie III
Teaching Award
Recipient: An Jimenez
Award: Frederick C. Hennie III
Teaching Award
Recipient: Lingxiao Li
Award: Frederick C. Hennie III
Teaching Award
Recipient: David R. Palmer
Award: Frederick C. Hennie III
Teaching Award
Recipient: Junyi Zhu
Award: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) Award
Recipient: Kendall Garner
Award: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) Award
Recipient: Lara Shonkwiler
Student Research Awards
Award: Anna Pogosyants UROP Award
Recipient: Qi Qi
Project: The Multiplicative Version of Azuma’s Inequality, with an Application to Contention Analysis
Supervisor: Charles Leiserson
Award: Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award
Recipient: Nicholas R. Bonaker
Project: “A Longitudinal Study of Nomon: A Flexible Single-Switch Interface for Motor-Impaired Users”
Supervisor: Tamara Broderick
Award: Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award
Recipient: Joshua A. Gruenstein
Project: “Residual Model Learning for Micro-Robot Control”
Supervisor: Pulkit Agrawal
Award: Licklider UROP Award
Recipient: Yunyi Zhu
Project: “Lenticle Objects: 3D Printed Objects with Lenticular Lens Surfaces That Can Change their Appearance Depending on the Viewing Angle”
Supervisor: Stefanie Mueller
Award: Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) UROP Award
Recipient: Steven Acevedo Colon
Project: “SensiCut: Material Sensing for Laser Cutters Using Speckle Imaging and Deep Learning”
Supervisor: Stefanie Mueller
Award: Robert M. Fano UROP Award
Recipient: David Wu
Project: “Bayesian Inference of Random Dot Products Through Conic Programming”
Supervisor: Justin Solomon
Student Class Awards
Award: David A. Chanen Writing Award
(for Group Writing in 6.033)
Recipient: Itamar Chinn
Title: ABETS – A Beaver Exposure Tracing System.
Award: David A. Chanen Writing Award
(for Group Writing in 6.033)
Recipient: Enrique Casillas
Title: ABETS – A Beaver Exposure Tracing System.
Award: David A. Chanen Writing Award
(for Group Writing in 6.033)
Recipient: Daniel J. Stein
Title: ABETS – A Beaver Exposure Tracing System.
Award: George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Award (6.111 Group Project)
Recipient: Laura Dodds
Project: Mapping Audio To 3D Space
Award: George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Award (6.111 Group Project)
Recipient: Geoffrey Wang
Project: Mapping Audio To 3D Space
Award: Northern Telecom/BNR Undergraduate Laboratory Award (6.111 Group Project)
Recipient: Amadou Bah
Title: Grid Shuffle Game
Award: George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Award (6.111 Group Project)
Recipient: Mussie Demisse
Title: Grid Shuffle Game
Student Thesis Awards
Award: Charles & Jennifer Johnson Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making MEng Thesis Award – 1st Place
Recipient: Anelise Newman
Title: “Human-Computer Perception: Modeling Visual Perceptual Attributes”
Supervisor: Aude Oliva
Award: Charles & Jennifer Johnson Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making MEng Thesis Award – 2nd Place
Recipient: So Yeon Min
Title: “Towards Knowledge-Based, Robust Question Answering”
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Szolovits
Award: Charles & Jennifer Johnson Computer Science MEng Thesis Award – 1st Place
Recipient: Christina C. Liao
Title: “Software Pipeline for End-to-End Fabrication of Functional Devices”
Supervisor: Stefanie Mueller
Award: Charles & Jennifer Johnson Computer Science MEng Thesis Award – 2nd Place
Recipient: Claire M. Nord
Title: “Retry-Free Software Transactional Memory for Rust”
Supervisor: Howard Shrobe
Award: George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making—1st Place
Recipient: Dennis Shen
Title: “Causal Inference: a Tensor’s Perspective”
Supervisor: Devavrat Shah
Award: George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making—2nd Place
Recipient: Ge Liu
Title: “Beyond Predictive Modeling: New Computational Aspects for Deep Learning Based Biological Applications”
Supervisor: David Gifford
Award: George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science—1st Place
Recipient: Fredrik Kjolstad
Title: “Sparse Tensor Algebra Compilation”
Supervisor: Saman Amarasinghe
Award: George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science—2nd Place
Recipient: Mark Jeffrey
Title: “A Hardware and Software Architecture for Pervasive Parallelism”
Supervisor: Daniel Sanchez
Award: William A. Martin Master’s Thesis Award in Computer Science—1st Place
Recipient: Yue Wang
Title: “DGCNN: Learning Point Cloud Representations by Dynamic Graph CNN”
Supervisor: Justin Solomon
Award: William A. Martin Master’s Thesis Award in Computer Science—2nd Place
Recipient: Arsen Vasilyan
Title: “Approximating the noise sensitivity of a monotone Boolean function”
Supervisor: Ronitt Rubinfeld
Award: Ernst A. Guillemin Master’s Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making—1st Place
Recipient: Yunzhu Li
Title: “Learning Compositional Dynamics Models for Model-based Control”
Supervisors: Antonio Torralba and Russ Tedrake
Award: Ernst A. Guillemin Master’s Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making—2nd Place
Recipient: Enric Boix-Adsera
Title: “The Average-Case Complexity of Counting Cliques in Erdős-Rényi Hypergraphs”
Supervisor: Guy Bresler
Award: J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in 6-A Industrial Practice Award
Recipient: Peter B. Crocker
Company: Cadence
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