2023-24 EECS Faculty Award Roundup

This ongoing listing of awards and recognitions won by our faculty is added to all year, beginning in September.

Pulkit Agrawal, Assistant Professor, was awarded the 2024 Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Jacob Andreas, Associate Professor, was named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Marc Baldo, the Dugald C. Jackson Professor in Electrical Engineering and director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Regina Barzilay, School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health and AI lead at the Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning and Health, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for “the development of machine learning tools that have been transformational for breast cancer screening and risk assessment, and for the development of molecular design tools broadly utilized for drug discovery.”

Adam Belay, Associate Professor, received the Google Research Scholar Award for his work, “Making Kernel Bypass Practical for the Cloud”.

Adam Belay, Associate Professor, was named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Karl Berggren, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical Engineering, was named a 2024 MacVicar Faculty Fellow.

Sangeeta Bhatia, John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was elected a Foreign Fellow of the ATSE (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering) for her work in nanotechnologies for medical innovation.

Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor of EECS, was elected to the 2024 class of IMS Fellows “for theoretical leadership in Bayesian statistics and probability theory, especially in the context of scalability, robustness, and nonparametrics.”

Vincent Chan, Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor, was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal for “pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.”

Yufeng Kevin Chen, Assistant Professor, was awarded the 2023 Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award.

Luca Daniel, Professor of EECS, was awarded the one of the 2023 Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants for his research proposal, “Investigating the Elements of Organized Human Movement.”

Jesus del Alamo, Donner Professor of Science, was awarded the 2023 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, alongside postdoctoral researcher Yanjie Shao, for their project, “Exploring the Limits of Vertical-Nanowire Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors in the Nanoscale“.

Priya Donti, Assistant Professor, was named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Futures.

Joel Emer, Professor of Practice in EECS, was awarded the 2023 B. Ramakrishna Rau Award by the IEEE Computer Society “for pioneering contributions to microarchitectural analysis, microarchitecture features, and for bringing clarity to the field with fundamental concepts and terminology.”

Dirk Englund, Associate Professor of EECS, was elected a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to semiconductor quantum photonics and machine learning”.

Gabriele Farina, X-Window Consortium Professor and Assistant Professor, was awarded the 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Award by ACM SIGecom for his dissertation entitled, “Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games: Learning Dynamics, Equilibrium Computation, and Complexity”.

James Fujimoto, Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering, was awarded the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award alongside fellow winners Eric Swanson and David Huang, “for the invention of optical coherence tomography, a technology that revolutionized ophthalmology—allowing rapid detection of diseases of the retina that impair vision.”

James Fujimoto, Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering, was a co-recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation along with Eric Swanson SM ’84, a research affiliate at RLE and mentor for the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, and David Huang ’85, SM ’89, PhD ’93, professor of ophthalmology at Oregon Health and Science University. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is the nation’s highest award for technological achievement.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Professor, Assistant Professor, received an NSF Career Award for her project, “Ethical Machine Learning in Health: Robustness in Data, Learning and Deployment”.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Professor, Assistant Professor, was named a winner of the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data by the MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Professor, Assistant Professor, received the Google Research Scholar Award for her work, “Addressing Intersectional Clinical Fairness with Unknown Demographic Attributes”.

Marija Ilic, Adjunct Professor, received the 2024 IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society “for pioneering contributions to hierarchical and distributed modeling and control of large power systems.”

Piotr Indyk, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of EECS, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Wojciech Matusik, the Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor of EECS, was awarded the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Samuel Madden, Distinguished College of Computing Professor, received the Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award from the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

Farnaz Niroui, Assistant Professor, was awarded the Junior Bose Award by the MIT School of Engineering.

Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Assistant Professor, was the co-recipient of the 2024 Optica CLEO Highlighted Talk Award.

Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Assistant Professor, was, along with her graduate student team, the recipient of the 2023 SRC JUMP 2.0 CogniSense Best Demo Award.

Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Assistant Professor, was, along with her graduate student team, the recipient of the 2023 SRC JUMP 2.0 CogniSense Best Poster Award.

Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Assistant Professor, was the recipient of the 2023 Optica Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Postdeadline Paper (as co-author).

Kevin O’Brien, Associate Professor, was awarded a Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for 2024.

William Oliver, Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor and Associate Director of the RLE, was elected to the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows.

Yury Polyanskiy, Education Officer for AI+D and Professor of EECS, was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for “contributions to information measures and finite-blocklength information theory”.

Manish Raghavan, Drew Houston (2005) Professor and Assistant Professor, received the Google Research Scholar Award for his work, “Synthetic Data Generation from Aggregate Data with Applications to Privacy and the US Census”.

Daniela Rus, the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor; Director of CSAIL; and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Deputy Dean of Research, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Arvind Satyanarayan, Associate Professor, was named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Gerald Sussman, Panasonic Professor, received the 2024 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society.

Julian Shun, Associate Professor, received the 2023 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award alongside his collaborators Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University) and Laxman Dhulipala (University of Maryland).

Caroline Uhler, Professor of EECS and in IDSS, was elected to the 2024 class of IMS Fellows “for interdisciplinary excellence, merging mathematical statistics and computational biology in innovative and impactful ways.”

Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Professor, was named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Theoretical Computer Science.

Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Professor, was named a 2024 MacVicar Faculty Fellow.

Martin Wainwright, Cecil H. Green Professor and Professor of Mathematics, was awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Professor, was named a 2023 Simons Investigator in Theoretical Computer Science.

Ryan Williams, Professor, was awarded the 2024 Gödel Prize for his paper, Non-Uniform ACC Circuit Lower Bounds. Computational Complexity Conference (CCC) 2011

Ashia Wilson, Lister Brothers (Gordon K. ’30 and Donald K. ’34) Professor, Assistant Professor, was named a winner of the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data by the MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries.

Ashia Wilson, Lister Brothers (Gordon K. ’30 and Donald K. ’34) Professor, Assistant Professor, won the “Best Paper Award” at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) 2024, for her paper entitled “Algorithmic Pluralism: A Structural Approach To Equal Opportunity”, coauthored with Shomik Jain (MIT), Vinith Suriyakumar (MIT), and Kathleen Creel (Northeastern University).