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, 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.

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.”

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”.

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, was named a winner of the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data by the MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries.

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

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

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

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”.

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.

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

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

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

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.