2025-26 EECS Faculty Award Roundup

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

Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor, was the recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence by Open Education Global.

Ahmad Bahai, Professor of the Practice, was elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2025.

Ahmad Bahai, Professor of the Practice, was elected to the 2025 cohort of Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors.

Marc Baldo, the Dugald C. Jackson Professor, was elected to the 2025-27 Committed to Caring cohort.

Pulkit Agrawal, Associate Professor, was awarded the 2025 IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award at 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Saman Amarasinghe, Professor, was awarded the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award.

Anantha Chandrakasan, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was elected to the 2025-27 Committed to Caring cohort.

Yufeng (Kevin) Chen, Associate Professor, was awarded the 2025 IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award at 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

Samantha Coday, Assistant Professor, was awarded the NSF CAREER Award for her project, “Flexible, Efficient, and Dense Power Converters Enabling a More Electric Future”.

Christina Delimitrou, Associate Professor, was awarded the inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award.

Joel Emer, Professor of the Practice in EECS, was awarded the 2025 Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award from ACM SIGARCH.

Gabriele Farina, Assisant Professor, was awarded the 2023 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award by AAAI and ACM SIGAI (who announced the prior three years of winners together), for his work entitled Game-Theoretic Decision Making in Imperfect-Information Games.

Dennis Freeman, the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor, was elected to the 2025-27 Committed to Caring cohort.

Dina Katabi, the Thuan (1990) and Nicole Pham Professor, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Steve Leeb, Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Professor, was awarded the IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award alongside Daniel Monagle and Eric A. Ponce, for their paper “Rule the Joule: An Energy Management Design Guide for Self-Powered Sensors”.

Laura Lewis, Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor, was elected to the 2025-27 Committed to Caring cohort.

Muriel Médard, NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, was elected an International Fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering.

Muriel Médard, NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, was awarded the 2026 IEEE Richard W. Hamming medal “for contributions to coding for reliable communications and networking.”

Tomás Palacios, Clarence J. Lebel Professor in Electrical Engineering, was awarded the 2024 IEEE EDS George E. Smith Award alongside his group members Jung-Han Sharon Hsia and Joshua Andrew Perozek PhD ’24 for their paper, “First Demonstration of Optically-Controlled Vertical GaN finFET for Power Applications”.

Pablo Parillo, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor, was recognized alongside Professor Jason Altshuler with the 2025 INFORMS Computing Society Prize for their pioneering work on accelerating gradient descent through stepsize hedging.

Daniela Rus, Panasonic Professor, was named to MassLive’s “12 innovation leaders to watch in 2025”.

Nidhi Seethapathi, Assistant Professor, was named to MIT Technology review’s list of “2025 Innovators under 35”.

Devavrat Shah, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor, was invited to give the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Markov Lecture for 2024.

Devavrat Shah, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor, received the ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award.

Paris Smaragdis, Professor, was awarded the Best Paper Award at WASPAA (IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics) alongside Krishna Subramani, Takuya Higuchi, and Mehrez Souden for their paper “Rethinking Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Implicit Neural Representations”.

Tess Smidt, Associate Professor, was named to the 2025 cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Sciences.

Justin Solomon, Associate Professor of EECS, was named to the 2025 cohort of Schmidt Science Polymaths.

Ryan Williams, Professor of EECS, was awarded Best Paper at STOC 2025 for his paper, “Simulating Time With Square-Root Space”.