EECS Celebrates Awards

MIT Sophomore Wins Elie Wiesel Prize for Writing on Ethics of Catastrophe

The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences.

At MIT, Chen leads his lab with the goal of developing microscale robotic systems that demonstrate insect-like locomotive capabilities in aerial, aquatic and terrestrial settings.

The Department would like to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our incredible EECS community by sharing some of the awards given by the department this year.

Agrawal received the award for his work in “robot learning, self-supervised and sim-to-real policy learning, agile locomotion, and dexterous manipulation,” according to the organization.

Professors Facundo Batista and Dina Katabi, along with three additional MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

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

The Siebel Scholars award is a prestigious program that recognizes outstanding students from the world’s top graduate schools in bioengineering, business, and computer science.

Undergraduate engineering, computer science, and business programs are all No. 1.

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