EECS 2024 Awards
Photo credit: Frankie Schulte It’s the summer of 2024, 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!
Louis D. Smullin Award
Ashia Wilson, Lister Brothers (Gordon K. ’30 and Donald K. ’34) Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor
EECS Digital Innovation Award
Russell Tedrake, Toyota Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Aeronautics and Astronautics
EECS Outstanding Educator Award
Shen Shen, Lecturer
EECS Outstanding Educator Award
Sam Hopkins, Jamieson Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Assistant Professor
Jerome H. Saltzer Award
Isaac Chuang, Professor of EECS
Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award
Duane Boning, Associate Director, MTL; Clarence J. LeBel Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Engineering Faculty Co-Director, LGO
Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award
Nickolai Zeldovich, Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor
Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
Leslie Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor
Kolokotrones Education Award
Ana Bell, Senior Lecturer
Richard J. Caloggero Award
Leslie Kolodziejski, EECS Graduate Officer; Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in EE
Department Head Special Recognition Award
Phineas J. Nyang’oro
Paul L. Penfield Student Service Award
Zhi Xuan Tan
Carlton E. Tucker Award for teaching excellence
David Forman
Carlton E. Tucker Award for teaching excellence
Christina Ji
Carlton E. Tucker Award for teaching excellence
Jay Hilton
Carlton E. Tucker Award for teaching excellence
Kiril Bangachev
Harold L. Hazen Award for teaching excellence
Nicole Stiles
Harold L. Hazen Award for teaching excellence
Abhijatmedhi Earth Chotrattanapituk
Harold L. Hazen Award for teaching excellence
Matthew Feng
Harold L. Hazen Award for teaching excellence
Haley Nakamura
Frederick C. Hennie III Award for teaching excellence
Savva Morozov
Frederick C. Hennie III Award for teaching excellence
Jinchen Wang
Frederick C. Hennie III Award for teaching excellence
Yunyi Zhu
Frederick C. Hennie III Award for teaching excellence
Fiona Gillespie
Frederick C. Hennie III Award for teaching excellence
Soroush Araei
Undergraduate Teaching Award for teaching excellence
Josiah McMenamy
Undergraduate Teaching Award for teaching excellence
Blisse Kong
Undergraduate Teaching Award for teaching excellence
Titus Roesler
Undergraduate Teaching Award for teaching excellence
Selina Li
Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award (in AI)
Srinath Mahankali (supervised by Pulkit Agrawal)
Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award (in AI)
Gaurav Arya (supervised by Alan Edelman)
Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) UROP Award
Patrick Haertel (supervised by Stefanie Mueller)
Anna Pogosyants UROP Prize
Owen Conoly (supervised by Adam Chlipala, at right)
Licklider UROP Award
Lee Chen (supervised by Manolis Kellis, at left)
Robert M. Fano UROP Award
William Liu (supervised by Mengjia Yan)
George C. Newton Undergraduate Lab Prize
M. Subhi Abo Rdan
George C. Newton Undergraduate Lab Prize
Ayana Alemayehu
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award
Left to right: Andrew Weinfeld, Marilyn Meyers
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award
Isaac Duitz
David A. Chanen Writing Award
Abhay Basireddy
David A. Chanen Writing Award
Francisco J. Colon
David A. Chanen Writing Award
Tae Wook Kim
David Adler Memorial EE MEng Thesis Award
Gila Schein (left), advised by Stefanie Mueller (right).
David Adler Memorial EE MEng Thesis Award
Shuli Jones (supervised by Arvind Satyanarayan)
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Computer Science MEng Thesis Award
Kelsey Merrill (supervised by Karen Sollins)
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Computer Science MEng Thesis Award
Alexandra Berg (left) supervised by Manolis Kellis (right).
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Artificial Intelligence and Decision- Making MEng Thesis Award
Evan Caragay (supervised by Daniel Jackson)
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Artificial Intelligence and Decision- Making MEng Thesis Award
Meenal Parakh (supervised by Pulkit Agrawal)
J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in 6-A Industrial Practice Award
Junhong Lin
J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in 6-A Industrial Practice Award
Melissa Stok
Jin Au Kong PhD Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering
Krishan Kant (supervised by David Trumper)
Jin Au Kong PhD Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering
Ang-Yu Lu (supervised by Jing Kong)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science
Venkat Arun (supervised by Hari Balakrishnan)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science
William Kuszmaul (left) supervised by Charles Leiserson (right)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award In Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Jonathan Frankle (supervised by Michael Carbin)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award In Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Yuval Dagan (supervised by Costis Daskalakis)
George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Yuzhou Gu (supervised by Yury Polyanskiy)
William A. Martin SM Thesis Award in Computer Science
Joseph Ravichandran (supervised by Mengjia Yan)
William A. Martin SM Thesis Award in Computer Science
Maddy Bowers (supervised by Nadia Polikarpova and Armando Solar Lezama)
Ernst A. Guillemin SM Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering
Liang (Charles) Lyu (supervised by Asu Ozdaglar)
Ernst A. Guillemin SM Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Kristian Georgiev (supervised by Aleksander Madry)
Behring Foundation Prize
Karen Dreicer Liberman
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