Nearly 250 people attended EECS Celebrates 2017, the annual awards event recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of faculty, students, and staff in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). The department presented 60 awards during the ceremony at the Museum of Science on May 21.
The evening’s highlights included a lively performance by the Chorallaries, a popular MIT student a cappella group. You can view the presentation slides of all the winners at EECS-Celebrates-2017-web.pdf.
See below for a list of award winners and a slide show of photos from the celebration. All photos are by Gretchen Ertl.
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Frank Quick Faculty Research Innovation Fellowships
Elfar Adalsteinsson
Karl Berggren
Antonio Torralba
Louis D. Smullin ('39) Award for Teaching Excellence
Antonio Torralba
Jerome H. Saltzer Award
Tamara Broderick
Burgess ('52) & Elizabeth Jamieson Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Charles E. Leiserson
David Perreault
Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Awards
Patrick Jaillet
Nir Shavit
EECS Outstanding Educator Awards
Max Goldman
Adam Hartz
EECS Digital Innovation Award
Ana Bell, John Guttag, Eric Grimson
ACM/IEEE Best Advisor Award
Joel Voldman
HKN Best Instructor Award
Joseph Steinmeyer
Richard J. Caloggero Award
Anne Hunter
Department Head Special Recognition Award
David Foss
StartMIT Competition, First Place
Benjamin Jean-Baptiste Grena, Wen Jie Ong, and Zhengzhen Tan
Startup: Divaqua
StartMIT Competition, Second Place
Anna Fountain, Rui Song, and Joanna K. Cohen
Startup: CommuniCARE
Paul L. Penfield Student Service Awards
Alyssa Cartwright (Undergraduate)
Keertan Kini (MEng)
Katia Shtyrkova (Graduate)
Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award
Omer Tanovic
Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award
Shalom A. Abate
Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Awards
Ariel Anders
Zied Ben Chaouch
Daniel Mendelsohn
Clément Pit-Claudel
Guolong Su
Emily Zhang
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) Awards
Kathleen Johnson
Allan Sadun
Jeremy Gerstle UROP Award
Benjamin Eysenbach
Project: Exploring Beliefs in Images and Videos
Supervisors: Antonio Torralba and Carl Vondrick
Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) Award
Rajeev Parvathala
Project: Volumetric Reconstruction of the Nervous System of C. Elegans
Supervisor: Nir Shavit
Anna Pogosyants UROP Award
Jade Philipoom and Andres Erbsen
Project: Systematic Synthesis of Elliptic Curve Cryptography Implementations
Supervisor: Adam Chlipala
Licklider UROP Award
Lilika Markatou
Project: Leader Election in SINR Using Arbitrary Transmission Power Control
Supervisors: Nancy Lynch and Stephan Holzer
Fano Award Outstanding SuperUROP Research Project
William S. Moses
Project: Performance Engineering in a Parallel Environment
Supervisor: Charles E. Leiserson
SuperUROP 2016-2017 Outstanding Research Project Awards
Suma M. Anand
Project: Echolocation: Modeling, Simulating, and Fabricating Biomimetic Ultrasound Receivers
Supervisor: Aude Oliva
Allison C. Lemus
Project: Reliability of High-Voltage GaN
Supervisor: Jesús del Alamo
Daniel D. Richman
Project: RABBIT: Secure Wireless Communications Using Ultra-Fast Bit-Level Frequency Hopping
Supervisors: Anantha Chandrakasan and Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
Chengkai Zhang
Project: One-Shot Learning for 3D Shape Perception
Supervisor: William T. Freeman
SuperUROP 2016-2017 Presentation Awards
Sarah Hensley
Project: Balance and Force Control with NASA’s Humanoid: Valkyrie
Supervisors: Russ Tedrake and Michale Posa
Daniel D. Richman
Project: RABBIT: Secure Wireless Communications Using Ultra-Fast Bit-Level Frequency Hopping
Supervisors: Anantha Chandrakasan and Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
SuperUROP 2016-2017 Technical Report Awards*
Uttara Chakraborty
Project: Fiber-Integrated InAs Quantum-Dot Single-Photon Sources
Supervisor: Dirk Englund
Dustin Doss
Project: Comparative Analysis of Document Embeddings for Clinical Texts
Supervisor: Peter Szolovits
Ignacio Estay Forno
Project: Temperature-Modulated Superconducting Channels in Parallel with Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
Supervisor: Karl Berggren
*These three awards were announced following EECS Celebrates.
Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award Best 6.111 Project
Henry W. Love and Yuechen “Mark” Yang
Project: FPGA Beethoven
George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Prize (6.111)
Daniel Richman and Jorge Troncoso
Project: Digital Storage Oscilloscope
David A. Chanen Writing Award (for Writing in 6.033)
Sophia Russo
Project: Critique 2: Eraser
Morris Joseph Levin Award for Masterworks Thesis Presentations
Peter Florence
Project: Integrated Perception and Control at High Speed
Supervisor: Russ Tedrake
Christopher Poulton
Project: On-Chip LIDAR with Optical Phased Arrays
Supervisor: Michael Watts
Charles & Jennifer Johnson Computer Science MEng Thesis Award
Feras Saad
Project: A Probabilistic Programming Approach to Probabilistic Data Analysis
Supervisors: Vikash Mansinghka
David Adler Electrical Engineering MEng Thesis Award
Yihua Li
Project: Blind Regression: Understanding Collaborative Filtering from Matrix Completion to Tensor Completion
Supervisor: Devavrat Shah
Francis Reintjes Excellence in 6-A Industrial Practice Awards
Joseph Griffin
Project: A Compression Algorithm for Taking Advantage of Distributed Beamforming
Faculty Advisor: James Ward
Company: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Chad Uyehara
Project: High-Voltage Sampling Scheme Independent of Capacitor Voltage Coefficient for a Delta Sigma Modulator
Faculty Advisors: Charles Sodini and Michael Kultgen
Company: Linear Technology
