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May 4, 2023

Jelena Notaros receives 2023 NSF CAREER Award

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

2023 marked the 19th year for the student-led Microsystems Annual Research Conference. Pictured is the 2023 graduate student committee with faculty leads. Front row, left to right: co-chairs Maitreyi Ashok and Jennifer Wang, Duhan Zhang, Matthew Yeung, and Aya Amer. Back row, left to right: MIT.nano Director Vladimir Bulović, Mansi Joisher, Beth Whittier, Will Banner, Adina Bechhofer, Kaidong Peng, MTL Director Tomás Palacios, and Jaidi Zhu. Not pictured: Patricia Jastrzebska-Perfect, Milica Notaros, Narumi Wong, and Abigail Zhien Wang.
February 28, 2023

Student-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community

19th Microsystems Annual Research Conference reveals the next era of microsystems technologies, along with skiing and a dance party.

A collage of professional headshots includes Phillip Isola, Will Oliver, Costis Daskalakis, Manish Raghavan, Stefanie Mueller, Martin Wainwright, Muriel Médard, Martha Gray, Polina Golland, and David Perreault.
October 25, 2022

Recent chair announcements within EECS

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) recently announced the following crop of chair appointments, all effective July 1, 2022. Karl Berggren has been named the

Two rounded glass compartments, one holding a computer chip, frame a view of the Charles River.
September 30, 2022

MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.

Doctoral Thesis: Shaping light-matter interactions for free-electron radiation and photonic computing

Charles Roques-Carmes Abstract: Nanophotonics has become over the past decades a paramount technology, enabling, among other things, the design of novel light sources, detectors, and devices controlling the

March 21, 2022

Last-minute pivot leads to record-setting Microsystems Annual Research Conference

Virtual conference gathered students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the future of microsystems and nanotechnology.

February 16, 2022

Department of EECS announces 2022 Promotions

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) is proud to announce the following promotions: Adam Belay is being promoted to Associate Professor Without Tenure, effective July

From left to right: Devavrat Shah, Harry Asada, Luca Daniel
January 31, 2022

Asada, Daniel, Shah Named Fellows of IEEE

Among the newly selected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) are three members of the MIT community: Harry Asada, Ford Professor of Engineering in

December 20, 2021

Five in EECS Appointed to Career Development Professorships

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has announced the appointment of five of its faculty members to Career Development Professorships, retroactively effective July 1, 2021. Those

December 2, 2021

2021 EECS Awards

It’s nearing the end of 2021, and we want to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of our incredible EECS community by sharing some of the awards given by