June 26, 2017
Alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94), the Vannevar Bush Professor and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Techhnology (MIT), has been named dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. Anantha joined the MIT faculty in 1994 and has produced a…
June 22, 2017
Ana Arias has been selected for the 2017 Research and Development Award from the Flexible and Printed Electronics Conference, organized by FlexTech, a consortium that supports the development of flexible electronics. The FLEXIs recognizes outstanding work and achievements of organizations and individuals active in flexible hybrid electronics (FHE). The…
June 20, 2017
Alistair Sinclair has been awarded the 2017 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award. This award is presented on the basis of value and degree of services to the computing community including activities on behalf of the ACM, other computer organizations, and/or other entities. Prof. Sinclair is…
June 19, 2017
Jose Carmena is mentioned in IEEE’s publication The Institute in an article titled “Timeline: The Evolution of Assistive Technologies” (see timeline at the bottom of the article, year 2017). In celebration of The Institute’s 40th anniversary this article highlights topics and technologies over the past four decades that…
June 12, 2017
EECS alumni Aaron Wagner has been selected as the winner of the 2017 James L. Massey Research and Teaching award for young scholars of the IEEE Information Theory Society. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by Society members under 40 years of age in the Information…
June 12, 2017
EECS alumni Warren Hoburg has been selected by NASA to be one of 12 people to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. Hoburg received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in 2015 (advisor Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel). Currently he is a Boeing Assistant Professor in the…
June 5, 2017
EECS graduate student Wenting Zheng (advised by Ion Stoica and Raluca Ada Popa) has won the prestigious 2017-18 IBM PhD Fellowship. Wenting works in the RISELab and her research involves system security and distributed systems. The IBM Ph.D. fellowship is an “intensely competitive worldwide program that honors exceptional…
June 5, 2017
In an effort to gather scientists at the interface between neurosciences, optical engineering, and computer science, an all-day conference is being held on Friday, June 9, in Stanley Hall titled Sculpted Light in the Brain. Participants are united in their mission to develop technologies to enable real time…
May 26, 2017
Alumnus and Mexican immigrant Armando Solar-Lezama (CS Ph.D. ’08) is the subject of an MIT News article describing some of the academic obstacles he had to overcome on his path to becoming a tenured professor at MIT. Armando’s creative approaches to his class assignments were discouraged in Mexico and despite…
May 25, 2017
Many researchers are working on ways for robots to learn to grasp and manipulate things by practicing over and over, but the process is very time-consuming. The research work on robotic deep learning by Prof. Ken Goldberg is featured on the cover of MIT Review in an article titled “…