January 13, 2022
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson has won the 2022 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Recognized as one of the world’s preeminent awards for engineering achievement, the prize “honors an engineer whose accomplishment has significantly impacted society by improving the quality of life,…
January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94, advisor: C. V. Ramamoorthy), has been awarded the 2022 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding technical contributions in science and engineering, of great impact to IEEE fields of interest.” Chandrakasan, who is currently an EECS professor at MIT and…
January 10, 2022
EECS alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg (M.S. ’11/Ph.D. ’13, advisor: Pieter Abbeel), one of the first graduates of NASA’s Artemis astronaut basic training program in 2020, has been assigned to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission – the sixth crew rotation flight aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International…
January 3, 2022
EE Prof. Chunlei Liu has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) The ISMRM is an international, nonprofit, scientific association “whose purpose is to promote communication, research, development, and applications in the field of magnetic resonance (MR) in medicine and biology and other…
December 20, 2021
CS Profs. Alistair Sinclair and Shafi Goldwasser have won inaugural Test of Time awards at the 2021 Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). Sinclair won the 20 Year award for his paper, “A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the…
December 20, 2021
CS alumna and Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) has won the 2021 Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) Test of Time Award. This award “recognizes papers published in past Annual IEEE Symposia on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) for their substantial, lasting, broad, and currently relevant impact. Papers…
December 9, 2021
EECS Prof. Stuart Russell is slated to direct the future Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, which aims to make ethics and social equity more central to scientific decision-making, and which will try to ensure that the public has a greater say in future scientific advances. The new…
December 8, 2021
EECS Assistant Prof. Sophia Shao has won the inaugural Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications (ModSim) 2021 Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili (Sudha) Award. This award recognizes “researchers who showcase the most outstanding contribution to the field of computer modeling and simulation” during the annual ModSim Workshop, which primarily…
December 8, 2021
2003 Distinguished CS Alumnus Madhu Sudan (Ph.D. ’92, advisor: Umesh Vazirani) has won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hamming Medal. This award recognizes “exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology.” Sudan was cited “for fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.” …
December 8, 2021
2008 Distinguished CS Alumna Deborah Estrin (B.S. EECS ’80) has won the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) John von Neumann Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.” Estrin, whose research interests include technologies for caregiving, immersive health, small data, participatory sensing and public interest technology, was cited for “her leadership in mobile…