Faculty Promotions:
Full Professor:
Vladimir Bulovic—physical properties of nanostructured thin films, interfaces, and devices, including fundamental contributions that apply to the development of optoelectronic, electronic and photonic devices.
Robert Morris—modular software-based routers, analysis of the aggregation behavior of Internet traffic, and scalable ad-hoc routing.
Associate Professor with tenure:
Regina Barzilay—natural language processing.
Luca Daniel—parameterized model order reduction and nonlinear dynamical systems; mixed-signal, RF and mm-wave circuit modeling and robust optimization; power electronics, MEMs design and fabrication.
Associate Professor without tenure:
Scott Aaronson—what are the ultimate limits on what can feasibly be computed in the physical world, and how can studying those limits shed light on basic issues in physics. His work combines computational complexity with physics, and he has made contributions to traditional complexity theory and especially in quantum computing complexity.
Tomas Palacios—design and analysis of advanced electronic devices based on new materials and nanotechnology, with advances both in improving existing devices and in fabricating completely new semiconductor-based micro- and nano-systems.
Fatih Yanik—development and application of high-throughput technologies that investigate the complex development, function and regeneration of the nervous system. His work combines techniques from micromanipulation, microfluidics, ultrafast optics, advanced microscopy, quantum physics, genetics and biochemistry; and he has applied his techniques to the study of a variety of organisms: C. elegans, zebrafish, mice, and human embryonic stem cells.
New Faculty Chairs:
Sangeeta Bhatia—John and Dorothy Wilson Professorship
Patrick Jaillet—Dugald C. Jackson Chair (coholder)
Leslie Kaelbling—Panasonic Chair
Harry S. Lee—Advanced Television and Signal Processing Chair
Silvio Micali—Ford Professor of Engineering
New Career Development Chairs:
Tomas Palacios—Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Career Development Chair
Armando Solar-Lezama—NBX Career Development Chair
Vladimir Stojanovic—Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Career Development Chair
Dana Weinstein—Steven G. (1968) and Renee Finn Career Development Chair
Hae-Seung (Harry) Lee—the Advanced Television and Signal Processing Professorship (made possible by EECS Professor Jae S. Lim, principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, RLE)
Faculty Awards*:
IEEE Founders Medal 2010
— Paul E. Gray
IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award
— Alan S. Willsky
IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award
— Judy Hoyt
IEEE Fellows 2010
— Qing Hu, Daniela Rus, Madhu Sudan
IEEE Azriel Rosenfeld Award
— Berthold K. P. Horn
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, AAAS Fellows 2010
— Qing Hu, Tom Knight and Bruce Tidor
National Academy of Engineering membership
— Alan S. Willsky
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellow 2010
— Nancy Lynch, Michael Stonebraker, Madhu Sudan
2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal
— Shafi Goldwasser
INFORMS Expository Writing Award
— Dimitri P. Bertsekas
2010 RLE Allen Award
— Vladimir Stojanovic, Mehmet Fatih Yanik
NIH 2010 Transformative R01 Award
— Mehmet Fatih Yanik
International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, ISCS Young Scientist Award
— Tomas Palacios
2010 Sloan Research Fellows
— Costis Daskalakis, Nickolai Zeldovich
2010 ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
— Robert Morris
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
— Scott Aaronson, Manolis Kellis
SoE Junior Bose Award
— Scott Aaronson
MIT Killian Award 2010-2011
— Ron Rivest
MacVicar Faculty Fellow 2010
— Rajeev Ram
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in MIT School of Engineering 2010
— Daniel Jackson
*For award announcement details, please visit: http://www.eecs.mit.edu/current/announcements/index.html
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