MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EECS Honor

Three EECS Professors Elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 20, 2001

EECS Professors Dimitri Bertsekas, Jim Fujimoto and Nancy Lynch have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. This is a tremendous honor, which recognizes years of extraordinary accomplishment by each of them.

Dimitri is well known as one of the world's leading contributors of fundamental research contributing to the theory and practice of optimization and control. He is especially well know for his work on algorithms for data communication networks and for his many influential text books.

Jim is probably the world's leading researcher in the area of optical coherence tomography (OCT). Additionally, he has made enormous contributions to the application of this technology, especially in the medical arena.

Nancy has long been one of the world's leading researchers in the area of principles of distributed systems. Not only has she led the way in developing techniques for rigorously reasoning about such systems, but she is the author of a leading text on distributed algorithms.

Congratulations to these three outstanding individuals on this recognition of their accomplishments.