MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Awards and Honors, Academic Year 1997-98

Since 1990 the department has issued a booklet listing awards and honors made to its faculty, staff, and students. Starting in AY 1994-95 this booklet has also been available on the Web.

Welcome to the Web form of this booklet for AY 1997-98. A version without pictures (text only) is also available, for faster viewing.

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Awards and Honors for other years:       1994-95 . . 1995-96 . . 1996-97 . . 1998-99 . . 1999-00 . . 2000-01
1997 Archive . . 1998 Archive

Faculty

Institute Professor

THOMAS L. MAGNANTI
The title of Institute Professor is an honor bestowed by the faculty and administration of MIT on a colleague who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, accomplishment, and service in the scholarly, educational, and general intellectual life of the Institute and wider academic community. There are normally no more than 12 Institute Professors at any one time.

New Faculty

DAVID CLIFF Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering		MARTIN C. RINARD Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering		MADHU SUDAN Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Faculty Promotions

Promotion to Professor

ANANT AGARWAL		MUNTHER A. DAHLEH
MARTHA L. GRAY		MARTIN A. SCHMIDT

Promotion to Associate Professor

ANANTHA P. CHANDRAKASAN		DENNIS M. FREEMAN
DAVID R. KARGER		BERNARD C. LESIEUTRE
SETH TELLER

Chair Appointments

Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering

W. ERIC L. GRIMSON

Ford Professor of Engineering

PATRICK H. WINSTON

ITT Career Development Associate Professor

AKINTUNDE I. AKINWANDE

Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor

DUANE S. BONING

Esther and Harold Edgerton Career Development Associate Professor

DAVID R. KARGER

W. M. Keck Career Development Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

DENNIS M. FREEMAN

KDD Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

AMOS LAPIDOTH

Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineeirng

PAUL A. VIOLA

Edgerton Award for Teaching and Research Excellence

STEVEN B. LEEB

Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award

DUANE S. BONING

Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in Teaching

MARTIN C. RINARD

Graduate Student Council Teaching Award

GREGORY W. WORNELL

Elected Fellows of the IEEE

SRINIVAS DEVADAS		JEFFREY H. LANG		GEORGE C. VERGHESE

Member of National Academy of Engineering

JEROME H. SALTZER

RSA Award for Mathematics

SHAFRIRA GOLDWASSER

International Cartilage Research Society, Vice President and President Elect

ALAN G. GRODZINSKY

Armenian Student Association of America, Professor Dicran H. Kabakjian Science Award

JOHN G. KASSAKIAN

1998 Hunter Hall of Fame Award

MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS

Informatiker für Freiden Award For Lifetime Achievement

JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

Department Head's Special Recognition Award

JESÚS A. DEL ALAMO
As chair of the department's Professional Education Policy Committee for the past four years, Jesús has organized and led thoughtful discussions on a variety of educational matters, including the design of the common core, degree requirements, the Master of Engineering timeline, and the philosophy underlying our various programs. He has kept the discussions on a high plane, and provided the department heads and other administrators with valuable guidance.

Seoul National University Engineering Alumni Achievement Award 1998

HAE-SEUNG LEE

Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS

Honorary Doctorate Degrees

The Ohio State University

MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS

Catholique Universite de Louvain, Belgium

THOMAS L. MAGNANTI

University of Bremen, Germany

JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

Robert W. Hill Award

HENRY I. SMITH

Commander of the Order of Merit Award

MICHAEL L. DERTOUZOS

Staff

Eta Kappa Nu Award

JOHN A. TUCKER
For outstanding service to the Beta Theta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu

IEEE Fellow

DAVID D. CLARK

Lucent Technologies, Richard W. Hamming Medal

DAVID D. CLARK

1998 National Outstanding Advisor of Tau Beta Pi

JOHN A. TUCKER

Graduate Students

Teaching Awards

Instructor-G

KENT H. LUNDBERG

Kent has been a TA for 10 terms, with experience in 6.301, 6.302 and 6.331. He was a recitation instructor twice during those 10 terms and taught lectures on occasion. He developed lecture demonstrations that are used regularly in 6.301, 6.302, and 6.331. Kent conducts his academic responsibilities with little intervention from the faculty member in charge of the subject. He has tremendous hands-on expertise in the laboratory and his classroom style is interactive. He is a creative and well organized instructor and demonstrates a high degree of competence and skill.

Harold L. Hazen Award

TIMOTHY J. DENISON

Tim has been a TA for 6.301 and twice for 6.012. He has an intense interest in helping students learn as much as they possibly can, and a bright, cheery personality with an infectuous, upbeat attitude. Tim is reliable, resourceful, and has an enthusiastic willingness to put in the extra effort necessary to connect with and relate to all his students and communicate clearly -- all of which results in an extraordinarily effective teaching impact.

Frederick C. Hennie III Award

JAMES HOCKENBERRY

James has been a TA for 6.002, and a recitation instructor for 6.041 for four terms. James creates a friendly environment for his students and he develops successful illustrative examples during class. He repeatedly and consistently demonstrated dedication and excellence as a TA, and he was superb as the head TA in 6.041/6.431 during the spring term.

EDWARD W. KOHLER

Eddie has been a TA twice: for Professor Gifford in 6.821 and for Professor Kaashoek in 6.033. He taught a lecture when Professor Gifford was out of town and he assisted in producing new materials for the class. When Eddie was a 6.033 TA he helped the undergraduates to improve their writing, helped rewrite lecture notes, and formulated quiz questions and handouts. He was praised by the students in his class for his understanding and effectiveness.

Carlton E. Tucker Award

SOOSAN BEHESHTI

Soosan has been a TA for five terms. She was a TA for 6.011, 6.002, and 6.041 twice. She has a superb understanding of applied probability and she communicates with joy, clarity, and unlimited patience. Soosan cares a great deal about making sure her students understand the material and is always willing to volunteer for tasks.

George M. Sprowls Award

CARL DE MARCKEN
PhD '96
"Unsupervised Language Acquisition"

PAMELA R. LIPSON
Honorable Mention
PhD '96
"Context and Configuration Based Scene Classification"

ROBERT P. RINGROSE
Honorable Mention
PhD '97
"Self-Stabilizing Running"

Master's Thesis Awards

Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award

JONATHAN R. SANTOS
"Reducing the Network Load of Replicated Data"

Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award

EVEREST W. HUANG
First Prize
"Electromagnetic Transients, Elves, and Sprites in the Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide"

ANTHONY J. ACCARDI
Second Prize
"A Modular Approach to Speech Enhancement with an Application to Speech Coding"

QIANG WU
Second Prize
"Statistical Multiplexing for MPEG-2 Video Streams"

William A. Martin Thesis Award

ANDREW F. STARK
"Debugging Multithreaded Programs that Incorporate User-Level Locking"

David Adler Memorial Thesis Prize

LEAF A. JIANG
"Propagation Properties of Duobinary Transmission in Optical Fibers"

Morris Joseph Levin Memorial Award, Best Master Works Oral Thesis Presentation

Spring Term 1998

CRAIG B. ABLER
"Spectral Envelope Estimation for Transient Event Detection"

SUSAN M. DACY
"A/D Converters for CMOS Images"

JEFFREY P. GROSSMAN
"Point Sample Rendering"

DANIEL M. LEWIN
"Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Algorithms for Caching in Distributed Networks"

LAURA C. PRUETTE
"Non-Perfluorocompound Chemistries for Dielectric Etching Applications"

16th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference, University of Michigan
Best Student Paper

ELISABETH M. KOONTZ

Marshall Scholarship

GUANG-IEN CHENG

Burton R. Anderson Award, Intercollegiate Manager of the Year

AMY C. GIEFFERS

The D. N. Chorafas Foundation Prize

DANIEL F. LOHMEYER
DANAI KUANGAPICHAT

Karl Taylor Compton Prize

GEOFFREY J. CORAM
JACOB J. SEID
For outstanding contributions in promoting high standards of achievement and good citizenship within the MIT community

Undergraduate Students

David A. Chanen Writing Prize

JONATHAN P. PEARCE, '99
"Hypertext Supercharger: A Web Browser with Client-Based Prefetching"

Boit Manuscript Prize

MICHAEL J. COYLE, '98
Third Prize - Short Story

Burchard Scholars

PETRA S. CHONG, '99
PAUL T. CZERNIAK, '99
MARION L. GROH, '99
DAMIAN A. ISLA, '99
In recognition of unusual abilities and academic excellence

Truman Scholarship

MONISHA M. MERCHANT, '99

1998 Henry Ford II Scholar Award

LISA A. POYNEER, '98

Computer Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Award

EKATERINA DOLIGNOVA, '98

Association of MIT Alumnae Award

LISA A. POYNEER, '98

Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service

MICHAEL M. BRYZEK, '98
Recognizing exceptional undergraduates committed to public service at MIT and its surrounding communities.

William L. Stewart, Jr. Award

MICHELE S. MICHELETTI, '00
For outstanding contributions to extracurricular life by individual or student organization

Straight T Award

ERIC L. CHEN, '99
tennis

NORA SZASZ, '99
fencing

The highest award given for athletic performance

Pewter Bowl Award

SUSAN A. DEY, '98
To a female senior who has shown the highest qualities of inspiration and leadership in contributing to women's athletics

Admiral Edward L. Cochrane Award

JOSEPH B. IRENEO, '98
To a male senior who has shown the highest qualities of humility, leadership, and inspiration in intercollegiate athletics

Betsy Schumacker Award

TRACEY C. HO, '99
To an undergraduate woman for excellence in athletic competition

Robert M. Fano UROP Award

DENNIS J. EVANGELISTA, '98
"0-50 VDC Regulated Power Supply for use with Gel Induction Heating Supplies"

CHRISTOPHER R. LAUGHMAN, '99
"Guide to the PicStic Clone Board"

Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award

For the best 6.111 project

Spring Term 1997

JAMES M. MONTGOMERY, '98
JOHN C. WHALEY, '98
"Robotic Dog with Speech Control"

Fall Term 1997

BALASUNDAR I. RAJU, '98
HUR KOSER, '98
"A Teleoperation System Using Serial Interface"

George C. Newton Prize

For the best undergraduate laboratory project of the year.

ERIC COSMAN, JR., '99
JARED SMITH-MICKELSON, '99
"Stretch"

Reinhold Rudenberg Memorial Prize

HOLLY G. GATES, '98
BENJAMIN A. DOUTS, '98

For an outstanding undergraduate thesis relating to energy conversion

Eta Kappa Nu

Norman C. Carson Outstanding Junior Award 1997-98

TRACEY C. HO, '99

Tau Beta Pi

In recognition of excellence in academic studies

Class of 1998

Matthew D. Blum
Ada H. Cheung
Benjamin A. Douts
Yuan Feng
Ivan Gonzalez-Gallo
Valencia M. Joyner
Manolis E. I. Kamvysselis
Sabra-Anne R. Kelin
Edmond Kayi Lee
SeungYong A. Lee
David H. Manowitz
Angie S. Nishimoto
Kevin N. O'Connor
Tsvetsomir P. Petrov
Brenton A. Phillips
Eve M. Phillips
Russell P. Sammon
Alexander Sherman
Diego A. Syrowicz
Lukasz A. Weber
Heeman Y. Yang
Ruogu Zhang

Class of 1999

Eladio C. Arvelo
Eralp Atmaca
Smriti Banhia
Angel X. Chang
Cheng Cheng
Andrew G. Chiu
Petra S. Chong
Emily B. Cooper
Matthew B. Debski
David E. DiFranco
Lauren B. Fletcher
Brian B. Graham
Tracey C. Ho
Kyle W. Ingols
Ken G. Iwamoto
Leiter Kang
Amit Khetan
May-Li Khoe
Eric H. Kuo
Michael G. Leonida
Jonathan K. Lie
Ming-Hokng Maa
Anne M. Mitzel
Yuka N. Miyake
Jeffrey T. Pearlman
Antonio Ramirez
Sandia Ren
Christopher H. Rohrs
Dennis S. Ruhl
Keith R. Santarelli
Philip D. Sarin
Ravindra K. Sarma
Valentin I. Spitkovsky
Jeffrey L. Steinheider
Elliot L. Waingold
Arjuna C. Wijeyekoon
Hoi H. Wong
Tammy Yap
Ying Zhang

Eta Kappa Nu

Inductees in 1998

Class of 1998

Eric T. Allison
Lijin S. Aryananda
Kathryn F. Benedicto
Ada H. Cheung
Kevin E. Fu
Holly G. Gates
Hisham Hasan
Joseph B. Irineo
Valencia M. Joyner
Hur Koser
Marc A. Lebovitz
Edmond Kayi Lee
SeungYong A. Lee
Durodami J. Lisk
Jonathan P. Loflin
Leandro M. Lorilla
Albert Lu
Alexander Mamishev
Ovidiu Marina
Janet Marques
Fernando J. Paiz
Mukaya Panich
Brenton A. Phillips
Kevin P. Pipe
Sandia Ren
Maya R. Said
Felice T. Sun
June D. Yiu
Ruogu Zhang
Xiaozhen Zhang
Mingjuan Zhu

Class of 1999

Eladio C. Arvelo
Eralp Atmaca
Smriti Banthia
Hristo I. Bojinov
Lyudmila Borodavkina
Jeffrey S. Brown
Anit Chakraborty
Cheng Cheng
Dwaine Clarke
Matthew B. Debski
Mitali Dhar
Anjali Dhond
David E. DiFranco
Lauren B. Fletcher
Krzysztof Z. Gajos
Joseph M. George
Siddhartan Govindasamy
Tracey C. Ho
John S. Holmes
Kai-yuh E. Hsiao
Kyle N. Ingols
Damian A. Isla
Peter M. Ju
Manolis E. Kamvysselis
Leiter Kang
Amit Khetan
May-Li Khoe
Adam B. Kropp
Eric H. Kuo
Michael G. Leonida
Jonathan K. Lie
Ming-Hokng Maa
Anne M. Mitzel
Yuka N. Miyake
Tassanee Payakapan
Jeffrey T. Pearlman
Sofya Pogreb
Dennis S. Ruhl
Keith R. Santarelli
Philip D. Sarin
Aalok B. Shah
Svetlana Shnitser
Jamie Song
Valentin I. Spitkovsky
Jeffrey L. Steinheider
Svetoslav D. Tzvetkov
Elliot L. Waingold
Xingheng Wang
Arjuna C. Wijeyekoon
Tammy Yap
Lyudmila V. Zemlyakova