MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honors and Awards, 1998-99

We are proud to announce that our faculty members continue to receive many awards. These have included:

Faculty Promotions

Promotion to Professor

Srini Devadas

Leslie Kolodziejski

Promotion to Associate Professor

Paul Viola

Alexandre Megretski

Amos Lapidoth

Chair Appointments

Irwin & Joan Jacobs Professorship

Vincent Chan

Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professorship

Alexandre Megretski

J. A. Stratton Professorship of Electrical Engineering and Physics

Jeff Shapiro

3COM Chair

Tim Berners-Lee

Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations Chair for Ocean Science

Arthur Baggeroer

Teaching & Advising Awards

IEEE Course VI Outstanding Advisor Award

Paul Gray

Frank E. Perkins Award for Outstanding Advising of Graduate Students 1999

Markus Zahn

MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award 1998

Greg Wornell

Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award

Alan Grodzinsky

Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award

Dennis Freeman

IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for Power Systems

Marija Ilic

Elected Societies

Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Martha Gray

Member of the Spanish Academy of Engineering

Jesus del Alamo

Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Robert Gallagher

IEEE Fellow

Marija Ilic

John Tsitsiklis

Member of National Academy of Sciences

Kenneth Stevens

Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

David Forney

Member of French Academy of Sciences

Olivier Faugeras

Member of IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology

Daniel Jackson

Awards & Prizes

International Engineering Consortium Fellow Award

Paul Penfield, Jr.

Sustained Excellence Award from DARPA

Victor Zue

IEEE Control Systems Award 2000

Sanjoy Mitter

Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation 1999

James Fujimoto

Oldenburger Award of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (finalist)

Michael Athans

Harvey Prize in Science and Technology 1999 -Technion

Robert Gallagher

Distinguished Service Award – IEEE Power Electronics Society

John Kassakian

Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer 1999 - IEEE Power Electronics Society

Stephen Leeb

J.B. Whitehead Memorial Lecturer – 1998 Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena

Markus Zahn

NSF Career Award 1999

Madhu Sudan

Humbolt Research Award – Alexander von Humbolt Foundation

Hank Smith

Computers and Communications Award 1998 – Foundation for C&C Promotion (Japan)

Fernando Corbato

France Telecom Award - French Academy of Sciences

Olivier Faugeras

National Computer Systems Security Award

Butler Lampson

Paper Awards

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 1998

Hari Balakrishnan

Symposium Prize Paper Award 1998 – IEEE Geoscience And Remote Sensing Society

David Staelin et. al.

Best Paper Award – European Conference on Computer Vision

Olivier Faugeras

Honors

Honorary Degree – The Sorbonne, U. Paris

John Tsitsiklis

Honorary Doctorate Degree – Columbia University

John Tsitsiklis

Honorary Degree - The Sorbonne, U. Paris

Mildred Dresselhaus

Honorary Degree Degree - Columbia University

Mildred Dresselhaus

Elected to York University Wall of Fame, Canada

Barbara Liskov

Distinguished Alumna Award – U. Cal Berkeley

Barbara Liskov

Distinguished Alumnus Award – IIT Kanpur

Arvind

IEEE Distinguished Visitor for Asia-Pacific Region

Charles Leiserson

Golden Jubilee Awards

IT Golden Jubilee Award for Technical Innovation For invention of convolutional codes.

Peter Elias

IT Golden Jubilee Paper Awards

Robert Gallagher

IT Golden Jubilee Award for Technical Innovation For invention of concatenated codes.

David Forney

IT Golden Jubilee Paper Awards

David Forney

Recent honors

Honors and Awards for other academic years

Awards and Honors for other years:       1994-95 . . 1995-96 . . 1996-97 . . 1997-98 . . 1999-00 . . 2000-01
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