School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in spring 2024

Professors, scientists, and personnel get lots of outside honors throughout the year. The Institution of Design occasionally highlights the honors, rewards, and medals won by neighborhood participants operating in scholastic divisions, laboratories, and facilities. Springtime 2024 guest of honors consist of the following:

Lallit Anand, the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Teacher in the Division of Mechanical Design, was called a 2024 Society of Engineering Fellow Others are granted to people that are differentiated in a pertinent area and that have actually made purposeful payments to the Culture and the technological neighborhood.
Adam Belay, associate teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got a Google Research Scholar Award, granted to teachers based upon advantage to sustain their sophisticated research study.
Michael Birnbaum, associate teacher in the Division of Biological Design, got the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, offered yearly to a professor whose payments to education and learning have actually been defined by commitment, treatment, and creative thinking.
Tamara Broderick, associate teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was called a 2024 Class of Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow for her considerable payments to academic modeling and computational technique at the crossway of Bayesian Statistical Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian nonparametric concept and applications.
Michael Cima, the David H. Koch Teacher of Design in the Division of Products Scientific Research and Design, was called a 2024 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow in acknowledgment of his recognized and proceeding accomplishments in clinical and organic design.
Tal Cohen, associate teacher in the Division of Civil and Environmental Design, got the Arthur C Smith Award, provided to a participant of the MIT professors for purposeful payments and dedication to undergraduate trainee life and finding out at MIT.
Jesús del Alamo, the Donner Teacher of Scientific Research in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got the Intel 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award The yearly honor program acknowledges the outstanding payments made with Intel university-sponsored research study that aid even more Intel’s objective of developing world-changing modern technology that boosts the lives of everybody in the world.
Betar Gallant, Course of 1922 Profession Advancement Teacher and associate teacher in the Division of Mechanical Design, got the Electrochemical Society’s Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award (245th meeting) The honor acknowledges superior clinical and/or design operate in essential or used electrochemistry or solid-state scientific research and modern technology by a young researcher or designer.
Marzyeh Ghassemi, the Germeshausen Profession Advancement Teacher and associate teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology and MIT Institute for Medical Design and Scientific research, got a Google Research Scholar Award, which are granted to teachers based upon advantage to sustain their sophisticated research study.
Linda Griffith, the Institution of Design Teacher of Mentor Technology in the Division of Biological Design, was called to the inaugural Time100 Health, a checklist of the globe’s most prominent individuals in health and wellness.
Jack Hare, assistant teacher and the Wind (1929) Profession Advancement Teacher in the Division of Nuclear Scientific Research and Design, got the 2024 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching This honor acknowledges an individual that exhibits the very best in advancing engineering layout education and learning with vision, communications with pupils and sector, scholarship and influence on the future generation of designers, and an individual whose activity acts as a good example for various other instructors to imitate.
Marija Ilić, elderly research study researcher and accessory teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got the IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award, which is granted yearly to leading culture participants and sector principals for their significant payments to IEEE Power & Power Culture and the power and power sector.
Piotr Indyk, the Thonas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was chosen to the National Academy of Sciences Subscription is a commonly approved mark of quality in scientific research and is taken into consideration among the highest possible honors that a researcher can get.
Linda Kaelbling, the Panasonic Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got the 2024 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching This honor acknowledges an individual that exhibits the very best in advancing engineering layout education and learning with vision, communications with pupils and sector, scholarship and influence on the future generation of designers, and an individual whose activity acts as a good example for various other instructors to imitate.
Douglas Lauffenburger, the Ford Teacher of Design in the Division of Biological Design, was granted the Ernst Dieter Gilles Prize, which honors superior clinical accomplishments in the area of systems concept, system characteristics, control design, and systems biology.
William Oliver, the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was chosen to the 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows Political election as a fellow honors participants whose initiatives in support of the improvement of scientific research or its applications in solution to culture have actually differentiated them amongst their peers and associates.
Maggie Qi, assistant teacher and the Joseph R. Mares ’24 Profession Advancement Teacher, got a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which sustains early-career professors that have the prospective to function as scholastic good example in research study and education and learning and to lead advancements in the objective of their division or company.
Manish Raghavan, the Drew Houston (2005) Profession Advancement Teacher and assistant teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got a Google Research Scholar Award, granted to teachers based upon advantage to sustain their sophisticated research study.
Ritu Raman, the Eugene Bell Profession Advancement Teacher of Cells Design and assistant teacher in the Division of Mechanical Design, got the 2024 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching This honor acknowledges an individual that exhibits the very best in advancing engineering layout education and learning with vision, communications with pupils and sector, scholarship and influence on the future generation of designers, and an individual whose activity acts as a good example for various other instructors to imitate.
Daniela Rus, an Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was chosen to the National Academy of Sciences, in acknowledgment of her recognized and proceeding accomplishments in initial research study. Subscription is a commonly approved mark of quality in scientific research and is taken into consideration among the highest possible honors that a researcher can get.
Julian Shun, associate teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got the 2023 Association for Computing Machinery Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, which honors particular academic success that have actually had a considerable and verifiable result on the technique of computer.
Michael Short, associate teacher in the Division of Nuclear Scientific Research and Design, got the Capers (1976) and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising, which acknowledges leaders in design and used scientific researches that, as excellent coaches and experts, have dramatically and continually sustained the individual and expert advancement of others.
Jessica Stark, the Underwood-Prescott Profession Advancement Teacher and assistant teacher in the Division of Biological Design, got the V Foundation’s Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research, granted to females researchers to progress their cutting-edge operate in the cancer cells area. The honor assists to attend to the considerable financing differences for females in scientific research.
Greg Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Teacher in Chemical Design, was chosen to Academia Europaea The item of Academic community Europaea is the improvement and proliferation of quality in scholarship in the liberal arts, regulation, the financial, social, and governments, maths, medication, and all branches of all-natural and technical scientific researches throughout the globe for the general public advantage and for the improvement of the education and learning of the general public of any ages.
Russ Tedrake, the Toyota Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got the School of Engineering Distinguished Educator Award, which acknowledges superior payments to undergraduate and/or graduate education and learning by participants of its professors and mentor personnel (speaker or teacher).
Caroline Uhler, an Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was called a 2024 Class of Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow for her interdisciplinary quality, combining mathematical data and computational biology in cutting-edge and impactful means.
Franz-Josef Ulm, the Course of 1992 Teacher in the Division of Civil and Environmental Design, got the 2024 Paul Gray Public Service Award, which acknowledges a participant of the MIT professors that exhibits structure “a much better globe” with his/her mentor, research study, encouraging, and solution.
Martin Wainwright, a Cecil H. Environment-friendly Teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship, granted yearly to people making their mark in the social scientific researches, the lives sciences, the liberal arts, and the imaginative arts.
Ryan Williams, teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology, was granted the 2024 Gödel Prize, granted for superior documents in the location of academic computer technology.
Lizhong Zheng, teacher in the Division of Electric Design and Computer technology, got the 2024 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching This honor acknowledges an individual that exhibits the very best in advancing engineering layout education and learning with vision, communications with pupils and sector, scholarship and influence on the future generation of designers, and an individual whose activity acts as a good example for various other instructors to imitate.

The Institution of Design likewise acknowledges management personnel with annual honors each springtime.

The Ellen J. Mandigo Honor acknowledges personnel that have actually shown, over an extensive amount of time, the top qualities that Mandigo had in wealth throughout her lengthy profession at MIT: knowledge, ability, effort, and commitment to the Institute. The 2024 receivers are:

Ted Equi in MIT Leaders for Global Procedures;
Carol Niemi in the Division of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and
Gwen Wilcox in the Division of Chemical Design.

The Infinite Mile Honor acknowledges and compensates participants of the MIT Institution of Design’s management, assistance, funded research study, and, when proper, scholastic personnel in the groups of quality, variety and neighborhood, and institutional participation. This year’s guest of honors are:

Marygrace Aboudou in the Division of Civil and Environmental Design;
Amanda Beyer-Purvis in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology;
Mahia Brown in the Division of Products Scientific Research and Design;
Steven Derocher in MIT Leaders for Global Operation/System Layout and Administration;
Tia Giurleo in the Dean’s Workplace of the MIT Institution of Design;
Linda Gjerasi in the Division of Mechanical Design;
Suxin Hu in the Division of Aeronautics and Astronautics;
Alexis Runstadler in the Division of Biological Design;
Rebecca Shepardson in the Division of Products Scientific Research and Design;
Michael Skocay in the Division of Mechanical Design;
Justin Snow in the Masters in Supply Chain Administration Program; and
Christina Spinelli in the Division of Mechanical Design.