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Electrical Engineering & Computer Science awards
June 4, 2008
Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award--for Teaching Excellence - Sarah Finney G, EECS, Arlington, Mass. Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award--for Teaching Excellence - Laura Zager G, EECS, Sayre, Pa. Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award--for Teaching Excellence - Taylor Barton G, EECS, Arlington, Mass. Department Teaching Award - Karim Liman-Tinguiri '10, EECS, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea - Michael M. Haimes '09, EECS, Brooklyn, N.Y. George M. Sprowls Scholarship Fund--for Outstanding PhD thesis in Computer Science - Sergey Yekhanin, '07, EECS, San Jose, Calif. - Andrew Sutherland, '07, EECS, Cambridge, Mass. - Jonathan Kelner, '07, EECS, Boston, Mass. - Ronny Krashinsky, '07, EECS, San Francisco, Calif. Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award--for best 6.111 Laboratory Project Spring Term 2007 - Robert Crowell '08, Memphis, Tenn. - Lyric Doshi '08, EECS, Richmond, Va. - Adam Lerer '08, EECS, Toronto, Canada - Samuel Gross '09, EECS, Fairfax, Va. Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award--for best 6.111 Laboratory Project Fall Term 2007 - Yuta Kuboyama '09, EECS, Tokyo, Japan - Natalie Cheung '09, EECS, Burlingame, Calif. - Edgar Twigg '09, aeronautics and astronautics, Berryville, Va. Morris Joseph Levin Award--for Best MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation - John Lee G, EECS, Brooklyn, N.Y. - Yasuhiro Shirasaki G, EECS, Winchester, Mass. - SRK Branavan G, EECS, Sri Lanka - Rick Cory G, EECS, Kyoto, Japan George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory First Place Prize--for Fall Term 2007 in 6.111 - Zhen Li '08, EECS, Jiangsu, China - Bryan Morrissey '08 '10, Paramus, N.J. - Brian Wong '08, EECS, Hong Kong George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Second Place Prize--for Spring Term 2007 in 6.131 - Zackary Anderson '09, EECS, Beverly Hill, Calif. George C. Newton Undergraduate Laboratory Second Place Prize--for Spring Term 2007 in 6.170 - Raluca Ada Popa '09, EECS, Sibiu, Romania - Andre Wibisono, EECS, Jawa Timur, Indonesia - Anand R. Deopurkar '08, mathematics, Maharashtra, India - Alessandro Chiesa '09, EECS, Varese, Italy David A. Chanen Writing Award - Igor Kopylov '09, EECS, Roseland, N.J. Charles & Jennifer Johnson MEng Thesis Prize - First prize: John Jaesung Lee G, EECS, Brooklyn, N.Y. - First prize: Matthew M. Papi G, EECS, Providence, R.I. - Second prize: Jeffrey B. Arnold G, EECS Great Fall, Va. William A. Martin Memorial Master's Thesis Prize - First place: Rick Cory G, EECS, Kyoto, Japan - Second place: Shyamnath Gollakota G, EECS, Hyderabad, India David Adler Memorial MEng Thesis Prize - First place: Vinith Misra G, EECS - Second place: Taylor W. Barton G, EECS, Arlington, Mass. Ernst A. Guillemin Master's Thesis Award - First place: Yuan Shen G, EECS, Shanghai, China - Second place: Natasa Blitvic G, EECS, Quebec, Canada - Second place: Mahmut Ersin Sinangil G, EECS, Istanbul, Turkey Licklider UROP Prize - Margaret Leibovic '10, EECS, Irvington, N.Y. Robert M. Fano UROP Award - Kuat T. Yessenov '08, EECS, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan Arnold L. Nylander (1931) UROP Award - Gilberto Abram '08, EECS, Ronzone, Italy Morais (1986) and Rosenblum (1986) UROP Award - Douglas Adams '08, EECS, Potomac, Md. - Aaron Bernstein '08, mathematics, Brookline, Mass. Anna Pogosyants UROP Award - Irene Kaplow '10, mathematics Richard J. Caloggero Award - Lucille O'Hehir, Medford, Mass. - Helen Schwartz, Lexington, Mass. J. Francis Reintjes Excellence in VI--an Industrial Practice Award - Jason Furtado G,Waltham, Mass. - Doris Lin G, EECS, Columbia, Mo. Jerome H. Saltzer Award - Russell Tedrake, EECS, Needham Heights, Mass. Department Head Special Recognition Award - Victor Costan G, EECS, Bucharest, Romania - Leslie Kaelbling, EECS, Norfolk, Mass. - Leslie Kolodziejski, EECS, Belmont, Mass. - Tony Eng, EECS, Cambridge, Mass. Graduate Student Association Graduate Counselor Award - Terry Orlando, EECS, Cambridge, Mass. IEEE/ACM Advisor Award - W. Eric Grimson, EECS, Lexington, Mass. William L. Everitt Student Awards of Excellence - Michael F. Robbins '08, EECS, Philadelphia, Pa. - Lucia T. Tian '08, EECS, Salem, N.H. Burgess (71952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award - Christopher Terman, EECS, Newton Centre, Mass. - Ronald L. Rivest, EECS, Arlington, Mass. Albert van Rennes Teaching Award - Marc Baldo, EECS, Cambridge, Mass. HKN Best Instructor Award - Vladimir Bulovic, Lexington, Mass.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 4, 2008 (download PDF).
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