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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