School of Engineering second quarter 2022 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, labs, and centers.
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Regina Barzilay of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
on April 30.
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Angela Belcher of the Department of Biological Engineering was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences
on May 25.
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Emery N. Brown of the Institute for Medical Science and Engineering
received the Pierre Galletti Award
from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering on March 21 and the
2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
on May 17.
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Fikile Brushett of the Department of Chemical Engineering received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers'
Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute
on June 30.
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Matteo Bucci of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering received the
received the Distinguished Early Career Award
from the U.S. Department of Energy on May 30.
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Jacopo Buongiorno of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering was recognized for
outstanding support of American Nuclear Society Crisis Communications
on May 30.
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Arup Chakraborty of the Department of Chemical Engineering received
an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Delaware
May 26.
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Patrick Doyle of the Department of Chemical Engineering
received the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research
from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on June 30.
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Alan J. Grodzinsky of the Department of Biological Engineering received an
honorary doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland
on June 11.
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Yael Kalai of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was
named a 2022 fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
on June 27.
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Dina Katabi of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
on April 30.
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Robert Langer of the Department of Chemical Engineering
received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
on June 17.
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John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
received the Donald Q. Kern Award
from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on May 1.
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Mingda Li of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
received the PAI Outstanding Faculty Award
presented by the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society on May 11.
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Nuno Loureiro of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
received the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
on May 11.
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Benedetto Marelli of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
received the 2022 BioInnovation Institute and
Science
Prize for Innovation
on April 7.
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Muriel Médard of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was named
a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
on March 1.
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Yet Ming-Chiang of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering was named to the
Boston Globe
’s
Tech Power Players 50
on June 1.
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Stefanie Mueller of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was named to the
MIT Technology Review
35 Innovators Under 35
on June 30.
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Farnaz Niroui of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award
on Jan. 1.
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Carlos Portela of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was named to the
MIT Technology Review
35 Innovators Under 35
on June 29.
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Manish Raghavan of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
received a 2021 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
on June 1.
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Ronitt Rubinfeld of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences
on May 3.
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Arvind Satyanarayan of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
received Best Paper Honorable Mention
from IUI 2022 on May 5,
Best Paper Honorable Mention
from EUROVIS 2022 on May 25, and
Best Paper Honorable Mention
from SIGCHI on June 17.
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Zachary Smith of the Department of Chemical Engineering
received the John G. Kunesh Award
from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers on June 14, and an
NSF CAREER Award
on June 16.
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Antonio Torralba of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
received an honorary doctorate from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
on March 11.
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Giovanni Traverso of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
named a Controlled Release Society College of Fellows Award Recipient
on April 19.
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Harry Tuller of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering was
named a 2022 Materials Research Society Fellow
on April 28.
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Vinod Vaikuntanathan of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
received the 2022 Gödel Prize
on May 21, and was
named a 2022 Blavatnik National Award Finalist
on June 1.
- Xuanhe Zhao of the Department of Mechanical Engineering received the 2022 Soft Matter Lectureship on May 31.