2024-25 EECS Faculty Award Roundup

This ongoing listing of awards and recognitions won by our faculty is added to all year, beginning in September.

Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor of EECS, was named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor of EECS, received the 2025 Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT.

Regina Barzilay, School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health, was awarded the 2025 IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal.

Regina Barzilay, School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health, was named to the Time 100AI list.

Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, was named to the cohort of 2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Sciences.

Sara Beery, Assistant Professor, was awarded the NSF CAREER Award.

Rodney Brooks, Panasonic Professor of Robotics (Emeritus), was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Michael Carbin, Associate Professor, was named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Assistant Professor, has received the 2025 Junior Bose Award.

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Assistant Professor, has received the 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award.

Christina Delimitrou, Associate Professor, has received the 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award.

Christina Delimitrou, Associate Professor, was named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Priya Donti, Assistant Professor, was named to the Time 100AI 2025 list.

Gabriele Farina, Assistant Professor, was named to the cohort of 2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Sciences.

James Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering, was awarded the Honda Prize 2024 by the Honda Foundation.

James Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering, was named a 2025 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Mohsen Ghaffari, Associate Professor, was named to the cohort of 2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Sciences.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, Associate Professor, was named to the cohort of 2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Sciences.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, Associate Professor, was named to the cohort of 2025 Sloan Research Fellows.

Dina Katabi, the Thuan (1990) and Nicole Pham Professor, received the 2026 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.

Yoon Kim, Assistant Professor, was named to the cohort of 2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellows by Schmidt Sciences.

Yoon Kim, Assistant Professor, has received the 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award.

Jing Kong, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor In Engineering, was awarded the MIT Postdoctoral Association’s Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. 

Steve Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Professor, received the 2025 IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award, along with coauthors Daniel Monagle and Eric A. Ponce, for the paper entitled “Rule the Joule: An Energy Management Design Guide for Self-Powered Sensors”. 

Paul Liang, Assistant Professor, was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Science category for 2025.

Laura Lewis, the Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor in the Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Science and EECS, was awarded the MIT Postdoctoral Association’s Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. 

Kuikui Liu, Elting Morison Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor, was awarded the 2025 Michael and Sheila Held Prize by the National Academy of Sciences.

Tomás Lozano-Pérez, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Farnaz Niroui, Associate Professor, was named a recipient of the DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award.

Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 All-Star Alumni in the Science category for 2025.

Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman (1974) Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded the 2025 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching by MIT’s School of Engineering.

William Oliver, Associate Director, RLE; Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor, was named a Fellow of the IEEE.

Anthony Pennes, Technical Instructor, was awarded the 2025 Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Associate Professor, was awarded the 2025 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching by MIT’s School of Engineering.

Martin Rinard, Professor of CS and Engineering, was awarded the 2025 SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.

Daniela Rus, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was awarded the 2025 IEEE Edison Medal.

Daniela Rus, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was recently named a co-recipient of the 2024 John Scott Award by the board of directors of City Trusts. 

Daniela Rus, Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, was recently named a foreign member of the French national academy of medicine, or Académie Nationale de Médecine (ANM).

Shen Shen, Lecturer, was awarded the 2025 Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

Henry “Hank” Smith, Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of EE (Emeritus), received the SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography from the International society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

Justin Solomon, Associate Professor of EECS, received the 2025 Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT.

Joe Steinmeyer, Senior Lecturer, was awarded the Distinguished Educator Award by MIT’s School of Engineering.

Sixian You, Alfred Henry (1929) and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor, along with an interdisciplinary research team, was award the 2025 J-WAFS Grand Challenge Grant.