Professor Devavrat Shah is the recipient of the First ACM Sigmetrics Rising Star Award. Sue Patterson is a 2008 recipient of the School of Engineering's Infinite Mile Award for Excellence. Doris Inslee is a 2008 winner of the MIT Excellence Award for Serving the Client. LIDS Alum Sridevi V. Sarma, EECS Ph.D. Graduate (February, 2006), wins two prestigious awards: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award and the 2008 L’Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science. Professor Asu Ozdaglar is the 2008 winner of the Donald P. Eckman Award Remembering - Professor J. Francis Reintjes, 65 years at M.I.T. Erik Sudderth, a recent LIDS grad, has been listed as one of the IEEE Intelligent Systems top "Ten to Watch" Brian Jones is the one of two recipients of the 2007 Steven Wade Neiterman Award. LIDS professor, Sanjoy Mitter wins the 2007 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award For contributions to the unification of communication and control, nonlinear filtering and its relationship to stochastic control; optimization; optimal control and infinite-dimensional systems theory. Professor Médard is a recipient of the Gilbreth Lectureship as selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The Gilbreth Lectures program was established as a means of recognizing outstanding young engineers. (APR. '07) Congratulations to Professor John Tsitsiklis who has been elected into the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Tsitsiklis was recognized for his "contributions to the theory and application of optimization in dynamic and distributed systems." (feb 07) Professor Moe Win is a recipient of the Wireless Educator of the Year Award, presented by the Global Wireless Education Consortium. The award recognizesdistinguished university educators and their pivotal role in preparing tomorrow's wireless technology leaders. (mar. '07) Chung Chan who is the co-recipient of the Cisco Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. LIDS team will participate w/ three universities in a $6.5 million DARPA Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (ITMANET) program. Mardavij Roozbehani has been awarded the AIAA Graduate Award for his research on "Safety Verification of Real Time Software Systems". Congratulations to Dmitry Malioutov and Jason Johnson for receiving a student paper award from ICASSP 2006 for the paper titled Low-Rank Variance Estimation in Large-Scale GMRF Models. Professor Moe Win, co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, given "for pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology." Professor Pablo Parrilo has been awarded the SIAM Activity Group/Control and Systems Theory (SIAG/CST) prize at the annual Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Alessandro Tarello on receiving the best Student Paper Award at Wiopt 2005 for his Paper "Minimum Energy transmission scheduling subject to deadline constraints" coauthored by A. Tarello, J. Sun, M. Zafer and E. Modiano Emily Fox on winning the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Michael Lewy who has been invited to exhibit his artwork (Spring 2005) at the Decordova Museum. Professor Moe Win who was presented with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at a September 9th ceremony at the White House. The PECASE Awards are the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Professor Moe Win, who was nominated for the award by the Department of Defense, was cited "for pioneering work on novel Ultra-Wide Band radio communication systems including fundamental propagation studies, channel modeling, and signal acquisition protocols; providing the foundation for utilizing this new form of radio communication in the design of secure, fade resistant, high data rate wireless networks." Overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the PECASE Awards recognize "the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the 21st century." The winners of this year's George M. Sprowls Award for the best doctoral theses in computer science. A committee consisting of Trevor Darrell, Fredo Durand, Srini Devadas, Michael Ernst, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Jackson, Robert Miller, Robert Morris and Jovan Popovic read a collection of excellent theses nominated by their supervisors. We decided to award the Sprowls to Ramesh Johari "Efficiency Loss in Market Mechanisms for Resource Allocation" supervised by John N. Tsitsiklis and to award an honorable mention to Tracey Ho "Networking from a Network Coding Perspective" supervised by Muriel Medard For a while, the theses will be available online at http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/~dnj/tmp/theses. Professor Munther Dahleh for winning the George S. Axelby Outstanding paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society ( CSS) for the year 2004 for his paper "Distributed control of spatially invariant systems" with Professors Barmieh and Paganini. The award is given to recognize up to three outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic control during the two years preceding the date of the award. Tracy Ho for winning the best student paper award at the International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks for her paper "On the utility of network coding in dynamic environments" with B. Leong, M. Médard, R. Koetter, Y. Chang, M. Effros. Anantha P. Chandrakasan along with Fred S. Lee and Raul Blazquez (of MIT) and Puneet P. Newaskar (Silicon Labs). This team took first place at the 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC) for the yearly Student Design Contest in the operational category. They designed a Single-Chip, Ultra-Wideband Transceiver. This CMOS chip integrates a complete wireless transceiver system working in the 0-500MHz ultra-wide band. The judges were impressed by the high level of integration and demonstration of working transmission at 200kb/s. Tom Schouwenaars who has received the AIAA Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Award. (posted June 2004) Assistant Prof. Moe Win who has received a Fulbright Fellowship to be spent at the Center for Wireless Communicatoin in Finland. (posted May 2004) Watcharapan Suwansantesuk who has received the Morris Joseph Levin Masterworks Award for best thesis presentation. His MS Thesis is entitled "Multipath Aided Acquisition". (posted May 2004 Prof. Alan Willsky who has received the 2004 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for the paper "Multiresolution Markov Models for Signal and Image Processing", published in the Proceedings of the IEEE 90(8), August 2002. Assistant Prof. Asuman E. Ozdaglar who has received the GSC (Graduate Student Council Award) for Teaching in the School of Engineering. Associate Professor Muriel Médard - the 2004 winner of the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award  Aurelie Thiele for winning 1st prize in the annual George Nicholson student paper competition at the INFORMS 2003 annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. The paper was entitled "A Robust Optimization Approach to Supply Chain Management." Alex Ihler for winning the Best Student Paper Award at the IPS (Sensor Network) Conference  Erik Sudderth who was awarded an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship.