LIDS faculty and students are frequently recognized for their outstanding scholarship and commitment to research. We are proud to announce the following recent awards:

Professor Pablo Parrilo received the Donald P. Eckman Award for pioneering contributions to the integration of algebraic and numerical techniques as computational tools for the optimizaton and robustness of control systems.

Alessandro Tarello won the Best Student Paper Award at Wiopt 2005 for his paper Minimum Energy Transmission Scheduling Subject to Deadline Constraints,co-authored with J. Sun, M. Zafer and E. Modiano.

Emily Fox was recognized with the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. 

Anantha P. Chandrakasan, along with Fred S. Lee and Raul Blazquez (MIT) and Puneet P. Newaskar (Silicon Labs), took first place at the  41st Design Automation Conference 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.

Emily M. Craparo received the 2004-2005 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship.

Professor Munther Dahleh won the George S. Axelby Outstanding paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) in 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 received 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. Medard, R. Koetter, Y. Chang, and M. Effros. Ms. Ho was also awarded the George M. Sprowls Award Honorable Mention for her thesis “Networking From a Network Coding Perspective,” supervised by Muriel Medard.

Alex Ihler  won the Best Student Paper Award at the IPS (Sensor Network) Conference.  Mr. Ihler also received an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2004 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference.

Associate Professor Muriel Medard was the 2004 winner of the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award.

Assistant Professor Asuman E. Ozdaglar was recognized by the Graduate Student Council with the GSC Award for Teaching in the School of Engineering.

Tom Schouwenaars won the AIAA Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Award. (June 2004).

Erik Sudderth was awarded an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship.

Watcharapan Suwansantisuk won the Morris Joseph Levin Masterworks Award for best thesis presentation. His MS Thesis is entitled “Multipath Aided Acquisition,” supervised by Moe Win (May 2004).

Aurelie Thiele took first prize in the annual George Nicholson student paper competition at the annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. The paper was entitled “A Robust Optimization Approach to Supply Chain Management.”

Guy Weichenberg was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship.

Professor Alan Willsky received the 2004 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for the paper “Multiresolution Markov Models for Signal and Image Processing”.

Associate Professor Moe Win was recognized with election into the IEEE as a Fellow, the Institute’s highest grade of membership. He was also presented with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House. The PECASE Awards are the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research   careers. Professor Win received a   Fulbright Fellowship as well, for research at the Center for Wireless Communication in Finland (May 2004).