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The MIT EECS Connector SPRING 2013 Annual News from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science the MIT EECS Connector 1 4 2 5 3 6 7 Annual News from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Perspectives from the the MIT EECS Connector Department Head Anantha P. Chandrakasan Perspectives from the Department Head : 1 Department Head Department Snapshot : 3 Munther A. Dahleh SuperUROP Starts Strong : 7 Associate Department Head Rising Stars in EECS : 11 William T. Freeman Welcome to the 2013 edition of the MIT EECS Connector. I am pleased to share news Women’s Technology Program : 13 Associate Department Head of ongoing academic and research programs as well as the implementation of the Centers: hubs for collaborative action : 14 2012 EECS Strategic Plan. Over the past academic year we launched several major bigdata@CSAIL : 14 CONTACT initiatives that have already made a positive impact on our faculty, students, staff, Wireless@MIT : 15 the MIT EECS Connector and alumni. The EECS Department at MIT continues to lead internationally in Connection Science and Engineering : 17 Room 38-401 education and research, establishing the basis for tomorrow’s breakthrough MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems : 18 77 Massachusetts Avenue technologies. Center for Excitonics : 19 Cambridge, MA 02139 The new SuperUROP program, launched in September 2012, features a year-long Research Lab News : 21 [email protected] advanced research experience during which undergraduate students (juniors and CSAIL: From the Integrated Circuit to the Internet: Bridging Engineering and the Social Sciences, seniors) focus on a challenging research problem. The program provides mentor- Constantinos Daskalakis : 21 Editor: Patricia A. Sampson ship and resources necessary to produce publication-worthy results and advanced CSAIL: Computer Aided Programming: Changing the way we code, Armando Solar-Lezama : 23 Design: Subbiah Design software or hardware prototypes that could be commercially developed. In essence, LIDS: When the whole is weaker than the sum of its parts: robustness and fragility in power grids, Printer: Artco, Inc. SuperUROP is a jump-start on graduate school, a startup accelerator and an Mardavij Roozbehani, Munther Dahleh : 24 industry-training bootcamp, all rolled into one. With the generous financial support MTL: Nanofabrication, Karl K. Berggren, Vitor R. Manfrinato, Samuel M. Nicaise, Jae-Byum Chang : 26 www.eecs.mit.edu RLE: Largest Ever Optical Phased Array, Michael Watts : 28 of industry and private donors, named undergraduate research and innovation scholars are engaged in projects that are commensurate with graduate level work. Faculty News : 30 Students are also exposed to best research practices through the newly created Awards, Fellowships, Chairs : 30, 33, 35 class, 6.UAR: Preparation for Undergraduate Research. New Faculty : 38 L. Rafael Reif, MIT’s 17th president : 39 Several major inter-disciplinary centers have been created by EECS faculty over New Classes in EECS : 40 the past several years. The centers hosted by the EECS-affiliated research labs 6.S02, a medical technology alternative to 6.02 is launched : 40 (CSAIL, LIDS, MTL and RLE) bring together faculty, students, staff, and sponsors 6.S193: Biological Circuit Engineering Laboratory : 42 from industry and government to address critical emerging problems in big data, 6.S196 brings out the human side of technology : 44 wireless communications, connection science, materials and devices, synthetic biology, and health care. Several research centers are featured in this edition and Staff Features : 46 more details are available on the lab websites. Claire Benoit, Agnes Chow, Janet Fischer and Myron (Fletch) Freeman Student Groups : 51 Our faculty continues to be recognized by major international awards. Several The MIT Formula SAE Team Goes Electric! : 51 members of our faculty have been appointed to prestigious career development 6.270: The Course 6 autonomous robot competition – entirely run by students : 52 and senior faculty chairs. In order to recognize EECS faculty members for out- USAGE 2012–2013 : 54 standing research contributions and international leadership in their fields, the Department has established the EECS Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship Alumni Features : 55 (FRIF) program. In 2013 we marked the second year of FRIF awards to support the Deborah Estrin PhD ’85 : 55 research of senior faculty who do not hold endowed chairs. The newly established Drew Houston ’05, Arash Ferdowsi '08 : 57 Steven and Renée Finn Innovation Fellowship provides tenured mid-career faculty Sal Khan SB, MEng ’98 : 60 in EECS with resources for up to three years to pursue new research and develop- Susie Wee SB ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’96 : 63 ment paths. Donor Recognition : 66 Remember This? : inside back cover Another key initiative of the 2012 EECS Strategic Plan is Rising Stars in EECS, designed to bring together outstanding women PhD students close to graduation as well as women postdocs in electrical engineering and/or computer science. The Front cover images: 1: Students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science work on a lab project to build a light-tracking “pet robot” in first Rising Stars in EECS workshop, held November 2012, provided a two-day 6.01. See Department Snapshot, page 3. 2: Read about the largest ever, optical phased array – work presented by Prof. Michael Watts in the Research Lab News, intensive networking experience for 36 attendees to share their research results page 28. 3: The SuperUROP Starts Strong – read about the new Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program allowing in-depth high-caliber research and more on page 7. 4: Participants including top young female PhD graduates and postdocs gathered for the Rising Stars in EECS two-day workshop to present their research and network. Read more page 11. 5: Prof. Asuman Ozdaglar discusses connection science ideas with graduate students in her research group. See Department Snapshot, page 4. 6: Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan with collaborators used mammalian inner ear’s natural battery to power implantable devices. MIT EECS Connector — Spring 2013 1 7: EECS Professors William Freeman, Frédo Durand and John Guttag teamed to develop a system that amplifies video. See the EECS homepage www.eecs.mit.edu Feb. 28, 2013. Department Snapshot with each other and our faculty, and to learn about entering and building an academic career. Another goal is to increase their visibility with top departments EECS places renewed emphasis on interdisciplinary research, in EE and CS. The workshop appears to have been a positive and energizing partnerships with alumni and industry, and experiential learning. experience for all involved. Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office. November 16, 2012 In response to growing interest in bio-medical systems, the Department has created "the Department has a flagship sophomore-level class, 6.S02: Introduction to EECS in Medicine, which is in its first offering this spring term. The class is designed to expose students to a created a flagship wide spectrum of concepts, problems and hands-on laboratory experiences relevant to EECS in medicine. Our faculty members continue to engage in the pioneering MITx class offerings, including 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics) and 6.00x (Introduction to sophomore-level Computer Science and Programming). The Department is also offering many exciting new undergraduate courses, including Principles and Practice of Assistive Technolo- class, 6.S02: gy, Biological Circuit Engineering Laboratory (BioCel), Introduction to Inference, and Introduction to Machine Learning. Introduction to We continue to engage our alumni in a number of programs. They are invited to provide cooperative teaching and mentoring through the Course 6 Mentoring EECS in Medicine." Network, which is ideal for our large undergraduate software courses, such as 6.172, 6.005, and soon 6.813 and 6.170. The associated infrastructure, currently in develop- ment, will allow distant alumni to interact with students as reviewers of code. In this edition of the Connector we are very pleased to feature several alumni, including Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston (SB ’05) and Arash Ferdowsi ('08); Khan Academy founder Sal Kahn (SB ‘98, MEng ‘98); Susie Wee (SB’91, SM’91, PhD’96), Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Networked Experiences at Cisco Systems; Students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science work on a lab project to build a light-tracking "pet robot" in 6.01. [Top left and center, and Deborah Estrin (PhD ’85), Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech in New photos by Dominick Reuter]. Undergraduate student Victor Pontis studies in a common area in the Stata Center (right). [photo by M. Scott Brauer. Both photos courte- York City. sy MIT News] It is my pleasure to share, through this edition of the Connector and through our In the 1950s, when MIT researchers were helping to invent the At the same time, Chandrakasan says, the core EECS curricu- website (www.eecs.mit.edu), the energy and excitement generated by our faculty, discipline of computer science, they didn’t think of themselves lum is more popular than ever. EECS has long drawn the students and staff. We invite our alumni to be in touch through the Alumni News as computer scientists; they thought of themselves as electri- largest undergraduate enrollment at MIT, since the days when section of our website. I am also always delighted to hear directly
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