Faculty News : Innovation Fellowship
Faculty News : Chairs Vladimir currently serves as Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories and is playing a critical role in defining the future of MIT’s nanofabrication capabilities. n
Asu Ozdaglar is the Inaugural Steven and Renée Finn Innovation Fellow 2012 Professor Asu Ozdaglar has been named the inaugural Steven and Renée Finn Innovation Fellow. Made possible by a gift from MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science alumnus Steven Finn '68, SM '69, EE '70, ScD '75 and his wife Renée, the fellowship provides tenured, mid-career faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department with resources for up to three years to pursue new research and development paths, and to make potentially important discoveries through early stage research. Since 2003, Prof. Ozdaglar has been a member of the faculty of the EECS Department, as well as a member of Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Operations Research Center. Her research interests include optimization theory, with emphasis on nonlinear programming and convex analysis, game theory, with applications in communication, social, and economic networks, and distributed optimization and control. She is the co-author of the book entitled “Convex Analysis and Optimization” (Athena Scientific, 2003). She also co-directs (with Prof. Sandy Pentland) the Center for Connection Science and Engineering, a virtual center at MIT to bring together network initiatives from across the Institute. See page 17 in this issue of the Connector. Asu Ozdaglar
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Professor Ozdaglar is the recipient of a Microsoft fellowship, the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching award, the NSF Career award, Class of 1943 career development chair, the 2008 Donald P. Eckman award of the American Automatic Control Council, and is a 2011 Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. She served on the Board of Governors of the Control System Society in 2010. She is currently the area co-editor for a new area for the journal Operations Research, entitled "Games, Information and Networks", an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the chair of the Control System Society Technical Committee “Networks and Communications Systems”. n
Vladimir Bulovic´ was appointed to the Fariborz Maseeh professorship in Emerging Technology in January, 2013. Vladimir is a widely recognized leader in the areas of energy and nanotechnology. The Fariborz Maseeh chair was previously held by President L. Rafael Reif. Vladimir has made pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of organic and nanostructured optics and electronics, and has applied his findings to develop devices that define the state of the art. Together with his former students he has founded three start-ups that presently employ over 200 people: in 2005, QD Vision, Inc., which produces quantum dot optoelectronic components; in 2008, Kateeva, Inc., which is focused on development of printed organic electronics; and in 2011, Ubiquitous Energy, Inc., which is developing nanostructured solar technologies. In 2012, Vladimir shared the SEMI Award for North America in recognition of his and his colleagues’ contributions to commercialization of quantum dot technology. Vladimir has also made outstanding contributions to MIT’s energy research and education. He played a critical role in the establishment of the Energy Studies Minor Program, the first program to link all of MIT’s departments and schools. Vladimir’s educational contributions to the EECS department include the development of 6.789 (a graduate class in Organic Optoelectronics); co-development of 6.007 (an undergraduate class on Electromagnetic Energy: from Motors to Lasers); and the newest introductory class, 6.S079 — Nanomaker, which emerged from the freshman seminar he has taught for many years with Prof. Rajeev Ram. Vladimir’s educational contributions have been recognized by the Ruth and Joel Spira Award, the Bose Award for Distinguished Teaching, Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching, Class of 1960 Fellowship, and most recently by the Margaret MacVicar Fellowship.
Srini Devadas was appointed the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, joining Prof. Alan Willsky as the second Edwin Sibley Webster chaired professor at MIT. For nearly sixty years, many prominent faculty members have held this professorship, including Ernst Guillemin in 1960, Lan Jen Chu in 1963, Peter Elias in 1974, and Ronald Rivest in 1992. Professor Devadas has done pioneering work in a number of areas related to CAD, security and computer architecture. His early award-winning work involved developing a symbolic simulation method for analyzing the average and worst-case power estimation of combinational logic; this was among the first efficient, accurate power estimation methods developed. Professor Devadas was one of the first to recognize that manufacturing variations in integrated circuits could be used to not just identify, but to authenticate, individual integrated circuits. He coined the term Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) in 2002; PUFs are now a very active field of research and this technology has been commercialized. Most recently, along with his students, he has developed a computation-migration-based parallel processing architecture where programs move to where the data resides rather than the other way around. As proof of concept, his group is working on the tape-out of a 121-core processor. In addition to his research, his service and teaching record at MIT has been extraordinary. He served as Associate Department Head of the EECS Department for nearly 6 years, leading the Computer Science side of the department during that time. He has taught 6.00, 6.001, 6.002, 6.004, 6.005, 6.006, 6.042, 6.046, and 6.170 at the undergraduate level, and graduatelevel classes in VLSI, architecture and security. n
MIT EECS Connector — Spring 2013
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