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by Sarah Beckmann
Sept. 2, 2021
View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules below.
Fellowship program honors ACM members whose specific accomplishments drive innovation and make broader advances possible.
Congratulations to Labbers Hiroshi Ishii and Nataliya Kosmyna on receiving these grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT).
Deblina Sarkar is recognized as one of the eight scientists leading next generation research by United For Medical Research.
The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation.
DCI director Neha Narula has been honored with the Alumni Trailblazers Award this year.
Congratulations to Media Lab professor Cynthia Breazeal on her joint appointment as senior associate dean of MIT Open Learning.
The LEGO Prize is presented to individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children.
Under Dr. Wood's leadership, the program will move forward with the NASA Astrobee robotic system as its new in-space robotic platform.
The awards will support Dagdeviren's research in the emerging field of widely deployed biosensing tools.
iCANX is a global innovation center aiming to disseminate cutting-edge technological innovation, and tap and train top innovative talents.
Each new fellow continues to enhance the ISC’s focus on enabling the growth of resilient space commerce in the post-Covid world.
The award is given to a member of the electronic imaging community who has made significant and substantial contributions to the field.
These awards recognize outstanding achievement and innovation in the field.
Danielle Wood joins Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts: a global community of public and private sector innovators and entrepreneurs.
The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.
Cynthia Breazeal has been chosen as one of two recipients of this award for the paper, "Emotion and Sociable Humanoid Robots."
Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard and alum Fernanda Viégas are elected to the SIGCHI Academy as part of the 2021 SIGCHI Awards.
Congratulations to Signal Kinetics group head Fadel Adib, who has received a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science.
Conformable Decoders head Canan Dagdeviren is one of the Inverse Future 50—"a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s.”
Rosalind W. Picard pioneered the field of Affective Computing at the Media Lab.
This award is given out annually by the MIT Graduate Student Council and presented at the Awards Convocation ceremony.
In just three semesters, we have done a lot, and I cannot wait to experience our progress in Spring 2019 and beyond.
MAS professor recognized for a career of contributions to human-computer interaction.
The project won first place and the Audience Choice Award in the SEPTA for All: Augmenting Transit with Augmented Reality competition.
Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.
His work will focus on refining Ethical Computing Protocol as a tool and resource for researchers and practitioners.
FG is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition.
FlowIO is a project led by Responsive Environments PhD student Ali Shtarbanov that redesigns the role of pneumatics in soft robotics.
“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."
Nine Graduate Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) Scholars have been chosen by MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
Safinah Ali, a PhD student in the Personal Robots group, is among the recipients of the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2022.
A research team including Fluid Interfaces group members Nataliya Kosmyna and Pattie Maes received the Best Poster Award at IEEE BSN 2021.
Tree Clocks was selected as the winning project at the Code Cypher hosted by MIT CAST.
"FlowIO represents a brilliantly thought-out system for creating pneumatic prototypes."
The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
For the paper, “Long-Term Co-Design Guidelines: Empowering Older Adults as Co-Designers of Social Robots"
The Fellowships are aimed at helping students from underrepresented backgrounds establish careers in robotics, engineering, computer science
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!
For the paper titled: Dynamic Urban Planning: An Agent-based model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use Case Kendall Square.
These awards recognize students who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers.
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's competitive fellowships administered by the MIT Office of Graduate Education (OGE).
Ufuoma Ovienmhada received two MIT RISE Awards this spring for her "work with diversity, inclusion and social justice on and off campus."
Congratulations to the winners of this year's A'Design Awards, including Media Lab researchers Jack Forman, Ali Shtarbanov, and Hila Mor!
Shtarbanov won with his project "FlowIO Development Platform—the Pneumatic 'Raspberry Pi' for Soft Robotics."
The RISE LBGTQ+ Pride Award recognizes staff and students who have made significant contributions to creating an inclusive community.
The Fellowship program provides awards to PhD candidates conducting research on important topics across computer science and engineering.
The project has won a bronze award under the Personal Technology: Design Enhancements category of the 2021 Edison Best New Product Awards.
This year, among student winners of the Challenge, Personal Robots PhD candidate Randi Williams was honored as the 2021 Curious Scientist.
These awards recognize technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact.
Women in Innovation and STEM Database at MIT (WISDM) announces fellowship program dedicated to promoting the visibility of women at MIT.
Guillermo Herrera-Arcos has been named as a One Young World Scholar by the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) for 2020/2021.
A multi-institutional team, including members of the Camera Culture research group, has won the Baidu Best Paper Award at NeurIPS-SpicyFL'20
Farita Tasnim from the Conformable Decoders group has been named as one of 48 finalists for the 2021 Hertz Fellowships.
Irmandy Wicaksono, PhD student in the Responsive Environments group, has been chosen as one of six finalists in the 2021 Lexus Design Award.
Congratulations to Daniella DiPaola., current research assistant in the Personal Robots group!
Randi Williams from the Personal Robots research group is among ten students who have received the Microsoft PhD Fellowship for 2021.
The “HIDW Young Talent” exhibition addressed three topics: Manufacturing of Tomorrow, Future Craft, and City Catalyst.
For the paper: "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing"
The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
Andrea Ling, an alum of the Mediated Matter group, has won the Grand Prize in Artistic Exploration at this year's festival.
In recognition of exceptional contributions to the field of digital design and fabrication in early-stage careers.
Congratulations to the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows and Finalists, including alum Ani Liu.
Chazz Sims, former researcher in Human Dynamics and founder of Media Lab spinoff Wise Systems, is chosen as an honoree for 2021.
The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.
For the paper, "Improving Context-aware Habit-support Interventions using Egocentric Visual Contexts."
Congrats to Misha Sra, a recent Fluid Interfaces alum and current assistant professor in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara.
The President's Awards for Excellence in Research recognize staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research.
Srinivasan hopes her work will help make using a prosthetic limb far more like the real thing.
Dr. Oliver co-led team VALENCIA IA4COVID19’s Grand Prize-winning entry to the XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge.
Natasha Jaques, an alum of the Affective Computing group, has won this year's award for her thesis: "Social and Affective Machine Learning"
The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list honors "bold risk-takers putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade" + includes a few Media Labbers.
Nakagaki is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he's launching his own lab, the Actuated Experience Lab.
Xiao Xiao, an alum and research affiliate of the Tangible Media group, recognized for her project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin
Spinoff Graviky Labs has been listed as a winner in the Science Start-Ups category of this year's Falling Walls Science Summit.
Spinoff DeepCure, co-founded by Molecular Machines head Joe Jacobson and alumni Kfir Schreiber and Thrasyvoulos Karydis, raised $40 million
Wise Systems’ real-time, automated system powers delivery and service operations with drivers worldwide across the last-mile industry.
Spinoff Tulip, an E14 Fund company founded by alumni Natan Linder and Rony Kubat, has received a new round of investment financing.
Butlr's people-sensing platform uses body heat to provide actionable spatial insights for the built environment.
Read more about this news regarding Media Lab spinoff Affectiva, founded by former Labber Rana El Kaliouby.
Media Lab spinoff co-founded by alum Jinha Lee is one of the 10 most innovative companies in augmented and virtual reality for 2020.
The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.
Zhang has also been invited to deliver the 20th Schrödinger lecture on December 17, 2021.