MIT educators and scholars garner various external accolades throughout the year. The MIT School of Engineering frequently underscores the awards, honors, and distinctions earned by members of the community engaged in academic departments, laboratories, and institutes. Winter 2025 awardees comprise the following:

• Faez Ahmed, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Naval Engineering and Utilization, along with being an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was honored with a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. This CAREER initiative is recognized as one of NSF’s highest distinctions, supporting emerging faculty who exhibit remarkable research, superior education, and the fusion of teaching and research.
• Martin Zdenek Bazant, the E.G. Roos (1944) Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE), was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Membership in the NAE is reserved for individuals who have made significant contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education.”
• Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), was awarded the National Medal of Science. This distinction is the nation’s highest accolade for scientists and innovators.
• Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, the Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering, received election to the National Academy of Engineering. Membership in the NAE is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education.”
• Emery Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering, was bestowed the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top honor for scientists and innovators.
• Charles L. Cooney, professor emeritus in the Department of ChemE, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. Membership in the NAE recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education.”
• Yoel Fink, the Danae and Vasilis (1961) Salapatas Professor in the DMSE, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. NAE membership is conferred upon those making notable contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education.”
• James Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), is set to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2025. Inductees are innovators holding patents whose contributions have simplified, safeguarded, improved, and enriched our lives.
• Mohsen Ghaffari, an associate professor in the Department of EECS, was awarded a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes exceptional scholars at U.S. and Canadian academic institutions whose creativity, innovativeness, and research achievements mark them as future leaders.
• Marzyeh Ghassemi, the Germeshausen Career Development Professor and associate professor in the Department of EECS and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, also received a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowships honor extraordinary researchers at U.S. and Canadian academic institutions whose creativity, invention, and research accomplishments distinguish them as the emerging generation of leaders.
• Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering, earned the 2025 BMES Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship Award. This award is presented to individuals who have exemplified impactful leadership and contributions in the field of biomedical engineering science and practice.
• Paula Hammond, MIT’s vice provost for faculty and an Institute Professor in the Department of ChemE, was recognized with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the most prestigious award for scientists and innovators in the nation.
• Kuikui Liu, the Elting Morison Career Development Professor and an assistant professor in the Department of EECS, was honored with the 2025 Michael and Sheila Held Prize. This award is given annually to celebrate significant, innovative, creative, and impactful research in combinatorial and discrete optimization and related areas of computer science, such as algorithm design and analysis and complexity theory.
• Farnaz Niroui, an associate professor in the Department of EECS, was granted a DARPA Innovation Fellowship. This elite program selects fellows to curate and oversee a collection of high-impact, exploratory research projects aimed at identifying breakthrough technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Tomás Lozano-Pérez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of EECS, received recognition by being elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Membership in the NAE honors those who have made significant contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education.”
• Kristala L. Prather, the Arthur Dehon Little Professor and head of the Department of ChemE, was elected into the National Academy of Engineering. Membership recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education.”
• Frances Ross, the TDK Professor in DMSE, was honored with the Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science.

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The accolade honors physicists who have played a pivotal role in the advancement of measurement methodologies or apparatus that have influenced the physics community by delivering enhanced measurements.

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