Awards, honors and fellowships
Awards, honors and fellowships

Awards, honors and fellowships

Artificial Intelligence Arts Awards, honors and fellowships Faculty Media Lab Music Music technology School of Architecture and Planning

Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology

The George Peabody Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

The prestigious fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.

Artificial Intelligence Astronomy and astrophysics Awards, honors and fellowships chemistry Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Education, teaching, academics Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty machine learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Natural language processing School of Engineering School of Science

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.

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On algorithms, life, and learning

Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.

Alumni/ae Artificial Intelligence Awards, honors and fellowships Center for Brains Minds and Machines Computer graphics Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Computer science and technology computer-vision Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Faculty MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab School of Engineering

Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows

Torralba’s research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and human visual perception.

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Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship

The MIT senior will pursue a master’s degree at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.

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MIT affiliates named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Postdoc Zongyi Li, Associate Professor Tess Smidt, and seven additional alumni will be supported in the development of AI against difficult problems.

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Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025

Professors Facundo Batista and Dina Katabi, along with three additional MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

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MIT affiliates win AI for Math grants to accelerate mathematical discovery

Department of Mathematics researchers David Roe and Andrew Sutherland seek to advance automated theorem proving; four additional MIT alumni also awarded.

Artificial Intelligence Awards, honors and fellowships Center for Real Estate Design Education, teaching, academics Faculty Housing Media Lab MIT Morningside Academy for Design Nanoscience and nanotechnology real-estate School of Architecture and Planning Urban studies and planning

School of Architecture and Planning recognizes faculty with academic promotions in 2025

The faculty members’ work comprises multifaceted research and scholarship across a wide range of disciplines.