MS thesis award
Zhuoyi Zhao received the best electrical engineering MS thesis award of 2025 for his thesis entitled “Optimizing Age-of-Information in Real-World Networks”.Undergraduate Researcher Award
Grant Davies Griffin received the best electrical engineering Undergraduate researcher award of 2025 for his thesis entitled “A Distributed Low-Complexity Spectrum Sharing Algorithm for Large-Scale Time-Varying Networks”.
Best Student Paper Award
Yubo Zhang, Pedro Botelho, and Trevor Gordon received the Best Student Paper Award at WiOpt 2025 for their paper “Fair Dynamic Spectrum Access via Fully Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning,” which is joint work with Prof. Gil Zussman.
Best Student Paper Award
Kangle (Phil) Mu and Zongyun Xie received the Best Student Paper Award at WiOpt 2024 for their paper “Impact of geographical separation on spectrum sharing markets,” which is joint work with Prof. Randall Berry.
1st place ACM SIGCOMM SRC
Alon Simon Levin, Sasank Garikapati, Bo Zhang, Aditya Jolly, and Manav Kohli earned first place in the ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition for their demo “Experimentation with Wideband Real-Time Adaptive Full-Duplex Radios,” which is joint work with Prof. Mingoo Seok, Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy and Prof. Gil Zussman. Please find additional information in this news item.
Best Poster Presentation
Ankit Walishetti earned first place in the Poster Division at the Illinois Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for his work “Algorithmic Design and Computational Modeling Using Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Techniques to Optimize Bandwidth Management in Wireless Communication Systems,” which is joint work with Colin Ward, Eduardo Gutierrez, and Aidan Kim from IMSA high-school, and their research advisors Prof. Randall Berry and Prof. Igor Kadota. Ankit will now represent the Illinois Delegation in the National Symposium.
Distinguished TPC Member
Selected as a Distinguished Member of the 2023 INFOCOM TPC.
Latine Trailblazers in Engineering
LATinE Trailblazer in Engineering Fellow in 2022. Fellows are selected annually by Purdue’s College of Engineering. Columbia University news item here.
Teaching and Mentoring Award
MIT School of Engineering (SoE) Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award of 2020 given annually by the SoE to a graduate student in “recognition of demonstrated extraordinary teaching and mentoring efforts as a teaching or research assistant”.
Best Paper Award Finalist
Best Paper Award Finalist at ACM MobiHoc 2019 for our paper entitled Minimizing the Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Stochastic Arrivals. This is joint work with Prof. Eytan Modiano.
Teaching Assistantship Award
MIT AeroAstro Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award of 2018 given annually by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics to a graduate student “who has demonstrated conspicuous dedication and skill in helping fulfill a subject’s educational objectives”.
Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018 for our paper entitled Optimizing Age of Information in Wireless Networks with Throughput Constraints. This work was featured in the MIT News article “Keeping Data Fresh for Wireless Networks“. This is joint work with Prof. Abhishek Sinha and Prof. Eytan Modiano.
Best Presentation Awards
Best Presentation Award at the 2020 MIT LIDS Student Conference with the talk WiFresh: Age-of-Information from Theory to Implementation. Video of the presentation here.
Best Presentation Award at the 2017 MIT LIDS Student Conference with the talk Minimizing Age of Information in Broadcast Wireless Networks.