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Four Faculty in RLE to be Promoted
Medard, Adalsteinsson, Goyal and Stultz to be Promoted
in July 2008
For Immediate Release
WEDNESDAY, 7 May 2008
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 05.07.2008
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that two Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science (EECS) faculty and two faculty holding joint
appointments in EECS and the Division of Health Sciences
and Technology (HST) conducting research in RLE will
be promoted in July 2008.
Dr. Muriel
Medard will be promoted to Professor of
Electrical Engineering. She directs the RLE Network
Coding and Reliable Communications Group. Professor
Medard received B.S. degrees in EECS and in Mathematics
in 1989, a B.S. degree in Humanities in 1990, a M.S.
degree in EE 1991, and a Sc.D. degree in EE in 1995,
all from MIT. From 1995 to 1998, Professor Medard was
a Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Optical
Communications and the Advanced Networking Groups.
Professor Medard's research interests are in the areas
of network coding and reliable communications, particularly
for optical and wireless networks. She was awarded
the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award in 2002.
She received an NSF Career Award in 2001 and was co-winner
2004 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award,
established in 1982 to honor junior faculty members "for
distinction in research, teaching and service to the
MIT community." She was named a 2007 Gilbreth
Lecturer by the National Academy of Engineering. Professor
Medard is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Elfar
Adalsteinsson will be promoted to Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Professor
of Health Sciences and Technology. He directs the RLE
Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Group. Professor Adalsteinsson
received a B.S. in 1989 from the University of Iceland,
Reykjavik, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering in 1991 and 1995, respectively, from Stanford
University. Professor Adalsteinsson's interests include
medical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, neuro-imaging,
data sampling and special encoding, low level signals,
neuroscience, chemical shift imaging, Alzheimer's disease,
and multiple sclerosis.
Dr. Vivek K
Goyal will be promoted to Associate Professor
of Electrical Engineering. He directs the RLE Signal
Transformation and Information Representation Group.
Professor Goyal received the B.S. degree in mathematics
and the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering (both
with highest distinction) from the University of Iowa,
Iowa City. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the University of California,
Berkeley. Professor Goyal's interests include signal
processing, information theory, compression, coding,
harmonic analysis, networking and congestion control,
image and audio processing, and sensor networks.
Dr. Collin
M. Stultz will be promoted to Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Professor
of Health Sciences and Technology. He directs the RLE
Computational
Biophysics Group. Professor Stultz received
the A.B. from Harvard College in 1988, and the M.D.
from Harvard Medical School as well as the Ph.D. in
Biophysics from MIT in 1997. Professor Stultz's interests
include molecular simulations, protein structure and
dynamics, biophysics, disease models, atherosclerosis,
Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, stochastic
models, and function optimization.
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