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Faez Ahmed and Pulkit Agrawal receive MIT research honors
The awards provide unrestricted funding and AWS promotional credits to academic researchers studying topics across multiple disciplines.
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Pranavi Sharma - Wed, 11, Mar 2026
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Faez Ahmed and Pulkit Agrawal / MIT
Two Indian-origin faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Engineering, Faez Ahmed and Pulkit Agrawal, were among several researchers recognized for academic awards and honors in fall 2025.
Ahmed, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus and the Henry L. Doherty Career Development Professor in Ocean Utilization in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, received an Amazon Research Award for his project, ‘AutoDA-Sim: A Multi-Agent Framework for Safe, Aesthetic, and Aerodynamic Vehicle Design.’ The awards provide unrestricted funding and AWS promotional credits to academic researchers studying topics across multiple disciplines.
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Agrawal, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received the 2025 IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award for his contributions to robot learning, policy learning, agile locomotion, and dexterous manipulation. The honor recognizes individuals in the IROS community who have pioneered work in robotics and intelligent systems.
Several other MIT engineering faculty members also received honors. Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence from Open Education Global for his contributions to open education and knowledge initiatives.
Ahmad Bahai, a professor of the practice in electrical engineering and computer science, was elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors for work on semiconductor devices used in clinical-grade personal sensors that detect biomarkers.
Other honorees included Yufeng (Kevin) Chen, who received the 2025 IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award for research on insect-scale multimodal robots and soft-actuated aerial systems, and Angela Koehler, who received the 2025 Sato Memorial International Award from the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan for contributions to pharmaceutical sciences and U.S.–Japan collaboration.
Additional recognition went to Dina Katabi, elected to the National Academy of Medicine for work in digital health technology, Darcy McRose, named a 2025 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering, Muriel Médard, who received the 2026 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, and Tess Smidt, selected as a 2025 AI2050 Fellow by Schmidt Sciences.
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