The tenured engineers of 2021

The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its faculty in the departments of Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering. "This year's newly tenured faculty are truly inspiring," says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. "Their work as educators and scholars has shown an incredible commitment to teaching and research -- they have each had a tremendous impact in their fields and within School of Engineering community." This year's newly tenured associate professors are: Mohammad Alizadeh, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, focuses his research in the areas of computer networks and systems. His research aims to improve the performance, robustness, and ease of management of future networks and cloud computing systems.