Awards & Honors

Azad M. Madni has been awarded the 2026 John Fritz Medal, widely regarded as engineering’s highest honor and often called the “Nobel Prize of Engineering.”

Ali Abbas and Johannes Royset receive one of the highest honors in operations research for helping people make better decisions in an uncertain world

A pioneer of socially assistive robotics, Matarić has spent more than 2 decades developing robots that “help people help themselves”