Common Ground Award for Excellence in Teaching

The Common Ground Award for Excellence in Teaching recognizes exceptional contributions in teaching classes with substantial computing content that are both broadly-applicable and cross-fertilized across disciplines. Established in 2023 by the Schwarzman College of Computing, this award is given to an individual or group of faculty or lecturers who have positively impacted students by offering a subject in the Common Ground for Computing Education.
If you have any questions about the Common Ground Award for Excellence in Teaching, please contact the Common Ground Standing Committee at common-ground@mit.edu.
Past Winners
- Saurabh Amin (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Common Ground subject: 1.C01/1.C51 Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems
- David Darmofal (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
- Common Ground subject: C20 Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering
- Common Ground subject: C20 Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering
- Ankur Moitra (Mathematics) and Pablo Parrilo (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
- Common Ground subject: C06 Linear Algebra and Optimization
- Connor Coley (Chemical Engineering), Ernest Fraenkel (Biological Engineering), and Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli (Materials Science and Engineering)
- Common Ground subject: 3.C01/10.C01/20.C01/3.C51/10.C51/20.C51 Machine Learning for Molecular Engineering