Alex Wissner-Gross
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| Alex Wissner-Gross | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alexander David Wissner-Gross 1981 (age 32–33) Manhasset, New York |
| Citizenship |
 United States |
| Alma mater |
Great Neck South High School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Occupation | Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur |
| Website | |
| www.alexwg.org | |
Alex Wissner-Gross is an American scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. In 2003, he became the last person in MIT history to receive a triple major, with bachelors degrees in physics, electrical engineering, and mathematics,[1] while graduating at the top of his class from the MIT School of Engineering, winning the Henry Ford II Scholar Award.[2] In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, [3] where his research on programmable matter, ubiquitous computing, and machine learning was awarded a Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize.[4] He currently holds academic appointments as an Institute Fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Applied Computational Science [5] and as a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab.[6]
Selected awards and recognition
- 1998 Winner of the USA Computing Olympiad and member of US International Olympiad in Informatics team [7]
- 1999 One of 10 winners of the Intel Science Talent Search [8]
- 1999 Named to USA Today's All-USA High School Academic First Team [9]
- 2001 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship [10]
- 2002 Intel Undergraduate Research Award [11]
- 2002 Marshall Scholarship [12]
- 2003 Named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic First Team [1]
- 2003 Henry Ford II Scholar Award from the MIT School of Engineering--for a senior engineering student who has maintained a cumulative average of 5.0 at the end of his or her seventh term and who has exceptional potential for leadership[2]
- 2003 Hertz Fellowship [13]
- 2007 Dan David Prize Scholarship [14]
- 2008 Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize [4]
- 2010 Science News of the Year by Society for Science and the Public [15]
- 2011 Elected to the Philosophical Society of Washington [16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "All-USA Academic First Team". USA Today. 12 February 2003.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "School of Engineering awards". MIT News. 4 June 2003.
- ↑ "Ph.D. Theses: 2000 to present". Harvard Physics Department.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Thesis Prize Winners". The Hertz Foundation.
- ↑ "IACS People".
- ↑ "Hertz Foundation Fellow: Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross".
- ↑ "1998 USACO".
- ↑ "2 LIers Get Top Prizes In Science / 6th and 10th on Intel list". Newsday. 9 March 1999.
- ↑ "Here and There". MIT News. 2 June 1999.
- ↑ "School of Engineering rewards six students, faculty". MIT News. 6 June 2001.
- ↑ "Student Honors & Awards". Physics@MIT. 7 October 2002.
- ↑ "Three MIT students win Marshall Scholarships". MIT News. 4 December 2002.
- ↑ "Awards and Honors". 28 January 2004.
- ↑ "Alex Wissner-Gross awarded 2007 Dan David Prize Scholarship". 1 May 2007.
- ↑ "Alex Wissner-Gross Named in 2010 Science News of the Year". 20 November 2010.
- ↑ "Alex Wissner-Gross Elected to Philosophical Society of Washington". 2 December 2011.
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