2010 Borg Early Career Award

BECA (Borg Early Career Award)
2010 Recipient

Radhika Nagpal Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/

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The Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Borg Early Career Award. This year's recipients are A.J. Bernheim Brush, a researcher at Microsoft Research and Radhika Nagpal, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University.

The award honors the late Anita Borg, who was an early member of CRA-W and an inspiration for her commitment in increasing the participation of women in computing research. This award is given annually by CRA-W to a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and who has contributed to her profession, especially in the outreach to women. This award recognizes work in areas of academia and industrial/government research labs that has had a positive and significant impact on advancing women in the computing research community and is targeted at women that are relatively early in their careers (for example, for the 2009 award, the nominee should have received their PhD no earlier than September 2000). Questions about eligibility should be directed to craw_awards[at]cra.org

Radhika Nagpal is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and a member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from MIT, and spent a year as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. She is a recipient of the 2005 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship award and the 2007 NSF Career award. Her research interests are in bio-inspired multi-agent systems, their application to robotics and networks, and understanding multi-cellular systems in biology.