Fadel Adib

Major Honors & Public Recognition

Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (2024)
Great Arab Mind, awarded by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (2023)
Invited to The First-Ever White House Demo Day (2015)
Forbes 30 Under 30 (2015)
MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (2014)

Faculty Awards & Fellowships

ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award (2022)
Sloan Research Fellowship (2021)
ONR Early Career Grant (2020)
Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization (2020-2022)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2019)
NSF CAREER Award (2019)
Google Faculty Research Award (2017)
Sony Career Development Chair (2016-2020)

Paper Awards

ACM SenSys Best Paper Runner-Up (2026)
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights (2026)
ACM MobiSys Best Paper Runner-Up (2025)
ACM MobiSys Best Poster Award (2025)
ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award (2023)
ACM MobiCom Best Paper Award (2023)
IEEE RFID Best Paper Award (2023)
IEEE RFID Best Paper Runner-Up (2023)
ACM WUWNet Best Demo Award (2022)
Nature Communications Research Highlights (2022)
Nature Electronics Research Highlights (2022)
ACM SenSys Best Paper Finalist (2021)
ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award (2019)
CACM Research Highlights (2018)
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights (2017)
ACM CHI Honorable Mention Award (2015)
ACM MobiCom Best Demo Award (2014)

Entrepreneurial & Translation Awards

MIT 100K Business Plan Competition: Runner-Up Prize (2023)
Ocean Observing Prize: Winner of Explorer Prize from U.S. Department of Energy and NOAA (2020)
MIT 100K Business Plan Competition: Finalist and Audience Choice Award (2015)
AARP Prize (2015)

Dissertation & Early Academic Honors

ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (2018)
Sprowls Award for Best PhD Dissertation in Computer Science at MIT (2017)
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship (2014-2016)
William A. Martin Award for Best Master's Thesis in Computer Science at MIT (2013)
MIT Irwin and Joan Jacobs Presidential Fellowship (2011-2012)
AUB Merit Scholarship (2007-2011)
AUB Distinguished Graduate Award (2011)
Highest cumulative GPA in the digitally recorded history of AUB (2011)
AUB Dean’s Honor List and High Distinction (2007-2011)

Institutional Recognition

103 Ways MIT is Making a Better World (2022)
AUB Distinguished Young Alumnus Award (2017)
CSAIL Amazing Research Highlights Competition: First Place (2015)
MIT ASO SciTech Graduate Student Award (2015)
50 Ways that MIT has transformed Computer Science (X-ray Vision) (2014)