Professor Canan Dagdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders research group, has received the Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising, from the Institute Awards distributed by the MIT Graduate Student Council.

The Frank E. Perkins Award is presented to a faculty member from each school at MIT (Architecture and Planning, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Engineering, Sloan School of Management, Science, and Health Sciences and Technology) who, as a graduate student advisor, demonstrates unbounded compassion and dedication towards students.  This award is named in the honor of Frank E. Perkins, Dean of the Graduate School from 1983-1995.