2008. IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award (Professor Asad Abidi)
Professor Asad Abidi has been selected by the IEEE Board of Directors to receive the prestigious 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for his “pioneering and sustained contributions in the development of RF-CMOS.” This award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1987 to honor an individual, or team of up to three, for outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits, as exemplified by benefit to society, enhancement to technology, and professional leadership. This is an IEEE-wide award and the highest in the field.


2007. R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America (Professor Bahram Jalali)
For "the Invention and Demonstration of Raman Lasing in Silicon."

2007. John Adams Lecture at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Professor Chandrasekhar Joshi)

2007. Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii)
From the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for his "significant contributions to electromagnetics education and for inspiring new methodologies for the design, analysis and measurement of complex antenna systems."

2007. Okawa Foundation Award (Professor Chi-On Chui)

2007. Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (Professor Abeer Alwan)

2007. UCLA Faculty Senate Teaching Award (Professor Behzad Razavi)

2006. IEEE David Sarnoff Award (Professor M. C. Frank Chang)
For his “development of HBT power amplifiers leading to their commercialization in wireless communications.” The Sarnoff and IEEE-wide award that is bestowed annually by IEEE in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of electronics.

2006. IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award (Professor Harold Fetterman)
The Streifer award is the highest award by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society. It is awarded annually by the society to recognize the most meritorious scientific work in the field. Professor Fetterman receives the award in recognition for his seminal work on polymer nonlinear devices and materials. He shares the award with his collaborators W. Steier (USC) and L. Dalton (Univ. Washington).

2006. Maxwell Prize from the American Physical Society (Professor Chandrasekhar Joshi)
The prize is the highest award given by the APS for plasma physics research. The prize recognizes Professor Joshi's outstanding and pioneering contributions in the area plasma-based accelerators and laser-plasma interactions.

2006. Guggenheim Fellowship (Professor Jia-Ming Liu)
The Fellowship, awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, is conferred for “unusually distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.” Fellowship winners are selected by a committee of scholars from universities and institutes across the U.S. and Canada.

2006. HSSEAS Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award (Professor Behzad Razavi)

2006. Okawa Foundation Award (Professor Mihaela van der Schaar)

2005. Terman Award (Professor Ali H. Sayed)
From the American Society of Engineering Education. The award is bestowed annually upon an outstanding young electrical engineering educator in recognition of the educator’s contributions to the profession.

2005. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society (Professor Ali H. Sayed)

2005. International Union of Radio Science Booker Award (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii)
URSI is the largest international scientific body on all aspects of radio science, from fundamentals of wave propagation to radio astronomy and communications. Rahmat-Samii was selected for his contributions to reflector antenna design and practice, near-field measurements and diagnostic techniques, handheld antennas and human interactions, genetic algorithms in electromagnetics, and the spectral theory of diffraction.

2005. UCLA Copenhaver Award (Professor William Kaiser).
Professor Kaiser received this prestigious university-wide recognition for his excellence and innovation in teaching (including use of innovative technology in education).

2004. Donald P. Eckman Award (Professor Panagiotis D. Christofides).
From the American Automatic Control Council for pioneering contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems accompanied by creative applications to advanced materials processing, particulate processes and fluid dynamic systems.

2003. Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences (Professor Ali H. Sayed)
The Kuwait Prize is awarded annually to outstanding researchers and scientists whose work has significance at the international level. The prize is the highest honor accorded by the Emir of Kuwait for intellectual achievement. Professor Sayed received the 2003 Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences for his extensive research contributions in the area of adaptive systems.

2003. Mac Van Valkenburg Award (Professor Alan Willson)
From the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for his "major contributions to theory, design methods, and hardware implementation of nonlinear circuits and digital signal processing algorithms, to graduate education, and for leadership in the CAS Society." The Mac Van Valkenburg Award is the top award of the CAS Society. Its purpose is to recognize and honor a person with outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the CAS Society, and with outstanding leadership in the field. Professor Willson received the 2003 award

2003 IBM Faculty Award (Professor Lei He)

2001. Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (Professor A. V. Balakrishnan)
The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control. It is the highest recognition of professional achievement for US control systems engineers and scientists.

2001. 2001-2002 Distinguished Lecturer in Plasma Physics by the American Physical Society (Professor Chandrasekhar Joshi).

2001. Elected Foreign Member (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii)
The Royal Flemish Academy of Science and the Arts

2001 Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics (Professor Eli Yablonovitch)
The prize was awarded to Prof. Yablonovitch "for the impact of photonic crystals on basic research, as well as on a great variety of applications". This prize, awarded annually, has been established by Springer-Verlag Publishing. The recipient is a scientist who has made an outstanding and innovative contribution to the field of applied physics.

2000. Technical Achievement Award (Professor Alan Willson)
From the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for his seminal contributions to nonlinear circuit theory and his innovative research on the design of digital signal processing circuits over the past thirty-two years.

2000. IEEE Third Millennium Medal (Professor Asad Abidi)

2000. IEEE Third Millennium Medal (Professor Asad Itoh)

2000. IEEE Third Millennium Medal (Professor Alan Willson)

2000. IEEE Third Millennium Medal (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii)

2000. AMTA Distinguished Achievement Award (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii)
From the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association.

2000. National Science Foundation CAREER Award (Professor Lei He)

2000. Distinguished Educator Award (Professor Tatsuo Itoh)
The IEEE MTT Society bestowed this award on Professor Itoh "for his outstanding achievements as an educator, mentor and role model of microwave engineers and engineering students". The basis for giving the award is that the recipient must be a distinguished educator who exemplifies the special human qualities of the late Fred J. Rosenbaum (in honor of whom the award was founded), who considered teaching a high calling and demonstrated his dedication to MTT-S through tireless service.