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Indroduction to the Department Chairman and Vice-Chairs

	Ali H. Sayed, Department Chairman Ali H. Sayed was born in Brazil and educated in Lebanon and Brazil. He received the degrees of Engineer and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992. He has been on the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department since 1996, where he established and directs the Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has served as Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Student Affairs and is currently the Department Chairman. Dr. Sayed's research interests span several areas, including adaptive and statistical signal processing, filtering and estimation theories, signal processing for communications, wireless location, interplays between signal processing and control methodologies, system theory, and fast algorithms for large-scale problems.
	Rajeev Jain, Vice-Chair of Industry Relations Rajeev Jain received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, in 1985. He has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department since 1988. Professor Jain's research focuses on embedded hardware-software design for signal processing systems-on-a-chip. Current research efforts are concentrated on CAD tools for design of high-performance signal processing architectures and the development of ASICs for spread-spectrum modems and image compression.
	Mani B. Srivastava, Vice-Chair of Graduate Affairs Mani Srivastava received both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. His M.S. project was on automatic compilation of CMOS bit-slice datapaths as part of the Lager silicon compiler for DSP VLSI, while his Ph.D. dissertation was on hardware-software rapid prototyping and co-design for embedded DSP and control applications. Since joining the EE Department, Prof. Srivastava's research and teaching have focussed on architecture, algorithms, and design optimization techniques for wireless networked and embedded systems, and DSP VLSIs. In recent years his main focus has been on mobile and wireless multimedia systems, and distributed wireless sensor networks, with emphasis on issues such as power-aware computing and communications, and quality of service.
	Lieven Vandenberghe, Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Affairs Lieven Vandenberghe received his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D degrees from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department since 1997. He is a member of IEEE, SIAM, and the Mathematical Programming Society. Professor Vandenberghe's research interests are in optimization in engineering, applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing.