UCLA Electrical Engineering Department

Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech sounds with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine and coding, hearing aid design, digital signal processing.

Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2003

Office: 66-147G Engr. IV, Phone 310.206.2231, Email

A.V. Balakrishnan, Professor

Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1954

Laser beam distortion in atmospheric turbulence, control design for smart structures, and flight systems applications of adaptive control, nonlinear aeroelasticity, and wind power.

Life Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Office: 56-147G Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2180, Email

Paganiotis Christofides, Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1996

Process control, dynamics and optimization, computational modeling and simulation of complex systems, and mathematics with the central objective of development of novel methods for the systematic and rigorous solution of complex process control and systems.

Office: 5532F Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.794.1015, Email

Babak Daneshrad, Professor

Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1993

Digital VLSI circuits: wireless communication systems, high-performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications.

Office: 6731G Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.7792, Email

Lara Dolecek, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2007

Information and probability theory, graphical models, combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computational methods with applications to high-performance complex systems for data processing, communication, and storage.

Office: TBD, Phone: 310.TBD.TBDD, Email

Mark Hansen, Associate Professor

Ph.D., MIT, 1992

Statistical analysis of large complex data. Statistical methods for embedded sensing. Streaming data analysis. Text mining and information retrieval. Information theory and its applications to statistics.

Fellow, SPIE, 1996
Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic Engineers, 1996

Office: 8591 Math Sciences, Phone: 310.206.8375, Email

Alan J. Laub, Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1974

Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, high-end scientific computation, and computer-aided control system design, especially algorithms for control and filtering.

Fellow, IEEE, 1986

Office: 44-123B Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.7221, Email

Jin Hyung Lee, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004

Neural information processing and plasticity; Advanced imaging techniques for biomedical applications, neurosciences and neural-engineering; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Development of novel image contrast strategies; Alternative image acquisition, reconstruction, and processing techniques.

Office: 68-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.8335, Email

Stanley Osher, Professor

Ph.D., Courant Institute, New York University, 1966

Innovative numerical methods for applications ranging from image science to control to electromagnetics to computational physics and beyond.

National Academy of Sciences, 2005

Office: 7619F Math Sciences, Phone: 310.825.7158, Email

Gregory J. Pottie, Professor and Associate Dean

Ph.D., McMaster University, 1988

Communication systems and theory, with applications to personal communications, channel coding, and wireless sensor networks.

Fellow, IEEE, 2005

Office: 56-147G Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8150, Email

Vwani Roychowdhury, Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989

Models of computation: parallel systems, quantum information processing, nanoscale and molecular electronics, statistical algorithms for large-scale information processing, combinatorics and complexity and information theory, bioinformatics, cryptography.

Office: 6731C Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.4975, Email

Izhak Rubin, Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1970

Telecommunications and computer communications systems/networks; mobile wireless, optical, multimedia IP, ATM, satellite, and CATV networks; queueing systems, C3 systems/networks, network simulations and analysis, traffic modeling/engineering.

Fellow, IEEE, 1987

Office: 58-115 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.2326, Email

Ali H. Sayed, Professor and Chairman

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992

Adaptive and statistical signal processing, distributed processing, filtering and estimation, signal processing for communications, wireless networks, algorithms for large-scale structured computations.

Fellow, IEEE, 2001

Office: 58-121 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.267.2142, Email

Stefano Soatto, Professor

Ph.D., Caltech, 1996

Shape analysis, motion analysis, visual textures, image analysis and processing, nonlinear system theory.

Office: 3531D Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.825.4840, Email

Jason Frank Speyer, Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968

Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics.

National Academy of Engineering, 2005
Life Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, AIAA, 1985

Office: 38-137O Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.4451, Email

Mani B. Srivastava, Professor and Vice Chair

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1992

Mobile and multimedia networked computing systems, design and synthesis of DSP systems, and low-power systems.

Office: 6730E Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.267.2098, Email

Paulo Tabuada, Professor

Ph.D., Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2002

Design of networked embedded control systems. Modeling, analysis and design of discrete-event, timed and hybrid systems. Hierarchical and distributed control design, geometric and algebraic control theory for nonlinear and Hamiltonian control systems, categorical systems theory.

Office: 66-147F Engr. IV, Phone: 310.794.4266, Email

Lieven Vandenberghe, Professor and Vice Chair

Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, 1992

Optimization in engineering, applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing.

Office: 68-119 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.206.1259, Email

Mihaela van der Schaar, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Technology, Eindhoven, 2001

Theory and design of novel algorithms, standards and systems for multimedia coding, processing and ubiquitous communication over Internet and wireless networks.

Office: 66-147E Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.5843, Email

John D. Villasenor, Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989

Communications, signal and image processing, joint source and channel coding, lattice vector quantization, wavelet filter design, wireless multimedia communications, and low complexity image and video coding architectures and algorithms.

Office: 56-147H Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.0228, Email

Richard D. Wesel, Professor and Associate Dean

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996

Communication theory with a particular interest in coded modulation including trellis codes and turbo codes for applications including mobile wireless communication systems, multiple antenna systems, and satellite communication systems.

Office: 6730A Boelter Hall & 6426 Boelter Hall (Dean's office), Phone: 310.267.2150, Email

Benjamin Williams, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., MIT, 2003

Quantum cascade lasers in the terahertz frequency range, and the development of terahertz components based on subwavelength dimension for use in beam control, sensing, and imaging. Development of inter-subband and inter-sublevel based devices in low-dimensional nanostructures for electronic and optoelectronic applications.

Office: 68-117 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.6961, Email

Kung Yao, Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965

Communication theory, signal, acoustic, and array processing, wireless communication systems, sensor networks, chaos system theory, and VLSI and systolic algorithms and architectures.

Fellow, IEEE, 1994

Office: 68-113 Engr. IV, Phone: 310.825.8885, Email