Asad A. Abidi
National Academy of Engineering
Professor

Professor Asad A. Abidi has served the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles since 1985. He was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the development of MOS integrated circuits for RF Communications. Prior to his tenure with the School, Abidi worked at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, as a member of the technical staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. He has received a number of awards and honors throughout his career, including the 1988 TRW (now Northrop Grumman) Award for Innovative Teaching, and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, presented for the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published in the IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, or in the proceedings during a given year.

M. C. Frank Chang
National Academy of Engineering
Professor

Professor Mau-Chung Frank Chang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 1979. He is Professor and Director of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at UCLA Electrical Engineering. Before joining UCLA, he was the Assistant Director of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at the Rockwell Science Center (1983-1997), Thousand Oaks, California. During that period of time, he developed and transferred the AlGaAs/GaAs HBT technology from the research laboratory to the production line (Conexant Systems). The HBT production has now grown into a multi-billion dollar business worldwide. His research group has demonstrated the world's first source synchronous CDMA bus interface with reconfigurable multichip access capability. He also led the first demonstration of a 2Gsps 6bit ADC in CMOS, a 1Gsps 11bit THA in SiGe and a dual mode (CDMA/AMPS) power amplifier in SiGe for wireless handset applications. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 1996 for his contributions in ultra-high speed HBT integrated circuit development, and was honored with the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 2006.

Tatsuo Itoh
National Academy of Engineering
Professor

Professor Itoh has pioneered a research area in interdisciplinary electromagnetics beyond traditional electromagnetic engineering. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, his citation reads, “For seminal contributions in advancing electromagnetic engineering for microwave and wireless components, circuits, and systems”. In his early career, he developed a number of numerical methods for microwave problems. Based on one of these methods, he then developed the fi rst CAD program package for design of E-plane fi lters for millimeter wave systems such as radio, radar, and remote sensors. More recently, his effort has been directed to coherently combining solid state devices and electromagnetic circuits for improved cost effectiveness and system performance. From this effort, the fi rst global simulator for the RF frontend was developed, dealing with antennas, passive and active microwave circuits at the same time. He has also created the Active Integrated Antenna scheme in which the antenna is not only a radiating element but also serves as a circuit element for the RF front end, particularly at millimeter wave frequencies.

Yahya Rahmat-Samii
National Academy of Engineering
Professor

Dr. Rahmat-Samii received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining UCLA in 1989, he was a Senior Research Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served as Chair of UCLA's Electrical Engineering Department from April 2000 through June 2005. Since 2007, he has been the holder of the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics at UCLA. Prof. Rahmat-Samii has had pioneering research contributions in diverse areas of electromagnetics, antennas, measurement and diagnostics techniques, numerical and asymptotic methods, satellite and personal communications, antennas for remote sensing and astronomical applications, human/antenna interactions, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic and photonic band gap structures and the applications of the genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization.

Henry Samueli
National Academy of Engineering
Professor

Dr. Henry Samueli was elected to the NAE in recognition of his “pioneering contributions to academic research and technology entrepreneurship in the broadband communications system-on-a-chip industry”. Dr. Samueli has over 25 years of experience in the fi elds of digital signal processing (DSP) and communications systems engineering. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in the fi eld of broadband communications circuits. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA. Since 1985, Dr. Samueli has been a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department where he has supervised advanced research programs in DSP and broadband communications, and is also well known as the cofounder of Broadcom Corporation in 1991.

Robert S. Elliott
National Academy of Engineering
Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus Robert S. Elliott has had a long and illustrious career at UCLA. He served as the first Electrical Engineering Department Chair in the (then) School of Engineering and Applied Science and was the first person to hold the Hughes Distinguished Chair in Electromagnetics at UCLA. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1961, and was the recipient of the APS Distinguished Achievement Award in 1988. Also in 1988, and even more importantly, Dr. Elliott was honored by the National Academy of Engineering “for basic contributions to the electromagnetic theory and design of array antennas, and for outstanding leadership in engineering education”. During his career at UCLA Prof. Elliott also was the recipient of several Best Teacher Awards, and two IEEE Best Paper Awards. In 2000 he received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. Dr. Elliott is also the author of two seminal electrical engineering textbooks, Antenna Theory and Design and Electromagnetics.

Stanley Osher
National Academy of Sciences
Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering

Professor Stanley Osher was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for “major contributions to algorithm development and applications in level set methods, high-resolution shock capturing methods, and PDE-based methods in imaging science.” He has been at UCLA since 1976 and is Director of Special Projects at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. He is the co-inventor of level set methods for computing moving fronts, numerical methods for computing solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and total variation and other PDE-based image processing techniques. Dr. Osher was a Fulbright and Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and has received the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Computational Mechanics Award, the SIAM Pioneer Prize, and the SIAM Kleinman Prize.

C. Kumar Patel
National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Sciences
Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering

Professor Patel holds a joint professorship with the Electrical Engineering and Physics Departments at UCLA. He has made numerous seminal contributions in several fi elds, including gas lasers, nonlinear optics, molecular spectroscopy, pollution detection and laser surgery. He has received numerous honors, including the National Medal of Science, for his invention of the carbon dioxide laser. He has also received the Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America, the Franklin Institute’s Ballantine Medal, the Pake Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Coblentz Society’s Coblentz Prize.

Jason Speyer
National Academy of Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering

Professor Jason Speyer was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “the development and application of advanced techniques for optimal navigation and control of a wide range of aerospace vehicles.” He pioneered new optimal deterministic and stochastic control, team and differential game strategies, estimation, and model-based fault detection, identifi cation, and reconstruction theories and algorithms, as well as matrix calculus of variations for the Apollo autonomous navigation system. He pioneered the development and mechanization of periodic optimal control with applications to aircraft fuel-optimal cruise and endurance. His efforts in differential carrier phase GPS blended with an inertial navigation system, was applied to formation fl ight for drag reduction, and achieved centimeter accuracy in fl ight tests. Dr. Speyer is a fellow of AIAA and IEEE (Life Fellow) and received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal as well as several AIAA Awards.

Nick Alexopoulos
National Academy of Engineering
Adjunct Professor

Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos is the Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine and an Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. The NAE honored Alexopoulos for important work in “microwave circuits, antennas, and structures for low observable technologies, and for contributions in engineering education.” Professor Alexopoulos’ research covers electromagnetic theory, integrated microwave circuits, micro strip antennas and arrays, multi-function antennas, non-reciprocal materials, numerical methods, and percolation theory and applications. His work focuses on the modeling and design of three-dimensional integrated circuits and printed antennas in multilayered materials, wireless communication antennas and systems, and includes interconnect problems in complex networks, novel materials and smart structures in low observable systems, and computational methods.

Eli Yablonovitch
National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Sciences
Adjunct Professor