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Major Faculty Awards
Medal of Science    IEEE Medal of Honor    NAS    NAE    Fellows    Society Awards

National Medal of Science

1996. Professor Kumar Patel: For his fundamental contributions to quantum electronics and invention of the carbon dioxide laser, which have had significant impact on industrial, scientific, medical, and defense applications. The medal was awarded by President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony on July 26, 1996.

A professor of physics and astronomy as well as electrical engineering, Patel served as UCLA's vice chancellor for research through 1999. His research interests focus on experimental condensed matter, but he is still involved in the development of new laser systems.

IEEE Medal of Honor

1989. Professor Kumar Patel: For his fundamental contributions to quantum electronics, including the carbon dioxide laser and the spin-flip Raman laser. The IEEE Medal of Honor is the Institute's highest award. The Medal of Honor is the highest IEEE given only to those who had attained preeminence in the field through outstanding technical contributions.

Members of National Academy of Sciences

Election to membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.

2005. Professor Stan Osher
2003. Professor Eli Yablonovitch
1974. Professor Kumar Patel

Members of National Academy of Engineering

Election to membership in the Academy is the highest professional honor accorded to an American engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education. Established in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering shares responsibility with the National Academy of Sciences to advise the federal government on questions of policy in science and technology.

2009. Professor Deborah Estrin
2008. Professor Frank Chang
2008. Professor Rahmat Rahmat-Samii
2007. Professor Asad Abidi
2007. Adjunct Professor Nick Alexopoulos
2005. Professor Jason Speyer
2003. Professor Eli Yablonovitch
2003. Professor Henry Samueli
2003. Professor Tatsuo Itoh
1988. Professor Emeritus Robert Elliott
1978. Professor Kumar Patel

Society Fellows

2009. Associate Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, Fellow, IEEE.
2008. Professor Panagiotis Christofides, Fellow, IEEE.
2008. Professor Abeer Alwan, Fellow, IEEE.
2008. Professor Diana Huffaker, Fellow, IEEE.
2008. Professor Jia-Ming Liu, Fellow, IEEE.
2008. Professor Mani Srivastava, Fellow, IEEE.
2007. Professor Warren Mori, Fellow, IEEE.
2005. Professor Greg Pottie, Fellow, IEEE.
2005. Professor Jason Woo, Fellow, IEEE.
2004. Professor Deborah Estrin, Fellow, IEEE.
2004. Professor Bahram Jalali, Fellow, Optical Society of America.
2003. Professor Behzad Razavi, Fellow, IEEE.
2003. Professor Bahram Jalali, Fellow, IEEE.
2003. Professor Abeer Alwan, Fellow, Acoustical Society of America.
2003. Professor Jia-Ming Liu, Fellow, American Physical Society.
2001. Professor Deborah Estrin, Fellow, AAAS.
2001. Professor Ali Sayed, Fellow, IEEE.
2000. Professor Henry Samueli, Fellow, IEEE.
2000. Professor Deborah Estrin, Fellow, ACM.
1999. Professor RajeevJain, Fellow, IEEE.
1998. Professor Chandrasekhar Joshi, Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.)
1996. Professor Asad Abidi, Fellow, IEEE.
1996. Professor A. V. Balakrishnan, Life Fellow, IEEE.
1996. Professor M. C. Frank Chang, Fellow, IEEE.
1996. Professor Warren Grundfest, Fellow, SPIE.
1996. Professor Warren Grundfest, Fellow, American Inst. Medical & Biological Engineers.
1995. Professor Warren Mori, Fellow, American Physical Society.
1994. Professor Kung Yao, Fellow, IEEE.
1994. Professor William Kaiser, Fellow, American Vacuum Society.
1993. Professor Chandrasekhar Joshi, Fellow, IEEE.
1992. Professor Kang Wang, Fellow, IEEE.
1990. Professor Harold Fetterman, Fellow, IEEE.
1990. Professor Chandrasekhar Joshi, Fellow, American Physical Society.
1990. Professor Jia-Ming Liu, Fellow, Optical Society of America.
1987. Professor Izhak Rubin, Fellow, IEEE.
1986. Professor Alan Laub, Fellow, IEEE.
1985. Professor Jason Speyer, Fellow, IEEE.
1985. Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Fellow, IEEE.
1985. Professor JasonSpeyer, Fellow, AIAA.
1982. Professor Tatsuo Itoh, Fellow, IEEE.
1980. Professor Harold Fetterman, Fellow, Optical Society of America.
1978. Professor Alan N. Willson, Fellow, IEEE.
1975. Professor Kumar Patel, Fellow, IEEE.

Society Awards

2009. Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (Professor Asad Abidi).
Professor Asad Abidi has been elected Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. **TWAS****, the academy of sciences for the developing world, is an autonomous international organization, founded in 1983 in Trieste, Italy. It was officially launched by the secretary-general of the United Nations in 1985. TWAS represents the best of science in developing countries. Its main mission is to promote scientific excellence and capacity in the South for science-based sustainable development. TWAS Fellows, who live and work in developing countries, represent 85 percent of the membership; TWAS Associate Fellows live and work in developed countries. The current membership stands at 950.

2009. EuMA Outstanding Career Award (Professor Tatsuo Itoh).
On the occasion of 39th European Microwave Week in Rome, Italy, on September 29, 2009, European Microwave Association presented EuMA Outstanding Career Award to Professor T. Itoh. The award is given each year to recognize an individual whose career has exemplified outstanding achievements in the field of microwaves.

2009. IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award (Professor Alan Willson).
Electrical Engineering Distinguished Professor Alan Willson has been selected to receive the 2010 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award from IEEE for his ``exemplary teaching and curriculum development and for inspirational guidance of PhD. student research in the area of circuits and systems.’’

2009. Donald P. Eckman Award (Professor Paulo Tabuada).
From the American Automatic Control Council recognizing outstanding achievements by a young researcher under the age of 35 in the field of control theory. It is considered one of the most prestigious awards in the field.

2009. IEEE LEOS Young Investigator Award (Professor Aydogan Ozcan)
Assistant Professor Aydogan Ozcan has been selected to receive the 2009 IEEE LEOS Young Investigator Award from the IEEE Society for Photonics. Professor Ozcan is being recognized for his pioneering contributions to non-destructive nonlinear material characterization techniques, near-field and on-chip imaging and diagnostic systems.

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. Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (Professor Abeer Alwan)

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.

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.

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. 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

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. 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.

UCLA Awards

2007. UCLA Gold Shield Prize (Professor William Kaiser)

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

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

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).