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Professor Abeer Alwan “for contributions to speech perception and production modeling and their applications.”
Professor Diana Huffaker “for development of optoelectronic materials and processing.”
Professor Jia-Ming Liu “for contributions to the control and applications of nonlinear dynamics of lasers.”
Professor Mani Srivastava “for contributions to energy-aware wireless communications and sensor networking.”
The grade of
IEEE Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary
record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are honored shall have contributed importantly to the advancement
or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.
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May 2007 Following a broad search,
Professors Yahya Rahmat-Samii and
Kang Wang were selected to hold two endowed chairs.
Professor Rahmat-Samii
was selected to hold the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics in recognition of his outstanding and diversified research contributions
in the areas of electromagnetics and antennas.
Professor Kang Wang
was selected to hold the Raytheon Chair in Physical Sciences for his research contributions in nanotechnology.
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This year’s new Fellows include former Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.; former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor; New York Mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg; Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt; New York Times
investigative correspondent James Risen; filmmaker Spike Lee; economists Gregory Mankiw and Murray Weidenbaum; astronomer
Donald Brownlee; robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks; Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter; supercomputer expert David
Shaw; pianist Emanuel Ax; historian Nell Painter; former White House official and Berkeley Law Dean Christopher Edley;
classicist Sabine MacCormack; and international public health leader Allan Rosenfield.
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Professor Srivastava appointed EiC of IEEE TMC Journal
Professor Mani Srivastava is appointed to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
effective January 1, 2008. IEEE TMC is the main transactions in Mobile/Wireless Computing and Networking.
Qualcomm and Boeing join the Industry Affiliates Program
The department is pleased to announce that Qualcomm and
Boeing have joined its
Industry Affiliates Program.
The department is appreciative of their support and is looking forward to increasing collaborative relations with both companies.
For more information on the IAP program, current members, and its benefits, please visit the IAP website.
Four faculty members elevated to IEEE Fellow grade
Four Electrical Engineering faculty members have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow. This is a reflection of their accomplishments and contributions to their profession.
It is also a reflection of the stature of our department:
US DOD provides $2.9M to support the Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense
The Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID) facilitates the rapid transition of research innovation
in the nanosciences into applications for the defense sector. The center involves faculty members from three University of California campuses: UCLA,
UC Riverside, and UC Santa Barbara. At UCLA, the CNID effort is led by Electrical Engineering Professor B. Jalali.
IEEE Spectrum Online highlights research by Professor Vwani Roychowdhury.
Research work by Professor Vwani Roychowdhury is highlighted in an
IEEE Spectrum Online article.
Professor Roychowdhury has had highlights of his research appear in Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and major newspapers.
Professor Asad Abidi receives the 2007 Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award.
The Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes outstanding teaching in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science.
Amarjeet Singh receives the 2007 Outstanding M.S. Student Award.
Graduate student Amarjeet Singh (Professor W. Kaiser, advisor) receives the 2007 Edward K. Rice Outstanding M.S. Student
Award.
Professor Behzad Razavi receives the 2007 UCLA Senate Teaching Award.
The UCLA Senate Teaching Award is a UCLA-wide recognition of outstanding teaching.
Graduate student Jintae Kim receives the SSCS pre-doctoral fellowship.
Graduate student Jintae Kim (Professor Ken Yang, advisor) received the SSCS pre-doctoral fellowship.
This is a prestigious award to students in the integrated circuits community world-wide.
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Professor Asad A. Abidi receives the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits.
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.”
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Professor William J. Kaiser receives the 2007 ULCA Gold Shield Prize.
This annual prize is awarded to a full professor with extraordinary promise and accomplishment in research or creative activity, and an outstanding
record in teaching, especially of undergraduates. Equal weight is given to each. The award carries a $30K cash prize. Kaiser plans to use
the prize to fund stipends for his undergraduate research group. [More]
Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii receives the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award.
The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society gave this prestigious award to Prof. Rahmat-Samii's for his "significant contributions
to electromagnetics education and for inspiring new methodologies for the design, analysis and measurement of complex antenna systems."
Professor Jalali Receives the 2007 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America.
Professor Jalali is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Optical Society of America's R.W. Wood Prize which recognizes
an outstanding discovery, scientific or technical achievement, or invention in the field of optics. He was recognized for
his "invention and demonstration of Raman lasing in silicon". The accomplishment for which the prize is given
is measured chiefly by its impact on the field of optics generally, and therefore the contribution is one that
opens a new era of research or significantly expands an established one.
Prof. Bahram Jalali's Work Work on Energy Harvesting in Photonic Devices Featured in the New Scientist.
Prof. Jalali, along with researchers Sasan Fathpour and Kevin Tsia, has found a way to make optoelectronic devices more
efficient by having them "harvest" electrons to generate current instead of heat. This revolutionary news is featured
in the New Scientist magazine, and will be presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, in Maryland on May 11.
Professors Yahya Rahmat-Samii and Kang Wang selected to hold the Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Chairs.
Assistant Professor Dejan Markovic receives David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize.
Established in memory of David J. Sakrison, who was a Faculty member and Chairman of EECS on
the UC Berkeley campus at the time of his death, the award is made annually to a
graduate student who has completed what is deemed by a faculty committee to be a truly outstanding
piece of research. Nominations may be made by anyone. Selection of the recipient of the Sakrison award
is made by the Chairman of the Department on the advice of a faculty committee appointed by the Chairman.
UCLA Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Professor Deborah Estrin Elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are nominated and elected to the Academy by current members. A broad-based membership,
comprised of scholars and practitioners from mathematics, physics, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and
the arts, public affairs and business, gives the Academy a unique capacity to conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary
studies and public policy research. Fellows are selected through a highly competitive process that recognizes individuals
who have made preeminent contributions to their disciplines and to society at large.
UCLA Electrical Engineering Professor Asad Abidi Elected to the Prestigious National Academy of Engineering
Professor Asad Abidi has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional
lifetime distinction accorded to American engineers.
Honored for his contributions to the development of integrated circuits for wireless communication
in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology, which is used to fabricate microprocessors
and digital signal processors, Abidi is now among a select 2,217 academy members nationwide, along with 188 foreign associates.
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Paper by Mihaela van der Schaar wins "Most Cited Paper Award" from Elsevier EURASIP.
The paper, "In-band Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering", by Prof. van der Schaar (with Y. Andreopoulos,
A. Munteanu, J. Barbarien, J. Cornelis and P. Schelkens) has been awarded with the Most Cited Paper Award
from Elsevier EURASIP for the period of 2004-2006 of the EURASIP Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication.
UCLA Electrical Engineering Chapter of HKN wins "Outstanding Chapter Award"
The UCLA Chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu Student Organization (Professor Alan Willson, faculty advisor) has won an
"Outstanding Chapter Award" for the second consecutive year. This award is a mark of distinction for a
college chapter. Chapters are judged on activities of service to their fellow students, their department,
their school and their surrounding community.
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