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2008
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The basic device is an asymmetric tunnel transistor that takes advantage of band-to-band tunneling
to produce characteristics that include ultra steep sub-threshold slope and Ion/Ioff ratio up to 1000x better
than state-of-the-art MOSFET devices. Such devices will be designed to be scalable, have the ability to
dramatically reduce circuit power consumption in both the on and off states, and be capable of integration
with future SOI wafer based advanced CMOS nodes.
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The Smart Cane system developed by Professors William Kaiser and Majid Sarrafzadeh has also
been selected to be presented as a demonstration at the Microsoft TechFest 2008, which is hosted by Microsoft Research.
Very few teams outside of Microsoft are invited to this event.
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DARPA Awards Major Contract to UCLA Electrical Engineering Faculty Members
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a multi-year contract totaling close to $7.2M to a team of researchers led by UCLA Electrical
Engineering faculty member and Director of the Physical and Wave Electronics Area, Professor Jason Woo, to
develop a revolutionary switching device. DARPA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of new
technology for use by the military. The project is in collaboration with Jazz Semiconductor and other UCLA Engineering
faculty including Electrical Engineering Professors Chi On Chui, Frank Chang, and Kang Wang and Materials Science Professor Ya-Hong Xie.
Scientific American Features Article by UCLA Electrical Engineering Researchers
An article by Professor V. Roychowdhury and post-doctoral scholar M. Simkin, entitled "Theory of Aces: High Score by Skill or Luck?"
and published in April 2008 in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology is featured in
Scientific American under the heading: "Was the Red Baron just lucky?"
Professor Frank Chang Awarded 2008 Pan Wen-Yuan Award
Professor Frank Chang has been awarded the 2008 Pan Wen-Yuan Award. The award is regarded as Taiwan's most prestigious technical award.
UCLA Electrical Engineering Researchers Develop Model for the WWW
An article by Professor V. Roychowdhury and his post-doctoral fellow M. Simkin, entitled "A theory of web traffic," Europhysics Letters,
82 (2008), is featured on a number of online sites with the title "Scientists Construct Model
for the World Wide Web." The story is also reported in a number of international online magazines [1], [2], and [3].
Textbook on Adaptive Filters by Professor Sayed
Professor A. H. Sayed publishes a new textbook (his fifth book) entitled
Adaptive Filters, Wiley, NJ, 2008.
Professor Sayed chairs ICASSP 2008
Professor A. H. Sayed chairs the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (
ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, March 30-April 4, 2008. The meeting is the main and largest Signal Processing conference worldwide and attracted over 2060 attendees.
DARPA Young Faculty Award
Assistant Professor and Samueli Fellow Benjamin Williams is selected to receive a prestigious Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
the central research and development agency for the U.S. Department of Defense. The YFA program supports revolutionary research ideas proposed by young non-tenured faculty members.
The ideas are expected to be of critical value for future technology developments by the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at DARPA. Professor Williams received
the award for his research entitled “Nanowire Heterostructure Intersublevel Optoelectronics.” [More]
Three new Endowed Chairs in Electrical Engineering
The Dean's Office announced the establishment of three new Endowed Chairs in Electrical Engineering:
The Charles P. Reames Chair, The Wintek Chair, and The Drs. Jane J. and Tien T. Yang Term Chair.
The Electrical Engineering department is grateful to the donors for their support. These new chairs bring the number of
endowed chairs in the department to a total of seven (7) chairs.
Vice-President Publications of IEEE Signal Processing Society
Professors Ali H. Sayed is elected to serve as Vice President-Publications of the IEEE Signal Processing Society,
one of the largest societies within IEEE. The Vice President-Publications is a voting member of the Society's Board of
Governors and of the Executive Committee, and chairs the Society's Publications Board.
UCLA Chancellor Award for Postdoctoral Research
Daniel Solli (Professor Bahram Jalali, advisor) has been awarded the UCLA Chancellor Award for Postdoctoral Research.
The Award honors his discovery of Optical Rogue Waves, a work that was published in the December issue of Nature.
Best Paper Award at International Conference
Professors William Kaiser and Majid Sarrafzadeh, along with collaborators from the UCLA Medical School and the
Veteran’s Administration, have been awarded the Best Paper Award at BodyNets 2008 for their paper entitled:
“The SmartCane System: An Assistive Device for Geriatrics.” BodyNets is an annual conference focused on the topic of sensor networks applied to biomedical monitoring.
Hitachi joins the Department's Industry Affiliate Program
Hitachi has joined the department's Industry Affiliates Program.
Along with Qualcomm, Boeing, Viasat, and Synplicity, earlier in November 2007 and January 2008, Hitachi is the fifth company to join the IAP program
in recent months. Hitachi is a leading global electronics company. The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in
market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services.
Best Paper Award at International Conference
A paper by Professor M. C. Frank Chang and co-authors (J. Cong and and G. Riemann) entitled "CMP Network-on-Chip Overlaid with Multi-band RF-Interconnect" receives the Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA).
UCLA Electrical Engineering Professors M. C. Frank Chang and Yahya Rahmat-Samii Elected to the Prestigious National Academy of Engineering
Professors M. C. Frank Chang and Yahya Rahmat-Samii have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional
lifetime distinction accorded to American engineers. Professor Chang was honored for
the development and commercialization of GaAs power amplifiers and integrated circuits, and Professor Rahmat-Samii was honored for his
contributions to the design and measurement of reflector and handheld-device antennas. They are both
now among a select 2,227 academy members nationwide, along with 194 foreign associates.
[More]
EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
Assistant Professor P. Gupta receives the 2007
European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation
Award in the topic "New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits".
Paper Receives Design Contest Award
The paper "XCXO: An Ultra-low Cost Ultra-high Accuracy Clock System for Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Remote Outdoor Environments"
by T. Schmid, J. Friedman, Z. Charbiwala, Y. Cho, and Professor M. Srivastava is selected as a winner for the
2008 Student Design Contest held by the DAC/ISSCC and Design Automation Conferences.
Graduate Student Receives Best Student Paper Award
Ph.D. student Harish Rajagopalan (Professor Y. Rahmat-Samii, advisor) is awarded first place in the
2008 Student Paper Competition by The United States National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).
The award is for his paper entitled "RF MEMS Actuated Reconfigurable Reflectarray: A Novel Patch-Slot Element Design."
Graduate Student Receives IEEE Young Author Best Paper Award
Ph.D. student Qiyue Zou (Professor A. H. Sayed, advisor) receives the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Young Author Best Paper Award
based on his paper on "The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Bilinear Systems, published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1666-1680, May 2006, and
co-authored with L. Zhiping and R. Ober.
HKN wins Outstanding Chapter Award
The
HKN Student Organization (Professor Alan Willson, advisor) wins its third straight HKN Outstanding Chapter
Award from the HKN National Organization.
ViaSat joins the Industry Affiliates Program
The department is pleased to announce that ViaSat has joined its
Industry Affiliates Program.
ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other wireless communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. They bring today's new
communications applications to people out of reach of terrestrial networks, in both commercial and government markets.
For more information on the IAP program, current members, and its benefits,
please visit the IAP website.
Online MS Program
The department starts offering an Online MS Program in Signal Processing and Communications and in Integrated Circuits as part
of the HSSEAS Master of Science in Engineering Program. Other areas of specialization are being planned.
The primary purpose of the Online MS Program is to enable employed engineers and computer scientists to enhance their technical
education beyond the Bachelor of Science level and to enhance their value to the technical organizations in which they are employed. [More]
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