Introduction to the Department Chairman and Vice-Chairs

Ali H. Sayed, Department Chairman

Ali H. Sayed was born in Brazil and educated in Lebanon and Brazil. He received the degrees of Engineer and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992. He has been on the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department since 1996, where he established and directs the Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has served as Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Student Affairs and is currently the Department Chairman.

Dr. Sayed's research interests span several areas, including adaptive and statistical signal processing, filtering and estimation theories, signal processing for communications, wireless location, interplays between signal processing and control methodologies, system theory, and fast algorithms for large-scale problems.

Jason C.S. Woo, Vice-Chair of Industry Relations

Jason C.S. Woo received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in engineering science from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He joined the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department in 1987 and is currently a professor.

Prof. Woo served on the IEEE IEDM program committee from 1989-1990 and 1994-1996, and was the publicity vice-chairman in 1992 and the publicity chairman in 1993. He is the workshop chairman and has been a technical committee member of the VLSI Technology Symposium since 1992. Since 1993, he has been on the IEEE SOI conference committee and was the technical program chairman for the conference in 1999. He has also been appointed recently to serve as the chair of IEEE Electronic Device Society ad hoc committee on short courses. He has authored or coauthored over 100 papers in technical journals and refereed conference proceedings in these areas.

Mani B. Srivastava, Vice-Chair of Graduate Affairs

Mani Srivastava received both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. His M.S. project was on automatic compilation of CMOS bit-slice datapaths as part of the Lager silicon compiler for DSP VLSI, while his Ph.D. dissertation was on hardware-software rapid prototyping and co-design for embedded DSP and control applications.

Since joining the EE Department, Prof. Srivastava's research and teaching have focussed on architecture, algorithms, and design optimization techniques for wireless networked and embedded systems, and DSP VLSIs. In recent years his main focus has been on mobile and wireless multimedia systems, and distributed wireless sensor networks, with emphasis on issues such as power-aware computing and communications, and quality of service.

Lieven Vandenberghe, Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Affairs

Lieven Vandenberghe received his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D degrees from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department since 1997. He is a member of IEEE, SIAM, and the Mathematical Programming Society.

Professor Vandenberghe's research interests are in optimization in engineering, applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing.