Best Paper Awards

IEEE-wide Paper Awards

• 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Award
  Professor A. Abidi
• 1996 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Award
  Professor A. H. Sayed
• 1994 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award
  Professor A. Willson
• 1985 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award
  Professor A. Willson

Society Paper Awards

• 2008 IEEE Communications Society/Information Theory Joint Paper Award
  Professor K. Yao
• 2007 Most Cited Paper Award from Elsevier EURASIP
  Professor M. van der Schaar
• 2006 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
  Professor M. van der Schaar
• 2005: The paper "Composite right/left-handed transmission line metamaterials," IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol.5, no.3, pp. 34-50, September 2004, by A. Lai, C. Caloz and Professor T. Itoh, was rated as one of top 5 downloaded papers during 2005.
• 2005 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
  Professor A. H. Sayed
• 2004 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award
  Professor Panagiotis Christofides
• 2002 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
  Professor A. H. Sayed
• 2000 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award
  Professor Panagiotis Christofides
• 1999 Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  Professor Vwani Roychowdhury
• 1999 Best Paper Award, Society for Computer Simulation International
  Professor Izhak Rubin
• 1990 Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
  Professor Lieven Vandenberghe
• 1979 Guilleman-Cauer Prize Paper Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
  Professor Alan Willson

Conference Paper Awards

• The paper entitled "Bayesian Networks-Bsaed Interval Training Guidance System for Cancer Rehabilitation," by Myung-kyung Suh, Kyujoong Lee, Alfred Heu, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh, received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE2009)
• The paper entitled "Finite Element Analysis of Dielectric Metamaterial Structures Excited by an NRD Guide" by N. Michishita, T. Ueda and Professor T. Itoh receives the 2008 Research Award at the 26th Conference of Japan Society for Simulation Technology.
• Graduate students Jae Kim and Chih-Wei Yao (Professor A. Willson, advisor) were selected to receive the 2008 Best Student Paper Award at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS) held in Seattle, for their paper entitled "A Programmable 25 MHz to 6 GHz Rational-K/L Frequency Synthesizer with Digital K_vco Compensation."
• A paper by Professors William Kaiser and Majid Sarrafzadeh, along with collaborators from the UCLA Medical School and Veterna's Administration, was awarded the Best Paper Award at BodyNets 2008.
• A paper by Professor M. C. Frank Chang and co-authors (J. Cong and and G. Riemann) received the Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA).
• At the 2006 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, the APMC 2006 Prize was given to a paper co-authored by K. Leong, A. Lai and Professor T. Itoh.
• Graduate student V. Raghunathan (Professor B. Jalali, advisor), received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2006 Advanced Solid State Photonics (ASSP) Conference.
• A paper by Professor I. Rubin and his Ph.D. student R. Zhang received the best unclassified paper award at the 2006 IEEE MILCOM conference.
• Professors A. Abidi and B. Razavi were named among the top ten authors in the 50-year history of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the most prestigious design conference in the semiconductor industry. This is an industry-wide recognition that UCLA's Integrated Circuits & Systems research is among the top such programs worldwide.
• 1997 Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. Distributed Computing Systems
  Professor Mani Srivastava
• 1995 JSSC Best Paper Award
  Professor Henry Samueli
• 1994 Harold A. Wheeler Best Applications Prize Paper Award
  Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii
• 1991 Harold A. Wheeler Best Applications Prize Paper Award
  Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii