Administration

Introduction to the Department Chairman and Vice-Chairs

M. C. Frank Chang, Department Chairman

Dr. Frank Chang is the Wintek Chair Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, and the Director of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Before joining UCLA, he was the Assistant Director and Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at the Rockwell Science Center (1983-1997), Thousand Oaks, California. In this tenure, he successfully developed and transferred AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuits technologies form the research laboratory to the production line (now Conexant Systems and Skyworks).

Professor Chang's research covers several areas: 1) RF/CDMA/FDMA and AC coupled multi-band interconnects; 2) Silicon based RFIC and MMIC; 3) software-defined or Re-configurable multi-band and multi-mode radios; 4) Adaptive high speed and high resolution ADC/DAC.

 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.

Paulo Tabuada, Vice-Chair of Graduate Affairs

Paulo Tabuada was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He received his "Licenciatura" degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 from the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a private research institute associated with Instituto Superior Tecnico. Between January 2002 and July 2003 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending 3 years at the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles.

 Oscar Stafsudd, Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Affairs

Oscar Stafsudd received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1959, 1961, and 1967, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Dept. since 1967. He has consulted for various corporations such as Hughes Research Laboratories, Nortec Industries, Bendix Advanced Research Lab, Litton Industries, Airtron Industries, and Phraxos Research Development.

Prof. Stafsudd holds patents for a "new class of materials for the generation of coherent radiation between 300-1000 microns"; the "method of single crystal synthesis of ternary calcogenides"; "epitaxial growth of beta silicon carbide"; a "wafer base for silicon carbide semiconductor device"; "electromagnetic scattering in active guide"; silicon carbide (a metal carbide alloy semiconductor), and the method of making it; and has a patent pending for the technique for the Czochralsky growth of proustite and other related ternary semiconductor compounds.

Prof. Stafsudd is a member of the Optical Society of America, the American Association of Crystal Growth, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests are in quantum electronics, especially IR lasers and nonlinear optics, and in solid-state IR detectors.