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UCLA’s Rod Kim Wins the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition
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The Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition brings together highly brilliant grad students whose research has been funded by the Foundation in the previous year. The search committee selects the top twelve who will vie for cash prizes to further their research. Each student gives a 3-minute pitch presentation. Over 400 engineers at Broadcom vote based on the student’s technical ingenuity and communication skills for those who get the top 3 prizes. Click here
For
two years in a row, UCLA wins first place in the
Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition. This year grad
student Rod Yanghyo Kim’s research entitled "Hollow
Plastic Cable and mm-Wave CMOS Transceiver Enabled
High-Speed and Energy Efficient Data Link" attracts the
interest and confidence of the judges by transferring
data through a lightweight and inexpensive hollow
plastic tube. Rod
Kim’s advisor is Professor Frank Chang.for more information on the competition.
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Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek is Selected for a UCLA Faculty Career Development Award
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Assistant Professor
Lara Dolecek has been selected for a UCLA Faculty Career
Development Award for academic year 2013-2014. The UCLA
Faculty Career Development Award is a competitive,
campus-wide award given to promising assistant
professors. Prof. Dolecek’s specialization is in Signals and
Systems with focus on coding and information theory,
graphical models, statistical algorithms, and combinatorial
methods, with applications to emerging systems for data
storage, processing, and communication.
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Congratulations to 2013-2014 Dissertation Fellowship Recipients!
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Jianshu Chen
Ali Sayed, Advisor
Yuanzhang Xiao
Mihaela van der Schaar, Advisor
Lee Ngee Tan
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Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek is a Recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Award
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Assistant
Professor Lara Dolecek is a recipient of Intel Early Career
Faculty Award and a
UCLA Faculty Career Development Award for academic year
2013-2014. The
Intel award is established to help Intel connect with the best
and brightest
early career faculty members at the top universities around the
world. In
addition to a cash gift, each awardee is also paired up with an
Intel peer
collaborator to help them network within the company. Prof.
Dolecek along
with other awardees will be honored at an awards ceremony in San
Francisco next
month.
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2012-2013 Outstanding Student Awards
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Bachelor of Science
Outstanding Bachelor of Science Degree Award: Justin Wong
Christina Huang Memorial Prize: Justin WongMaster of Science
Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award in Physical & Wave Electronics
Student: Shihan Qin
Advisor: Prof. Yuanxun Ethan Wang
Distinguished
Master’s Thesis Award in Signals & Systems
Student: Frederic Sala
Advisor: Prof. Lara DolecekDoctor of Philosophy
Distinguished
PhD Dissertation Award in Circuits & Embedded Systems
Student: ChengCheng Wang
Advisor: Prof. Dejan Markovic
Distinguished
PhD Dissertation Award in Physical & Wave Electronics
Student: Amir Ali Tavallaee
Advisor: Prof. Benjamin Williams
Distinguished
PhD Dissertation Award in Signals & Systems
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Professor Villasenor Provides Congressional Testimony
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Professor John Villasenor provided
testimony at a May 17 congressional hearing on "drones" and
privacy. The hearing, which was held by the House Judiciary
Committee, considered privacy from overhead observations in
light of the Constitution, existing statutes, and pending
legislation. Professor Villasenor's written
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Prof. John Villasenor’s Paper Selected as One of the Most Significant Papers in IEEE FCCM
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The paper was endorsed by Mark Shand commenting, “this paper was highly influential in raising awareness to the potential of runtime reconfiguration, as evidenced by the citations it has received in the ensuing years”. Visit the FCCM20 webpage to see the roster of the 25 most significant papers.In the forthcoming 20th
IEEE Symposium on
Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines this year,
the society has compiled the 25 most significant papers
from various areas in the conference over the years in a
special volume. Professor
John Villasenor’s paper released in 1996, entitled
“Configurable Computing Solutions for Automatic Target
Recognition” is included in the compilation. The co-authors to
the paper are: Brian Schoner, Kang-Ngee Chia,
Charles Zapata, Hea Joung Kim, Chris Jones, Shane
Lansing and Bill Mangione-Smith.
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UCLA IEEE Students Wins the Ethics and ViaCar Competitions
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The weekend of April 27-28, 2013 was a tremendous success for the UCLA IEEE student chapter for topping the Ethics and the ViaCar Competitions. UCLA was the host campus for the Ethics Competition; they went up against UC Irvine and UC San Diego. The winning team is composed of Harsh Barbhaiya, Ian Chen and
Corie Louie.This is UCLA IEEE's 4th Annual Ethics Competition. IEEE student branches from around the area gather to compete. This is UCLA IEEE's second consecutive first place win and third total first place rank. The competition includes a presentation and a defense of a case analysis. The specific objectives of the program are to foster familiarity with the IEEE Code of Ethics and ethics concepts, to promote a model for discussing and analyzing ethical questions, and to provide experience in applying ethical concepts to typical professional situations. Our judges for this year included experienced engineers from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Analog Devices, and Raytheon.
The ViaCar competition was hosted by UC San Diego on April 28, 2013. 14 teams entered all from UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara. UCLA took first, second and fourth places with speeds of 7.14ft/sec, 6.58ft/sec, and 5.68ft/sec respectively. The first place went to the Wyth Team composed of Alex Cheng, Leslie Wong, Hooman Barekatain, David Yang and Anh-Vu Nguyen. The second place went to Team DHizel composed of: Danny Li, Nikhil Dua, Genya Zhdanov and Jeffrey Hwang. The fourth place went to Team Up Dog composed of: Shubham Gandi, David Garges, William Seto and Ian Chen.
ViaCar is an undergraduate design competition sponsored by ViaSat and hosted by UCSD IEEE, based on UC Davis's NatCar competition. Teams must design, build, and race an autonomous car which must follow an 80-meter track marked by 1-inch white tape on dark-colored carpet. Under the tape, there is a wire carrying a 100mA rms 75kHz sinusoidal signal.
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Professor Alan Willson is Selected for 2013 Vitold Belevitch Award
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Charles P. Reames Professor Alan Willson has been
selected to receive the 2013 Vitold Belevitch Award
from the IEEE Circuit and Systems (CAS) Society. This award
“honors the individual with fundamental
contributions in the field of circuits and systems.” The award is
only given every two years by the Society. Professor
Willson will receive it during an IEEE CAS Society
Conference later this year.Prof. Willson’s research has been in theory and application of digital signal processing, including VLSI implementations, digital filter design and nonlinear circuit theory.
In recent years, Professor Willson has also received the 2012 Darlington Best Paper Award from the IEEE CAS Society and the 2010 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award from the IEEE. He was also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2009 through 2011.
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Professor Ozcan’s Group Discovered a New Motion Type for Human and Horse Sperm Cells
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The Ozcan Research Group's recent application of the
lens-free holomic microscopy shows that human and horse
sperm cells move in chiral ribbon patterns. The team
observed two types of distinct patterns: "a helical
ribbon path much like the stripes the wrap around a
barber's pole and the second is a complex twisted ribbon
pattern in which their bodies seem to follow the surface
of a corkscrew". This research finding could bring about a better comprehension on the nature of sperm cell movement and its relation to example fertilization. The authors of the research are: Dr. Ting-Wei Su and Associate Professor Ozcan with co-authors: Dr. Euan McLeod and undergraduate researchers Kalvin Huang, Inkyum Choi and Jaiwen Feng.
The study is published in Nature Scientific Reports and reported in the UCLA Newsroom.
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Professor Bahram Jalali Honored by the Engineers’ Council
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The Engineering Council honored Professor
Bahram Jalali with a Distinguished Engineering
Achievement Award presented in February 2013. The citation of the
award reads: “For seminal contributions in establishing
the field of silicon photonics and for time stretch
techniques resulting in a new generation of real time
high throughput instruments.”In mid-2012, Professor Jalali surprised the technology world with his research on the world’s fastest laser scanner capable to record images in a dim environment. The technology is called STEAM “Serial Time-Encoded Amplified Microscopy”. With collaboration with the Di Carlo Laboratory, they reported blood screening with record sensitivity in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
The Engineers’ Council was founded in 1955 with a mission to “1) Advance the art and science of engineering for the general welfare of humankind, 2) Advance the welfare of the general public through the creative resources and abilities of the engineering professions, 3) Inform the general public of the advantages and capabilities of engineering in advancing human welfare, and 4) Provide suitable public recognition of engineering achievement through the coordinated efforts of: Academia, Corporate, Government Agency, Individual, and Technical Society Affiliates.” Beyond its “Honors and Awards Banquet”, the society provides scholarship, high school mentoring and middle school math and science programs.
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UCLA Wins 2013 IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology Best Paper Award
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The paper entitled, “Radiation Model
for Terahertz Transmission-Line Metamaterial Quantum
Cascade Lasers”, authored
by Philip Hon,
Amir Tavallaee, Qi-Sheng Chen and Professors Ben
Williams and Tatsuo Itoh has been selected as the 2013
IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology Best
Paper Award by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society.The society recognizes UCLA’s paper as “the most significant contribution by a published paper in the THz journal to the field of interest THz science and technology in the previous year”. The paper was published in the IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology, vol. 2, pp. 323-332 on May 2012.
The authors will be honored at the Society Awards Banquet held during the International Microwave Symposium in Seattle, WA on the week of June 2-7, 2013. The MTT Society has also invited the authors as guest to their IMS Chairman’s Dinner.
The Microwave Theory and Techniques Society is a 60 year old society of engineering professionals which “promotes the advancement of microwave theory and its applications, including RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz technologies”. In 2011 Prof. Tatsuo Itoh was honored with a Microwave Career Award “for a Career of Leadership, Meritorious Achievement, Creativity and Outstanding Technical Contributions in the Field of Microwave Theory and Techniques”.
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Prof. Jason Cong Received Best Paper Award from FPGA 2013
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The
paper entitled Polyhedral-Based Data Reuse
Optimization for Configurable Computing, by Louis-Noel Pouchet, Peng
Zhang, P. Sadayappan and Jason Cong was awarded the Best
Paper at the 21st ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA'13). The paper was
published on ACM Press, February 2013, pp. 29-38.
About FPGA'2013: "The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays is the premier conference for presentation of advances in all areas related to FPGA technology. In 2013, for its twenty-first edition, the FPGA conference received 106 technical submissions from 21 countries. The program committee accepted 24 full papers and four short papers, leading to an acceptance rate of 26%."
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Distinguished Professor Asad Madni awarded a Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree, honoris causa, from California State University and California State University, Northridge
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The Board of Trustees of the California
State University (CSU) upon the recommendation of
California State University, Northridge (CSUN) has
selected Distinguished Professor Asad Madni to receive
a Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree, honoris causa. The
degree which will be jointly awarded by CSU and CSUN
is “ in recognition of his pioneering research
work and achievements in science, engineering and
technology, particularly in the aerospace, military,
automotive, commercial, and industrial fields, and
his distinguished record of leadership and service
at the university and in the community.”The degree will be formally conferred during the commencement ceremony of the College of Engineering and Computer Science on May 22, 2013 at the Manzanita Hall Lawn in CSUN. Following the commencement, Dr. Madni will be surrounded by family and friends at a special reception hosted by the University in his honor.
In the prior year he received a Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.) degree, honoris causa, from the Technical University of Crete, and the 2012 IEEE AESS Pioneer Award. Early this year he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Dr. Rani Ghaida is a Recipient of EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2012
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Recent
Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Rani Ghaida ‘12 (Advisor: Prof.
Puneet Gupta) has been selected to receive the 2012
Outstanding Dissertation Award in the area of "New
directions in physical design, design for manufacturing
and CAD for analogue circuits and MEMS" from the
European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) for
his dissertation "Design Enablement and Design-Centric
Assessment of Future Semiconductor Technologies." The
award, one of the most prestigious in the field of
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for Ph.D.
dissertations, will be presented at the DATE2013 conference in Grenoble, France. The award includes a monetary prize and an offer to publish the dissertation in the Springer EDAA Outstanding Monographs series.
While still at UCLA, Rani attracted interest from top semiconductor companies in his research work on computational frameworks and mathematical models for exploring, defining, optimizing, and enabling semiconductor technologies in a digital design context. He was a recipient of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department Fellowship and a number of awards including IBM Invention Achievement Plateau Award, IBM First Patent Application Award, and SRC Inventor Recognition Award.
Dr. Rani Ghaida is currently a Principal Engineer at GlobalFoundries in the Technology Enablement Division. His current research is focused on pattern-based Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
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Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii has been elected Fellow by Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society
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Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii has been selected as ACES Fellow by the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), the world's largest society in the area of computational electromagnetics (www.aces-society.org). ACES is the premier international computational society which serves scientists and engineers in industry, academia, and government working in a wide variety of fields related but not limited to EM scattering by complex objects, advanced numerical techniques and modern antenna designs. ACES Fellows are chosen for their distinguished efforts to advance computational techniques in electromagnetics and antennas. Professor Rahmat-Samii was honored for his pioneering contributions in the areas of spectral theory of diffraction, natured inspired evolutionary optimization techniques in electromagnetics, and reflector antenna synthesis and analysis. The author of more than 800 scholarly publications and four books, Prof. Rahmat-Samii has given numerous courses on these topics including two IEEE e-courses. Professor Rahmat-Samii will receive the recognition at the ACES conference awards banquet in Monterey, March 24-28, 2013.
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Associate Professor Aydogan Ozcan is Elected Fellow by SPIE
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Associate Professor Aydogan Ozcan is
elected Fellow by the Society of Photo-optical
Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) for his seminal
contributions in pursuit of photonics based telemedicine
technology. His
extensive research on the subject has attracted tremendous
interests and recognitions from both the academia,
government and the industry.
SPIE is the premiere international photonics society which serves scientists and engineers in industry, academia, and government working in a wide variety of fields that utilize some aspect of optics and photonics, the science and application of light.
Professor Ozcan will receive the recognition at the Photonics West conference in San Francisco which opens on February 2, 2013. The Photonics West Conference is one of the top five conferences of the SPIE.
Recently Professor Ozcan and the Ozcan research team had another major breakthrough in detecting virus and other nanoscale objects through lensfree microscopy. The results are published in Nature Photonics and featured on UCLA Newsroom.
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Professor Ali H. Sayed is co-recipient of the 2012 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society
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Professor
Ali H. Sayed is co-recipient, with former PhD student Zhi Quan and
co-author Dr. S. Cui, of the 2012 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal
Processing Society for their article by Z. Quan, S. Cui, and A. H. Sayed, ''Optimal linear cooperation for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing,
vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 28-40, Feb. 2008. The article has generated
considerable interest since its publication and already shows close to
500+ citations on Google Scholar. 
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Emeritus Professor Francis Chen addressed the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference
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Professor Chen has devoted a career spanning over 56 years on the study of magnetic fusion, laser fusion, plasma diagnostics, basic plasma physics and low temperature plasma physics. Though formally retired he holds an active research laboratory and continues to write.
Emeritus Professor Francis Chen gave an
"unconventional", entertaining opening plenary talk,
entitled “Fusion is Now and Forever”, at the biennial
Fusion Energy Conference of the International Atomic
Energy Agency of Austria held last October 2012 in San
Diego, CA. The
audience included 921 fusion experts from 48 countries
around the world. Frank
was chosen because of his book "An Indispensable Truth".
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ISSCC Honors Top Paper Contributors from UCLA
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Distinguished
Professor Asad Abidi is part of an elite group of 16
engineers who will be honored at the 60th
Anniversary of the International Solid-State Circuits
Conference for their strong and sustained contributions
to this most prestigious gathering of the semiconductor
industry. The
recognition will be presented at the ISSCC Plenary session on February 18, 2013
in San Francisco, CA.With the invention of wireless telegraphy and its development to radio or transistor circuit design with other performance enhancing electronic mechanisms, professionals in the field, specifically in solid-state circuits, instituted an arena where innovations and research are presented to further stimulate the advancement of technology. To date ISSCC is continuously at the forefront of presenting research to the industry. This year’s conference theme is entitled “60 Years of (Em)Powering the Future”.
Professor Abidi’s latest involvement was with the group that has won the ISSCC 2012 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper. Dr. David Murphy (PhD ’12) is principal author with Professors Frank Chang and Asad Abidi, and with a team of co-authors who are all UCLA alumni: Dr. Ahmad Mirzaei (PhD ’06), Dr. Mohyee Mikhemar (PhD ’09), Dr. Hooman Darabi (PhD ’99) and Dr. Amr Hafez (PhD ’12). The paper is entitled “A Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Noise-Cancelling Receiver with a 2dBb Noise Figure”, which also appears in the December, 2012 issue of IEEE Journal on Solid-State Circuits.
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Professor Ali H. Sayed Has Been Awarded the 2012 Technical Achievement Award
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Professor Ali H. Sayed has been awarded the 2012 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for his ``fundamental contributions to adaptive and statistical signal processing.'' IEEE's
first society and one of the largest, the Signal Processing Society is
the world’s premier professional society for signal processing
scientists and professionals since 1948. The Technical Achievement Award
honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding
technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas
within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications,
patents, or recognized impact on the field. The prize will be presented
at the Society’s Awards Ceremonies to be held in Vancouver, Canada, May
2013.
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Associate Professor Aydogan Ozcan Received the SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award
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Associate
Professor Aydogan
Ozcan will be honored with the first Biophotonics
Technology Innovator Award in recognition of his seminal
contributions to computational imaging, sensing and
bio-photonics technologies impacting telemedicine and
global health challenges.
The Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, established in 2012, is presented annually for extraordinary achievements in biophotonics technology development that show strong promise or potential impact in biology, medicine, and biomedical optics. The award targets achievements that span disciplines and may include elements of basic research, technology development, and clinical translation.
The award will be presented at the BiOS Hot Topics session at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco on February 2, 2013. Prior to this award, Professor Ozcan was honored with the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in 2011.
SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies.
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PhD Graduates David Murphy and Amr Hafez To Receive ISSCC 2012 Jack Kilby Award
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Recent
PhD graduates David Murphy and Amr Hafez, Prof. Frank
Chang, with Prof. Asad Abidi, and collaborators at
Broadcom have been selected to receive the ISSCC 2012
Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper for the
paper "A Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Noise-Cancelling
Receiver with a 2dB Noise Figure". The award will be
presented at the ISSCC conference in San Francisco,
February 2013.
The paper was the recipient of the Distinguished Technical Paper Award at ISSCC 2012 and was recently featured in the 2011-2012 UCLA EE Annual Report. Both Dr. Murphy (Sr. Staff Scientist) and Dr. Hafez (Staff Scientist) joined Broadcom full-time upon graduation. Collaborators at Broadcom are also all UCLA alums (Ahmad Mirzaei (PhD '06) , Mohyee Mikhemar (PhD '09), Hooman Darabi (Ph'D '99).
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Professor Rahmat-Samii Received the NASA Group Achievement Award
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Juno is a NASA New Frontiers mission to planet Jupiter and was launched on August 5, 2011 with arriving date of around July 4, 2016. The spacecraft will travel roughly over a total distance of 2.8 billion kilometers.
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Distinguished Professor Asad Madni is Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Distinguished Professor Asad Madni has been
elected a Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) "For seminal
contributions and distinguished leadership in the
development and commercialization of sensors and
systems for aerospace, transportation and commercial
aviation".
AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. AIAA Fellows are persons of distinction who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics. New fellows will be honored with a certificate and pin at the AIAA Fellows Dinner on 7th of May 2013.
During his career, Dr. Madni led the development and commercialization of intelligent micro-sensors, systems and instrumentation for aerospace, commercial aviation, and transportation including the Extremely Slow Motion Servo Control System for Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector System and the revolutionary Quartz MEMS GyroChip technology which is used worldwide for Electronic Stability Control and Rollover Protection in passenger vehicles.
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Professor Ali H. Sayed has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
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Professor
Ali H. Sayed has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for
three years from The Leverhulme Trust, a foundation established in 1925
in the United Kingdom in support of scholarly research and education. The
objective of the Leverhumle Trust awards is to enable distinguished
academics from overseas to visit and pursue research collaborations with
universities in the United Kingdom. Professor Sayed will be hosted by
Newcastle University during his visits and will be interacting with
researchers and students from the host institution and from other
universities in the UK.
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Professor Rahmat-Samii is on the Cover of IEEE A&P Magazine
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In June 2012, Prof. Rahmat Samii’s paper entitled, “Reflector Antenna Distortion Compensation using Sub-Reflectarrays: Simulation and Experimental Demonstration”was the front cover of the same magazine.
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Professor Panagiotis Christofides is Named AAAS Fellow
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Professor Panagiotis Christofides is
named
American
Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. He was honored for "the
development of rigorous methods for analysis and
control of nonlinear, hybrid and distributed
parameter processes." His research interests are in
the areas of control, dynamics and optimization,
including both theory and applications;
computational process modeling and simulation; and
applied mathematics. His laboratory seeks to develop
new methods for the systematic and rigorous solution
of complex process-control and systems-engineering
problems. He is a professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and of Electrical
Engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science.
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Professor Ali H. Sayed has been selected as Fellow by the American Association
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Professor Ali H. Sayed has
been selected as Fellow by
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and
the publisher of the journal Science. Members are chosen for their
distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The
selection of fellows has been an AAAS tradition since 1874. Professor
Sayed was honored for "distinguished contributions to adaptation,
learning, and statistical signal processing." The author of more than
400 scholarly publications and five books, Sayed focuses on research in
several areas, including adaptation and learning, network science,
biologically inspired designs and information-processing theories.
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Prof. Razavi and student Jun Won Jung received Best Student Paper Award of the 2012 VLSI Circuits
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The 2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits program committee has
selected Dr. Jun Won Jung and Prof. Behzad Razavi's paper
entitled "A 25-Gb/s 5-mW CMOS CDR/Deserializer" to receive the
Best Student Paper Award of the symposium. This honor is
awarded based on both the quality of the written paper and the
presentation at the symposium held in June 2012 in Honolulu,
HI.
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Encryption Technology and the Limits of the "Contents of the Mind"
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In a new article in the University of
Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Heightened Scrutiny, Professor
John Villasenor and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Vivek Mohan explore how
technologies such as digital encryption, smart phone unlocking mechanisms, and
functional MRI are challenging traditional assumptions regarding the boundaries
of the “contents of the mind.” They propose a framework for determining the scope of the Fifth
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A 2012 World Technology Award for Professor Ozcan
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Associate
Professor Aydogan Ozcan received the 2012 World Technology
Award on Health and Medicine (for the individual category)
presented by the World Technology Network in association with
Time, CNN, AAAS, Science, Technology Review, Fortune, Kurzweil
and Accelerosity. This
year’s theme is on “Nothing will ever be the same again”.
The award finalists and winners are those individuals (in 20 categories) and companies/organizations (in 10 categories) who are -- in the opinion of the WTN Fellows and Founding Members, through Awards voting process -- doing the innovative work of "the greatest likely long-term significance" in their fields. They are those creating the 21st century.
The winners were announced from the stage at a black-tie gala and ceremony at Time Conference Center at the World Technology Awards gala/ceremony on the evening of October 23rd, at the conclusion of the two-day (Oct. 22/23) World Technology Summit conference held at the Time & Life Building in New York City.
See the full listing and on World Technology.
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Professor Razavi Receives 2012 Best Invited Paper Award from CICC*
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Professor Behzad Razavi has received the 2012 Best Invited Paper Award from the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference for the paper entitled, "Problem of Timing Mismatch in Interleaved ADC's." This year's CICC program contained 20 invited papers presented by experts in the field in addition to hundreds of regular papers.
The IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference is a premier conference devoted to IC development. The conference sessions present original first published technical work and innovative circuit techniques that tackle practical problems. CICC is sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
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Professors Wesel, Dolecek and Daneshrad Receive an NSF Grant
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Professors Rick Wesel, Dolecek, and Daneshrad together with Dr. Dariush Divsalar of JPL receive NSF grant entitled "Code Design and Analysis to Approach Capacity with Short Blocklengths Using Feedback." This collaborative research award provides $880K for UCLA and JPL to design new rate-compatible codes and new algorithms to approach capacity with very short blocklegths using feedback. See details and abstract of the award: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1162501 and http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1161822.
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Professor King-Ning Tu is Selected for the 2013 EMPMD John Bardeen Award
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The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society has selected Professor King-Ning Tu for the 2013 EMPMD John Bardeen Award. This award is presented to an individual who has made outstanding contributions and is a leader in the field of electronic materials. A formal presentation shall be held at the EMPMD Council Meetingin San Antonio, Texas during the 142th TMS Annual Meeting, March 2-7, 2013.
Dr. King-Ning Tu is a distinguished professor in both Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. Aside from his fellowships at various societies, he has been decorated with a Distinguished Scientist Award from the Electronic, Magnetic, and Photonic Materials Division of TMS in 2006, elected member of Academia Sinica, Republic of China in 2002, and Humboldt Award for US Senior Scientists in 1996.
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Asst. Professor Lara Dolecek Wins Prestigious Okawa Foundation Research Award
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Assistant
Professor Lara Dolecek is a winner of the prestigious
Okawa Foundation Research Grant for 2012. This
prize honors top young researchers working in the
fields of information and telecommunications. The Okawa Foundation Grant
supports Prof. Dolecek's research on the topic
"Channel Coding Strategies for Next-Generation Data
Storage Systems." The award will be formally
presented at a ceremony in San Francisco in January
2013. The Okawa Foundation (http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/en/index.html) was
established in Japan in 1986 to provide funding and
recognition for new studies in the information and
telecommunications fields.
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Professor Jalali is a Recipient of the Aron Kressel Award
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The IEEE Photonics Society awarded its 2012 Aron Kressel Award to Professor Bahram Jalali with a citation that reads: “For contributions to the science and technology of silicon photonics”. The award was presented at the 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference in Silicon Valley.
The IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award is given to recognize those individuals who have made important contributions to opto-electronic device technology. The device technology cited is to have had a significant impact on their applications in major practical systems. The intent is to recognize key contributors to the field for developments of critical components, which lead to the development of systems enabling major new services or capabilities.
In other recent developments, Professors Jalali and Di Carlo’s team reported blood cancer screening with record sensitivity in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, PNAS (July 2012). The results were made possible by Jalali group’s time stretch camera technology (STEAM) and Di Carlo group’s advanced microfluidics.
Professor Jalali’s team reported world’s fastest laser scanner in Nature Scientific Methods.His team also reported the first ever real-time measurements of modulation instability spectrum and the observation of emergent behavior in such systems. Modulation instability is a ubiquitous nonlinear phenomenon that leads to spontaneous pattern formation in laser pulse propagation, cloud formation and ocean waves. The work was published in Nature Photonics and was in collaboration with University of Gottingen in Germany.
Professor Bahram Jalali is the Northrop Grumman Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics, Professor in Electrical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering, California NanoSystems Institute, and Department of Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
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The RIM4S Team Receives a $500,000 Contract from IARPA
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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded a $500,000 contract to an Electrical Engineering UCLA team for the project titled "Reliable Inference with Missing, Masked, Malfunctioning or Masked Sensors (RIM4S)". This project is a collaboration among Electrical Engineering Professors Lara Dolecek (principal investigator), Danijela Cabric, Greg Pottie and Mani Srivastava. The project aims to develop a fundamentally new theoretical framework of reliable inference when the data is collected from disparate sensing devices and to demonstrate practical feasibility of the proposed unifying framework on a comprehensive and diverse set of applications.
IARPA is a government organization that invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries.
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Associate Professor Aydogan Ozcan Joins Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10”
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Popular
Science magazine, which calls its annual list "a
celebration of ten young researchers whose innovations
will change the world," recognized Associate Professor
Aydogan Ozcan for his groundbreaking imaging technology
that turns everyday smart phones into powerful
microscopes for use in medical diagnostics. Past UCLA
recipients of this prestigious international recognition
from Popular Science are Professor Terence Tao
(Mathematics) and Professor Deborah Estrin (Computer
Science). Read the Full
Story.
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Prof. Rahmat Samii on the Cover of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
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The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine has a very large international circulation. The Antennas and Propagation Society also maintains two other publications: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
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LUCAS Listed on 30 Innovations That Will Change the World
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The
Business Insider in its Game Changer page has included
the LUCAS (Lenseless Ultrawide-field Cell Monitoring
Array platform based on Shadow imaging) microscope,
invented by Prof. Aydogan Ozcan's research group, in its list of 30
Innovations That Will Change the World. The Business
Insider probed into remarkable innovations in science,
energy and health and their impact in how we live.
Professor Ozcan and the Ozcan Research Group have received several commendations on the LUCAS project since its introduction in 2007. The most prestigious of which is the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award.
The Business Insider is a New York based online news website on business, entertainment, technology, sports and lifestyle. In 2012 it recorded a monthly visitor count of 5.4 million.
See the full listing here.
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Professor Ezio Biglieri is Selected for the 2012 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
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IEEE
Information Theory Society honors Adjunct Professor Ezio
Biglieri with the 2012
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award. The Information
Theory Society has singled out Professor Biglieri for
his outstanding leadership and proven long-standing
exceptional service to the Information Theory community.
Professor Biglieri was elected three times to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society and served as its President in 1999. He also served the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the Journal of Communications and Networks as Editor-in-Chief. Professor Biglieri has had a well rounded experience in the world of academe holding faculty and visiting positions at various universities and laboratories across the world. Other accolades to his name are: IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE Communications Society Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award, and Best Paper Awards from Journal of Communication Networks and the Donald G. Fink Prize.
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Distinguished Professor Asad Madni is the 2012 Recipient of the Prestigious IEEE AESS Pioneer Award
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Professor
Asad M. Madni has been
selected to receive the 2012 prestigious IEEE
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society's (AESS)
Pioneer Award for his pioneering contributions and
accomplishments that have stood the test of time. His
award citation reads “for seminal and
pioneering contributions to the development and
commercialization of aerospace and electronic systems”. The Pioneer Award has
been given annually since 1949 to an individual or team
for “contributions significant to bringing into being
systems that are still in existence today.” These
systems fall within the specific areas of interest to
the society, that is, electronic or aerospace systems.
The contributions for which the award is bestowed are to
have been made at least twenty (20) years prior to the
year of the award, to ensure proper historical
perspective.
The award will be presented to Professor Madni, depending on his availability, at either the AUTOTESTCON Conference to be held at the Anaheim Disneyland Resort and Conference Center, September 10-13, 2012; or at the Digital Avionics and Systems Conference (DASC) to be held in Williamsburg, Virginia, October 14 -19, 2012.
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Alumnus Thomas Courtade Received the 2012 ISIT Best Paper Award
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Dr. Thomas
Courtade,
who graduated in June from the UCLA EE department with
Ph. D. advisor Rick
Wesel, received the 2012
ISIT
Best Student Paper Award in Cambridge, MA for his
paper entitled
"Multiterminal Source Coding under Logarithmic Loss"
co-authored
by Tsachy Weissman. This award is given annually for an
outstanding
paper presented at the IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory, with
a student making the dominate contribution as well as
presenting the paper.
The award is based both on the paper's technical
contribution as well as
the quality of its presentation.Thomas Coutrade finished with a Distinguished Ph. D. Dissertation Award in Signals & Systems for year 2012.
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Technical University of Crete to Honor Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad Madni with a Honorary Doctorate Degree
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Dr. Asad Madni was unanimously
selected to receive the University's Doctorate Degree
Honoris Causa from the Department of Production
Engineering and Management of the Technical University of
Crete. This award is “in recognition for his Outstanding
Achievements in the Engineering Profession”. The awards
ceremony will be held in September in Chania, Greece in
time for the International Environmental Conference.
The Technical University of Crete was established in 1977 and started admitting students in 1984. It was then considered the first of its kind in Greece. Today, TUC is considered one of the most prominent research institutions in Greece with its extensive infrastructure, modern facilities and brilliant scholars.
Professor Asad Madni’s numerous honors include membership of the US National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IET (UK) Achievement Medal, TCI College of Technology Marconi Medal, UCLA Professional Achievement Medal, UCLA HSSEAS Alumnus of the Year Award, and UCLA HSSEAS Lifetime Contribution Award. Prior to joining UCLA, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and CTO of BEI Technolgies where he led the development and commercialization of intelligent micro-sensors and systems for aerospace, commercial and transportation industries, including the Extremely Slow Motion Servo Control System for Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector System and the revolutionary Quartz MEMS GyroChip technology which is used worldwide for Electronic Stability Control and Rollover Protection in passenger vehicles, and for inertial measurement and guidance for aerospace applications.
Prior to joining BEI, he was with Systron Donner Corporation for 18 years in senior technical and executive positions, eventually as Chairman, President and CEO. Here he made seminal and pioneering contributions in the development of RF and Microwave Systems and Instrumentation.
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Professor Jason Speyer to Receive the 2012 AIAA Aerospace Guidance Navigation and Control Award
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Professor Jason Speyer has been
selected for the 2012 American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics Aerospace Guidance, Navigation, and
Control Award. The award is “For significant
contributions to deterministic and stochastic optimal
control theory and their application to important
aerospace engineering problems.”Professor Jason Speyer will be honored at the Awards Luncheon on August 14, 2012, held in conjunction with the 13 - 16 August 2012 AIAA Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, MN.
Professor Jason Speyer is a professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering Department. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of IEEE and AIAA.
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Assistant Professor Danijela Cabric is a Recipient of UCLA Hellman Fellows Program
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Assistant Professor Danijela Cabric is a recipient of an
award through the UCLA Hellman Fellows Program. The UCLA
Hellman Fellows Program was established through the kind
generosity of the Hellman Family Foundation to help
promising junior professors take their research and
creative endeavors to a higher level. In this inaugural
year in UCLA many applications from faculty in various
disciplines across campus were received. Only eleven
fellows have been selected from this year's talented pool
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Professor M.-C. Frank Chang is Elected to 2012 Academicians at Academia Sinica
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On July 5, 2012, EE Chair M.-C. Frank Chang was
announced as one of the twenty newly elected 2012
Academicians of Academia Sinica held during its biennial
Convocation of Academicians from July 2-5, 2012. This
election recognizes a scholar’s exemplary research
achievements in the fields of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences, Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social
Sciences.Academia Sinica, established in 1928, is considered as the paramount institution in the Republic of China with a mission to promote and undertake scholarly research in the fields of sciences and humanities. After much political events in the country, the Academy was re-established in Taipei in 1949 and was able to establish itself as an advanced research institution with worldwide recognition.
EE Chair M.-C. Frank Chang is a Wintek Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is known for the development and commercialization of GaAs power amplifiers and integrated circuits which led him to his election to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2008. He is a recipient of the IEEE David Sarnoff Award for the development and commercialization of HBT power amplifiers for modern wireless telecommunication systems. He was a recipient of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Award and CESASC Career Achievement Award for his fundamental contributions in high speed electronics. He is also recognized as a worldwide leader in developing Terahertz communication, radar and imaging systems in mainstream CMOS technologies.
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The Nanoelectronics Research Facility Updates its Facility with an Atomic Layer Deposition System
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The
Nanoelectronics Research Facility (NRF) has received an
award from the UCLA Shared Resources Consortium (SRC) to
support purchase of an atomic layer deposition system. This system will be used for
deposition of multiple materials with atomic-level
thickness control and will be open to all NRF users. The
system will enhance the current capability with the
addition of plasma, which allows deposition at lower
temperatures. It also has a
load-locked environment for improved environmental
control, enabling deposition of higher quality films.The SRC was established by the Vice-Chancellor for research to "support instrumentation or personnel costs for existing and proposed Shared Resources (SRs) located on the UCLA campus." The NRF is a shared campus facility for fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices that has a broad user base consisting of users from UCLA, outside universities, and industry. The technical director of the NRF is Steve Franz, and the Faculty Director is Professor Rob Candler.
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Ph.D. Student Joshua Kovitz Awarded a Prestigious NDSEG Fellowship
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Joshua Kovitz, a Ph.D. student, was recently awarded a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. The NDSEG Fellowship is a “highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree”. This fellowship, sponsored by the Department of Defense. On average, only 10% of student applicants are offered a fellowship, and this year there were over 3,000 applications nationwide. The evaluation is based on a review of each applicant’s academic records, personal statements, recommendations, and GRE scores by an evaluation panel. NDSEG Fellowships provide full student support for three years, including full tuition and fees as well as a monthly stipend.
Joshua Kovitz is studying under Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii and has been conducting research in applying nature-inspired optimization techniques towards antenna designs for wireless communication systems and reconfigurable antennas. He was also recently awarded the Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award in Physical & Wave Electronics for year 2012. With the NDSEG fellowship, he hopes to begin research in many areas within electromagnetics, including antenna design problems for cognitive radio applications. For cognitive radio, the antenna design represents a difficult challenge, especially in the design of reconfigurable antennas for mobile devices, and the antenna systems can be a major bottleneck in the overall system design.
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Professor Henry Samueli Wins 2012 Marconi Prize
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Prof. Henry Samueli has been
selected as the sole recipient of the 2012 Marconi
Prize for his pioneering role in the development of
broadband semiconductors. The coveted prize is awarded
to an individual who has lasting contributions to the
development of communication science for the benefit of
mankind. Prof. Samueli’s passion in communications had shown roots from his younger years when he ventured to assemble a radio system for a school project far above the expectations among his peers. While at UCLA for his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, he sought and took advance graduate courses. He then pursued graduate studies and continued to impress his advisor, Prof. Alan Willson, when he always provided alternative solutions to various technical challenges. For Professor Willson, Henry Samueli was an exceptional undergrad student and an advisors’s dream grad student. Looking back, Prof. Henry Samueli has always been ahead of the game.
While working for TRW, Prof. Samueli was invited as a visiting lecturer at UCLA then eventually went full time and rose up to full professor. According to Prof. Willson, Prof. Samueli was well loved by his students. It is at UCLA where Broadcom started to take form when he met co-founder Dr. Henry Nicholas, his then grad student. Through their partnership, passion and determination Broadcom was able to deliver innovative products and firmly establish Broadcom as the major worldwide provider of semiconductors for various communication applications.
Prof. Samueli continuously goes a step ahead not just in technology but by investing in the educational system for future engineers. He has greatly contributed to the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to both University of California in Los Angeles and Irvine which carries his name.
The Marconi Society was first established in 1974 by Gioia Marconi Braga in honor of her father the 1909 Nobel Laureate, Gulielmo Marconi. Mrs. Braga characterized the Fellowship as "unique...in that it does not reward a person for intellectual achievements alone, but seeks to recognize and sustain those spiritual aspirations that a creative thinker may wish to apply to the establishment of a better world in which to live."
The Marconi Prize will be awarded on September 6, 2012 at the Marconi Automotive Museum in the Tustin Ca. During the day, there would be technology symposia to be held at Beckman Center in UC Irvine.
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Adrian Tang Wins First Place at Broadcom Foundation’s Inaugural University Research Competition
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Grad Student Adrian Tang was selected as the first place winner at Broadcom Foundation’s Inaugural University Research Competition among other international university representatives. According to Broadcom, Adrian Tang’s research entitled, “A 144 Ghz High Resolution Sub-Carrier Successive Approximation Radar for Thz Security Screening” was selected for its “study of radars for low‐cost, low‐power and portable THz imaging systems which have many new applications in security screening, trace gas detection and biomedical imaging.”
The awarding was held during Broadcom’s annual Technical Conference June 6-7 in Irvine, CA where all 12 student finalists were invited together with their academic advisor to present their projects to over 400 attendees. The finalists came from Oregon State University, Stanford University, Texas A&M University, Tsinghua University in China, University of Pavia in Italy, University of California in Davis, University of California in Irvine, University of California in Los Angeles, University of California in San Diego and University of Michigan.
Adrian Tang was supported by his academic advisor, EE Chair and Professor M.-C. Frank Chang. Adrian recently finished his doctorate degree and is the recipient of Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award in Circuits & Embedded Systems for year 2012. His dissertation is on CMOS MM-Wave Imaging Techniques. Adrian has joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA to work on 680 GHz FMCW based imaging radar systems in the 389A Sub-millimeter Wave Advanced Technology Group. At the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium in Montreal, Canada, Adrian will present four different papers two of which are candidates for Best Paper Award.
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Chih Kai Chen Receives IEEE CORAL Best Student Paper Award
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The paper "Modeling and Theoretical Performance Analysis for Dynamic Spatially Distributed Energy-based Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios over Shadowed Fading Channels in Public Safety Networks," by Grad Students Chih Kai Chen and Ralph E. Hudson, and Professor Kung Yao, has been selected as the Best Student Paper for the IEEE CORAL (COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms) 2012. The paper will be presented during the workshop in San Francisco, CA on June 25, 2012.
This is the first IEEE International Workshop on emerging Cognitive Radio Applications and Algorithms. Professionals and researchers from the academe, industry and standardization agencies come together to exchange research breakthroughs in the development and implementation of cognitive radio networking. The Best Student Paper Award is sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Stimulation. -
Professor Jason Cong Receives ACM TODAES Best Paper Award
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Professor Jason Cong is a recipient of the 2012 ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) Best Paper Award for the journal entitled "Behavior-Level observability Analysis for Operation Gating in Low-Power Behavioral Synthesis," with co-authors from UCLA Bin Liu and Rupak Majumdar, and Zhiru Zhang from AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc. The award was presented on June 5, 2012 at the Design Automation Conference held in San Francisco, CA.
The journal was published on ACM TODAES in November 2010. The selection was based on three points provided by ACM TODAES:It is the first to formally generalize the concept of ODC in the behavior level. In addition, it presents an exact and efficient algorithm to compute the behavior-level ODC in the presence of black-box operations. Traditional (or logic) ODC based analysis can hardly derive high-level ODC information (esp. across clock boundaries) in complete and efficient manners.
It is also the first to combine behavior-level ODC analysis with high-level synthesis (HLS) optimizations to identify and avoid unnecessary computations and data transfers.
The proposed ODC-based optimizations have been integrated into a cutting-edge commercial HLS system (AutoESL/Xilinx), leading to significant power savings (30%+) for the synthesized circuits.
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