News | April 1, 2024
Dr Ozcan’s lab published a new paper in Nature Communications on an optoelectronic neuron array that achieves broadband and low-loss optical nonlinearity accessible with ambient light
For more information, see UCLA’s press release and the full article published in Nature Communications.
Professor Babakhani’s team published a paper in IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits on a “A 400-GHz Efficient Radiator and OOK Transceiver for Multi-Gb/s Wireless Communication in Silicon”
For more information, see the full article published in IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.
Dr Hamed Rahmani became an assistant professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering of NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Congratulations to Dr Hamed Rahmani on his new academic position at the Department of ECE at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Dr Rahmani was Professor Aydin Babakhani’s Ph.D. student. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2020.
Awards
Sidharth Thomas received the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society’s Predoctoral Achievement Award
Congratulations to Professor Aydin Babakhani’s student, Sidharth Thomas, for receiving the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award. “Awards are made on the basis of academic record and promise, quality of publications, and a graduate study program well matched to the charter of SSCS.” For a list of 2023-2024 Predoctoral Achievement Award Recipients, please see here.
Jason Wu has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Jason Wu, a first year graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. in Professor Mani Srivastava’s research group, has been awarded by the Department of Defense the prestigious and highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. He did his undergraduate studies from our department as well. He was a student in the Fast Track Program, and was a recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Bachelor of Science Award in Electrical Engineering, Jason conducts research in the broad area of sensor information processing and sensing technology for IoT, digital twin, and cyber-physical systems.
Seminars & Chalk Talks
April
4/15
Guest Speaker: Dr Hyunpil Boo
Topic: Advancing Augmented Reality: Optimizing Optical Performance with Metasurfaces
Time: 12-1:30pm
Room: Shannon Room
Lunch will be provided at Eng VI Patio
4/22
Chalk Talk: Umesh
Time: 12-2pm
Room: Shannon Room
4/29
Guest Speaker: Prof Matthias Kling
Time: 12-2pm
Room: Shannon Room
Upcoming PhD Oral Defenses
4/26
Ph.D. Student: Pavan Holur
Time: 1-4pm
Room: Maxwell Room
4/26
Ph.D. Student: Anthony Kim
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Room: Maxwell Room
5/29
Ph.D. Student: Yiming Zhou
Time: 2:30-5pm
Room: Maxwell Room
5/30
Ph.D. Student: Sunay Bhat
Time: 1-3pm
Room: Faraday Room
Organizations
SoCal AI Responsibility Summit
Exploring the impact AI will have on Security, Climate, Healthcare, and our Personal Lives
Sunday April 7th at 9am in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom with food and drinks
Bruin AI is hosting one of the largest student-led AI discussions in California’s history, with attending companies such as Intel, Meta, Google DeepMind, Qualtrics, and 400+ students from UCLA, USC Caltech, UCSD, and UC Berkeley, putting on stage an interdisciplinary, transparent, and free discussion about what Responsible AI means.
The primary objective of the summit is to elevate awareness about the current AI revolution and its implications in data privacy, deep fakes, social dilemmas, and job replacement. This inaugural summit aims to build an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and inter-school discussion initiative to foster a transparent discussion platform.
Please share and RSVP: https://forms.gle/9RWj59W4jkvxC9wPA
Website: https://uclasairs.webflow.io/
AWS YouthTech Workshop
Evening with Industry Committee (EWI) is collaborating with ACM-W to host a 2-day cloud fundamentals bootcamp with AWS. RSVP
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