ECE Newsletter – March 4, 2024

The Academic Senate invites you to submit nominations for the 2023–2024 UCLA Academic Senate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards for Senate and non-Senate faculty. 

Dr. Ozcan’s lab published a new paper in Nature Communications on the use of AI to virtually stain autopsy tissue

For more information, see UCLA press release here. See here for the full article published in Nature Communications.

The Academic Senate invites you to submit nominations for the 2023–2024 UCLA Academic Senate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards for Senate and non-Senate faculty. 

First-Gen Bruin Engineer Strives to Make a Difference in Building a More Equitable Environment
Mia Irvin-Pollard, a third-year electrical engineering student at UCLA, shared her story about her acceptance to the Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED) and how she found her home in the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

Irvin-Pollard’s favorite class was electromagnetism and circuit theory. She credited Assistant Professor Yang Zhang for connecting theoretical concepts to real-world applications after each lecture. You can read more about Irvin-Pollard’s story here.

Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii and others published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

A. Papathanasopoulos, P.  Apostolopoulos, Y. Rahmat-Samii, “Optimization Assisted by Neural Network-Based Machine Learning in Electromagnetic Applications”,  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, VOL. 72, NO. 1, PP. 160-173, JAN. 2024.This was an invited paper for the special issue of AP-S Transactions dedicated to recent advances in electromagnetic numerical and simulation techniques. 

Welcome Visiting Professor, Dr Boris Vaisband

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Boris Vaisband to our department as our esteemed visiting professor and Acting Director of UCLA CHIPS starting March 2024. Dr. Vaisband brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience that will undoubtedly enrich our academic community.

Dr Vaisband’s research interests are in heterogeneous integration and advanced electronic packaging, neuromorphic circuits and systems, and formulation of design methodologies, including power delivery, communication, thermal aware design and floorplanning, and testing. Some applications of interest are ultra-large-scale artificial intelligence systems, high performance computing, hardware obfuscation, and edge and bio-compatible devices.

Dr. Vaisband holds a PhD and MS from the University of Rochester, NY, and a BSc from the Technion, Israel. From 2017 to 2019 he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 2008 and 2015 he held multiple hardware design positions at Google Inc., Cisco, and Intel.

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Dr. Boris Vaisband as he embarks on this exciting journey with us. We look forward to the invaluable contributions he will undoubtedly make to our academic community!

Assistant Professor Nader Sehatbakhsh receives the National Science Foundation CAREER award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nader Sehatbakhsh on receiving the NSF CAREER award. “The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.” For more information, click here.

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