Newsletter • November 20, 2023
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News
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society interviewed Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Interview posted on YouTube: Legends of Electromagnetics: Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Awards
Distinguished Professor M.C. Frank Chang was awarded the 2023 James Clerk Maxwell Medal by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers & the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The international award recognizes Chang’s “contributions to heterojunction device technology and CMOS System-on-Chip realizations with unprecedented reconfigurability and bandwidth.
Professor Elaheh Ahmadi’s student, Oguz Odabasi, received Best Student Award at ICNS-14 held in Fukuoka, Japan
ICNS-14 is one of the biggest and most important international conferences in the field of Nitrides. Over 1000 people attended it. Oguz Odabasi’s presentation was on Record high electron mobility near pinch-off on N-polar GaN/AlN heterostructures grown on on-axis N-polar GaN substrates by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy.
ECE 297 Seminar
Predicting and Controlling Nonequilibrium Quantum Matter towards Scalable Quantum Architectures
Guest speaker: Pineha Narang
November 20 from 12-2pm
Shannon Room
Summer Internship
Qualcomm will be on campus for 2 events, and they are inviting Masters and PhD students in Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) who have a passion for Wireless Communications and are interested in Summer 2024 internships in Wireless and/or Modem Research and Development to attend these sessions. Be sure to register, and apply to all the role below of interest:
Upcoming PhD Oral Defenses
November 22, 2023 from 10am-12pm
Antonious Girgis (Tesla Room)
November 28, 2023 from 3-4:30pm
Yu Wu (Maxwell Room)
November 28, 2023 from 3-5:30pm
Jiyue Yang (Tesla Room)
November 29, 2023 from 8:30-11:30am
Sanae Amani Geshnigani (Tesla Room)
November 29, 2023 from 11:30am-1pm
Jingxi Li (Faraday Room)
November 30, 2023 from 12-2pm
Yipeng Zhang (Faraday Room)
December 1, 2023 from 11:30am-1:30pm
Bijie Bai (Tesla Room)
December 4, 2023 from 9-11am
Jonathan Bunton (Maxwell Room)
December 4, 2023 from 2-4pm
Debarnab Mitra (Tesla Room)
December 5, 2023 from 10am-12pm
Noyan Evirgen (Tesla Room)
January 19, 2024 from 2-4pm
Alexander Johnson (Tesla Room)
January 22, 2024 from 9-11am
Enes Krijestorac (Tesla Room)
Newsletter Submissions
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