News | October 7, 2024
Ozcan Lab published a new article in Nature Communications on the imaging and staining of amyloid deposits in label-free tissue using deep learning
Figure 1 extracted from the article in Nature Communications
Please see the full article and press release.
In collaboration with Liang Gao’s lab at UCLA, Ozcan Lab published a new article in PNAS on a new technique for light-field tomographic fluorescence lifetime imaging
Please see the full paper.
Awards
Professor Jason Cong won the 2024 Phil Kaufman Award
Professor Jason Cong won the 2024 Phil Kaufman Award. This award is widely regarded as the Nobel Prize of EDA (electronic design automation), and Professor Cong is the first awardee from UCLA. To quote from Prof. Cong’s award citation, he has made “sustained, seminal contributions to design automation for FPGA [Field-Programmable Gate Array] designs from chips to systems, across logic, layout, compilation, and applications, over a remarkable 30-plus-year span,” with “widespread industrial impact.” Please see the official award announcement. For the significance of this award and a list of past winners, see the Wikipedia webpage.
Yu-Tao Yang, Student of Professor Iyer, Wins Mahboob Khan Outstanding Liaison Award 2024
Yu-Tao, a student of Professor Iyer, has been awarded the prestigious Mahboob Khan Outstanding Liaison Award, recognizing his significant contributions to the SRC Liaison Program. This award, named in memory of Mahboob Khan, honors liaisons who advance technology transfer from university research to the semiconductor industry. With less than 10% of nominees selected, this recognition highlights Yu-Tao’s exceptional dedication to the program. Reflecting on the honor, Yu-Tao said, “I feel incredibly fortunate to have been awarded this.”
The award was presented at the SRC TECHCON event.
Finalist for the 2024 Alton B. Zerby and Carl T Koerner Outstanding Electrical or Computer Engineering Student Award
Congratulations to Eugene Min, who graduated from UCLA in June 2024 with a BS in Electrical Engineering. Eugene’s hard work and dedication have earned him a spot as one of the finalists for the prestigious 2024 Alton B. Zerby and Carl T Koerner Outstanding Electrical or Computer Engineering Student Award.
The finalists will be honored at the Student Leadership Conference from November 15-17, 2024, hosted by the Kappa Phi Chapter at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Upcoming PhD Oral Defenses
11/13
Ph.D. Student: Jialin Dong
Time: 11am-1pm
Room: Faraday Room
12/2
Ph.D. Student: Elvis Nunez
Time: 4-5pm
Room: Maxwell Room
11/21
Ph.D. Student: Shuo Hwai
Time: 12-2pm
Room: Maxwell Room
Job Opportunities
Design Verification Engineer at Apple
Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge? This position gives you an opportunity to be a part of one of the most cutting edge and key projects that Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group has embarked upon to-date. As a Design Verification Engineer on their team, you’ll be at the center of the verification effort within our silicon design group responsible for crafting and productizing state-of-the-art Cellular SoCs!
You will have the opportunity to contribute to the verification effort of a set of complex SOCs delivering the Cellular solution. You will integrate multiple sophisticated IP level DV environments, craft highly reusable best-in-class UVM based test bench, implement effective coverage driven and directed test suites, deploy new tools and methodologies to deliver chips that are right-first-time. By collaborating with other product development groups across Apple, you can push the industry boundaries of what cellular systems can do and improve the product experience for our customers across the world!
Through this experience, you will learn all aspects of a large scale SOC design, Complex verification test benches, different types of SOC architectures, multiple high speed protocols, industry-standard low power architecture, best in class DV methodology, verification on accelerated platforms, knowledge on Cellular protocol, FW-HW interactions, complexities of multi-chip SOC debug architecture, etc.
Key Qualifications:
MS in EE or CS. Coursework in Digital Design, Computer Architecture, Object Oriented Programming, Networking Protocol. Programming experience in SystemVerilog or Python or C++ or Java.
Must be graduating by Dec ’24.
Please send your resume to j_lou@apple.com.
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