List of Major Faculty/Alumni Awards in 2025 (since last ECE AAB)
- Sergio Carbajo received the Humboldt Research Award, 2024
- Jonathan Kao received the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, 2024
- Professors Aydogan Ozcan and Mona Jarrahi’s teams won the 2023 Advanced Photonics Best Research Paper Award from SPIE, 2024
- Puneet Gupta received the 2024 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award, 2024
- Associate Professor Sam Emaminejad received the American Heart Association Innovative Project Award, 2024
- Professor Mona Jarrahi received the 2024 IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award, 2024
- Professor Lei He’s group awarded Best Paper by the First IEEE International Workshop on LLM-Aided Design, 2024
- Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii honored as inaugural IEEE AP-S Legend of Electromagnetics, 2024
- Distinguished Professor Frank Chang honored with Pioneer Medal by Asian American Scholar Forum, 2024
- Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni elected Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, 2024
- Sergio Carbajo received the 2024 Nature Light Science & Applications, Rising Star Award, 2024
- Prof. Dan Goebel received an AIAA Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2024)
- Adrian Tang elevated to IEEE Fellow status for his contributions to Millimeter-Wave Systems-on-Chip Instruments for space science, 2025
- Ali Mosleh elevated to IEEE Fellow status for his contributions to innovative advancements in Bayesian models for risk and reliability analysis, 2025
- Liz Izhikevich named on Forbes 30 under 30 North America 2025 – Science List, 2025
- Elaheh Ahmadi awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2025
- Aydogan Ozcan awarded the Inaugural Keith Terasaki Mid-Career Innovation Award, 2025
- Henry Samueli receives IEEE Medal of Honor, 2025
- Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni selected for induction to the Space Technology Hall of Fame, 2025
- Jason Cong’s paper inducted into FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame, 2025
- Prof. Mona Jarrahi elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2025
- Chee Wei Wong elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2025
- Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2025
- Ian Roberts awarded Educational Innovation Grant, 2025
- Jason Cong receives 2024 ACM Breakthrough Award, 2025
- Jason Cong receives UIUC Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service, 2025
- Mona Jarrahi awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 2025
- Asad M Madni awarded Distinguished Career Award by the Washington Academy of Sciences, 2025
- Daniella Cabric and Aditya Wadaskar won best paper award at IEEE DySpan, 2025
- Sam Emaminejad receives the Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award, 2025
- Yang Zhang receives the Google Research Scholar Award, 2025
- Leo Zhou receives the Google Research Scholar Award, 2025
- Xiaofan Cui receives the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award, 2025
- Jonathan Kao receives the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2025
- Sergio Carbajo elected to the 2025 Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Fellows Program, 2025
- Prof. Ken Yang named as Inaugural Holder of Tatsuo Itoh Endowed Chair in ECE, 2025
- Jonathan Kao receives the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, 2025
- Chan Joshi elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Sciences Academy, 2025
- Frank Chang receives the 2025 John Fritz Medal, 2025
- Prof. Dan Goebel received an American Astronautical Society (AAS) Space Technology Award (2025)
List of Major Student Awards in 2025 (since last ECE AAB)
- ECE PhD Student Hao Zhang receives Third Place in the Best Student Poster Awards from the American Physical Society’s Division of Laser Science (APS DLS) at CLEO 2025
- UCLA Team (Andrew Xing (M.S), Leyi Zou (M.S), Tejas Bharadwaj (BS), and Rushabha Balaji (PhD)) Wins Second Place at Sampling-Assisted Pathloss Radio Map Prediction Competition
- ECE PhD Student Ali Jabbari Receives Outstanding Masters Graduate Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH)
- Hao Zhang Awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
- Aditya Wadaskar and Professor Danijela Cabric Win Best Paper Award at IEEE DySPAN
- William Huang and Daniel Yang Receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award
- Hao Zhang Awarded an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Scholarship
- PhD Students Gia Azcoitia and Jack Rozells Awarded the USPAS Scholarships
- Assistant Professor Ian Roberts’ Student, Ethan Ge, Received the 2025 Internet Research Initiative Award
- Assistant Professor Ian Roberts’ Student, Jeong Min Kong, Received an Amazon AI PhD Fellowship
Summary:
2024
- 13 Faculty and Alumni/Staff Awards
- 6 Student Awards
2025
- 40 Faculty and Alumni/Staff Awards
- 10 Student Awards