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Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek Receives NSF CAREER Award
This year’s APM Conference commemorates its 25th anniversary, the first convention was held in New Delhi, India. Over the years it has become a leading gathering of microwave professionals worldwide. The convention was hosted by Engineers Australia, IEEE and MTT-S. The MHealth Alliance was conceptualized in July 2008 in a conference in Bellagio, Italy and was launched the following year at the GSM Association mobile World Congress by United Nations, Rockefeller Foundation and Vodafone Foundation. Other founding partners are U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), GSM Association and Hewlett-Packard. Improvement of global health is among the focus The Rockefeller Foundation. It aims to transform the health system and make it more accessible and affordable. Secondly, it aims to combat spread of infectious disease through linkage with disease surveillance network. Since its founding in 1913, the foundation aims at the well-being of people. Professor John Villasenor has published a two-part
article in Scientific American on drones, addressing
their implications for
national security and for
privacy. The series has been selected as a
"Must Read" by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Electrical Engineering professors Danijela Cabric and Dejan Markovic are the Co-PIs on a new Defense advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant in the amount of $5.9M ($1.9M awarded to UCLA).
The research, under the DARPA CLASIC program, is aimed at addressing the challenges of wideband signal sensing for cognitive radio dynamic spectrum access - the process of identifying frequency usage through signal classification. Other team members include the University of Minnesota (Lead), Army Research Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Silvus Technologies.
The principle of ISCA is the promotion of activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. Prof. Yao and Dr. Ralph E. Hudson have been working on the acoustic beam-forming and its implementation on multiple platforms for 15 years. A recent project under NSF grant with PhD students Andreas Ali and Lew Girod working together with animal ecologists, allows them to a non-invasive research in hostile environment to collect useful bio-complexity data with the use of the bio-acoustic monitoring equipment. The results would help ecologists understand animal movement and density in the global environmental change.
Postdoctoral researcher, Keisuke Goda (Prof. Jalali, advisor) has won the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award. The Award provides a financial support to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first 3 years of faculty service.
Team Awesome originated in EE184D course of Fall 2010 comprising of Danny Chhay, Johnny Yam, Shannon Lin, Richard Mayne and Mike Briggs the team's adviser. They continued developing their entry after the end of the course, with further help from the EE Department plus assistance from the IEEE Student Branch at UCLA.
Postdoctoral researcher, Niusha Sarkhosh (Prof. Jalali, advisor) won the Endeavour Postdoctoral Award. Niusha is being recognized for her work on photonic implementation of an Instantaneous Frequency Measurement (IFM) receiver and its biomedical application. The Award provides financial assistance to postdoctoral training for a year.
Dr. Madni is also the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Career Excellence Award "for an extraordinary career of enlightened leadership in and pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of intelligent sensors, systems and instrumentation." This is the society's highest honor and is awarded to recognize a lifetime career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution by an individual in the field of instrumentation and measurement. The award will be presented on May 11, 2011 at the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) to be held in Hangzhou, China. Dr. Madni served as President, Chief Operating Officer & CTO of BEI Technologies Inc. from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. Prior to joining BEI Technologies, he was with Systron Donner Corporation (a Thorn/EMI Company) for 18 years, where he held senior technical and executive positions, eventually holding the title of Chairman, President and CEO. Dr. Madni has been honored with numerous national and international awards including multiple IEEE awards. UCLA honored him with the 2002 Professional Achievement Medal, 2004 Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award and 2010 Engineering Lifetime Contribution Award. He holds adjunct professor appointment at Ryerson University as well as the title "Distinguished College Professor" at TCI College of Technology. Dr. Madni is an internationally recognized authority with over 35 years of experience in "intelligent" sensors and system design and signal processing. He is credited with over 150 refereed publications in archival journals, conference proceedings and book chapters; over 100 research reports and internal publications; and 67 issued or pending patents resulting in numerous "industry firsts". The National Research Council of the National Academies just released its assessment of U.S. research doctorate programs on September 28, 2010. The assessment is designed to help universities evaluate and improve the quality of their Ph.D. programs based on measures important to faculty, students, administrators, founders, and other stakeholders. Rankings show how the data can be used to compare programs based on the importance of particular program characteristics. Rather than assign specific rankings, the NRC placed programs within a particular scoring range within disciplines. on the issues in the ongoing digital revolution. Netexplorateur detects initiatives in terms of new uses of digital technology, and spreads knowledge and understanding of the related trends. from the National Science Foundation. Professor Pamarti's award recognizes his career development plan entitled "Digital Signal Conditioning Techniques to Improve Integrated Circuit Design Performance." Prof. Chui was selected because of "deep appreciation of his early career technical development within the IEEE EDS." This award was established in 2009 to promote, recognize, and support early technical career development within the EDS's field (link). It is presented annually to honor an IEEE EDS Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD) who has received their first professional degree within 10 years, making contributions in the fields of interest to IEEE EDS. The basis for judging includes such factors as; the demonstration of field leadership in a specific area; specific technical contribution(s); impact on the profession or economy; originality; breadth; inventive value; publications; honors; and other appropriate achievements. Professor Chui is the 1st recipient of this award, which is one of the Society's highest honors.
Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek is a recipient of Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the highly selective 5-year research grant that the National Science Foundation awards to junior faculty members who are likely to become academic leaders of the future. Assistant Professor Dolecek's proposal "Channel Coding Paradigms For Next Generation Storage Systems" aims to fundamentally rethink channel coding methods with applications to emerging storage systems. Novel coding methodologies developed by Prof. Dolecek improve the data storage capacity by departing from the long-standing, but increasingly suboptimal, system design metrics. The developed framework not only advances the well-established field of coding theory but it also has a potential to substantially reduce the galloping cost of large-scale data storage systems. 
Assistant Professor Dolecek is in the signal and systems area of electrical engineering. Her research interests span coding and information theory, graphical models and statistical algorithms with applications to emerging systems for data storage, processing, and communication. She holds a B.S. (with honors), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, as well as an M.A. degree in Statistics, all from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA as a faculty member in 2010, she was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT.
Assistant Professor Jin-Hyung Lee is a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Assistant Professor Jin-Hyung Lee has been selected as a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a competitive award bestowed upon remarkable scientists highly regarded by their fellow scholars for the exceptional work they have accomplished in their field and who holds a promising future. 
The Sloan Research Fellowship supports young generation scientists who have the potential to make outstanding contributions in their field. Every year over a hundred young scientists are searched for the very best scholars from United States and Canada rewarded with a 2-year fellowship.
Assistant Professor Lee is in the field of electrical and bio-engineering. Her research has been on understanding the brain’s connectivity and function so as to develop ways to fix the brain from various diseases.
Assistant Professor Danijela Cabric Gets an NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Danijela Cabric has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her proposal entitled "Cognitive Co-existence in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks." In the course of 5 years, Professor Cabric aims to develop an integrated physical and network layer approach for cognitive spectrum sharing based on enhanced awareness about network topology, location and traffic behavior of users. The algorithms, protocols and tools developed by this research will have a practical impact on a broad range of wireless systems which share same spectrum resources including current and future unlicensed bands, vehicular and safety networks, cellular infrastructure and femto cells, emergency and defense networks.
NSF Career Award is awarded to junior faculty who has exemplified excellence in research and education and has integrated both aspects in keeping US at the forefront of science and engineering.
Assistant Professor Cabric's interest is in the area of Circuits and Embedded System specifically in wireless communications design, cognitive radio networks and VLSI architecture of signal processing and digital communications algorithms.
EE Alumnus Dr. Kinam Kim (PhD' 94) Elected to National Academy of Engineering
EE Alumnus Dr. Kinam Kim (PhD’94) Elected to National Academy of Engineering
In the February 9, 2012 National Academy of Engineering announcement, Dr. Kinam Kim, UCLA PhD ’94 and CEO of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics Company, is one of the 10 new foreign associates for his contributions to semiconductor technologies for DRAM and nonvolatile memories. Dr. Kim was a student of HSSEAS Electrical Engineering Raytheon Distinguished Chair Professor Kang L. Wang. 
NAE membership is one of the most prestigious recognition bestowed to an engineer who had made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education." To date, there are a total of 2,254 NAE US members and 206 foreign associates.
Dr. Kinam Kim also holds the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award while at Samsung Semiconductor R&D Center for the development of the first 1GB and 4GB DRAM and advanced capabilities of NAND flash which empowered MP3 players, USB memory sticks and memory flash cards. In four years his team developed increased NAD flash density from 2GB in 2002 to 32GB in 2006 which gained a significant market share for Samsung. Dr. Kinam Kim is also a Fellow of IEEE and Samsung.
Dr. Briggs and Dr. Goodin Gets the 2011 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor Award
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has awarded Dr. Dennis Mike Briggs and Dr. William Goodin, the Outstanding Branch Counselor Award for 2011. This international award is presented to individuals who, through their work as Counselors and Advisors, exemplify the Institute's commitment to the educational, personal, professional, and technical development of students in IEEE related fields of interest.
Dr. Briggs has been a member of IEEE since 1985. In 1997 he was honored with the General Motor President’s Council Award and in 2005 received an Excellence in Teaching Award from UCLA HSSEAS Department of Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Goodin is a Senior Member of IEEE, and has served as an alumni counselor for the UCLA Student Branch since 2003. He is currently Associate Director of Alumni Relations at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
UCLA HSSEAS Electrical Engineering is proud to have supportive academic individuals in stimulating the students to reach beyond their limits.
Asst. Prof. Williams gets an NSF Career Award
Assistant Professor Benjamin Williams has been selected to receive the NSF CAREER Award for the project, Widely Tunable Monolithic THz Waveguides, Lasers, and Arrays. This award will fund research on new ways to tune the wavelength of a terahertz semiconductor laser across a broad fractional bandwidth. If successful, it will result in compact and frequency-agile sources of terahertz radiation that could potentially be used in a wide variety of applications for spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging. A major goal of Prof. Williams’ research is to develop new components and technologies for the terahertz frequency range, in order to allow use of this relatively untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Prof. Rahmat-Samii and Student Got 2nd-Best Paper Award at the 2012 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting
On January 5, 2012 at the 2012 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting in
Boulder, Colorado, Timothy Brockett, Harish Rajagopalan and Yahya Rahmat-Samii received the 2nd Best Paper Award called Ernest K. Smith USNC-URSI Student Prize Award for their paper, "A New Paradigm in Solar Energy Harvesting: Characterization of High Absorption Nanopilar Array Photovoltaics ." This paper was presented at the plenary session of the conference.
This year’s USNC-URSI Conference also acknowledged Prof Rahmat-Samii for his chairmanship of USNC-URSI for the triennium 2009-2011. The U.S. National Committee of URSI (International Union of Radio Science) is appointed by the National Research Council of the National Academies and represents the U.S. Radio scientists in URSI.
ISSCC 2012 Distinguished-Technical-Paper Award
A collaborative research between UCLA and Broadcom has led to the recognition of ISSCC 2012 Distinguished-Technical-Paper Award for the paper entitled "A Blocker-Tolerant Wideband Noise-Cancelling Receiver with a 2dB Noise Figure". The lead author is UCLA's PhD candidate David Murphy with co-authorship of Broadcom's Amr Hafez, Ahmad Mirzaei, Mohyee Mikhemar, Hooman Darabi and UCLA's Prof. Mau-Chung Frank Chang and Prof. Asad Abidi. 
Mr. David Murphy explains, "The proposed circuit architecture/technique breaks the traditional noise/linearity trade-off inherent in all modern receivers, and is applicable to both software-defined radios and to receivers targeting current wireless standards."
ISSCC (International Solid State Circuit Conference) 2012 is focusing on the theme Silicon Systems for Sustainability covering over 200 technical presentations on benchmark results, designs in cutting edge processes and circuits in new device technologies. The award will be presented at ISSCC 2012 on February 20 in San Francisco California.
Associate Professor Paulo Tabuada and former student Adolfo Anta received the 2011 George S. Axelby Award.
Associate Professor Paulo Tabuada and former student Adolfo Anta received the 2011 George S. Axelby award at the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. The George S. Axelby award recognizes the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control during the two years prior to the year of the award. The awarded paper is titled "To sample or not to sample: Self-triggered control for nonlinear systems" and explains how feedback control laws can be implemented in a sporadic (self-triggered) manner while guaranteeing the same performance as a traditional periodic implementation.Dr. Asad M. Madni, New Electrical Engineering Distinguished Adjunct Professor
Dr. Madni has been appointed as Distinguished Adjunct Professor (Above Scale) in the Electrical Engineering department. He is an internationally renowned leader in the field of intelligent microsensors , systems and instrumentation for aerospace, military, commercial, and transportation industries. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2011 for "Contributions to the development and commercialization of sensors and systems for aerospace and automotive safety." He is a fellow of several professional societies, including IEEE, IEE, IET, AAAS, NYAS, SAE, IAE,AIAA, etc., and is the recipient of numerous national & international awards and honors. Dr. Madni has been a devoted alumnus of the Electrical Engineering department for several decades and has actively served the school and department in many functions. He is also very active with professional societies in providing service to the engineering profession and to our nation.Professor Itoh and Student Got Best Paper Award at the 2011 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference
On December 7, 2011 at 2011 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference in Melbourne, Australia, Hanseung Lee and Tatsuo Itoh received the Best Paper Award called APMC2011 Prize 
for their paper, "Dual Band Isolation Circuits Based on CRLH Transmission Lines for Triplexer Application." Also, Chung-tse Michael Wu won the 2nd place in the Student Paper Competition for the paper "Transponder Using SIW Based Negative and Zeroth Order Resonance Dual-Band Antenna and Sub-Harmonic Self-Oscillating Mixer" by C. M. Wu, Y. Dong and T. Itoh. Professor Ozcan is Awarded 2011 Innovator’s Challenge
Professor Aydogan Ozcan, for his LUCAS project, has been selected as the Top 11 Professionals in the 2011 Innovator’s Challenge held at the opening reception of the mHealth Summit in Washington DC by the mHealth Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation. The award drives to recognize and promote the advance use of wireless technology to improve health services and outcomes to the farthest reaches around the world. All eleven winners are to join forums and showcase their innovations at the 2011 mHealth Summit together with the top experts in the mHealth field.
Professor Villasenor publishes series on drones
Los Angeles Computing Circle Takes Off in UCLA Electrical Engineering
Los Angeles Computing Circle (LACC) is a new outreach program aimed at promoting careers in electrical and computer 
engineering among talented high-schoolers. LACC program is created by Electrical Engineering Professors Lara Dolecek, Puneet Gupta and Mani Srivastava under the umbrella of a recently NSF-funded, multi-university, Expeditions in Computing project.
LACC program uniquely combines classroom teaching, hands-on experimental work, challenging programming exercises and carefully tailored independent research projects. Instead of an abstract focus on a specific programming language such as Java, LACC seeks to put computing in context of its real-world applications, its algorithmic foundations, and the relationship of software to the underlying computing hardware substrate. Full Story
DARPA Awards a Grant to Professors Danijela Cabric and Dejan Markovic
Associate Prof. Ozcan is a recipient of PECASE
Associate Professor Aydogan Ozcan, together with 93 researchers all over USA, received the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor 
presented by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
President Obama commented: "It is inspiring to see the innovative work being done by these scientists and engineers as they ramp up their careers—careers that I know will be not only personally rewarding but also invaluable to the Nation…That so many of them are also devoting time to mentoring and other forms of community service speaks volumes about their potential for leadership, not only as scientists but as model citizens."
Established by President Clinton in 1996, the Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Executive Office of the President works with sixteen Federal departments and agencies who annually nominates commendable scientists and engineers, from the new faculty recipient the NSF Award, with strong potentials in assuring America’s leadership in science and technology, contribute to support research environments and contribute to the American economy.
The awards, established by President Clinton in 1996, are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President. Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach.
Prof. Diggavi Gets an NSF Award
Professor Diggavi gets an NSF Award for the program, Foundations of Secure Cyber Physical System. This is a four-year program which aims to improve the protection of critical cyber-physical infrastructure against emerging threats through a unified conceptual framework, which uses models for the physical system and the communication/computation network to define precise attack models and vulnerabilities. This is expected to provide direct socio economic benefits from individual organizations to a national scale.
The interdisciplinary team includes Co-Principal Investigators from the Computer Science Department: Professors Rafail Ostrovsky and Amit Sahai, from Electrical Engineering Department: Professors Mani Srivastava and Paulo Tabuda.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) was created by Congress in 1950 with a mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense.
Blaze, Energy-efficient Technology From UCLA
Gate-length biasing - a design-aware manufacturing technique co-invented by Professor Gupta reaches the Trillion Watt Hour energy saving mark. The estimated cost saving is over $100 million. The methodology and associated CAD software was commercialized by Blaze DFM, acquired by Tela Inc., a company Prof. Gupta co-founded. Prof. Gupta and his UCLA research group (http://nanocad.ee.ucla.edu) are widely recognized for pioneering work at the semiconductor design-manufacturing interface, resulting in reduced costs and improved efficiency of silicon chips.
The technology is now widely used in numerous applications such as network processors, Internet routers and the graphics processing units that are found in personal computers, tablets and game consoles. Qualcomm has been one of the early evaluation partners with Blaze technology, and demonstrated the leakage power reductions achieved by the Blaze optimization tool and gate-length biasing methodology on a baseband processor chip. Read the full story.
Professor Diana Huffaker is awarded $1.4 M NSF Solar Energy Initiative grant to study nano pillar based hybrid solar cells
Prof. Huffaker has been awarded nearly $1.4 M from NSF to study organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells. She teamed up with collaborators Christian Ratsch (Math/UCLA), Wei You (Chem/UNC), and Xiaoyang Zhu (Chem/UTA) to understand fundamental issues related to hybrid solar cells. This project aims to utilize inorganic GaAs nano pillars in hybrid solar cells to take advantage of high surface area, high mobilities and light trapping properties of nano pillars. During this project, in order to achieve high efficiencies in these hybrid solar cells, certain issues for example understanding the organic/inorganic material band alignment, exciton generation, excition diffusion across organic-inorganic interface and carrier extraction from the hybrid solar cell will be extensively studied. This project will combine sophisticated mathematical calculations, polymer synthesis and spectroscopic study of organic-inorganic interface. Duration of this project is 3 years.
The purpose of the NSF CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative is to support catalytic interdisciplinary work by groups of researchers to address the scientific challenges of efficient harvesting, conversion, and storage of solar energy. The intent is to encourage new collaborations in which the mathematical sciences are linked in a synergistic way with the chemical and materials sciences to develop novel, potentially transformative approaches in an area of much activity but largely incremental advances.
Associate Professor Ozcan Gets 2011 ARO Young Investigator Award
Associate Professor Ozcan was granted a 2011 Army Research Office Young Investigator Award to fund further research on lensless computational microscopy for the next 3 years. Lensfree On-chip Cytometry and Diagnostics, LUCAS, would provide a practical and faster way to study man’s bodily cells especially in remote areas, thereby providing mankind and shorter reach to saving life.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Army Research Office mission is to serve as the Army's premier extramural basic research agency in the engineering, physical, information and life sciences; developing and exploiting innovative advances to insure the Nation's technological superiority.
Professor Ozcan and the research team have received multiple commendations and recognitions on this invention from fellows in the academe; various private agencies including international news broadcast networks. The research team focuses on photonics and its applications to nano- and bio-technology.Associate Professor Aydogan Speaks at SPIE Conference
Associate Professor Aydogan was the keynote luncheon speaker at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference at the San Diego Convention Center, Sunday, August 21, 2011. He presented a talk on "Photonics Based Telemedicine Technologies Toward Smart Global Health Systems". The luncheon was also attended by nearly 200 SPIE Student Chapter leaders participating in a weekend workshop.
Assistant Professor Chi On Chui is Selected to Receive the Northrop Grumman Teaching Award for 2011
The Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award honors junior faculty members who demonstrate a commitment to high teaching standards, reflected in the positive course evaluation scores from their students, and their contributions to the curriculum. Only two faculty members in the UCLA HSSEAS will be chosen. The awardees will be honored at the Annual Engineering Awards Dinner in November. 
One of the 2011 Northrop Grumman Teaching Award goes to Assistant Professor Chi On Chui teaching in the field of Physical and Wave Electronics.
Assistant Professor Chi On Chui joined HSSEAS in 2007, since then he had been in advising undergraduate and graduate students aside from his regular teaching courses on Semiconductor Processing and Devise Design. He also mentors postdoctoral and visiting scholars in his research on Nanostructure Devices and Technology Laboratory. He had been involved in improving the undergraduate curriculum like in areas of Biomedicine and in Physical and Wave Electronics Area in general.Professor Stafsudd is Awarded the Lockheed Martin Teaching Award for 2011
The Lockheed Martin Teaching Award is granted to an individual to recognize his outstanding teaching achievements. Every year, UCLA HSSEAS selects one faculty member who excels in all aspect of a full Professor. For year 2011, Professor Oscar Stafsudd has been selected to receive the Lockheed Martin Teaching Award. 
Professor Oscar Stafsudd joined UCLA HSSEAS in year 1967 as an Assistant Professor. He rose up to Full Professor in 1980. He is a two-time Department Undergraduate Vice Chairman which he currently holds. Since 1971, he had been advising undergraduates and graduate students alike. He has been involved in revising laboratory courses in the past decades.
The recognition will be presented at the Annual Engineering Awards Dinner in November.UCLA’s top teachers: Helping students find treasures locked in an equation
The UCLA Academic Senate has awarded UCLA’s highest teaching prize to six Academic Senate members. In an occasional series of stories that will run throughout the summer, UCLA Today will profile these winners of the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Awards. To see the entire list, which includes non-Senate members and teaching assistants, go here.
It’s a good bet that each and every student at UCLA knows a lot about cell phones — speed-dialing calls, texting, taking photos, shooting videos, using the latest cool apps. What every student surely doesn’t know is how the transmitter in your cell phone converts your voice into an encoded signal that the antenna transmits to a distant base station via electromagnetic radio waves moving at the speed of light.
But students of Electrical Engineering Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii — a recipient of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the Academic Senate — know this and a whole lot more about electrodynamics, wireless communications links and antenna design. And they couldn’t be more thrilled — both about what they’re learning and about the professor who makes learning such a pleasure. Click here to read the full article.Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was presented the 2011 IEEE Technical Field Awards in Electromagnetics
UCLA's Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was honored with The 2011 IEEE Electromagnetics Award and Medal at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium Banquet in Spokane, Washington, on July 6, 2011. This is one of the most prestigious technical field awards from the IEEE in electromagnetics. The award was presented to Prof. Rahmat-Samii by Dr. Peter Clout, the IEEE Division IV Director. His citation reads "fundamental contributions to reflector antennas, near-field measurements and diagnostics, antenna and human interactions, and optimization algorithms in electromagnetics."Wireless Health Technology for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation
UCLA’s Wireless Health Institute headed by Co-Director Dr. Bruce Dobkin with Co-Director Prof. William Kaiser and the institute’s Research Manager Dr. Maxim Batalin have received funding from UC’s Center for Health Quality and Innovation for a new program intended to speed stroke patient rehabilitation through wireless health technology. The program has developed a novel, low cost exercise device that may be fitted in a bed or on the floor and uses wireless sensor and Android technology. The program will enable health professionals to remotely monitor the patient’s activity at home or in the hospital, provide instant feedback to the patient and design a more effective exercise program. The UCLA Wireless Health Institute has developed sensors with accelerometers that can be worn comfortably in the body in which sensor signal processing algorithms are processed to determine the type, quantity and quality of daily activities.Professor John Villasenor appointed as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Insitution
The Brookings Institution, which is one of the nation's most highly respected policy think tanks, has appointed Prof. John Villasenor as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program and the Institute for Technology Innovation. This appointment is in recognition of Prof. Villasenor's work addressing the technology and policy aspects of cybersecurity. http://www.brookings.edu/experts/villasenorj.aspx/Professors Asad Abidi and Mihaela van der Schaar have been named as Chancellor's Professor
Professors Asad Abidi and Mihaela van der Schaar have been named as Chancellor's Professor by the Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. This award recognizes faculty members who have achieved national and international distinction in research or creative activity, teaching and mentoring of graduate students.Professor Behzad Razavi Elected to Receive 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award
IEEE has bestowed upon Prof. Behzad Razavi one of its most prestigious technical field awards, the 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for his pioneering contributions to the design of high speed and high
frequency CMOS communication circuits. Prof. Razavi's research has played an instrumental role in the development of today's wireline and wireless CMOS circuits, for example, those used in high-speed optical communication systems.
As part of IEEE's mission in advancing technology for humanity, the society for nearly a century now has been acknowledging technical professionals who have contributed exceptional achievements that have made a lasting positive effect on society and in the engineering world. Prior to Professor Razavi, Professor Asad Abidi of UCLA was the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award.Prof. Candler and 2 Undergrads Goes to DC
Professor Rob Candler together with his two undergrads, Neal Shah and Carlo Paredes, traveled to Washington DC to present their 2-year research work at the Posters on the Hill program. Shah and Paredes were among the 60 nationwide participants who went to Capitol Hill, and who impressed the audience with their project. The group presented their microfluidic research wherein they developed customizable components to make the transfer of fluids to lab-on-a-chip devices much easier, more consistent, as well as less expensive. The group also personally met some legislators. Here is the link of the
Full Story. Prof. Abeer Alwan Selected as Fellow of the Int'l. Speech communication Association
Professor Abeer Alwan has been selected a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) in 2011 for her significant contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. This is a highly competitive program limited to less than .4 percent of the total number of ISCA members; only 6 Fellows were announced in 2010 and 2009, and 12 Fellows in 2008.
In 1988 when it started, they were operating only in Europe but in 1999 at the Eurospeech Conference in Budapest, they went global and became a self-supporting international association. Prof. Lara Dolecek Receives UCLA Hellman Fellows Program Grant
Professor Lara Dolecek is a recipient of an award through the UCLA Hellman Fellows Program. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established through the kind generosity of the Hellman Family Foundation to help promising young professors take their research and creative endeavors to a higher level. In this inaugural year in UCLA many applications from faculty in various disciplines across campus were received. Only twelve fellows have been selected from this year's talented pool based on the quality of proposed research, potential for great distinction and financial need. 2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award
Prof. Lei He, Prof. Mihaela Van Der Schaar and their students Zhen Cao and Bria Foo received the 2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award for paper titled "Optimality and Improvement of Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithms for Multimedia Applications," published at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, Volume 57 Issue 3, pp. 681-690, March 2010.Prof. Tatsuo Itoh Receives the IEEE/MTT-S Microwave Career Award
UCLA's Prof. Tatsuo Itoh was honored with a Microwave Career Award at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in Baltimore on June 8, 2011. 
This is the premier award from the Society for Prof. Itoh's distinguished career of meritorious achievement and outstanding technical contribution in the field of microwave theory and techniques. His citation reads "For a Career of Leadership, Meritorious Achievement, Creativity and Outstanding Technical Contributions in the Field of Microwave Theory and Techniques."Prof. Yao's Acoustic Beam-forming Project Application Commended in Journal of Applied Ecology
A paper entitled Acoustic Monitoring in Terrestrial Environments using Microphone Arrays: Applications, Technological Considerations and Prospectus collaborated by Dan Blumstein, Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and PI of a NSF grant together with Prof. Kung Yao (EE) and 10 other co-authors of bio-complexity ecologists researchers was featured in the May 2011 issue of Journal of Applied Ecology. The paper won the Editor's Choice award for the issue on Technological Development and Their Associated Opportunities in Animal Ecology: Microphone Arrays as an Example. Prof. Kaiser Addressed the Media at Ford Motor Company
Professor William Kaiser (UCLA Wireless Health Institute Co-Director) provided the keynote address at the announcement media event by Ford Motor Company of its new Connected Health initiative on May 18, 2011 in Dearborn, Michigan. This is intended to provide Wireless Health support in Ford vehicles with wireless sensing and also with driver and passenger guidance services.Keisuke Goda is a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awardee
Keisuke is being recognized for his pioneering work on STEAM technology, new imaging modality that exploits photonic time stretch and fiber-optic technologies, and its application to blood screening. Last year, Keisuke won the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research. UCLA Team Awesome won IEEE Region 6 Southern Area MircoMouse Contest
The UCLA Team Awesome won the official IEEE Region 6 Southern Area MicroMouse contest held at CSU Long Beach on May 7, 2011. The MicroMouse is an autonomous robot that solves mazes without human guidance. Team Awesome's mouse found the maze center several times; its best time was 26 seconds. Niusha Sarkhosh is an Endeavour Postdoctoral Awardee
Prof. Bahram Jalali is Elected Fellow to the American Physical Society
Prof. Bahram Jalali has been elected a Fellow to the American Physical Society (APS) for his significant and innovative contribution to the application of physics in science and technology and advances in knowledge through research. 
The 112-year old society was established with a mission to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics. Electrical Engineering professors who are fellows of the society are: Prof. Chandrashekar Joshi, Prof. Warren Mori and Pro. Jia-Ming Lui. Recently, Prof. Jalali has also been appointed the Northrop Grumman Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics.
UCLA Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory
Raytheon Company has given seed funding of $1 million for three years to UCLA for its partnership to create a new Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory. The mission of this Laboratory is to bring together academia, industry, and public safety agencies to provide technical leadership to perform collaborative research and to establish standards for public safety networks based on the 4G LTE standards. Other public and private organizations that meet the membership requirements of UCLA will also be invited to join the Laboratory. The co-directors of the Laboratory are Distinguished Professor Kung Yao and Distinguished Professor Izhak Rubin of the Electrical Engineering Department in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS). This Laboratory is affiliated with the Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA) in the HSSEAS of UCLA.
Alum Dr. Michael Jensen takes helm at IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Michael Allen Jensen (Ph.D. '95) commenced his tenure as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in August 2010. This peer-reviewed journal ranks 2nd among IEEE journals in terms of number of downloads. 
Dr. Jensen received his PhD in Electrical Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii and minored in Quantum Electronics and Circuits & Signal Processing. He was awarded best PhD by the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Following his graduation, Dr. Jensen joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University where he is currently a Professor and Department Chairman. He has founded/co-founded three companies and actively serves on IEEE editorial boards and conference committees. Dr. Jensen was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2008 for contributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices and multi-antenna wireless communications systems.
Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii has been selected to receive the 2010-2011
Distinguished Teaching Award by the UCLA Academic Senate.
Assistant Professor Chi On Chui receives 2011 CAFA Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Award.
Professor Chi On Chui has been awarded the Chinese American Faculty Association (CAFA) Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Award for his proposal entitled "Highly Sensitive and Rapid Diagnostic Devices for Cardiovascular Disease". The proposed research project aims to develop point-of-care devices for highly sensitive and real-time diagnosis of cardiovascular disease such as acute myocardial infarction. The transformative amplifying nanowire field-effect transistor sensor concept (invented in his Nanostructure Devices and Technology Laboratory) will maximize the intrinsic detection sensitivity with minimal noise contribution. The Award Presentation Ceremony was held on February 26th in Montebello, CA.
Dr. Asad Madni, Chairman of the EE Alumni Advisory Board, Elected to National Academy of Engineering; Receives IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Career Excellence Award.
Asad M. Madni ('69, MS'72), Chairman of the EE Alumni Advisory Board, and President of the Engineering Alumni Association has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Dr. Madni is recognized for his "contributions to development and commercialization of sensors and systems for aerospace and automotive safety".
Assistant Professor Aydogan Ozcan receives 2011 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
Professor Aydogan Ozcan has been selected to receive the 2011 SPIE arly Career Achievement Award, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to non-destructive nonlinear material characterization techniques, nearfield and on-chip imaging and diagnostic systems. SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
Assistant Professor Jin Hyung Lee receives 2011 NSF CAREER Award
Professor Jin Hyung Lee has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award for her proposal entitled "A New Vivo Brain Circuit Analysis Method using Real-Time, High-Resolution Optogenetic fMRI." This proposal utilizes a newly developed technology called optogenetic fMRI (ofMRI) (pioneered by Dr. Lee) combined with advanced imaging, computation, and applied mathematical algorithms.
Professor Lee joined the department in July of 2009. Her prolific research work is focused on a wide range of topics that include biomedical imaging technologies which help scientists understand brain's connectivity at the systems level. These technologies include, but are not limited to magnetic resonance imaging and optical imaging, optics, genetics, and molecular biology. Professor Lee's innovative findings are bound to significantly improve ways of treating various brain diseases.
UCLA receives $8.4M to lead research on ultra-low-power, non-volatile logic technologies
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science an $8.4 million grant for research on a technology known as non-volatile spintronic logic, which enables computers and electronic devices to keep their state even while powered off, then start up and run complex programs instantaneously. The project will be led by UCLA principal investigators Kang Wang, UCLA's Raytheon Professor of Electrical Engineering, Alex Khitun, an assistant research engineer, and project manager Pedram Khalili, a research associate in Electrical Engineering. It will involve researchers from UCLA, UC Irvine, Yale University and the University of Massachusetts.
The research has broad implications across a range of technologies, including portable electronics, remote sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and high-performance computing. UCLA Engineering researchers will conduct studies into the materials, design, fabrication and tools used to develop such technologies. The UCLA researchers are aiming to develop a prototype non-volatile logic circuit, which could lead to the development of new classes of ultra-low-power, high-performance electronics. The research program will explore three technical areas: the behavior of nanoscale magnetic materials; the fabrication and testing of a non-volatile logic circuit; and the development of novel circuits and circuit-design tools. (Read this release online)
Yahya Rahmat-Samii Receives the 2010 Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
"In Recognition of Your Commitment and Demonstration of Excellence in Teaching".
This award ceremony was also coincided with the 65 years anniversary of the engineering school at UCLA. There were over 450 participants from industry, UCLA and the school alumni.
National Research Council Places UCLA Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Program High
With this said, the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department is placed solidly within the top 10 EE programs nationwide (or statistically between 5 to 13 on a regression-base and between 6 to 19 on a survey-base).
"We take strong pride in our graduate programs in both research and education. Due to our extensive program coverage in various electrical engineering fields, our faculty and trained students have in many cases substantially advanced the state-of-the-art in modern electronics, electromagnetic waves, mixed-signal integrated circuits and communication & control algorithms and systems with proven industrial and economic impacts...." said Dr. M.C. Frank Chang, UCLA EE Professor and Chairman.
The NRC rankings solidify UCLA Electrical Engineering academic leadership role in technology research, scientific activity, and education. Download the NRC report from http://www.nap.edu/rdp/
Former Professor Andrew J. Viterbi Receives 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor
Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and other breakthroughs that play key roles in satellite communications and mobile telephones, was honored by IEEE with the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor. The medal represents IEEE's highest award. Viterbi was selected because of his seminal contributions to communications technology and theory. The medal was presented on June 26 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in Montreal.
Dr. Viterbi developed what became known as the Viterbi Algorithm in 1967 while a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Viterbi Algorithm was a breakthrough in wireless technology that separated information (voice and data) from background noise and fundamentally changed the way digital communications are processed.
The algorithm is used in most digital cellular phones and satellite receivers as well as in such diverse fields as magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis. It also has been incorporated into all NASA deep-space spacecraft since the 1970s.
Dr. Viterbi has also received the National Medal of Science in 2008 from U.S. President George W. Bush.Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii Receives the 2011 IEEE Electromagnetics Award
This is an IEEE-wide award and covers all fields of Electrical Engineering. Professor Rahmat-Samii has been a faculty member in Electrical Engineering at UCLA since 1989. He has had pioneering and groundbreaking research contributions in diverse areas of electromagnetics and antennas. The results of his novel research developments is utilized in billions of cell phones, millions of dish antennas and many NASA remote sensing and planetary missions.
Professor Alan Willson receives IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
At the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) on May 30th, Professor Alan Willson was awarded the Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for exemplary teaching and curriculum development and for inspirational guidance of Ph.D. student research in the area of circuits and systems.
With a teaching style that inspires and excites, Prof.Willson has guided many students on career paths that have impacted both academia and industry. An influential professor at UCLA for the the past 37 years, Dr. Willson is known for his graduate course on non-linear circuit theory based on his book Nonlinear Networks: Theory and Analysis.
Dr. Willson creates excitement by supplementing fundamental material with topics from his own current research. Several students have won awards and prizes for their research in this field and in Signal Processing, in collaboration with Professor Willson. He also created and taught UCLA's first graduate courses on digital signal processing and has been responsible for graduate student recruitment, teaching assistant training and the establishment of a graduate student orientation program at UCLA. An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Willson is currently the Charles P. Reames Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA.
Professor Henry Samueli has been awarded the prestigious 2010 UCLA Medal
Professor Henry Samueli has been awarded the prestigious 2010 UCLA Medal. 
The Medal is awarded to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to their profession, to higher education, to society and to the university. Previous medal recipients include former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; planetary physicist Carl Sagan; and others.
Dr. Samueli received all his three degrees, B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering at UCLA where he also serves as a faculty member in EE and co-chairs the HSSEAS Dean's Advisory Council. His other recognitions include election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. He is also a co-founder of Broadcom, which is one of the World's leading semiconductor companies in the area of communications circuits.
Professor Tatsuo Itoh receives 2009 EuMA Outstanding Career Award
Professor Tatsuo Itoh is the recipient of 2009 EuMA Outstanding Career Award and is the first non-European to receive the award. The European Microwave Association (EuMA®) is an international non-profit association with a scientific, educational and technical purpose. The aim of the Association is to develop in an interdisciplinary way, education, training, and research activities.
Professor Jin Hyung Lee has been awarded the 2010 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
Professor Jin Hyung Lee has been awarded the 2010 Okawa 
Foundation Research Grant. Her research project entitled "Real-Time Brain Circuit Debugging with Optogenetic Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ofMRI)" aims to develop a revolutionary new method to debug the brain circuit in real time. This is a highly innovative and challenging task has not been accomplished yet. To achieve this, Dr. Lee utilizez three novel technologies (optogenetics, passband b-SSFP fMRI, optogenetics fMRI (ofMRI)), out of which two were pioneered by Dr. Lee herself. These novel technologies will be combined with a new parallel processing design to achieve its real-time capabilities. The Grand Presentation Ceremony will be held on October 13th in San Francisco.
Assistant Professor Ozcan receives 2010 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award and 2010 Netexplorateur 100 Award
Assistant Professor Aydogan Ozcan has been selected to receive a 2010 National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award. He has also been selected to receive a 2010 Netexplorateur 100 Award. The award ceremony will take place in the French Senate in February 2010. Netexplorateur is an independent global observatory for information and analysis
Assistant Professor Gupta receives 2010 ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award
Assistant Professor Puneet Gupta has been selected to receive the 2010 ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award. 
The award recognizes a junior faculty member early in his/her academic career who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation. While prior research and/or teaching accomplishments are important, the selection committee especially considers the impact that the candidate has had on her or his department and on the EDA field during the initial years of their academic appointment. The award is presented annually at the Design Automation Conference, and currently consists of a $1,000 award to the faculty member, along with a citation.
Assistant Professor Pamarti receives 2010 NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Sudhakar Pamarti has been selected to receive the 2010 NSF CAREER Award
Professor Pamarti joined the department in 2005. His research focuses on the design of highly integrated wireless and wireline communication systems with particular emphasis on lowering their cost and power consumption. His work involves the design, silicon IC implementation, and verification of mixed-signal blocks which perform critical communication system tasks such as data conversion, frequency synthesis, clock synchronization, and channel equalization. He hopes on developing and/or adopting techniques from signal processing and communication theories to improve the performance of these mixed signal blocks.
Professor Chi On Chui the 1st Recipient of the 2009 IEEE Electron Devices Society Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Chi On Chui was awarded the 2009 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Early Career Award.
The award was presented to Professor Chui at the EDS GOLD Lecture in conjunction with the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in Baltimore, Maryland, December 6, 2009. The ceremony and other details were also covered in the April 2010 issue of the IEEE EDS Newsletter.
Signal Processing for Next-Generation Sequencing and Biosensing
