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The Broadcom Fellowship Names The First Five
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The Broadcom Corporation has reinforced its
affiliation to UCLA’s Electrical Engineering Department
with the Broadcom Fellowship. Every
year up to five PhD students with an innovative research
on new possibilities in the state-of-the-art 22-nm CMOS
technology will be awarded the coveted Broadcom
Fellowship. Selected proposals
must have a compelling impact when realized in the
state-of-the-art foundry CMOS which enable a system that
otherwise would not have been possible.Headed by Distinguished Professor Asad Abidi, Broadcom Fellowship Chair, the committee had a rigorous selection of the first batch of recipients from a pool of 14 proposals. The worthy recipients of the Broadcom Fellowships are:
Fengbo Ren
Graduate Advisor: Assistant Professor Dejan Markovic
Sparse Signal Decoder—A Dedicated Silicon Solution to the Real-Time Signal Reconstruction of Compressive Sensing Applications
Fang Li Yuan
Graduate Advisor: Assistant Professor Dejan Markovic
Flexible DSP Architecture for Next‐Generation Software‐Defined Radios
Jeffrey Lee
Graduate Advisor: Associate Professor Sudhakar Pamarti
Dual-Series Switches Contour-Based Class-E PA with
Automatic Linearization
Yousr Ismail
Graduate Advisor: Professor Ken Yang
High Voltage Generation and Drive in Low
Voltage CMOS Technology
Yu-Hsiu Wu
Graduate Advisor: Chair and Professor Frank Chang
A 177-GHz to 300-GHz Reconfigurable Active Bandpass Filter
The Broadcom Foundation will provide full GSR support for Spring and Fall 2012, and Winter 2013 quarters, a likelihood of paid internship at Broadcom Corporation in Summer 2012. Should the research prove a high potential rate of breakthrough, Broadcom would arrange for prototype fabrication in TSMC’s 22-nm CMOS. Recipients will be provided a designated area in UCLA where they will gain access to Broadcom’s cutting-edge IC design kits and technology files. Further on, for PhD students who have progressed into their research, Broadcom Foundation would provide merit by continued support in subsequent years.
The members of the Broadcom Fellowship Selection Committee are Professors Alan Willson, Tatsuo Itoh, Jason Woo and Ken Yang. The Broadcom Foundation has been an active partner of the Electrical Engineering Department in education such as the recent Broadcom Speaker Series with Broadcom’s top technology executives and which was culminated by the Chief Technical Officer, Professor Henry Samueli. Now, Broadcom and the Electrical Engineering Department break ground in research elevating the educational experience in a new paradigm.
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Assistant Professor Puneet Gupta Gets an IBM Faculty Award
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Assistant
Professor Puneet Gupta joins the international pool of
faculty members who have been selected for the 2012 IBM
Faculty Awards. Nomination to this program is strictly
for full-time professors at an accredited university with
a graduate program. The candidate must have shown
exemplary contributions in the field and for junior
faculty, show unusual promise. Assistant Professor Gupta has been active in the fields of electronic design automation and design for manufacturing. His group (NanoCAD lab) focuses its research efforts on building high-value bridges across application-architecture-implementation-fabrication interfaces for lowered cost and power, increased yield and improved predictability of integrated circuits and systems.
The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program to encourage and reinforce partnership between IBM and researchers in the academe. It comes with a monetary gift to further work in the field.
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UCLA Electrical Engineering Ranked High by Microsoft Academic Search
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A citation is an acknowledgement of the relevance of an
author's work to the research of its peers. The new Microsoft Academic
Search website ranks publications and citations by time,
geographic locations and organizations. The ranking
shows that UCLA EE faculty is among the top cited
authors for the past 10 years across universities and
research institutes worldwide. Gauging from a 10-year
period, UCLA EE faculty has produced 1470 publications
which has generated 16,939 citations with an H-index of
57.
"We recognize that publication and citation numbers are only two of many elements that relate to research quality," said Professor Frank Chang, Chair of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. "However, we are glad to see that our faculty's research is so widely disseminated and referenced."
The Electrical Engineering Faculty continuously contribute publications through various media: authored books with translation to various languages, papers published in professional and scholarly journals, papers for symposia
and online publications. The faculty has been invited as resource personnel for television and radio shows concerning technical and industrial issues and policies.
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Fang Gong Awarded 2012 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
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Ph.D. student Fang Gong from
our Electrical Engineering department has been awarded
a prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, a highly competitive award
that honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an
interest in solving problems that are important to IBM
and fundamental to innovation in science and
engineering. Recipients are selected based on their
overall potential for research excellence, the degree
to which their technical interests align with those of
IBM and their academic progress to date, in the form
of publications and faculty recommendations.Fang earned the fellowship for his work with Professor Lei He in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) field. His research interests focus on theoretical foundation of probabilistic modeling and statistical analysis, design methodology for robust information system, and high-performance energy-efficient computing. Fang also developed great interests on wireless healthcare, human computer interface (HCI) and image processing. Fang’s achievement as a recipient of 2012 IBM Ph.D. fellowship is a great honor for our EE department and UCLA community.
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The Ozcan Group Uses Online Gaming for Telepathology Project
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Associate
Professor Aydogan Ozcan together with his research group
and the David Geffen School of Medicine developed a crowd-source
online gaming system to diagnose malaria infection
on blood cells. The team worked
with a crowd of 10-20 random individuals playing the
game which resulted to a diagnosis of 1.25% accuracy
rate made by trained medical professionals.The game is played on a smartphone or personal computer by a pool of gamers. More players in the game would improve the accuracy of the analysis. The players are faced with a frame of blood cell samples and idea is to kill the “infected” cells with a “syringe tool” and keep the “healthy” ones. The presence of control cell images, unknown to the player, would analyze the performance of the gamer. The game results would determine the scale of infection in the blood.
The team in The Ozcan Research Group responsible for this project is Dr. Sam Mavandadi, as the study’s first author with other authors: Stoyan Dimitrov, Steve Feng, Frank Yu, Uzair Sikora, Oguzhan Yaglidere and Swati Padmanabhan. The Ozcan Group has been actively developing applications of the cell image study of blood samples through a regular smartphone back when they initially launched LUCAS in 2009 which attracted high commendation and funding from NIH, NSF, Darpa, AFOSR, ONRST, Vodafone and The Okawa Foundation.
Associate Professor Ozcan speaks about the game. Read the full story.
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Professor Itoh’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Service
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Professor Tatsuo Itoh is a recipient
of the College of Engineering Alumni Award for
Distinguished Service from the University of Illinois,
Urabana-Champaign. The award
comes with a medal and a certificate with a citation, “For
Seminal Contributions in Microwave and Millimeter-Wave
Technology and Electrical Engineering Education."Distinguished alumni are honored with this award for their outstanding leadership in planning and direction of engineering and scientific work, by fostering professional development of young engineers and scientists, or by their contributions to knowledge in the fields of engineering and science.
After finishing his electrical engineering PhD degree in 1969 at the University of Illinois, Urabana-Champaign, Professor Itoh has been circulating in the academe world while holding executive positions in research laboratories. From his alma mater, Professor Itoh had also held professorship positions in University of Texas in Austin, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Japan Defense Academy, and University of Leeds. In 1991 he established his professorship in UCLA where currently he is one of Electrical Engineering’s Distinguished Professor and holds the title Northrop Grumman Professor in Microwave Electronics. Professor Itoh is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and IEEE among recognitions.
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EMC Best Student Presentation By Grad Student Joshua Shapiro
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In the 2011 Electronic Materials
Conference in UC Santa Barbara, graduate student Joshua
Shapiro presented a paper entitled, Structural
Characterization of InGaAs Axial Inserts in GaAs
Catalyst-Free Nanopillars Grown by Selective-Area MOCVD,
co-authored by Andrew Lin and Professor Diana Huffaker. Joshua Shapiro’s entry was selected
as one of two Best Student Presentations by the committee. Joshua presented a study of axial GaAs/InGaAs hetro-interface formation in catalystfree
nanopillars grown by selective-area MOCVD. The focus was on controlled growth of axial heterostructures as capability key for enabling efficient nanopillar light emitters and detectors, and preliminary light-emitting devices with axial double heterostructures grown on silicon.
The award, accompanied with a monetary prize, will be presented at the 2012 EMC Meeting in Penn State University on June 20, 2012. The EMC is a premier annual forum for the preparation and characterization of electronic materials sponsored by The Minerals, Metal and Materials Society Foundation.
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Assistant Professor Rob Candler receives the Young Investigator Award
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Rob Candler, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering,
has received a Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office.
His research proposal is titled, "Energy Dissipation in Nanomechanical Resonators." The research will explore the fundamental mechanisms in which energy is dissipated in nanoscale vibrating structures. The role of electronic surface states as pathways for dissipation of mechanical energy will be investigated, as well as methods for disrupting these pathways using atomically thin coatings. The nanoscale resonators have the potential to impact frequency references and filters used in communications, and they also hold the possibility to be used as a new type of resonant sensor based on changes in energy dissipation.
Prof. Candler is the director of the Sensors and Technology Laboratory (http://stl.ee.ucla.edu), as well as the faculty director for the Nanoelectronics Research Facility, a multi-user nanofabrication laboratory. The Sensors and Technology Laboratory focuses on micro and nanoscale technologies, including resonators, 3D printed fluidic devices, and microscale magnetic devices for free electron lasers. In addition to his departmental affiliation, Prof. Candler has a joint appointment with the California NanoSystems Institute.
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Associate Professor Tabuada’s Expeditions in Computing
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Associate Professor Paulo Tabuada is involved
in a $10 Million NSF Grant to revamp the programming
technology used to develop software systems. The Grant
entitled, ExCAPE: Expeditions in Computer Augmented
Program Engineering is a five-year collaborative
effort headed by Dr. Rajeev Alur from the University
of Pennsylvania and includes a team of researchers
from UCLA, UC Berkeley, Cornell, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of
Michigan and Rice University.
The ExCAPE project aims to change computer programming from the tedious, error-prone, purely manual task it has always been to one in which a programmer and an "automated program synthesis tool" collaborate to generate software that meets its specifications. Rather than having programmers spend their time on small details, they will be able to leave these details to the synthesis engines and will instead be able to specify high-level goals and provide additional requirements until the desired code can be produced by the synthesizer.
Professor Tabuada, a co-principal investigator, will lead the UCLA research team. He heads the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory where he conducts research in modeling, analysis and control of real-time, embedded, networked, and distributed systems. His research has captured wide recognition and has been honored with the Donald P. Eckman award from the AACC and the George S. Axelby award from the IEEE CSS. -
Asst. Professor Dolecek on a Collaborative NSF Grant
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Assistant
Professor Lara Dolecek is PI on a three-year
collaborative grant entitled, Spatially Coupled
Sparse Codes on Graphs - Theory, Practice, and
Extensions. The project receives over $750K in
funding from NSF to investigate a new approach to
protecting the reliability of digital communication
and digital storage systems using a novel graphical
concept called "spatial coupling". The spatial
coupling formulates the "encoding" and "decoding" of
data in terms of a novel graphical representation;
this formulation has several advantages over
existing techniques for insuring data integrity,
including better performance at very low power and
the absence of an 'error floor'. This research will
be performed in collaboration with the University of
Notre Dame, New Mexico State and San Diego State
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Professor Henry Samueli will Speak His Dream to Connect Everything
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On April 10, 2012,
Professor Henry Samueli, Broadcom's Chief Technical Officer and Member of
the Board of Directors, will once again face
Engineering students to give a talk entitled, Connecting
Everything: A Professor’s Dream Becomes Reality. The
seminar will be at Engineering IV building, Shannon
Conference Room 54-134, 3:00pm.The seminar abstract: As an Electrical Engineering faculty member at UCLA beginning in 1985, Dr. Samueli started a research program in broadband communications circuits. The success of this research program ultimately led to the founding of Broadcom Corporation in 1991. Broadcom’s corporate tag line is “Connecting everything” and when the company was founded, this vision was just a dream, but over the last 20 years, this dream has indeed become a reality. In this talk Dr. Samueli will give some historical perspective on how this dream became a reality by reviewing some industry trends, presenting some Broadcom technology innovations over the years, and discussing some future opportunities.
Professor Samueli, to which the school is named after, has been pursuing advance research programs in broadband communication circuits and digital signal processing for more than 30 years. Professor Samueli is a Co-Founder of Broadcom Corporation and serves as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). In this role, he is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom's research and development activities as well as helping to lead corporate-wide engineering development strategies.
Professor Samueli received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a named inventor in 59 U.S. patents. In December 2011 the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) named Dr. Samueli as the winner of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award for his exceptional contributions to the semiconductor industry. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. -
NAE Awards Early Career Engineers Aydogan Ozcan and Ali Khademhosseini a Grainger Grant
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Associate Professors Aydogan Ozcan and Ali Khademhosseini (of Harvard University) received a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research. Together they shall collaborate and explore integration of their cutting –edge research of a computational lens-free imaging platform for high-throughput screening of cells providing inexpensive device for drug discovery and biological science experimentation.
Other awardees are Michelle Povinelli (University of Southern California) and Roman Stocker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the development of nanophotonic tools focused on measuring motile behavior of microorganisms in response to applied stress.
NAE through its Frontier of Engineering program brings together outstanding early career engineers to discuss pioneering technical work in various engineering fields and industry sectors. Their goal is to foster networking, integration and technology exchange among future interdisciplinary engineering leaders. The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants fund the selected participants from US-based institutions at the Frontier of Engineering symposia to pursue interdisciplinary research.
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Professor Villasenor Discusses Drones on NPR
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Professor John Villasenor was a guest on the NPR program Fresh Air on March 12. The segment, titled "Drones in America: What Can They See?", addressed the national security and privacy implications of a recently-enacted aviation bill that will integrate drones into the national airspace. Audio and a transcript of the interview are available here.
In addition to being a member of the Electrical Engineering faculty, Professor Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His recent articles addressing the intersection of technology and public policy have appeared in Scientific American, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Globe and Mail.
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New Award For Professor Huffaker From US AFOSR
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Professor Diana Huffaker secured a research award from The U.S. Air Force/Office of Scientific Research for the project entitled, Nanopillar Photonic Crystal Lasers for Tb/s Transceivers on Silicon. This project invokes a "bottom-up" approach to photonic crystal lasers on silicon for next generation optoelectronic transceivers in the Tb/s range. The photonic crystal laser is composed of entirely of pattened compound semiconductor nanopillars grown epitaxial on a Si substrate to realize a compact, high-efficiency light source. Future applications dramatically increase bandwidth and reduce power consumption in high performance computer clusters and data centers.
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research was established in 1951 and has been investing at leading universities and its in-house Air Force laboratories for its continuous pursuit of cutting edge research that forges the foundation of the future Air Force. After the launch of Sputnik the office realized the overwhelming importance of science and technology to the future security, as well as economic dominance of the United States of America.
Professor Huffaker heads the Integrated NanoMaterials Core Lab located at the CNSI building Center for Nanosystems Institute. Professor Huffaker is decorated with SPIE Nanotechnology Innovation Award, a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) and IEEE Fellow. -
Distinguished Professor C. Kumar Patel is a National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee
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Distinguished Professor C. Kumar Patel is one of the inductees in the 2012 National Inventors Hall of Fame for his intangible contribution in the development of the carbon dioxide laser in 1963
while at Bell Labs. Today, his discovery is currently applied in the medical field such as laser scalpel in surgery and laser skin resurfacing, other applications are in industrial and military fields.The National Inventors Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization established in 1973 with a mission to recognize and promote American inventors who hold a U.S. patent and whose invention has greatly contributed to the advancement of technology which encourage human, social and economic progress. The organization is based in Alexandria Virginia together with its co-founder, U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. NIHF also manages efforts to promote future inventors with programs Invent Now Kids and Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Prof. Patel is decorated with a National Medal of Science, IEEE Medal of Honor, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of IEEE. Until now, Prof. Patel is actively
involved in the development of new laser systems.On May 2, 2012, nine inventors will be honored at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to be held at Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C..
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Emeritus Prof. Francis Chen's Helicon Source for Poly Etch
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Emeritus Francis Chen has been invited by a leading company based in Asia, to build a proto-type his helicon source for poly etch. For a decade, Professor Chen’s Low Plasma Technology Laboratory (LTPTL) has extensive research to understand the physical in plasma generators for improved performance and reduced raditation damage. For instance, the helicon source can produce denser plasmas with less radiofrequency (RF) power. Application of plasma physics are normally to space exploration and controlled fusion but on the consumer level, it is applied to the manufacturing of propeller blades, automobile bumpers and potato chip bags, camera lenses and synthetic diamonds. The most important practical use of plasmas is, however, in the manufacture of semiconductor ICs, particularly computer chips.
Prof. Chen is a plasma physicist with a career extending over 56 years and encompassing both experiment and theory. Recently he published a book entitled An Indispensable Truth on how fusion can save the planet which was critically reviewed in Physics Today by Rob Goldstron, former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and includes an interview with Professor Chen. Visit LTPTL to read more on Professor Chen’s interesting research.
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Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek Receives NSF CAREER Award
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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.
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Assistant Professor Jin-Hyung Lee is a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
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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 receives NSF CAREER Award
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Danijela Cabric, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
The NSF CAREER award is the organization’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Her research proposal is titled “Cognitive Co-existence in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.” The
research will explore an integrated physical and network layer approach for spectrum sharing by
developing algorithms and protocols that will allow heterogeneous networks to co-exist and maintain required interference constraints. The proposed framework is based on the novel idea of incorporating detailed real-time measurements and prediction of spectrum usage, including traffic parameters and network topology, into the design of cognitive protocols that respond to the actual spectrum occupancy in time, frequency, and space. The algorithms, protocols and tools developed by this research will have practical impact on a broad range of wireless systems that share same spectrum resources including: current and future unlicensed bands, vehicular and safety networks, cellular infrastructure and femto cells, emergency and defense networks.
Prof. Cabric is the director of the Cognitive Reconfigurable Embedded Systems Lab (http://
cores.ee.ucla.edu). The lab focuses on all modern radio technologies, with an emphasis on systems that enable more efficient utilization of the spectrum. Cabric is a Henry Samueli Engineering Fellow and is recipient of a 2009 Okawa Foundation Award. -
EE Alumnus Dr. Kinam Kim (PhD' 94) Elected to National Academy of Engineering
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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
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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
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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
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Prof. Rahmat-Samii and Student Got 2nd-Best Paper Award at the 2012 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting
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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.
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ISSCC 2012 Distinguished-Technical-Paper Award
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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
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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
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Dr. Asad M. Madni, New Electrical Engineering Distinguished Adjunct Professor
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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
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Professor Itoh and Student Got Best Paper Award at the 2011 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference
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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.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.
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Professor Ozcan is Awarded 2011 Innovator’s Challenge
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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.
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.
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Professor Villasenor publishes series on drones
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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.
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Los Angeles Computing Circle Takes Off in UCLA Electrical Engineering
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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.
As such, instead of focusing on language features, LACC modules and projects expose students to topics on how algorithms and programming come together to create systems, including: search engines and social networks that mine and analyze relationships among data and people on the Internet; cyber-physical systems such as robots that interact with the environment via sensors, actuators, and real-time software; networked computing systems such as mobile phones that communicate with other nodes on the Internet; and signal processing systems that process, manipulate, and make inferences from audio, video, and other types of physical data. “LACC provides high-school students with a first-hand opportunity to be a part of a multi-disciplinary, cutting edge research project,” says Professor Mani Srivastava.
The very first LACC program was completed with great success this summer. The program was held in conjunction with the on-going outreach effort High School Summer Research Program (HSSRP) at the UCLA's School of Engineering. “LACC program uniquely complements the on-going HSSRP program, and I look forward to future joint efforts between HSSRP and LACC” say Mr. William Herrera, Education and Outreach Coordinator at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
Eight high-schoolers from all over California participated in an intensive 8-week LACC program, held from June 27th to August 19th. LACC summer students worked in the labs of the three founding professors, were taught various aspects of programming through specially designed teaching modules and challenging programming assignments, and were also guest lectured by prominent EE faculty.
While no prior programming experience was assumed, all the students were able to quickly grasp many computing concepts and subsequently apply them to their own research projects. The program culminated with the poster session were LACC students along with other HSSRP participants show-cased their research findings, with titles of individual research projects ranging from Investigating the Robustness of Numerical Representations to Analyzing Neurofeedback Using Electroecenphalongraphy to Characterizing Social Influence on Twitter.
“During my experience at LACC, I learned more than I ever thought I could possibly learn in such a short amount of time. I also had more fun than I thought I would doing academic related activities. After my amazing experience at LACC, I know I am definitely going to pursue engineering, more specifically electrical engineering, in college and as a career in the future,” says LACC summer participant Brianna Loo.
As a testament to the summer success, several of LACC students are eager to continue working in our research labs during the academic year.
Critical to the continued success of LACC are the many graduate an undergraduate student volunteers who help develop and deliver the lecture material and supervise the research projects.As a result, our new outreach program creates a close-knit community of LACC participants, their graduate and undergraduate student mentors, and UCLA faculty. The next offering of the LACC program is scheduled for Winter-Spring 2012.
For more information see http://lacc.ee.ucla.edu. Here is the link to the CCLE LACC application website.
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UCLA’s top teachers: Helping students find treasures locked in an equation
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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.
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UCLA HSSEAS and NTU' s Optics Division Joint Seminar
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The Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA HSSEAS and National Taiwan University's Optics Division are having a joint seminar to provide linkage for the enhancement of education, research and resources of their faculty and students. This experience will broaden horizon for both universities with new methods and innovations from the east and the continuous research achievements from the west-side. The combined knowledge and experience from both campuses, will effect to the attainment of new heights in research and cutting-edge inventions for man’s convenience and life preservation.
Professors, students and professionals are invited to join this first initiative.
Speakers:10:00 Welcome Remarks from the Chairs: M.C. Frank Chang and Wanjiun Liao
11:00 Evolution of Photonic Time Stretch: From Analog to Digital Conversion to Blood Screening By: Prof. Bahram Jalali, UCLA
11:15 Toward Low-Cost Solar Cells By: Prof. Ching-Fuh Lin, NTU
11:30 Surface Science to Device Engineering in Organic Optoelectronics By: Prof. Chih-I Wu, NTU
11:45 Photothermal Nanoblade for Single Cell Surgery and Cargo Delivery By: Asst. Prof. Eric Chiou, UCLA
12:00 Nanopillar-based Photonic Crystal Lasers: A Bottom-up Approach to Photonic Integration By: Mr. Adam Scofield, UCLA12:15 Lunch Break
1:30 Numerical Modeling Work on Nitride Based LEDs and Nanowire Transistors By: Asst. Prof. Yuh-Renn Wu, NTU
1:45 Investigation of Ultraviolet ZnO Nanostructure Light Emitting Diodes Prof. JianJang (J. J.) Huang, NTU
2:00 Lensfree On-Chip Microscopy for Global Health Applications By:Ting-Wei Su (The Ozcan Research Group) UCLA
2:15 Interdisciplinary Studies on Wide Gap III-Nitrides, SiC, ZnO Semiconductors, Advanced Materials and Quantum/Nano Structures By: Prof. Zhe Chuan Feng, NTU
2:30 Photovoltaic Devices Employing Nanotechnology for Photon Management By: Prof. Jr-Hau He, NTU2:45 Concluding Remarks
3: 00 Lab Tour
Chair M.-C. Frank Chang
Professor Bahram Jalali
Professor Benjamin Williams
Ting-Wei Su for Professor Ozcan
Professor Robert Candler
Dr. Baolai Liang for Professor Diana Huffaker
When: August 19, 2011 at 10am-4pm
Where: UCLA 420 Westwood Plaza, Engineering IV Bldg., Shannon Conference Room 54-134
RSVP to eechair@ee.ucla.edu due to limited seats.v
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Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was presented the 2011 IEEE Technical Field Awards in Electromagnetics
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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."
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Wireless Health Technology for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation
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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.
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Professor John Villasenor appointed as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Insitution
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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 Center for Technology Innovation. This appointment is in recognition of Prof. Villasenor's work addressing the technology and policy aspects of information technology.
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Professors Asad Abidi and Mihaela van der Schaar have been named as Chancellor's Professor
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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.
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Professor Behzad Razavi Elected to Receive 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award
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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.
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Prof. Candler and 2 Undergrads Goes to DC
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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.
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2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award
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Prof. Lei He, Prof. Mihaela Van Der Schaar and their students Zhen Cao and Brian 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.
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Prof. Abeer Alwan Selected as Fellow of the Int’l. Speech communication Association
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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.
The principle of ISCA is the promotion of activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. 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
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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.
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Prof. Tatsuo Itoh Receives the IEEE/MTT-S Microwave Career Award
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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.”
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Prof. Yao's Acoustic Beam-forming Project Application Commended in Journal of Applied Ecology
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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. 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.
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Prof. Kaiser Addressed the Media at Ford Motor Company
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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.
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Keisuke Goda is a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awardee
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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. 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.
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UCLA Team Awesome wins IEEE Region 6 Southern Area MircoMouse Contest
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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.
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.
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Niusha Sarkhosh is an Endeavour Postdoctoral Awardee
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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.
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Prof. Bahram Jalali is Elected Fellow to the American Physical Society
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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.
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UCLA Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory
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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.
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Alum Dr. Michael Jensen takes helm at IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
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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.
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Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii has been selected to receive the 2010-2011 Distinguished Teaching Award by the UCLA Academic Senate
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This award, established in 1961, honors individuals who bring respect and admiration to the scholarship of teaching. Only six awards are made each year. Prior to this teaching award, Prof. Rahmat-Samii also received the 2007 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Chen-to Tai Distinguished Educator Award and the 2010 UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Assistant Professor Chi On Chui receives 2011 CAFA Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Award
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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
