ECE Newsletter – May 6, 2024

News  |  May 6, 2024

International journal publisher, Nature, highlighted some of Professor Ozcan’s work on AI-based diagnostics

Image of Professor Ozcan

Please see the full article here


Awards

Haoxiang Ren and James Chiou won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America) 2024

Haoxiang Ren
James Chiou

We are thrilled to announce that UCLA Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (UCLA CHIPS) student, Haoxiang Ren, and High Performance Mixed Mode Circuit Design Group student, James Chiou, won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America) 2024!

Haoxiang Ren is a graduate student under the supervision of Professor Subramanian Iyer and Professor Boris Vaisband. James Chiou is a graduate student under the supervision of Professor C.K. Ken Yang. Congratulations to them for winning the prestigious and highly competitive (16 winners out of 271) fellowship! For a list of 2024-2025 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Recipients, please see the link: https://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/2024-north-america.

Please join us in congratulating them on this well-deserved recognition!

 


Professors Aydogan Ozcan & Mona Jarrahi’s teams won the 2023 Advanced Photonics Best Research Paper Award from SPIE

Advanced Photonics Editor-in-Chief Choice 2023 Award

Congratulations to Professors Aydogan Ozcan and Mona Jarrahi’s teams on winning the 2023 Advanced Photonics Best Research Paper Award from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Please see the full article here.


Seminars

5/6

Guest Speaker: Sayeef Salahuddin

Time: 12-2pm

Room: Shannon Room

5/13

Guest Speaker: Jay Kuo

Topic: Toward Interpretable and Sustainable AI/ML

Time: 12-2pm

Room: Shannon Room

5/20

Guest Speaker: Azadeh Ansari

Time: 12-2pm

Room: Shannon Room


Upcoming Ph.D. Oral Defenses


5/8

Ph.D. Student: Botian Zhang

Time: 9-11am

Room: Faraday Room

5/20

Ph.D. Student: Tonmoy Monsoor

Time: 12-3pm

Room: Faraday Room

5/21

Ph.D. Student: Makar Chand Snai

Time: 12-2pm

Room: Faraday Room

5/21

Ph.D. Student: Anthony Kim

Time: 2:30-4:30pm

Room: Maxwell Room

5/21

Ph.D. Student: Bingqian Dai

Time: 2:30-5:30pm

Room: Faraday Room

5/24

Ph.D. Student: Kamal Bhakta

Time: 9:30am-12pm

Room: Elliott Room

5/24

Ph.D. Student: Jiahui Huang

Time: 10:30am-1pm

Room: Maxwell Room

5/29

Ph.D. Student: Yiming Zhou

Time: 2:30-5pm

Room: Maxwell Room

5/30

Ph.D. Student: Sunay Bhat

Time: 1-3pm

Room: Faraday Room

6/3

Ph.D. Student: Vijay Ravi

Time: 11am-2pm

Room: Faraday Room

6/3

Ph.D. Student: Dhaivat Joshi

Time: 12:30-3pm

Room: Maxwell Room

6/5

Ph.D. Student: Tshitiz Tyagi

Time: 2-4pm

Room: Tesla Room

6/6

Ph.D. Student: Yifan Zhao

Time: 1:30-3:30pm

Room: Faraday Room

6/7

Ph.D. Student: Jinhan Wang

Time: 11:30am-1pm

Room: Maxwell Room

6/7

Ph.D. Student: Osama Hanna

Time: 1-3pm

Room: Shannon Room

6/7

Ph.D. Student: Tamjid Al Rahat

Time: 2:30-5pm

Room: Maxwell Room

6/11

Ph.D. Student: Shivang Agarwal

Time: 9-11am

Room: Faraday Room

6/11

Ph.D. Student: Qian (Nancy) Gao

Time: 12-2pm

Room: Tesla Room


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