![Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholar and Mentor of the Year Award](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/smartscholarandmentoraward.png)
June 17, 2024
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan presented a Plenary Talk at the Optica Digital Holography and Three Dimensional Imaging Meeting (not pictured)
Professor Ozcan discussed diffractive optical networks designed by deep learning to all-optically implement various complex functions as the input light diffracts through spatially-engineered passive surfaces.
UCLA Alumnus, Carlos Torres Jr and his mentor, James Adleman, won the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholar and Mentor of the Year Award (pictured on the left)
UCLA alum, Carlos Torres Jr., and his mentor, James Adleman, have been recognized as exemplary figures in scientific exploration, winning the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholar and Mentor of the Year Award for fiscal year 2023. Torres’ journey, which began over 15 years ago through a SMART-sponsored master’s degree in electrical engineering at UCLA. Torres and Adleman’s collaborative efforts underscore the importance of mentorship in fostering the next generation of scientific leaders and advancing cutting-edge research in nanotechnology and quantum engineering.
![Professor Greg Pottie](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/gregpottie.jpg)
June 3, 2024
Professor Gregory Pottie is retiring
Professor Greg Pottie has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA since 1991. He served in vice-chair roles from 1999-2003. From 2003-2009, and again from 2023-24, he was the Associate Dean for Research and Physical Resources of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and from 2002-2012 he was deputy director of the NSF funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. He was the chair of the Department of ECE from 2015-2020. In 2005, he was elected to be a Fellow of IEEE.
We want to congratulate Professor Pottie on his well-deserved retirement! Wishing him all the best in the new chapter ahead!
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May 6, 2024
International journal publisher, Nature, highlighted some of Professor Ozcan’s work on AI-based diagnostics
Please see the full article here.
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April 15, 2024
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii and others published an article entitled “Novel Hybrid Particle Swarm and Brainstorm Optimization: Electromagnetic applications with enhanced performance” in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Early Access)
Y. Wang, L. Song, L. Zeng and Y. Rahmat-Samii, “Novel Hybrid Particle Swarm and Brainstorm Optimization: Electromagnetic applications with enhanced performance,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine(Early Access), pp. 2-16, March 2024.
![Hamed Rahmani](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/hamedrahmani.png)
April 1, 2024
Dr Hamed Rahmani became an assistant professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering of NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Congratulations to Dr Hamed Rahmani on his new academic position at the Department of ECE at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Dr Rahmani was Professor Aydin Babakhani’s Ph.D. student. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2020.
![Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii's 15 Life Lessons](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/15lifelessons.png)
March 18, 2024
Submit nominations for 2023-2024 UCLA Academic Senate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii published an article entitled “15 Career Life Lessons for Young Professionals” in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
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March 4, 2024
Submit nominations for 2023-2024 UCLA Academic Senate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards
The Academic Senate invites you to submit nominations for the 2023–2024 UCLA Academic Senate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards for Senate and non-Senate faculty.
![Asad Madni Elected To National Inventors Hall of Fame](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/asadmadnielected.png)
February 5, 2024
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii and colleagues in Berkeley published in Advanced Functional Materials by Wiley
“Charge-Programmable Photopolymers for 3D Electronics via Additive Manufacturing”, Advanced Functional Materials published by Wiley, 1-12 pages, Jan. 2024,
![Asad Taj and Jamal](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/Asad_-Taj-and-Jamal-scaled-e1705521243623-1.jpg)
January 16, 2024
IEEE-HKN Asad, Gowhartaj, and Jamal Madni Scholarship
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M Madni, Taj and Jamal Madni established an HKN Scholarship Award which will benefit IEEE-HKN members. The IEEE-HKN Madni Family Scholarship is awarded to HKN students who show exceptional scholarship, service to their communities, and a commitment to HKN.
![Asad Madni](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/Asad_Madni-7262022.jpg)
December 18, 2023
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii granted a US Patent – Liquid Metal-Based Tunable Coaxial Antenna for Microwave Ablation
Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii, a UCLA collaborator, Dr. Chih-Sheng Jason Chiang, and a former PhD student, Prof. Lingnan Song, have been granted a US Patent (No.US-2023-0346472-A1 dated 11/02/2023). The present invention generally relates to apparatus and systems for liquid-metal based tunable coaxial antenna; and more particularly to utilizing a liquid metal -based tunable coaxial antenna for microwave ablation. Microwave ablation has emerged as a minimally invasive therapy for the treatment of various types of early-stage solid tumors
![Professor Mona Jarrahi received the 2023 IEEE Sensors Council Advanced Career Technical Achievement Award](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/Sensors-2.jpg)
December 4, 2023
IEEE 2024 Newly Elevated Fellow: Professor Lei He
The IEEE announced their 2024 class of Elevated Fellows. Professor Lei He has been elevated to IEEE Fellow status for his contributions to integrated circuits and smart energy systems. Congratulations!
Professor Mona Jarrahi received the 2023 IEEE Sensors Council Advanced Career Technical Achievement Award
Professor Mona Jarrahi received the 2023 IEEE Sensors Council Advanced Career Technical Achievement Award for the pioneering contributions to terahertz sensing and imaging systems. This award honors a person with outstanding technical contributions in sensing technologies.
![IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society interviewed Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii](https://www.ee.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/ee/image-1-1.png)
November 20, 2023
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society interviewed Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Distinguished Professor M.C. Frank Chang was awarded the 2023 James Clerk Maxwell Medal by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers & the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The international award recognizes Chang’s “contributions to heterojunction device technology and CMOS System-on-Chip realizations with unprecedented reconfigurability and bandwidth.