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Table of Contents

Faculty Highlights 4

Alumni Board 16

Student Awards 17

Members of National Academies 18

Research Centers 20

Department Overview 22

Circuits and Embedded Systems Faculty 24

Physical and Wave Electronics Faculty 27

Signals and Systems Faculty 30

Books by Faculty 33

Post-Graduation Academic Placement 34

Administration 35

Industry Affiliates 35

Iam pleased to report the activities of UCLA Electrical En-gineering for academic year 2010-2011. Our faculty havemade strides in developing technology to improve the

world we live in and the lives and health of humanity, including:■ New tools for health and medicine: Professor Bahram

Jalali’s world’s fastest camera (STEAM — Serial Time En-coded Amplified Microscopy) captures the motion of cells,allowing blood samples to be screened quickly and with ac-curacy. Professr Chi On Chui is developing active sensingdevices with gain (such as a nanowire-based FET sensor) forthe detection and diagnosis of diseases. The UCLA WirelessHealth Initiative, led by Professor William Kaiser, seeks to improve the health and well-being particularly of those in at-risk populations.

■ Innovative technologies to meet increasing demandsof the green electronics: Profs. Lara Dolecek, Puneet Guptaand Mani Srivastava seek to tackle the problem of overde-sign by intentionally underdesigning hardware and usingvariability-aware software to mitigate the difference. Prof.Kang Wang is developing spintronics memories to over-come constraints as electronic devices shrink through theDARPA STT-RAM program. Prof. Ken Yang proposes newtechnology to extend the range of copper interconnects tomeet limitations presented by current interconnect options.

■ Alternate forms of energy: Professors Chan Joshi and Warren Mori are investigating laser fusion as a replacementfor traditional energy (such as oil). The Clean Green IGERTFellowship program, led by Prof. Diana Huffaker, is shap-ing scientists and engineers in the area of clean energy.

Our quest for innovation has also pushed us to reachacross disciplines. Professor Mihaela van der Schaar is lead-ing the UCLA Center for Engineering Economics, Learn-ing, and Networks. With funding support by Raytheon,Professors Izhak Rubin and Kung Yao have establishedthe UCLA Public Safety Network Systems Laboratoryto bring together experts from academia, industry andpublic safety agencies.

Technical societies have recognized achievementsof our faculty and alumni. Professor BehzadRazavi was awarded the 2012 IEEE Donald O.Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for his

contribution in high-speed CMOS communication circuits.Our alumnus Dr. Asad M. Madni (B.S. 1969, M.S. 1972)was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering(NAE), and was awarded the IEEE Instrumentation andMeasurement Society’s Career Excellence Award and theLifetime Contribution Award by UCLA HSSEAS.

Recent graduates have accepted academic appointments,from West Virginia University and SUNY Buffalo, to CairoUniversity (Egypt), Yonsei University (South Korea) and National Chiao Tung University and National Tsing HuaUniversity (Taiwan).

Our department is also set to welcome not only thelargest freshmen class this Fall but also the largest graduateclass as well — our reputation in research and educationgrow stronger than ever. It has been 20 years since we tookon the name Electrical Engineering Department and welook forward to another 20 years of excellence. We proudly recognize the accomplishments of our faculty and their research groups, and thank our alumni, friends and customers in industry, government and academia for theircontinuous support.

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NANO/GREEN/BIO-PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES,

ADVANCED CIRCUIT/SYSTEM/NETWORK DESIGN METHODOLOGIES

STATE-OF-THE-ART RESULTS

Distinguished Professor and ChairmanM.C. Frank Chang

Detection and isolation of rareevents among a large hetero-geneous population of cells is

proving to be important for early de-tection of metastatic disease and formonitoring the efficacy of therapy.Rare cells that have a significant im-pact on medical diagnostics and ther-apeutics include stem celltrans plantation, vaccine develop-ment, noninvasive prenatal diagnos-tics, angio genesis research, andcancer diagnostics and therapy. Un-fortunately, detection of such “rogue”cells with high statistical accuracy isdifficult to perform due to the lack oftechnology with simultaneous highsensitivity and high throughput.While useful for visual inspection ofsingle cells with high sensitivity, au-tomated microscopy is prohibitivelyslow. On the other hand, flow cytom-etry has high throughput detection,

but low sensitivity due to the lack ofspatial resolution. Perhaps more im-portantly, the current flow imagingtechnology is not capable of real-timeimage processing even at the modestthroughput with which it operates —almost 100x lower than necessary.

Professor Jalali and his group havedeveloped a high-throughput flow-through imaging system for real-timedetection of rare cells. This technol-ogy makes use of the group’s pho-tonic time stretch technology tocreate the world’s fastest camera. Thecamera is then integrated with a cy-tometer and real-time image process-ing to classify every cell in a bloodsample. The new blood screeningtechnology boasts an unprecedentedthroughput of 100,000 cells per sec-ond, twice as fast as the current state-of-the-art automated microscopes.Overcoming the limitations that exist

in the conventional methods, theUCLA technology can perform real-time detection of extremely rare cellsin a large sample of normal cells withhigh sensitivity, specificity, and sta-tistical accuracy in a very short periodof time. With the help of Prof. DinoDi Carlo’s group at UCLA BiomedicalEngineering Department, the re-search has shown real-time identifi-cation of rare breast cancer cells inblood with a record low false-positiverate of one cell in a million. Prelimi-nary results indicate that this newtechnology has the potential to enabledetection of rare circulating tumorcells from a large volume of blood ina short time opening the way for sta-tistically accurate early detection ofcancer and monitoring efficacy ofdrug and radiation therapy.

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Very low-cost and field-appropri-ate molecular-level detectionsfor disease diagnostics, for

instance, are sorely needed in both thecivilian and military populations. Thedevelopment and deployment of suchpoint-of-care (PoC) in vitro diagnostic(IVD) platforms are however particularly challenging, especially inresource- limited settings, due to requirements such as high sensitivityand specificity, rapid turnaround time,absence of equipped facilities andtrained personnel,low-cost of disposablesand fixed equipments,portability, etc. As akey component insidethese platforms, thebiosensor is responsi-ble for capturing thedisease biomarker in-formation and trans-lating that into either achemical or physicaloutput signal. Forhighly selective detec-tions or captures of these biomarkers,either antigen-antibody specific bind-ings or complementary nucleic acidhybridizations are widely adopted incommon diagnostic platforms. Thecriteria on the signal transduction device technology include superiorsensitivity, multiplex and simple operations, response timeliness, compactness, reusability, simple fabrication, and electronic interfaces.

As a contending platform technology,quasi-one-dimensional semiconductornanowire field-effect transistor (FET)

sensors have demonstrated label-freeelectronic detection of biomolecularanalytes with sub-pM limit of detection(LOD). Moreover, their direct electricaloutputs significantly simplify the subsequent signal processing andtransmission versus the competing optical PoC solutions. These genericnanowire FET sensors, nevertheless,have severe limitations such as impractically low output signal levelsat LOD, insufficient sensitivity, chargescreening in high ionic strength

solutions, and non-manufacturability. Besides sensitivity, the detection selectivity is often compromised by the platform-independent non-specificcompetitive binding events with interferents and/or random sensorsurface biofouling.

Leveraging the advanced semicon-ductor manufacturing technology, Professor Chi On Chui’s laboratory isdeveloping innovative semiconductorbiosensor structures and their fundamental sensing principles. Hislaboratory has recently invented a

nanowire-based FET sensor that electrically amplifies the biomolecularsignals locally at the sensing sourcewith minimally added noise. The“amplification-at-the-source” idea isanalogous to that of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) in modern radio receiver circuits. Experimentally, thenovel sensor prototypes have demon-strated 5-10 times sensitivity improvement in detecting solution

pH value and cancerprotein biomarkersover the conven tionalnanowire FET. In addi-tion, his laboratory isdeveloping innovativesensing procedures tomitigate simultane-ously the screeningand selectivity issues.In collaboration withcardiology clinicians atUCLA, his laboratoryis prototyping IVD

platforms (Figure 2) for highly sensi-tive, quantitative, and rapid diagnosisof time- critical cardiovascular diseasesuch as acute myocardial infarction.

Professor Chui has received severalawards for his work. Most notably, heis the first recipient of the IEEE Electron Device Society Early CareerAward in 2009, which is regarded asone of the Society’s highest honors.Very recently, he has also received theChinese American Faculty Associa-tion Robert T. Poe Faculty Develop-ment Award.

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Scaning electron micrograph of thenovel nanowire-based FET sensor invented in Professor Chi On Chui’slaboratory

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Professor William Kaiser’s re-search efforts have led to the de-velopment of the first sensor

networks with Professor Gregory Pot-tie during the mid-90s, to energy effi-cient computing systems, and now to anew field formed first at UCLA: Wire-less Health. Wireless Health combinesthe medical science and engineeringdisciplines that include biomedicalsensing, signal processing, advancedsensor information processing theoryand algorithms, embedded computingtechnology, the smartphone, and in-formation technology. In collaborationwith Dr. Bruce Dobkin (UCLA Neu-rology) and Majid Sarrafzadeh (UCLAComputer Science and Electrical Engi-neering), Professor Kaiser serves as aDirector of the UCLA Wireless HealthInstitute (WHI).

Rapid advances this year at WHI areenabling the design of powerful clinic,home and mobile technologies thatcan assess disease, provide treatmentguidance, and promote health, well-ness, and fitness. The Signal SearchEngine (SSE) research program hasbeen developed to enable the combi-nation of search and analytics required

to exploit and de-liver value based onthis immensely valuable data resource.Highlights include the development ofthe Wireless Health Sensor FusionToolkit (WHSFT) now used in nearlyall WHI programs including those tobe described below. WHSFT employsnew methods for signal processing fea-ture extraction, sensor fusion classifi-cation, and context detection to enableboth high accuracy classification ofsubject state as well as low energy andbandwidth efficient system operation.

The Stroke Inpatient RehabilitationReinforcement of ACTivity (SIR-RACT) trial has also started and enrolls200 patients in 15 countries. The pro-gram has deployed inexpensive wear-able motion sensor devices developedby the WHI team and employs the Sig-nal Search Engine trained machine-learning algorithms that identify andcharacterize subject behavior and pro-vide direct subject guidance.

Professor Kaiser’s group has also leddevelopment of the UCLA Physiologi-cal Health Assessment System forEmergency Responders (PHASER)Program funded by the Department of

Homeland Security.This was created to ad-dress a primary nationalobjective to develop abreakthrough in assur-ing health and safety forthe First Responder.

Finally, ProfessorsKaiser and Sarrafzadehhave led development ofa new clinical instru-

ment that provides the first evidence-based assessment of pressure ulcerwounds. This will serve a large popula-tion of patients in clinical treatment, tofrail elder patients in residential and as-sisted living and nursing home envi-ronments who face the very importantthreat of pressure ulcers. These occurwhen subjects are confined to bedrestor wheelchairs and other constraints.The mortality rate from pressure ulcersis very high and accounts for over twomillion Medicate treatment days eachyear. The SEM Scanner, based on anovel probe of tissue dielectric proper-ties, was developed in less than 18months and is now deployed in trialsand is being produced by a biomedicaldevice manufacturing partner.

Professor Kaiser is also engaged ineducation initiatives where WirelessHealth provides capstone design re-search opportunities for undergradu-ate and graduate courses.

These course projects have resultedin two conference best paper awards.Outreach includes the intensive sup-port of the new Wireless Health con-ference series with the recent 2010 and2011 editions. Professor WilliamKaiser provided the keynote address atthe announcement media event byFord Motor Company of its new Con-nected Health initiative on May 18,2011 in Dearborn, Michigan. This isintended to provide Wireless Healthsupport in Ford vehicles with wirelesssensing and also with driver and pas-senger guidance services.

wireless Health Initiatives

Professor William Kaiser

The SEM scanner developed atUCLA detects pressure ulcers

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As the semiconductor geometries scale down for ex-ponential growth in capacity and capabilities of in-tegrated circuits, the underlying logic and memory

devices no longer behave like the precisely chiseled ma-chines of the past. The variability in their behavior from device-to-device and over their lifetimes — due to manu-facturing, aging-related wear-out and different operating en-vironments — is completely ignored by modern computersystems. Through a recently awarded NSF Expedition inComputing project on Variability-Aware Software for Effi-cient Computing with Nanoscale Devices (http://www.vari-ability.org), Professors Dolecek, Gupta, and Srivastava’sresearch groups are pursuing a new class of underdesignedand opportunistic computing machines. In these machines,the spatiotemporal variations, instead of being hidden be-hind conservative specifications of an ‘over-designed’ hard-ware, are exposed to the highest layers of software. Anadaptable software stack then proactively conforms to thedeliberately under-designed hardware with relaxed designand manufacturing constraints.

The Expedition project is a five-year, $10M, multi-uni-versity effort, jointly led by UCLA and UCSD, and also in-volving researchers from Illinois, Michigan, Stanford, andUC Irvine. The research will result in innovations in low-overhead mechanisms for online learning of hardware sig-natures; compact representations of hardware variability;application-intent driven underdesigned hardware design;variability-aware compilation; programming language sup-port for variability; and, coordinated variability- aware adap-tation in the operating system and applications.

Early results are promising. For example, work in Prof.Gupta’s group has shown that in a video encoding systemthe hardware performance variations can be completely ab-sorbed by application adaptation with imperceptible loss inimage quality. In many cases, in functionally underde-signing hardware which deterministically commits errors,the results is acceptable as well. A joint work by ProfesssorsSrivastava and Gupta leverages power variability in embed-ded processors by adapting duty-cycle of the running application by introducing an adaptable task abstraction inTinyOS, an OS commonly used in wireless sensor net-

works. The approach results in 22X improvement in average duty cycle, which directly translates to quality of sen-sor information, for ten measured commercial ARM CortexM3 based systems.

In parallel Prof. Dolecek’s students have proposed a familyof error correction schemes that exploit, rather than ignore,the asymmetries in hardware variability. While simple to im-plement, the resulting methods already outperform previ-ously best known results in terms of information capacity,and are particularly useful for emerging Flash memories.

The Expedition team has also undertaken an ambitiousoutreach effort to engage younger students for careers incomputing and engineering. The team is mentoring high-school students as part of a new year-around “Los AngelesComputing Circle” (LACC) initiative. The inaugural ten-week Summer 2011 offering of LACC has engaged eight students from local high-schools in an intense programmentored by graduate and undergraduate students. It con-sists of short course modules on diverse computer engi-neering topics with hands-on implementation experience,and research projects spanning social network algorithms,embedded systems, robotics, and computer architecture.

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Assistant ProfessorPuneet Guptahttp://nanocad.ee.ucla.edu

Assistant ProfessorLara Dolecekhttp://www.algo.ee.ucla.edu


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Professor Kang Wang has beenleading two DARPA programson nonvolatile spintronic mem-

ory and logic. The memory programaims at developing spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access mem-ory (STT-RAM), while a secondprogram aims to develop nonvolatilemagnonic logic.

For his STT-RAM work, KangWang’s team was awarded a $3 millionPhase II award. The grant from the De-fense Advanced Research ProjectsAgency (DARPA) funds research on apotential universal memory. Theagency had previously awarded UCLAEngineering $5 million for the firstphase of this research program. STT-RAM can achieve a density comparableto dynamic random access memory(DRAM), and it equals — and has evenexceeded — the high speed of staticrandom access memory (SRAM),which is often used for caches in com-puter microprocessors. And like theflash memory common in USB drivesand memory cards, STT-RAM retainsits memory without any power whilebeing orders of magnitude faster andmore energy efficient. STT-RAM couldcombine these three advantages into asingle scalable memory technologywith excellent endurance and very lowpower requirements.

Professor Wang was also awardedan additional $4 million Phase I awardfor research on a technology known asnon-volatile logic, which enables “in-stant-on computation.” Today’s digitalelectronics rely on complementarymetal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)integrated circuits, which use an elec-tron’s charge to store and transfer in-formation. But as devices and chipshave become smaller and more com-pact, the fundamental limits of CMOSare being approached. The emergingfield of spintronics exploits another as-pect of electrons — their spin — totransfer information, taking advantageof ferromagnetic materials. Devicesusing magnetic materials can be non-volatile, maintaining their state evenwhen power is removed, and consumemuch less power when switched on.

In addition, National Institute of Stan-dards and Technology awarded UCLA’sHenry Samueli School of Engineeringand Applied Science $6 million to support the construction of the newstate-of-the-art Western Institute of Nan-o technology on Green Engineering and

Metrology (WIN-GEM). The new build-ing will provide core research facilities,supporting research on low-power, non-volatile nanoelectronics; green manu-facturing of novel nanomaterial-basedenergy technologies; and new materialsfor energy generation, storage and man-agement. The Western Institute of Nanoelectronics, led by Professor KangWang, is one of the centers of excellenceto be housed in WIN-GEM. It is a consortium of major semiconductorcompanies addressing the needs of elec-tronics beyond today’s mainstreamCMOS technology.

The Western Institute of Electronicsand the Center on Functional Engi-neered Nano Architectonics (FENA) —another center of excellence led by KangWang, which explores low-cost, high-yield, energy-efficient nanoscale manu-facturing technologies for semicon duc-tor devices — have more than 80 principal investigators in the U.S. in addition to those at UCLA. FENA willalso be located in WIN-GEM.

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UCLA’s nonvolatile logic concept uses wavesof magnetization, referred to as spin wavesor magnons, to perform logic operations,while magnetic memory bits are used to addnonvolatility to the circuit

Spintronic memorytechnology and Green nano initiative

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As data centers are expected tomanage the increasing de-mands in bandwidth, process-

ing power and storage requirements,connectivity issues between blades/racks present a whole new set of chal-lenges in maintaining a stable infra-structure. While data centers maygrow to occupy thousands of squarefeet, current passive copper intercon-nects pose a real limitation with a run

length of 10 meters at 10Gbps per wirepair. Optical fiber can extend the inter-connection length from 10 meters to100 meters, but the large power re-quirements and expensive opto-electricmodules prove to be too uneconomi-cal for practical application. As a com-promise, through the use of theInfiniband standard, a 12Gbps cablelink can be achieved that would extendthe range of copper interconnects be-yond the 100 meter threshold.

The research conducted with gradu-ate student researcher, Tamer Abdel-rahim, proposes a link that leveragessynchronous clock forwarding on oneavailable data channel that improvesjitter tracking, while greatly simplify-ing the design of the receiver and tim-ing recovery circuits. Only a phasede-skewing is required at the receiveside to retrieve the clock-data relation-ship. In the cable link architecture, the

12 Gbps data is repeated in 8 metersections with clocking forwarding on adedicated channel. Then the for-warded clock is dropped off every datarepeating stage in order to be multi-plied to half the data rate and be usedto strobe the incoming data. Thelonger the quality of clock forwardingis maintained, the cleaner the datastrobed at each repeater and the longerthe cable can be extended. At each re-peater, the clock resets the jitter accu-

mulated from the previous repeater, al-lowing for data transmission with asmuch jitter as in the strobing clock.

Determining a fine balance in for-ward clock frequency is crucial indefining jitter performance of thecable link. Frequency beyond the cablebandwidth results in large attenuationof clock amplitude creating morenoise and jitter accumulation alongclock repeater. On the other hand, fre-quency well below the cable band-width will increase jitter accumulationtime and will degrade jitter perform-ance inside the clock multiplier. Thetrade-off between low frequency clockjitter accumulation in the Clock Mul-tiplication Unit (CMU) and the highfrequency jitter accumulation alongthe clock repeaters is one of the defin-ing aspects of optimizing the activecopper link.

To further reduce the clock jitter ac-cumulation across repeaters, phase in-terpolation between the input clockand the divided output of the CMU isused to generate the forward clock forthe next repeater stage. The additionof the phase interpolator has negligi-ble power/area cost, dramatically re-duces jitter accumulation, and addsanother degree of flexibility in choos-ing the forwarded clock to reduce thetotal accumulated jitter. With theproper choice of forward clock fre-quency, application of the FIR filteringtechnique and a high performanceCMU, a total run length of 115 metersis achieved.

Green Interconnectsfor Intra Data-ceNTERCOMMUNICATION

Professor Chih-Kong Ken Yang

Networking physical limitations is the focus of Professor Yang’s laboratory. Signal repeaterscan extend the curent copper links in data centers to over the 100 meter limitation


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The continued prosperity ofmankind depends on access toenergy at a reasonable price. As

oil and other fossil fuels either run outor their continued use poses unaccept-able environmental risks, mankindmust resort to an alternate source ofenergy that is clean, abundant and ableto supply the bulk of the world’s energyneeds. With this goal in mind, re-searchers have been working on repli-cating nuclear fusion that occurs in theSun — a process called laser fusion.

In laser fusion, a few mm diametersphere containing deuterium (D) andtritium (T), two isotopes of hydrogen,is imploded by vaporizing its outer sur-face using either intense laser beamsor laser-generated x-rays. The fuel den-sity and temperature rise while its radius shrinks during the implosionprocess until collisions between D andT ions leads to fusion and energy is released. After nearly four decades ofwork, researchers at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Liver-more Laboratory in California are onthe threshold of demonstrating a netenergy gain from a laser fusion pellet.

In order for laser fusion to work, thelaser energy must go where it is aimed.It cannot be reflected, bent, or absorbed by laser-plasma instabilities before reaching its target. ProfessorsJoshi and Mori have been working onunderstanding the fundamental science behind laser-plasma interac-tions for 30 years.

From the early days of laser fusion,Professor Joshi’s research group hascarried out fundamental laser-plasma

interaction experiments and theory toexplain the processes by which thelaser light is absorbed and scattered bythe plasma. This showed that whenhigh intensity laser pulses enter theplasma, non-linear processes calledstimulated Brillouin and Raman insta-bilities scatter light out of the plasma.This can significantly reduce theamount of laser light that is absorbed.Their work also showed that Ramanscattering accelerates very high-energyelectrons. If these electrons penetratethe laser-fusion capsule, they can pre-heat the DT fuel thereby preventing ef-ficient compression of the fuel that isneeded to trigger fusion reactions.

UCLA experiments showed howBrillouin scattering could be controlledto manageable levels by using plasmasthat contained a small concentration oflighter ions. The space-charge densitywaves generated by Brillouin andRaman scattering interact with one another and with electrons and ions in

the plasma. The presence of an ionwave characteristic of Brillouin scatter-ing for instance can dampen the elec-tron plasma wave generated by Ramanscattering. Other experiments showedthat when two laser beams cross oneanother in plasma, energy can be trans-ferred from between the beams. Allthese findings have relevance to the na-tional laser fusion program.

Professor Mori’s research group hasbeen studying Stimulated Raman Scattering and the two-plasmon decayprocesses, and how small changes tothe electron distribution function candramatically change the laser-plasmainteractions including the reflectivity.They are also studying how large am-plitude plasma wave packets excited byeither Stimulated Raman Scatteringand/or two plasma decay can modifythe reflectivity and also lead to very energetic electrons.

Currently, Professor Chan Joshi’sgroup has the world’s most powerfulCO2 laser system in the world. Pro-fessor Mori’s group has its own pow-erful computer cluster (calledDawson2) that is the 148th fastest com-puter in the world. His group also hasits own computer code, OSIRIS, thatis ideal for studying laser-plasmaprocesses. UCLA is one of only ahandful of universities offering grad-uate student training in this area. Ourfaculties serve on important commit-tees that review the national programin energy research.

Laser Fusion: An Inexhaustible EnergySource For the Future

Professor Chandrashekar Joshi

Professor Warren Mori

Neptune Lab. World’s most powerful CO2laser is used for non-linear effects presentin laser fusion plasmas


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In general, semiconductor nan-otechnology strives to developnew approaches to atomic

arrangement to enable enhanced absorption and emission of light alongwith efficient current conduction. Thefundamental technology of the Inte-grated Nanomaterials Laboratory(INML) at CNSI is based on directedassembly of crystallographic semicon-ductor materials atom-by-atom to formquantum nanostructures such asquantum dots and nanopillars. Thesynthesis methods are based in mo-lecular beam epitaxy and metalorganicchemical vapor epitaxy specializing incompound III-V materials includingIII-As, Sb and N. Directed by Profes-sor Diana Huffaker, the INML research group has developed severalunique approaches to realize materialswith very specific characteristics inemission wavelength, absorption spec-trum, carrier dynamics. This materialcombination offers access to the fullspectrum ranging from ultraviolet toinfrared. In particular, Huffaker andher group have patented several tech-niques to specify and control nanowireplacement and dimension using a lith-ographically predetermined pattern.

This is very powerful for realizing realdevices from nanowires, especially.

The nanomaterials, quantum dotsand nanowires, produce a lot of excite-ment worldwide due to several intriguing properties. The associatedquantized density of states enablehighly efficient light absorption forphotovoltaics, effective electron-holepair storage and release for opticalmemory along with potentially impor-tant solutions for silicon integration.Nanostructured materials have a muchlarger surface-to-volume ratio com-pared to bulk, so they interact withelectricity and light in a very differentway. Furthermore, they are more

reactive than larger particles, whichopens up new areas of study mergingchemistry, physics, and biology. Sincejoining UCLA, Huffaker has becomeincreasingly interested in the interac-tion between organic and inorganicmatter for new materials discovery andrevolutionary device development.This approach results in highly inter disci pli nary research efforts fosteredby a strong collaborative network —within UCLA and around the globe —to solve fundamental problems incommunication, energy and health.

Along with CNSI, Huffaker’sstrongest UCLA collaborative networkis the Clean Green IGERT (CGI) Fel-lowship program sponsored by theNational Science Foundation and theAmerican Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act. The CGI trains Ph.D. sci-entists and engineers for leadershiproles in the clean energy sector. Tech-nical thrusts include energy harvest-ing, storage, conservation solutionsand energy policy comprising facultyacross Engineering, Chemistry andInstitute of the Environment. Com-munity participation is a CGI corner-stone with emphasis on volunteerwork throughout Los Angeles andhigh school outreach, including an“energy science roadshow.” CGI hasfostered many fruitful cross-campusresearch programs through fellow-

ship support and seed-funds alongwith new clean energy courseworkcross-listed in Engineering and College of Arts and Letters.

Integrated Nanomaterials Laboratory

Professor Diana Huffaker

Semi-conductor materials are built, atom-by-atom: Patented nanowire placement controland nanopillars at INML.

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Center for Engineering Economics, LEARNING, & Networks

The UCLA Center for EngineeringEconomics, Learning, and Networksis developing a new wave of ideas,

technologies, networks, and systems thatchange the ways in which people (and de-vices) interact, communicate, collaborate,learn, teach, and discover. The Centerbrings together an interdisciplinary groupof researchers from diverse disciplines —including computer science, electrical engi-neering, economics, and mathematics —with diverse interests spanning microeco-nomics, machine learning, multi-agent sys-tems, artificial intelligence, optimization,and physical and social networks, all shar-ing a common passion: developing rigoroustheoretical foundations to shape the designof future generations of networks and sys-tems for interaction.

Formal activities of the Center will beginin Fall 2011 with a one-day inaugural collo-

quium; details to be announced. Otherplanned activities include a day of tutorialsby affiliated faculty and a biweekly seminarseries featuring talks by both internal andexternal researchers.

UCLA Center for Engineering Econom-ics, Learning, and Networks is composed ofpeople from UCLA Department of Electri-cal Engineering, Computer Science andEconomics. Current members are: Prof.Simon Board (Economics), Prof. AdnanDarwiche (Computer Science), Prof. MoritzMeyer-ter-Vehn (Economics), Prof. Ali H.Sayed (Electrical Engineering), Prof. PauloTabuada (Electrical Engineering),Prof. JennWortman (Computer Science) and Prof.William Zame (Economics). Prof. Mihaelavan der Schaar from Electrical Engineeringis the Center’s Director.

Professor Mihaela van der Schaar

Center for Engineering Economics, Learning, & Networks

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In February 2011, Raytheon Com-pany gave a seed funding of $1 mil-lion for three years to UCLA for its

partnership to create a new Public SafetyNetwork Systems Laboratory (PSNSL).The mission of this Laboratory is tobring together academia, industry, andpublic safety agencies to provide techni-cal leadership to perform collaborative research and to establish standards forpublic safety networks based on the 4GLTE — Advanced standards.

The co- directors of the Laboratory are Distinguished Professor Kung Yao andDistinguished Professor Izhak Rubin ofthe Electrical Engineering Departmentin the Henry Samueli School of Engi-

neering and Applied Science (HSSEAS).This Laboratory is affiliated with the In-stitute for Technology Advancement(ITA) at UCLA.

Six broad areas of PSNSL efforts include: Area 1. Develop a CONOPS forPublic Safety Network and OperationsTechnologies; Area 2. Develop ReferenceModel for Public Safety; Area 3. DevelopTechnologies Including LTE – Advanced;Area 4. Develop Device Technologies;Area 5. Perform Interoperability Studies;Area 6. Perform Interoperability Testing.

UCLA Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory

Distinguished Professor Kung Yao

Distinguished Professor Izhak Rubin

Professors Yao and Rubin, co-chairmen, in front of the new research center Public Safety NetworkSystems Laboratory, funded by Raytheon

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Professor Behzad Razavi is therecipient of the 2012 IEEE Donald Pederson Award in

Solid-State Circuits, the highest awardaccorded to an individual in the fieldof integrated circuits.

An award-winning scholar, author,and teacher, Prof. Razavi has, for twodecades, continued to push the speedof communication transceivers instandard CMOS technology. The newarchitectures, circuits, and devices developed in the course of his researchhave paved the way for many of today’sintegrated wireless and wireline sys-tems. Professor Razavi is also knownfor his theoretical and modeling stud-ies, which have explored and eluci-dated the underlying principles ofmany devices and circuits.

Prof. Razavi’s work in the area ofwireless transceivers has pioneered theconcept that innovations at the archi-tecture level can greatly relax the de-sign at the circuit level. He and hisstudents have explored new architec-tures for RF applications from 900MHz to 60 GHz, introducing, for

example, “synthesizer-friendly” trans-ceivers. Such architectures have sub-stantially simplified the design of their constituent oscillators and frequencydividers, leading to 60-GHz receiversand transmitters that consume the lowest reported power levels.

Prof. Razavi has also made seminalcontributions to wireline systems,specifically, in the area of high-speedphase-locked systems and broadbandcircuits. A unique aspect of Prof.Razavi’s work has been the ability toleverage concepts from the RF designworld to wireline circuits. Utilizing newtechniques, he and his students werethe first to demonstrate 10-Gb/s and40-Gb/s clock and data recovery (CDR)circuits, laser drivers, and equalizers inCMOS technology, creating the impe-tus for the design of wireline trans-ceivers in CMOS. Prof. Razavi’s

research has recently led to techniquesthat afford 300-GHz fundamental oscillation in 65-nm CMOS.

Prof. Razavi is also known for hislucid teaching and writing style. Hisexemplary teaching has excited andinspired thousands of students, andhis books — translated to Chinese,Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese —have been read and loved by morethan one hundred thousand studentsand engineers.

Prof. Razavi has received numer-ous awards for his research, authorship, and teaching. He hasserved as an IEEE DistinguishedLecturer and was selected as one ofthe top ten authors in the 50-yearhistory of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Razavi receives theIEEE Pederson Award inSolid-State Circuits

A 300-GHz fundamental oscillator developed byProf. Razavi along with its measured spectrum

Professor Behzad Razavi

Dr. Asad M. Madni (1969, M.S.1972), Chair of the EE Alumni Ad-visory Board and President of the

UCLA Engineering Alumni Associationwas elected to the U.S. National Academy ofEngineering (NAE) “for contributions to development and commercialization of sen-sors and systems for aerospace and auto-motive safety.” Election to the NAE is thehighest professional distinction that can beaccorded an engineer. The NAE is a private,independent, nonprofit institution that provides engineering leadership in serviceto the nation. Its mission is to promote thetechnological welfare of the nation by mar-shaling the expertise and insights of itsmembers in the engineering profession.Members are elected to the academy by theirpeers for having distinguished themselvesin research, technical positions and leader-ship in industry, government and academia.

Dr. Madni was also awarded the 2010“Lifetime Contribution Award” by the

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engi-neering and Applied Science. “This highlyselective and prestigious award honors analumnus or friend of the School who hasmade outstanding and extraordinary contributions to the field of Engineeringand the School over the course of his orher lifetime.”

Additionally, Dr. Madni is the recipient ofIEEE Instrumentation and MeasurementSociety’s highest honor, the 2010 Career Excellence Award “for an extraordinary career of enlightened leadership in and pioneering contributions to the develop-ment and commercialization of intelligentsensors, systems and instrumentation.”

NAE Membership and IEEE Career Excellence Award

Distinguished Professor Asad Madni

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Alumni Board

Asad MadniEE AAB Chair

President and CEO (Retired) BEI Technologies, Inc,

Bob GreenAttorney

Christie, Parker, and Hale, LLP

Sharon V. HongSystems Integration

SpecialistMotorola

Gigi LauEngineer Alumni

Sharon Black Special Projects Program DirectorRaytheon

Vicky GihDesign Engineer &Product LeadNorthrop Grumman

Dan GoebelSenior Research Scientist Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Bill GoodinDirector,

Short Course & Technical Management Programs

UCLA Extension

David DoamiDirector, Program ManagerNorthrop Grumman

Leonard BonillaRetiredRaytheon

The mission of the Alumni Advisory Board is to provide critical and supportive advice to the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department in enhancing its leadership role in education and research.


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These awards were given to students for their academic excellence and contributions to the department and school.

Student Awards 2010

Outstanding Senior AwardRaja A. Gangopadhya

Engineering Achievement Award for Student Welfare RecipientsChia Heng Chang, B.S., Spring 2011Tran Dam, B.S., Winter 2011Melissa Sue Erickson, B.S., Fall 2011Susan Huon, B.S., Fall 2011Raymond Liou, B.S., Winter 2011 (above)

Distinguished PhD Dissertation in Circuits &Embedded SystemsChia-Hsiang YangAdvisor: Prof. Dejan Markovic (left)

Christina Huang Memorial PrizeRaymond Liou

The Russell R. O'Neill DistinguishedService Award RecipientRaymond Liou

2010-2011 Excellence in Teaching AwardThomas Courtade

Pei-Chi Jiang

Seyed Arash Mirhaj

Zicong Zhouwith Chairman Frank Chang (left)

Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy AwardHarish RajagopalanAdvisor: Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii (left)

Distinguished PhD Dissertation in Physical& Wave ElectronicsHarish Rajagopalanwith Chairman Frank Chang (right)

Outstanding Master of Science AwardDustin TorresAdvisor: Prof. Mani Srivastava

Distinguished MS Research in Circuits &Embedded SystemsDustin Torres


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Asad A. Abidi

National Academy of Engineering In 2007, Professor Asad A. Abidi was in-ducted into the National Academy of En-gineering for his contributions to thedevelopment of MOS integrated circuits

for RF Communications. Prior to joining UCLA in 1985, Pro-fessor Abidi worked at Bell Laboratories, as a member of thetechnical staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory.He received a number of awards and honors throughout hiscareer, including the 1988 TRW (now Northrop Grumman)Award for Innovative Teaching, the 1997 IEEE Donald G.Fink Award, presented for the most outstanding survey, re-view, or tutorial paper published by the IEEE, and the 2008IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in solid state circuits.

M. C. Frank Chang

National Academy of Engineering Professor Mau-Chung Frank Chang waselected to the National Academy of Engi-neering in 2008 for his contributions indevelopment and commercialization of

III-V-based heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) andfield-effective transistors (FETs) for RF wireless communi-cations. Prior to joining UCLA, Professor Chang was the As-sistant Director at Rockwell Science Center where hesuccessfully developed and transferred AlGaAs/GaAs Het-erojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (PlanarHBT/MESFET) integrated circuits technologies from the re-search laboratory to the production line. His research fo-cuses on the development of high-speed semiconductordevices, integrated circuits for RF and mixed-signal com-munication, and interconnect system applications. ProfessorChang received the IEEE David Sarnoff Award (IEEE-wideTechnical Field Award) in 2006 and the Pan Wen-YuanFoundation Award in 2008.

Deborah Estrin

National Academy of Engineering Professor Deborah Estrin holds theJonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Net-working. Elected to the National Academyof Engineering in 2009, Professor Estrin

led the development and deployment of wireless sensing sys-tems that provide real-time, multifaceted information about

natural and urban environments. She created and directs theCenter for Embedded Networked Sensing, a National Sci-ence Foundation research center, which brings togetherdozens of researchers from multiple universities and servesas a model for other federally funded centers. Professor Es-trin was selected as the first Athena Lecturer of the Associa-tion for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Committee onWomen in Computing and was honored with the Women ofVision Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institutefor Women and Technology. She is a fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association forthe Advancement of Science, the ACM and the IEEE.

Tatsuo Itoh

National Academy of Engineering Professor Itoh pioneered the interdiscipli-nary electromagnetics research beyond tra-ditional electromagnetic engineering. Hewas elected to the National Academy of En-

gineering in 2003, “for seminal contributions in advancingelectromagnetic engineering for microwave and wirelesscomponents, circuits, and systems”. He developed severalnumerical methods to understand microwave problems, anddeveloped the first CAD program package for designing E-plane filters for millimeter wave systems. His research fo-cuses in combining solid state devices and electromagneticcircuits for cost-effectiveness and system performance, de-veloping the first global simulator for the RF frontend, deal-ing simultaneously with antennas, passive and activemicrowave circuits. He also created the Active Integrated An-tenna scheme in which the antenna is not only a radiatingelement, but also a circuit element for the RF front end.

Kuo-Nan Liou

National Academy of EngineeringProfessor Kuo-Nan Liou is director of theJoint Institute for Regional Earth SystemScience and Engineering (JIFRESSE). Pro-fessor Liou pioneered the use of combina-

tions of remote sensors to obtain important cloud ice andaerosol parameters and climate radiative forcing. He derivedthe analytic four-stream solution for radiative transfer anddiscovered the depolarization principle to differentiate icecrystals and water droplets. Professor Liou was elected aMember of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999

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and was a past Chair of its Special Fields and InterdisciplinaryEngineering Section (2008-2010). Elected a Member of theAcademia Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiwan) in2004, Professor Liou is also a Fellow of the American Asso-ciation of the Advancement of Science, AGU, AMS and OSA.He received the Jule Charney Award from AMS and a cre-ativity award from NSF, and shared the Nobel Peace Prizebestowed on the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) in 2007. Professor Liou was the recipient ofthe 2010 COSPAR William Nordberg Medal.

Stanley Osher

National Academy of SciencesProfessor Stanley Osher was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences for “majorcontributions to algorithm developmentand applications in level set methods,

high-resolution shock capturing methods, and PDE-basedmethods in imaging science.” He has been at UCLA since1976 and is Director of Special Projects at the Institute forPure and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Osher was a Fulbrightand Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and received the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, the Japan Society ofMechanical Engineers Computational Mechanics Award,the SIAM Pioneer Prize, and the SIAM Kleinman Prize.

C. Kumar Patel

National Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Engineering Professor Patel made numerous seminalcontributions in gas lasers, nonlinear optics, molecular spectroscopy, pollution

detection and laser surgery. He received numerous honors,including the National Medal of Science for his invention ofthe carbon dioxide laser. He also received the Lomb Medal ofthe Optical Society of America, the Franklin Institute’s Ballantine Medal, the Pake Prize of the American PhysicalSociety, and the Coblentz Society’s Coblentz Prize.

Yahya Rahmat-Samii

National Academy of EngineeringDistinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was elected to the National Acad-emy of Engineering in 2008 for hispioneering contributions to the design

and measurement of reflector and hand-held device anten-nas. Many of his design concepts are currently used in cell

phones, planetary spacecraft, earth-observation satellites,and satellite dishes. Prior to joining UCLA, he was a SeniorResearch Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His honorsinclude the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished EducatorAward from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society;the 2005 International Union of Radio Science’s BookerGold Medal; the 2000 Antenna Measurement TechniquesAssociation’s Distinguished Achievement Award; the IEEE’sThird Millennium Medal; a Distinguished Alumni Awardfrom the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Heholds the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics.

Henry Samueli

National Academy of EngineeringDr. Henry Samueli was elected to the Na-tional Academy of Engineering in recog-nition of his “pioneering contributions toacademic research and technology entre-

preneurship in the broadband communications system-on-a-chip industry”. Dr. Samueli has over 25 years ofexperience in the fields of digital signal processing and com-munications systems engineering and is widely recognizedas one of the world’s leading experts in the field. He re-ceived his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engi-neering from UCLA. Since 1985, Dr. Samueli is a professorin the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also wellknown as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. In2010, Professor Samueli received the UCLA Medal.

Jason Speyer

National Academy of EngineeringProfessor Speyer was elected to the Na-tional Academy of Engineering for “thedevelopment and application of advancedtechniques for optimal navigation and

control of a wide range of aerospace vehicles.” He pioneerednew deterministic and stochastic control, team and differ-ential game strategies, estimation, and model-based fault de-tection, identification, and reconstruction theories andalgorithms, as well as matrix calculus of variations for theApollo autonomous navigation system. He pioneered the de-velopment and mechanization of periodic optimal controlfor aircraft fuel-optimal cruise and endurance. His efforts indifferential carrier phase GPS blended with an inertial nav-igation system was applied to flight drag reduction, andachieved centimeter accuracy in flight tests. Dr. Speyer is afellow of AIAA and IEEE (Life Fellow) and received the IEEEThird Millennium Medal as well as several AIAA Awards.


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CENS is a major research enterprisefocused on developing wireless sensingsystems and applying this revolution-ary technology to critical scientific andsocietal pursuits. In the same way thatthe development of the Internet trans-formed our ability to communicate, theever decreasing size and cost of com-puting components is setting the stagefor detection, processing, and commu-nication technology to be embedded

throughout the physical world. By in-vestigating fundamental properties ofembedded networked sensing systems,developing new technologies, and ex-ploring novel scientific and educationalapplications, CENS is a world leader inunleashing the tremendous potentialthese systems hold. The center is amultidisciplinary collaboration amongfaculty, staff, and students. CENS wasestablished in 2002 as a National Sci-ence Foundation Science and Technol-ogy Center and is a partnership ofUCLA, UC Riverside, UC Merced,USC, and Caltech. Electrical Engineer-ing Professors Deborah Estrin, MarkHansen, Jack W. Judy, William J.Kaiser, Gregory J. Pottie, Mani B. Sri-vastava, John D. Villasenor, and KungYao are active members of the Center.http://www.cens.ucla.edu

Center for Embedded Networked

Sensing (CENS)

Expedition into Hardware-

Variability-Aware Software

Interdisciplinary Research Centers

The National Science Foundationawarded $10 million to the researchinitiative “Hardware-Variability-AwareSoftware for Efficient Computing withNanoscale Devices.” The grant is partof the funding agency’s Expeditions inComputing program, which rewardsfar-reaching agendas that “promisesignificant advances in the computingfrontier and great benefit to society.”Variability-aware computing systemswould benefit the entire spectrum ofembedded, mobile, desktop andserver-class applications by dramati-cally reducing hardware design and

test costs for computing systems whileenhancing their performance and energy efficiency. The expedition’sdeputy director, Mani Srivastava, joinsLara Dolecek and Puneet Gupta fromUCLA in a team of eleven researchersfrom various universities. Please see page 11 for more information.http://www.variability.org

California

NanoSystems

Institute (CNSI)

The California NanoSystems Instituteis an integrated research facility locatedat UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. Itsmission is to foster interdisciplinary col-laborations in nanoscience and nanotechnology; train a new generationof scientists, educators and technologyleaders; generate partnerships with in-dustry; and contribute to the economicdevelopment and the social well-beingof California, the United States and theworld. The CNSI was established in2000 with $100 million from the stateof California. An additional $850 mil-lion of support has come from federalresearch grants and industry funding.CNSI members are drawn from the departments of biology, chemistry, bio-chemistry, physics, mathematics, com-putational science and engineering.This dynamic research setting has enhanced understanding of phenom-ena at the nanoscale and promises toproduce important discoveries inhealth, energy, and the environmentand information technology. http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu


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FENA is part of the Focus Center Re-search Program (FCRP) initiated bythe Semiconductor Research Corpora-tion in an effort to expand pre-compet-itive, cooperative, long-range appliedmicroelectronics research at US uni-versities. The center, which was estab-lished in 2003, so far has received$38M, and is expected to receive an ad-ditional $15M through 2012. FENAaims to create and investigate new

nano-engineered functional materialsand devices, and novel structural andcomputational architectures for newinformation processing systems be-yond the limits of conventional CMOStechnology. FENA plays a key role inAmerica’s technology competitivenessas it addresses industry and DoDneeds using the research universitysystem, i.e. long-range, innovative ap-plied research.

King Abdulaziz City for Science &Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabiaand the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,have are working together under a established Center of Excellence inGreen Nanotechnology to promote ed-ucational, technology transfer and re-search exchanges, as well as anagreement with UCLA for research innanoelectronics and clean energy forthe next 10 years. From the UCLAside, the center is directed by Profes-sor Kang L. Wang. KACST is bothSaudi Arabia’s national scienceagency and is the nation’s premier na-tional laboratory. At the signing cere-mony, KACST was represented byPrince Turki, the organization’s vice-president for research institutes. Theinitial kick-off phase of $3.2 millionwill fund the center over three years inthe following research areas:■ Nanostructures for high efficiency

solar cells■ Patterned nanostructures for

integratedactive optoelectronics onsilicon

■ Carbon nanotube circuits

The Western Institute of Nanoelectron-ics is a multidisciplinary center that isthe world’s largest spintronic researcheffort. WIN was established in 2006and is headquartered at UCLA, led byElectrical Engineering Professor KangWang. The institute involves collabora-tions among various Californian Uni-versities which includes Stanford,Berkeley and UCLA. The institute’smission is to explore and develop ad-vanced research devices, circuits andnanosystems with performance beyondCMOS devices. The Institute was es-

tablished with funding totaling over$20 million in addition to spinning theSTTRAM and NV Logic DARPA pro-grams at UCLA totaling over about$16M. Furthermore, through these re-search efforts NIST awarded UCLA$6M to build the WIN-GEM buildingas part of the Engineering Building 1 re-placement. WIN industry partners andconsortia are organized through the Na-noelectronics Research Initiative whichincludes semiconductor companiessuch as Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments,NIST, Globalfoundries and Micron.

FCRP Center on Functional

Engineered Nano Architectonics

Center for

Excellence in

Green

Nanotechnology

Western Institute of

Nanoelectronics (WIN)

Please See Also:Wireless Health Institute..............page 8Center for Engineering Economics,Learning & Networks.................page 12Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory..................................page 13

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University & Endowments: 1.9 million

State: 0.2 million

Federal: 16 million

61%

7%31%

1%

61%

7%31%

Industry: 8 million

Faculty and Staff

Ladder Faculty 45 FTEsCourtesy Appointments 14Emeriti Faculty 13Adjunct 6Lecturers 13Staff 42

Research Centers

The Electrical Engineering Department contributes to the following Research Centers:

California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)Center for Embedded Networking Sensing (CENS)Center for Engineering Economics, Learning &

NetworksCenter for Excellence in Green NanotechnologyCenter for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE)Center for Systems, Dynamics and Controls (SyDyC)Expedition into Hardware Variability-Aware SoftwareFunctional Engineered Nano Architectonics Focus

Center (FENA)

Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE)Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA)Nanoelectronics Research Center (NRC)Public Safety Network System (PSNS)Water Technology Research Center (WaTer)Western Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN)Wireless Health Institute

Research Funding

for 2010-2011:

$ 26.2M

Research Facilities

Laboratories and Research Groups: 37Space: 100,772 square feet

Recognitions

Society Fellows 33NAE Members 8NAS Members 2National Medal of Science 1

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B.S.(201)

Summer 2009

Fall 2009

Winter 2010

Spring 2010

M.S.(89) Ph.D.(42)

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34%20%

16%

13% 9% 5% 3%

People's Republic of China: 420

United States: 252

India:198

Iran: 45

South Korea: 59

Republic of China: 111

Other countries: 165

(ApplicantsAccepted: 104)

Admitted Applicants: 181

Rejected Applicants: 454

Fellowship Nomination and GSR Offers: 14

71%

29%





79%

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77%

23%

Undergraduate Students

Students Enrolled 732Applicants 1036Admitted 439New Students Enrolled 150Average Freshman GPA 3.83

Graduate Students

Students Enrolled 404Applicants 1250Admitted 411New Students Enrolled 147Average Incoming GPA 3.71

Graduate Applicants for Fall 2010 Graduate Students Admitted

Graduate Students Fellowships

Department Fellowships $547,646Non-Resident Tuition Support

for Teaching Assistants $195,920Dean’s GSR Support $140,469Dissertation Year Fellowships $94,056Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship $78,982Faculty Unrestricted Fellowships $73,387Ph.D. Preliminary Exam

Top Score Fellowships $54,337Henry Samueli Partial Fellowships $53,744Graduate Opportunity Fellowship $42,683Chancellor’s Prize $30,000Dean’s Fellowship & Campu Funds $28,500Dr. Ursula Mandel Fellowship $15,000Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship $2,500Living Spring Fellowship $2,500Conference Travel Funds $1,200

TOTAL $1,360,924

Total 1250 Circuits and Embedded Systems

Signals and Systems

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CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing. ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2007■ IEEE Donald Pederson Award, 2007■ Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Asad A. AbidiDistinguished Chancellor's ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Danijela Cabric Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007

Wireless communications system design; Cognitive radionetworks; VLSI architectures of signal processing and dig-ital communication algorithms; Performance analysis and experiments on embedded system platforms.■ Okawa Foundation Award, 2009 ■ Samueli Fellow, 2008

M.C. Frank ChangDistinguished Professor and ChairmanWintek Professor of Electrical EngineeringPh.D., National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan,R.O.C., 1979

High speed electronics including ultra high speed/ frequency devices and integrated circuits for radio, radarand imaging system applications.■ National Academy of Engineering, 2008■ IEEE David Sarnoff Award, 2006■ Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Babak Daneshrad ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993

Digital VLSI circuits, wireless communication systems, high- performance communications integrated circuits forwireless applications.

Deborah EstrinDistinguished ProfessorJonathan B. Postel Professor of NetworkingPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985

Participatory Sensing, Mobile Health, Environmental monitoring, Open systems, Privacy.■ National Academy of Engineering, 2009■ Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for

Innovation in 2007■ Fellow, AAAS, 2001

Jason CongChancellor’s ProfessorPh.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,1990

Synthesis of VLSI circuits and systems, programmable systems, novel computer architectures, nano-systems, andhighly scalable algorithms. ■ ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award

in Electric Design Automation, 2011■ ACM Fellow, 2008■ Fellow, IEEE, 2000


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Puneet GuptaAssistant ProfessorPh.D., University of California, San Diego, 2007

Optimizations across application, architecture, circuit andfabrication interfaces for nanoscale semiconductor technologies. CAD techniques to enable design aware manufacturing and manufacturing aware design. VLSI physical design automation.■ ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, 2010■ SRC Inventor Recognition Award, 2010■ NSF CAREER Award, 2009

Lei HeProfessorPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999

Modeling and simulation, programmable logic and reconfigurable computing, and embedded and cyber- physical systems for applications such as health care, electric vehicle and smart grid.■ Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005■ IBM Faculty Award, 2003■ NSF CAREER Award, 2000

Sudhakar PamartiAssociate ProfessorPh.D., University of California, San Diego, 2003

Mixed-signal IC design: wireless/wireline communicationapplications, digitally assisted analog/RF circuit design,delta-sigma modulation, quantization noise theory.■ NSF CAREER Award, 2010

William J. KaiserProfessorPh.D., Wayne State University, 1984

Development of networked embedded computing for linking the Internet to the physical world. Distributed andwearable systems for advancing the quality and interna-tional accessibility of healthcare through Wireless Health.■ UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize, 2009■ Brian P. Copenhaver Award, 2005■ Allied Signal Faculty Research Award, 1995

Dejan MarkovicAssistant ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits for communication and healthcare applications, design withpost-CMOS devices, design optimization methods and supporting CAD flows.■ NSF CAREER Award, 2009■ David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley, 2007

Vwani RoychowdhuryProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1989

Models of computation: parallel systems, quantum infor -mation processing, nanoscale and molecular electronics, statistical algorithms for large-scale information processing,combinatorics and complexity and information theory, bioinformatics, cryptography.

Behzad RazaviProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1992

Analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, dual-standard RF transceivers, phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers, A/D and D/A converters, high-speed data communication circuits.■ UCLA Senate Teaching Award, 2007■ Fellow, IEEE, 2003

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Henry SamueliProfessorPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1980

Digital signal processing, communications systems engineering, and CMOS integrated circuit design for applications in high-speed data transmission systems.■ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004■ National Academy of Engineering, 2003■ Fellow, IEEE, 2000

Majid SarrafzadehProfessorPh.D., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign,1987

Embedded and reconfigurable computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithms.■ Co-Director, UCLA Wireless Health Institute, since 2008■ Co-Founder, four Startups, since 2000■ Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Mani B. SrivastavaProfessor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems; Distributed andParticipatory Sensing; Mobile, Wearable, and Pervasive Computing; Wireless Networks; Power & Energy-aware Systems; Energy Harvesting Technologies; Applications inmHealth, Green Buildings, and Smart Grids.■ Fellow, IEEE, 2008■ Okawa Foundation Grant Award, 1998.■ NSF CAREER Award, 1997

Chih-Kong Ken YangProfessor and Area DirectorPh.D., Stanford University, 1998,

High-speed data and clock recovery circuits for large dig-ital systems, low-power, high-performance functionalblocks and clock distribution for high-speed digital pro-cessing, and low-power high-precision capacitive sensinginterface for MEMS.■ Fellow, IEEE, 2011■ IBM Faculty Development Fellowship, 2003-2005■ Northrup-Grumman Outstanding Teaching Award, 2003

Alan N. Willson, Jr.Distinguished ProfessorCharles P. Reames Endowed Professor of Electrical EngineeringPh.D., Syracuse University, 1967* Also at Signals and Systems

Theory and application of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, nonlinear circuit theory.■ IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, 2010■ IEEE W. R. G. Baker Award in Signal Processing, 1985

and in Circuits, 1994■ Fellow, IEEE, 1978

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Robert CandlerAssistant ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 2006

MEMS and NEMS devices, micro/ nanoscale technology development, and the interface of physical microsystemswith biology.

Diana HuffakerProfessorPh.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1994

Directed and self-assembled nanostructure solid-state epitaxy, optoelectronic devices including solar cells and III-V/Si photonics.■ IEEE Fellow, 2008■ DoD NSSEFF Fellow, 2008■ Humboldt Research Award, 2004

Chi On ChuiAssistant ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 2004

Nanostructure Devices and Technology for Nano -architectonics, Nanotheranostics, and Nanoelectronics.■ CAFA Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Award, 2011■ IEEE Electron Devices Society Early Career Award, 2009■ Okawa Foundation Award, 2007

Warren GrundfestProfessorM.D., Columbia University, 1980

Lasers for minimally invasive surgery, magnetic resonance-guided interventional procedures, laser lithotripsy, micro-endoscopy, spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy, opticaltechnology, biologic feedback control mechanisms.■ Fellow, SPIE, 1996 ■ Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic

Engineers, 1996

Tatsuo ItohDistinguished ProfessorNorthrop Grumman Professor in Microwave ElectronicsPh.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,1969

Microwave and millimeter wave electronics, guided wavestructures, low power wireless electronics, integrated passive components and antennas.■ National Academy of Engineering, 2003■ Fellow, IEEE, 1982

Bahram JalaliProfessor and Area DirectorNorthrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989

Silicon Photonics, Biophotonics, Real-time Instruments forbiomedical and communication applications.■ R.W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 2008■ Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2004 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2003

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Chandrashekar JoshiDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., Hull University, England, 1979

Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear op-tics, high-power lasers, plasma physics.■ Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.), 1998 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1993 ■ Fellow, American Physical Society, 1990

Jack W. JudyProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996

MEMS, microsensors, micro-actuators, microsystems andmicromachining; magnetism and magnetic materials; neuro- engineering and neuro-silicon interfaces; distributedsensors, actuators, and information.

Warren MoriProfessorPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987

Advanced accelerator concepts, advanced light sources, inertial confinement fusion, nonlinear optics of plasmas,plasma physics, and massively parallel computing.■ Fellow, IEEE, 2007 ■ Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995

C. Kumar PatelDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1961

Condensed matter physics, especially the structure and dynamics of “interesting systems”, broadly defined; spectro-scopic techniques and detection methods; development ofhigh power laser systems including quantum cascade lasers.■ National Medal of Science, 1996 ■ National Academy of Engineering, 1978■ Fellow, IEEE, 1975

Jia-Ming LiuProfessorPh.D., Harvard University, 1982

Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, semiconductor lasers, photonic devices, optical wave propagation, nonlinear laserdynamics, chaotic communications, chaotic radar, nanophotonic imaging, and biophotonics.■ Fellow, IEEE, 2008 ■ Guggenheim Fellow, 2006 ■ Fellow, American Physical Society, 2003

Aydogan OzcanAssociate ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 2005

Photonics and its applications to nano and biotechnology.■ NSF CAREER Award 2010■ NIH Director's New Innovator Award, 2009■ IEEE Photonics Society and ONR Young Investigator

Awards, 2009

Kuo-Nan LiouDistinguished ProfessorPh.D. New York University, 1970

Electromagnetic Scattering by Ice Crystals and Aerosols,Satellite Remote Sensing, Radiative Transfer, and ClimateModeling. ■ COSPAR William Nordberg Medal (Application to Space

Science), 2010■ Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiwan),

2004■ National Academy of Engineering, 1999

Yahya Rahmat-SamiiDistinguished ProfessorNorthrop Grumman Professor of Electrical Engineering/ElectromagneticsPh.D., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975

Personal communications, medical, miniaturized, fractal,remote sensing, satellite and radio astronomy antennas;electromagnetic band gap and frequency selective struc-tures, computational and optimization techniques, modernantenna measurement and diagnostic techniques.■ IEEE Electromagnetics Award, 2011■ National Academy of Engineering, 2008■ Fellow, IEEE, 1985


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King-Ning TuDistinguished ProfessorPh. D., Harvard 1968

VLSI processing and reliability, and 3D IC packaging technology■ Fellow: APS, 1981, TMS, 1988, MRS, 2010■ Humboldt Award,1996

Dwight C. StreitDistinguished Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1986

Solid-state electronics, millimeter-wave devices and circuits,electronic materials, heterogeneous integration.■ National Research Council Lifetime Associate, 2008■ Northrop Grumman Distinguished Innovator, 2008■ National Academy of Engineering, 2001

Oscar M. StafsuddProfessor and Vice ChairPh.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1967

Mid-infrared lasers for applications in materials process-ing, dentistry, and surgery; ceramic laser media for highpower laser systems; Raman imaging and time dependentfluorescent imaging for medical applications (cancer/wounds); infrared detectors.■ Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011■ Fulbright Fellowship, 1986

Yuanxun Ethan WangAssociate ProfessorPh.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1999

High performance antenna array and microwave amplifiersystems for wireless communication and radar; numericalmodeling techniques; fusion of signal processing and cir-cuit techniques in microwave system design.

Benjamin WilliamsAssistant ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003

Terahertz and mid-infrared lasers and devices; low- dimensional semiconductor nanostructures for opto-electronics; sub-wavelength photonics, plasmonics, andmeta-materials.■ DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2008

Kang L. WangDistinguished ProfessorRaytheon Company Professor of Electrical EngineeringPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970

Nanoelectronics, spintronics and nanomagnetics;nanoscale science, devices and quantum systems; non-volatile electronics and low dissipation devices; MBE; optoelectronics and solar cells.■ Semiconductor Industry Association Award, 2009■ Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical

Excellence Award, 1995■ Fellow, IEEE, 1992

Jason C. S. WooProfessor and Vice ChairPh.D., Stanford University, 1987

Solid state technology, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design, modeling of integratedcircuits, VLSI fabrication. ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2005


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Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech soundswith applications to speech synthesis, recognition by machine and coding, hearing aid design, digital signal processing.■ Distinguished Lecturer, ISCA, 2010-2011■ Fellow, IEEE, 2008■ Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2003

Abeer AlwanProfessor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

A. V. BalakrishnanDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., University of Southern California, 1954

Non-linear aeroelasticity and flutter systems research ingreen energy and palatal flutter.■ Doctor Honoris Causa, West University of Timisoara,

Roumania, 2004■ Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2001 ■ NASA Public Service Medal, 1996

Panagiotis ChristofidesProfessorPh.D., University of Minnesota, 1996

Control theory for nonlinear, hybrid and distributed parameter systems, networked control, model predictivecontrol, fault detection and fault-tolerant control, processcontrol applications■ IFAC Fellow, 2011■ IEEE Fellow, 2009■ Donald P. Eckman Award, 2004

Suhas DiggaviProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1998

Information theory with applications to wireless and sen-sor networks, network data compression and storage, net-work secrecy, machine learning and large scale data analysis algorithms.

Lara DolecekAssistant ProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007

Information and probability theory, graphical models, combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computationalmethods with applications to high- performance complexsystems for data processing, communication, and storage.■ David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley, 2007

Mark HansenProfessorPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994

Statistical analysis of large complex data. Statistical methodsfor embedded sensing. Streaming data analysis. Text min-ing and information retrieval. Information theory and itsapplications to statistics.

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Alan J. LaubDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., University of Minnesota, 1974

Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, high-end scientific computation, and computer-aided control system design, especially algorithms for control and filtering.■ Fellow, IEEE, 1986

Stanley OsherProfessorPh.D., Courant Institute, New York University, 1966

Innovative numerical methods for applications ranging from image science to control to electromagnetics to computational physics and beyond.■ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010■ National Academy of Sciences, 2005

Jin Hyung LeeAssistant ProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 2004

Analyze, debug, and engineer the brain circuit, its connec-tivity and function at the systems level and develop cures fordiseases. Biomedical imaging technologies, such as MRIand optical imaging, signal processing algorithms, compu-tational algorithms, optics, genetics, and molecular biology. ■ NSF CAREER Award, 2011■ NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2010■ NIH/NIBIB R00 Award, 2010

Gregory J. PottieProfessor and Area DirectorPh.D., McMaster University, Canada, 1988

Wireless communications, modeling and reliable inferencein sensor networks with application to wireless health.■ Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2009 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2005■ Allied Signal Award for Outstanding Faculty Researcher

in HSSEAS, 1998

Izhak RubinDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., Princeton University, 1970

Telecommunications and computer communications systems/networks; mobile wireless, optical, multimedia IP,ATM, satellite, and CATV networks; queueing systems, C3systems/networks, network simulations and analysis, traf-fic modeling/engineering.■ Fellow, IEEE, 1987

Ali H. SayedProfessor and former ChairPh.D., Stanford University, 1992

Adaptive and statistical signal processing, adaptation andlearning, adaptive networks, bio-inspired cognition, distributed processing, information processing, signal processing for communications, system theory, large-scalestructured computations.■ Frederick E. Terman Award, 2005■ Kuwait Prize, 2003 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2001

Mihaela van der SchaarChancellor's ProfessorPh.D., University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2001

Information processing, Network Economics and Game Theory, Multi-user Communications and Networking, Multimedia Communications, Networking and Processing,Multimedia Systems, Distributed and large-scale streammining systems■ Fellow, IEEE, 2010■ Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2011-2013■ NSF CAREER Award 2004

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Richard D. WeselProfessor and Associate DeanPh.D., Stanford University, 1996

Communication Theory, Channel Coding including Low- Density Parity-Check Codes and Turbo Codes, InformationTheory, Network Optimization■ TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000■ Okawa Foundation Award, 1999■ NSF CAREER Award, 1998

Stefano SoattoProfessorPh.D., California Institute of Technology, 1996

Estimation theory, control theory, video, image and signalprocessing, computer vision, robotics.■ Okawa Foundation, 2001 ■ David Marr Prize, 1999■ Siemens Prize, 1998

Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estima-tion with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics.■ National Academy of Engineering, 2005■ Life Fellow, IEEE, 2005 ■ Fellow, AIAA, 1985

Jason L. SpeyerDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., Harvard University, 1968

Paulo TabuadaAssociate Professor and Vice ChairPh.D., Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2002

Modeling, analysis, and control of cyber-physical systems.Control and systems theory.■ Donald P. Eckman Award, 2009■ NSF Career Award, 2005

Lieven Vandenberghe Professor Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium,1992

Optimization in engineering, applications in systems andcontrol, circuit design, and signal processing.■ HSSEAS TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002■ NSF CAREER Award, 1998■ Robert Stock Award, K.U. Leuven, 1993

John D. VillasenorProfessorPh.D., Stanford University, 1989

Methods, technologies, and systems used to capture information in the world around us, convert it into digitalform and move it efficiently and securely from one place to another.

Kung YaoDistinguished ProfessorPh.D., Princeton University, 1965

Communication theory, signal, acoustic, and array processing, wireless communication systems, sensor networks, chaos system theory, and VLSI and systolic algorithms and architectures.■ IEEE Joint Information Theory/Communication Theory

Societies Best Paper Award, 2008■ Life Fellow, IEEE, 1994


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Books by FacultyNumerous textbooks on graduate and undergraduate instruction are authored byour electrical engineering faculty. These are samples of the publications.


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Omar Nasr, 2009 Assistant Professor, Cairo UniversityAdvisor: Babak DaneshradMember of the Center for Wireless Studies,currently working in cross layer optimization

for multimedia systems over wireless networks.

Gyungsu Byun, 2011 Assistant Professor, West Virginia UniversityAdvisor: Frank ChangResearch includes high-speed and low-powerinterface circuits, high performance time-pre-

cision circuits. He holds 18 patents in electronic circuits.

Nicholas Mastronarde, 2011Assistant Professor, The State University of New Yorkat Buffalo Advisor: Mihaela van der SchaarInterests in energy-efficient multimedia systemsand wireless networks, cross-layer design,

Markov decision processes, and reinforcement learning.

Pei-Ling Chi, 2011Assistant Professor, National Chaio Tung University,Taiwan Advisor: Tatsuo ItohHer research interests include metamaterial-based transmission line theory/circuits and an-

tenna/array designs and miniaturized antennas.

Chiao-En Chen, 2008Assistant Professor, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Advisor: Kung YaoHis areas of expertise include array signal

processing, detection and estimation theories, and MIMOcommunications.

Wei LuProfessor in the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaAdvisor: Warren Bicknell Mori

Chia-Hsiang Yang, 2010Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University,Taiwan Advisor: Dejan MarkovicHis research interests are energy-efficient re-

configurable architectures and digital integratedcircuits for communication and biomedical application.

Wei-Ho Chung, 2009Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Advisor: Kung YaoHis research interests include detection, esti-

mation, wireless communications, statistical signal pro-cessing and networks.

Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, 2009Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, NationalTsing-Hua University. Advisor: C. K. Ken YangShe joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Centerin CMOS circuit and semiconductors, data

converters, PLL/DLL, voltage regulators.

Sadaf Zahedi, 2010Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado at BoulderAdvisor: Mani Srivastava

Yue Zhao, 2011Postdoctoral, Stanford University / Princeton UniversityAdvisor: Greg Pottie

Augustin Hong, 2010Postdoctoral Researcher, IBM TJ Watson Research CenterAdvisor: Kang Wang

Bibhudatta Sahoo, 2009Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur, IndiaAdvisor: Behzad Razavi

Jaeok Park, 2011 PostdocAssistant Professor, Yonsei University, Korea. Advisor: Mihaela van der SchaarInterests includes game theory, mechanism

design, network economics, and wireless communication.

Giordano Pola, 2007 PostdocAssistant Professor, University of L'Aquila, Italy. Advisor: Paulo TabuadaResearch interests include networked, embed-

ded, distributed and hybrid systems, air traffic managementsystems, quantitative finance and vehicle control.

Sungkyu Seo, 2009 PostdocAssistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea University Advisor: Aydogan Ozcan Research in Bio Photonics, Nano Electronics,and MEMS/NEMS. Honors include Best

Lecture Awards, Korea Univ., UCLA Chancellor’s Award forPostdoctoral Research (2009).

Post-Graduation Academic Placement

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Administration

M. C. Frank Chang, Department ChairmanOscar Stafsudd, Vice-Chair, Undergraduate AffairsPaulo Tabuada, Vice-Chair, Graduate AffairsJason C. S. Woo, Vice-Chair, Industry Relations

Area Directors

Gregory J. Pottie, Director, Signals and Systems Bahram Jalali, Director, Physical and Wave Electronics Lei He, Director, Circuits and Embedded Systems

Committees

Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Director, Center for High-Frequency Electronics

Robert Candler, Director, Nano-Electronics Research FacilityBabak Daneshrad, Chair, Tenure CommitteeBehzad Razavi, Chair, Recruitment CommitteeLei He, Chair, Non-Tenure CommitteeChandrashekar Joshi, Chair, Courses and Curriculum

Committee

ABET Committee

M. C. Frank Chang, Department ChairmanLei He, Professor and Area DirectorWilliam Kaiser, ProfessorAlan Laub, ProfessorAsad Madni, Alumni Advisory Board ChairGregory J. Pottie, Professor and Area ChairMani Srivastava, ProfessorOscar Stafsudd, Professor and Area DirectorLieven Vandenberghe, ProfessorJason C. S. Woo, Professor and Industry Relations

Industry Affiliates

The Electrical Engineering Department is dedicated to initiating and forgingpartnerships with industry, in which both the school and the companies involved benefit from the exchange of technology innovations and talent. TheIndustrial Affiliates Program (IAP), initiated in 1981, provides a variety ofservices that include:

■ Nurturing the talent pipeline between UCLA and IAP members■ Providing access to UCLA intellectual capital■ Exploring collaborative research opportunities■ Providing access to state-of-the-art research facilities■ Enhancing industry visibility on campus

The department also serves as an invaluable consulting resource to our affiliate members. In turn, a company's participation in IAP provides essential program enhancement and aid to students with a portion of themembership fees being applied towards laboratory, instructional and otherequipment needs. More details are available at the IAP website:http://www.ee.ucla.edu/people/industry

Our Thanks to Affiliate Members for their Support

Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied ScienceElectrical Engineering DepartmentUniversity of CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA 90095www.ee.ucla.edu

Editors/Coordinators

M.C. Frank Chang, Professor & Chair

Jacquelyn T. Trang, Department Administrator

Writers

Assistant Professor Chi On ChuiProfessor Diana HuffakerProfessor Bahram JalaliProfessor Chandrashekar Joshi Professor Warren MoriProfessor William KaiserProfessor Kang WangProfessor Chih-Kong Ken YangAssistant Professor Lara DolecekAssistant Professor Puneet GuptaProfessor Mani B. SrivastavaProfessor Mihaela van der SchaarProfessor Kung YaoProfessor Izhak RubinProfessor Behzad RazaviDr. Asad MadniJanet Lin, Coordinator, Industry Relations

Annual Report 2010-2011

Contributing Photographer

Deeona Columbia, Director of Graduate Student Affairs

Design

Mauricio Feldman-Abe, Principal Designer

Teresanne Cossetta Russell, Designer

Special Thanks to

Jacquelyn T. Trang, Department Administrator

Deeona Columbia, Director of Graduate Student Affairs

Ilhee Choi, Director of Human Resources

Sylvia Abrams, Principal Accountant in the School of Engineering

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