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fall 2011, issue no. 26
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EnginEEring Vi nEw anchor for innoVation
> combatting Emerging Environmental threats
> Venky harinarayan MS ‘90: redefining E-commerce
UCLA EngineerFall 2011_R1.indd 159 10/5/11 8:29 PM
The next decade promises to be an exciting one for the
UCLA Henry School of Engineering and Applied Science.
In three years, our new state-of-the-art Engineering VI
building will be completed. It will house research labs in
emerging areas critical to the 21st century, such as green
energy, personalized health care, personalized learn-
ing, sustainability and clean water. This much-needed
addition to the engineering complex will have a multi-fold impact – pro-
viding numerous benefits to UCLA students, faculty, as well as Southern
California’s business and scientific communities. Several pages have been
dedicated in this issue to this important building. I invite you to learn more
about the impact Engineering VI will have and the opportunities for you to
support its completion.
This issue also includes a feature on assistant professor of civil and
environmental engineering Shaily Mahendra, and her work on finding
new methods to clean up emerging environmental threats with the help
of microorganisms; and a profile of alumnus Venky Harinarayan MS ’90,
of the angel investor group Cambrian Ventures. An entrepreneur himself,
Harinarayan’s company was recently acquired by retail giant Walmart in
an effort to expand the landscape of their global e-commerce division.
In addition, this issue includes a variety of stories on the undergradu-
ate experience here at the school. You’ll get an inside look at some of our
upper division classes and learn about a pair of undergraduates, whose
laboratory research experience led to national recognition on Capitol Hill.
Finally, this issue also includes research highlights on LED photovolta-
ics, stretchable OLEDs, and genomics; provides profiles of new faculty
and of newly named endowed chair holders; and contains our 2010-11
annual report.
I invite you to enjoy this issue of UCLA Engineer.
Sincerely,
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
DeanVijay K. Dhir
associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs
Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources
assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer
Department chairsBenjamin Wu Bioengineering
Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jens Palsberg Computer Science
M.C. Frank Chang Electrical Engineering
Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering
Tsu-Chin Tsao Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDJiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Vijay K. Dhir William Goodin Harold G. Monbouquette Mary Okino Richard D. Wesel
externaL affairs commUnicationsWileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing
Matthew Chin Communications Manager
Amy Gonsalves Communications Assistant
office of externaL affairs(310) 206-0678 www.engineer.ucla.edu [email protected]
design: Etch Creative
from the dean
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UCLA EngineerFall 2011.indd 6243 10/3/11 7:26 PM
DeanVijay K. Dhir
associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs
Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources
assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer
Department chairsBenjamin Wu Bioengineering
Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jens Palsberg Computer Science
M.C. Frank Chang Electrical Engineering
Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering
Tsu-Chin Tsao Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDJiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Vijay K. Dhir William Goodin Harold G. Monbouquette Mary Okino Richard D. Wesel
externaL affairs commUnicationsWileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing
Matthew Chin Communications Manager
Amy Gonsalves Communications Assistant
office of externaL affairs(310) 206-0678 www.engineer.ucla.edu [email protected]
design: Etch Creative
6 engineering vi: new anchor for innovation
10 emerging contaminants in Water?microbes to the rescue
12 redefining e-commerce in today’s online World
2 research news
14 faculty news
18 school news
20 student news
28 alumni news
36 2010-11 annual report
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Wileen Wong Kromhout
S tretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern
electronic materials that can bend and stretch,
have the potential to be used in a wide range of
applications, including wearable electronics, “smart skins”
and minimally invasive biomedical devices that can move
with the body.
Today’s conventional inorganic electronic devices are
brittle, and while they have a certain flexibility achieved
using ultrathin layers of inorganic materials, these devices
are either flexible, meaning they can be bent, or they are
stretchable, containing a discrete LED chip interconnected
with stretchable electrodes. But they lack “intrinsic stretch-
abilty,” in which every part of the device is stretchable.
Now, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science, led by UCLA profes-
sor of materials science and engineering, Qibing Pei, have
demonstrated for the first time an intrinsically stretchable
polymer light-emitting device.
They developed a simple process to fabricate the trans-
parent devices using single-walled carbon nanotube poly-
mer composite electrodes. The interpenetrating networks
of nanotubes and the polymer matrix in the surface layer
of the composites lead to low sheet resistance, high trans-
parency, high compliance and low surface roughness.
The metal-free devices can be linearly stretched up
to 45 percent and the composite electrodes can be revers-
ibly stretched by up to 50 percent with little change in
sheet resistance.
Because the devices are fabricated by roll lamination
of two composite electrodes that sandwich an emissive
polymer layer, they uniquely combine mechanical robust-
ness and the ability for large-strain deformation, due to the
shape-memory property of the composite electrodes. This
development will provide a new direction for the field of
stretchable electronics.
The research was published in the journal Advanced
Materials. The team included Pei, UCLA postdoctoral
fellow Zhibin Yu, Xiaofan Niu and Zhitian Liu.
The research was supported by the National Science
Foundation.
polymer light-emitting devices that can be
Stretched like rubber
reSearch NewS
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bacteria uSe batmaN-like grappliNg hookS to
A polymer light-emitting device being stretched linearly by up to 45 percent.
UCLA EngineerFall 2011_R1.indd 2 10/5/11 8:44 PM
Image depicts tracks made by pathogen,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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polymer layer, they uniquely combine mechanical robust-
ness and the ability for large-strain deformation, due to the
shape-memory property of the composite electrodes. This
development will provide a new direction for the field of
stretchable electronics.
The research was published in the journal Advanced
Materials. The team included Pei, UCLA postdoctoral
fellow Zhibin Yu, Xiaofan Niu and Zhitian Liu.
The research was supported by the National Science
Foundation.
Bacteria use various appendages to move across
surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial
biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky
form of movement known as “twitching” motility, which
is made possible by hairlike structures on their surface
called type IV pili, or TFP.
“TFP act like Batman’s grappling hooks,” said
Gerard Wong, a UCLA professor of bioengineering
and of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA Engineer-
ing and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
“These grappling hooks can extend and bind to a surface
and retract and pull the cell along.”
In a study published in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, Wong and his colleagues at UCLA
Engineering identify the complex sequence of movements
that make up this twitching motility in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa, a biofilm-forming pathogen partly responsible
for the deadly infections seen in cystic fibrosis.
During their observations, Wong and his team made
a surprising discovery. Using a high-speed camera and a
novel two-point tracking algorithm, they noticed that the
bacteria had the unique ability to “slingshot” on surfaces.
The team found that linear translational pulls of
constant velocity alternated with velocity spikes that were
20 times faster but lasted only milliseconds. This action
would repeat over and over again.
The ability to turn and change direction is essential for
bacteria to adapt to continually changing surface condi-
tions as they form biofilms. The researchers found
that the slingshot motion helped P. aeruginosa move
much more efficiently through the polysaccharides
they secrete on surfaces during biofilm formation,
a phenomenon known as shear-thinning.
“Bacterial cells secrete polysaccharides on surfaces,
which are kind of like molasses,” Wong said. “Because
these polysaccharides are long polymer molecules
that can get entangled, these are very viscous and can
potentially impede movement. However, if you move
very fast in these polymer fluids, the viscosity becomes
much lower. The fluid will then seem more like water
than molasses.”
Since the twitching motion of bacteria with TFP
depends of the physical distributions of TFP on the
surface of individual cells, Wong hopes that the analy-
sis of motility patterns may in the future enable new
methods for biometric “fingerprinting” of individual
cells for single-cell diagnostics.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of
Health and the National Science Foundation. The lead
authors are post-doctoral scholar Fan Jin, and Jacinta
C. Conrad from the University of Houston.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/batman-bacteria
Wileen Wong Kromhout
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Bacteria use Batman-like grappling hooks to
slingshot’ on surfaces
A polymer light-emitting device being stretched linearly by up to 45 percent.
UCLA EngineerFall 2011_R1.indd 3 10/5/11 8:44 PM
Graphs depict power of fixed-effects (FE) method, random-effects (RE) method and Eskin’s new random-effects (RE) method in a simulation varying “between-study heterogeneity.”
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Wileen Wong Kromhout
Recent breakthroughs in the analysis of genetic varia-
tion in large populations have led to the discovery
of hundreds of genes involved in dozens of com-
mon diseases. Many of these discoveries were enabled by
performing “meta-analysis,” which combines information
from multiple genetic studies in order to create even
larger studies.
One of the difficulties in meta-analysis of genetic studies
is “heterogeneity,” or differences in the strength of genetic
variants on the disease across the different studies. Previous
methods for handling heterogeneity have performed very
poorly compared with traditional approaches, even when
heterogeneity is known to be present among the studies.
Now, Eleazar Eskin, an associate professor of computer
science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science, and recent Ph.D. Buhm Han have developed a
new statistical method for combining association studies which
performs well in the presence of heterogeneity.
“What is surprising about this work is that it presents
a way to increase the amount of information we get from
very large and expensive studies previously undertaken by
just changing the statistics used to analyze the data,” said
Eskin. “So we get more information about which variants
are involved in disease without having to spend more money
collecting additional data.”
The research was published in the American Journal of
Human Genetics.
This method should lead to the discovery of many more
genes involved in diseases when applied to combine the
results of existing genetic association studies.
This research was partially supported by the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Phone losing chaRge?
could improve search for genes involved in common diseases
new statistical method
ReseaRch news
UCLA EngineerFall 2011.indd 4 10/3/11 7:28 PM
Polarizing organic photovoltaic film
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performing “meta-analysis,” which combines information
from multiple genetic studies in order to create even
larger studies.
One of the difficulties in meta-analysis of genetic studies
is “heterogeneity,” or differences in the strength of genetic
variants on the disease across the different studies. Previous
methods for handling heterogeneity have performed very
poorly compared with traditional approaches, even when
heterogeneity is known to be present among the studies.
Now, Eleazar Eskin, an associate professor of computer
science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science, and recent Ph.D. Buhm Han have developed a
new statistical method for combining association studies which
performs well in the presence of heterogeneity.
“What is surprising about this work is that it presents
a way to increase the amount of information we get from
very large and expensive studies previously undertaken by
just changing the statistics used to analyze the data,” said
Eskin. “So we get more information about which variants
are involved in disease without having to spend more money
collecting additional data.”
The research was published in the American Journal of
Human Genetics.
This method should lead to the discovery of many more
genes involved in diseases when applied to combine the
results of existing genetic association studies.
This research was partially supported by the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for
harvesting and recycling energy for electronic
devices — one that involves equipping these
devices’ LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polariz-
ers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight and
their own backlight into electricity.
LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of
today’s electronic devices, including smartphones, TV
screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet com-
puters. They work by using two polarized sheets that
let only a certain amount of a device’s backlight pass
through. The UCLA Engineering team created a new
type of energy-harvesting polarizer for LCDs called a
polarizing organic photovoltaic, which can potentially
boost the function of an LCD by working simultaneous-
ly as a polarizer, a photovoltaic device and an ambient
light or sunlight photovoltaic panel.
The research was published in the journal
Advanced Materials.
“I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve
the efficiency of LCD displays,” said Yang Yang, a pro-
fessor of materials science and engineering and principal
investigator on the research. “In addition, these polar-
izers can also be used as regular solar cells to harvest
indoor or outdoor light. So next time you are on the
beach, you could charge your iPhone via sunlight.”
From the point of view of energy use, current LCD
polarizers are inefficient, the researchers said. A
device’s backlight can consume 80 to 90 percent of the
device’s power. But as much as 75 percent of the light
generated is lost through the polarizers. A polarizing
organic photovoltaic LCD could recover much of that
unused energy.
UCLA post-doctoral scholar Rui Zhu was the lead
author. Ankit Kumar, a graduate student at UCLA
Engineering, was the paper’s second author.
Yang, who holds UCLA’s Carol and Lawrence
E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, is also
faculty director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center
at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
The research was supported by Intel through a gift
to UCLA, and by the Office of Naval Research.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/lcd-energy
By Matthew Chin
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Phone losing charge? Technology allows lcDs To recycle energy
new statistical method
UCLA EngineerFall 2011.indd 5 10/3/11 7:28 PM
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science,
established in 1945, consistently ranks
among the top 10 engineering schools
in public universities. In the last decade,
the school’s teaching and research enterprise has
grown and expanded greatly with a 30 percent net
increase in the number of full-time faculty and a 70
percent increase in the undergraduate and graduate
student population. Most significantly the research
revenue of the school has grown more than 100
percent from approximately $50 million in 1997
to $110 million in 2011.
While these statistics are exciting and reflect
impressive progress within UCLA Engineering, the
school has also lost nearly 45,000 square feet,
or about ten percent of assignable space in the
current engineering complex. Further, advances
in technology and enriched training of the next
generation of society’s leaders require UCLA
Engineering to continuously refine and expand its
facilities. At the same time, emerging disciplines
and research place new demands on the school
to supply flexible working spaces and seamless
technological integration.
To address these critical needs, the school is
proposing a bold and ambitious new addition to
the UCLA Engineering complex – Engineering
VI, to replace Engineering IA. Located at the
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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science,
established in 1945, consistently ranks
among the top 10 engineering schools
in public universities. In the last decade,
the school’s teaching and research enterprise has
grown and expanded greatly with a 30 percent net
increase in the number of full-time faculty and a 70
percent increase in the undergraduate and graduate
student population. Most significantly the research
revenue of the school has grown more than 100
percent from approximately $50 million in 1997
to $110 million in 2011.
While these statistics are exciting and reflect
impressive progress within UCLA Engineering, the
school has also lost nearly 45,000 square feet,
or about ten percent of assignable space in the
current engineering complex. Further, advances
in technology and enriched training of the next
generation of society’s leaders require UCLA
Engineering to continuously refine and expand its
facilities. At the same time, emerging disciplines
and research place new demands on the school
to supply flexible working spaces and seamless
technological integration.
To address these critical needs, the school is
proposing a bold and ambitious new addition to
the UCLA Engineering complex – Engineering
VI, to replace Engineering IA. Located at the
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EnginEEring Vi: New ANchor
Multi-disciplinary centers like UcLA are replacing industry-sponsored research labs. That’s where the biggest changes in applied research are taking place. That’s where the lion’s share of all research is migrating. That’s the future.”– henry samueli ’75, ms ’76, phd ‘80, cto and co-founder, broadcom corporation
CoVEr FEaTurE
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intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Strathmore Avenue,
Engineering VI will be just steps from Ackerman Student
Union, the James West Alumni Center and Pauley Pavilion.
Engineering VI will be constructed in two phases and
funding has been secured from the National Institute of Stan-
dards and Technology, the school and the campus, allowing
the school to move forward with phase 1. The school is cur-
rently working to raise additional funding for phase 2.
“Engineering VI is going to be a truly unique building, and
not just for the school,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA
Engineering. “The building will offer collaborative spaces
for researchers throughout the Southern California region
to help in the development of technology with broad social
implications. We expect its powerful impact to reach beyond
the City of Los Angeles and we look forward to raising the
necessary funds for phase 2 soon.”
Given the grand challenges engineers face in the 21st
century, common research themes in green energy, personal-
ized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and
clean water have emerged within the school. The impact of
Engineering VI will be multi-fold and will enable opportuni-
ties to catalyze new scientific discoveries, new technologies
and new areas of education especially in the realm of these
critical research areas.
Engineering VI will provide easy access and special interac-
tive space uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, scientists and
engineers from UCLA, institutions in Los Angeles, other
government labs and industry partners. This will allow for
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intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Strathmore Avenue,
Engineering VI will be just steps from Ackerman Student
Union, the James West Alumni Center and Pauley Pavilion.
Engineering VI will be constructed in two phases and
funding has been secured from the National Institute of Stan-
dards and Technology, the school and the campus, allowing
the school to move forward with phase 1. The school is cur-
rently working to raise additional funding for phase 2.
“Engineering VI is going to be a truly unique building, and
not just for the school,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA
Engineering. “The building will offer collaborative spaces
for researchers throughout the Southern California region
to help in the development of technology with broad social
implications. We expect its powerful impact to reach beyond
the City of Los Angeles and we look forward to raising the
necessary funds for phase 2 soon.”
Given the grand challenges engineers face in the 21st
century, common research themes in green energy, personal-
ized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and
clean water have emerged within the school. The impact of
Engineering VI will be multi-fold and will enable opportuni-
ties to catalyze new scientific discoveries, new technologies
and new areas of education especially in the realm of these
critical research areas.
Engineering VI will provide easy access and special interac-
tive space uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, scientists and
engineers from UCLA, institutions in Los Angeles, other
government labs and industry partners. This will allow for
EnginEEring Vi: New aNchor
Multi-disciplinary centers like ucla are replacing industry-sponsored research labs. That’s where the biggest changes in applied research are taking place. That’s where the lion’s share of all research is migrating. That’s the future.”– henry samueli ’75, ms ’76, phd ‘80, cto and co-founder, broadcom corporation
Wileen Wong Kromhout
for INNovaTIoN
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Matthew Chin
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Cover Feature
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the incubation of creativity and accelerate inventions
and ideas, research and development, and technology
transfer to the marketplace.
Specifically phase 1 will be a six story building. It
will house the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics
on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM).
About 35,000 square feet of laboratory space on four
levels will support research on low-power, nonvolatile
nanoelectronics; carbon nanoelectronics and topologi-
cal insulator; green manufacturing of novel nanomate-
rial-based energy technologies; and new materials for
energy generation, storage and management; and
a test-bed facility for technology advancement and
commercialization. The roof of the building will
include a solar-cell array for energy supply and
power-management experimentation.
In addition, specialized space and infrastructure will
be developed where students can be trained, postdoc-
toral scholars can conduct state-of-the-art experiments
and faculty across disciplines can also interact to enable
maximum collaboration.
Furthermore, Engineering VI will be built to LEED-
Gold standards, the second-highest national environ-
mental ranking for green buildings.
“We’re excited for a number of reasons,” said Jane
Chang, associate dean of research and physical resourc-
es at UCLA Engineering. “The basement features one
of the most technologically advanced laboratories in
the world, where vibrational isolation and electromag-
netic interference shielding would enable the operation of
highly sensitive instrumentation that probes materials and
devices at the atomic/quantum scale. The first through
fourth floors of phase 1 will have wet and dry research
labs, supporting three Centers of Excellence at the
school, and the top floor will be a space for technology
advancement, a space we don’t currently have, to
allow faculty, students and outside researchers to
work together.”
The fifth floor will be an on-campus technology incuba-
tion resource with a mission to help accelerate the growth
of entrepreneurial start-up companies and early stage
technology research projects that originate from UCLA or
from universities associated with the Centers of Excellence.
The three Centers of Excellence include the Western
Institute of Nanoelectronics, Functional Engineered
Nano Architectronics, and Molecularly Engineered
Energy Materials, which presently occupy outdated labs
in three separate buildings.
Phase 2, with six levels and 89,000 square feet, will
also include a 250-seat distance learning center. Tenta-
tive plans are for construction of phase 1 to begin in the
summer of 2012, with completion in fall of 2014 and for
phase 2 to begin construction in winter of 2013.
For those who wish to learn more about funding and
naming opportunities, please contact the Office of the
Dean ([email protected]) or the Office of External
Affairs ([email protected]).
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netic interference shielding would enable the operation of
highly sensitive instrumentation that probes materials and
devices at the atomic/quantum scale. The first through
fourth floors of phase 1 will have wet and dry research
labs, supporting three Centers of Excellence at the
school, and the top floor will be a space for technology
advancement, a space we don’t currently have, to
allow faculty, students and outside researchers to
work together.”
The fifth floor will be an on-campus technology incuba-
tion resource with a mission to help accelerate the growth
of entrepreneurial start-up companies and early stage
technology research projects that originate from UCLA or
from universities associated with the Centers of Excellence.
The three Centers of Excellence include the Western
Institute of Nanoelectronics, Functional Engineered
Nano Architectronics, and Molecularly Engineered
Energy Materials, which presently occupy outdated labs
in three separate buildings.
Phase 2, with six levels and 89,000 square feet, will
also include a 250-seat distance learning center. Tenta-
tive plans are for construction of phase 1 to begin in the
summer of 2012, with completion in fall of 2014 and for
phase 2 to begin construction in winter of 2013.
For those who wish to learn more about funding and
naming opportunities, please contact the Office of the
Dean ([email protected]) or the Office of External
Affairs ([email protected]).
accelerate inventions and ideas, research and development
enable new technology and new education
catalyze new scientific discoveries
easy access and special interactive space
incubation of creativity
In Southern california, ucla is the largest source of academic invention and it will therefore be the example of ucla that will begin the process that will eventuate in a new definition of the Southern california region as the crucible of new inventions, new jobs, and new solutions that will lift the spirits and the prospects of tens of millions of californians and of those beyond.”– professor will iam ouchi, ucl a anderson school of management
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Microbes to the rescue
New chemicals and technologies in energy, electronics, medicine, security and other areas have revolutionized society. But could these very materials pose public health dangers and long-term damage to the environment?
Now, as new threats of environmental contaminants
are being identified, UCLA civil and environmental
engineering assistant professor Shaily Mahendra is
investigating their environmental implications, and
designing methods to transform them with tiny but
powerful microorganisms.
Conventional clean-up technologies are expensive,
consume resources and energy, and mostly move the
hazard from one place to another. Mahendra advances
a green, low-cost, permanent solution called in-situ
bioremediation. That is, using microbes to clean up
polluted environments on site, without transporting the
contaminants away.
“We need to study new classes of emerging contami-
nants and proactively find solutions to mitigate their
ecological and health risks,” Mahendra said.
Mahendra considers 1,4-dioxane, perfluorinated com-
pounds, and engineered nanomaterials as three of the
top emerging contaminants. She has projects underway
in her laboratory to biologically detoxify them. Combin-
ing her training in engineering and microbiology, she
designs novel biomarkers and isotopic markers to prove
that bacteria can successfully break down 1,4-diox-
ane, which causes cancer, and is frequently detected
in groundwater and drinking water. Mahendra is also
investigating bacteria and fungi that could biodegrade
potentially toxic perfluoroalkyl compounds. These
compounds, widely used in fire fighting foam and stain
repellents, have been found in critical ecosystems. And
she is studying how metallic nanoparticles affect mi-
crobial communities. This research will help us under-
stand environmental implications of nanotechnology,
and lead to design of safer nanomaterials.
“To accurately assess the impacts of ever-increasing
inputs of chemicals and nanomaterials into the en-
vironment, we must explore their interactions with
microbes,” she said. “Microbes serve as sensitive
indicators of the toxic effects on higher organisms, but
they can also be our allies in mitigating environmental
degradation.”
Matthew Chin
EmErgiNg CoNtamiNaNts iN WatEr?
“ We need to study new classes of emerging contaminants and proactively find solutions to mitigate their ecological and health risks.”
Shaily Mahendra in her laboratory photo: todd cheney
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Microbes to the rescueing her training in engineering and microbiology, she
designs novel biomarkers and isotopic markers to prove
that bacteria can successfully break down 1,4-diox-
ane, which causes cancer, and is frequently detected
in groundwater and drinking water. Mahendra is also
investigating bacteria and fungi that could biodegrade
potentially toxic perfluoroalkyl compounds. These
compounds, widely used in fire fighting foam and stain
repellents, have been found in critical ecosystems. And
she is studying how metallic nanoparticles affect mi-
crobial communities. This research will help us under-
stand environmental implications of nanotechnology,
and lead to design of safer nanomaterials.
“To accurately assess the impacts of ever-increasing
inputs of chemicals and nanomaterials into the en-
vironment, we must explore their interactions with
microbes,” she said. “Microbes serve as sensitive
indicators of the toxic effects on higher organisms, but
they can also be our allies in mitigating environmental
degradation.”
Mahendra’s research efforts have earned her several
notable recognitions over the past few months, including
being named a 2011 Pop Tech Science and Public Leader-
ship Fellow; a 2011 University of California Hellman
Fellow; and being awarded the Excellence in Review
Award by Environmental Science & Technology.
In the larger picture, Mahendra’s research, teaching
and service efforts fall right into the department’s mission
— engineering sustainable infrastructure for the future.
She teaches undergraduate courses in environmental
microbiology and environmental nanotechnology. She has
introduced a graduate environmental biotechnology class,
covering how molecular biology and process engineering
helps address contemporary environmental issues, such
as managing global nutrient cycles, hazardous waste
remediation and production of biofuels.
Mahendra recently received $1.5 million in grants from
the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation to
continue her study of microbes in the environment.
“In addition to challenging coursework and exciting projects,
I provide an open atmosphere in the classroom where students
are able to ask questions, share original ideas and critically
evaluate their work and the work of others,” she said.
To find out more about Professor Mahendra’s research,
go to: http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/mahendra/profile
EmErging contaminants in WatEr?
We need to study new classes of emerging contaminants and proactively find solutions to mitigate their ecological and health risks.”
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Redefining e-CommeRCe
Venky Harinarayan’s career has been on an upward trajectory since 1996, when he and four other engineers co-founded a company that became a pioneer in comparison shopping on the internet. in just two short years, Junglee Corp. was acquired by Amazon.com for $250 million.
Becoming a general manager at Amazon.com after the
acquisition, Harinarayan began working closely with Jeff
Bezos to create the company’s marketplace business. Today,
marketplace is the company’s most profitable and fastest
growing business, accounting for almost 30 percent of all
U.S. transactions.
In 2000, adding to his already replete resume, Harina-
rayan became an angel investor. The web and technology
entrepreneur created Cambrian Ventures with his business
partner, Anand Rajaraman. The firm has been actively
investing in the growth of early-stage technology companies
for more than a decade.
“We invest in seed-stage companies,” remarked Harinar-
ayan on the firm’s Web site. “We still love two entrepreneurs
with a great idea. We invest in technologists, working with
them even before they have their great ideas.”
So far, Cambrian Ventures has invested in companies like
Aster Data (Teradata), Neoteris (Juniper Networks), Kaltix
(Google), and Tranformic (Google). Harinarayan and
Rajaraman were also among a handful of preferred angel
investors in Facebook.
“When I look at start-ups, I first consider the team,” said
Harinarayan. “The team has to have chemistry and has
to be of high caliber. Coming together in a start-up is like
getting married. Compromises have to be made and if there
is high caliber leadership, the team will eventually be able to
navigate their way through some potentially difficult times.”
Having a similar team of his own, Harinarayan and
Rajaraman re-entered the start-up arena, this time with
Kosmix. Based in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was
created in 2005 with a vision of connecting people to infor-
mation that makes a difference in their lives. Kosmix raised
$55 million in funding from investors like Accel Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner Investments and
Bezos Expeditions.
At Kosmix, Harinarayan’s team designed a platform that
acts as a social media filter aggregating information by topic
from Web sites, Twitter messages and other sources in real
time to give users the information they wanted at any time.
The various Kosmix sites drew approximately 17.5 million
unique visitors just before being acquired earlier this year
for a reported $300 million by Walmart, who saw Kosmix’s
enormous potential.
Kosmix is now @WalmartLabs and will operate as part of
Walmart’s Global eCommerce group. Increasingly, referrals
to e-commerce sites are coming from social networks and
@WalmartLabs was formed to create and develop new tech-
nologies and strategies to enhance the shopping experience
of the company’s online sites and retail stores. Harinarayan
serves as Senior Vice President Walmart Global eCommerce
and head of @WalmartLabs.
“Clearly we want to grow @WalmartLabs to be much
bigger than what Kosmix was,” said Harinarayan. “There’s
an opportunity to redefine shopping at this point and we want
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Venky Harinarayan’s career has been on an upward trajectory since 1996, when he and four other engineers co-founded a company that became a pioneer in comparison shopping on the Internet. In just two short years, Junglee corp. was acquired by amazon.com for $250 million.
Having a similar team of his own, Harinarayan and
Rajaraman re-entered the start-up arena, this time with
Kosmix. Based in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was
created in 2005 with a vision of connecting people to infor-
mation that makes a difference in their lives. Kosmix raised
$55 million in funding from investors like Accel Partners,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner Investments and
Bezos Expeditions.
At Kosmix, Harinarayan’s team designed a platform that
acts as a social media filter aggregating information by topic
from Web sites, Twitter messages and other sources in real
time to give users the information they wanted at any time.
The various Kosmix sites drew approximately 17.5 million
unique visitors just before being acquired earlier this year
for a reported $300 million by Walmart, who saw Kosmix’s
enormous potential.
Kosmix is now @WalmartLabs and will operate as part of
Walmart’s Global eCommerce group. Increasingly, referrals
to e-commerce sites are coming from social networks and
@WalmartLabs was formed to create and develop new tech-
nologies and strategies to enhance the shopping experience
of the company’s online sites and retail stores. Harinarayan
serves as Senior Vice President Walmart Global eCommerce
and head of @WalmartLabs.
“Clearly we want to grow @WalmartLabs to be much
bigger than what Kosmix was,” said Harinarayan. “There’s
an opportunity to redefine shopping at this point and we want
to really understand how social networks and mobile platforms
change what happens in shopping. So the charter of the lab is
really to innovate technology, products, and business models
around shopping and the social/mobile black box.”
Harinarayan and his business partner started Kosmix with
the premise that the Web is like the library of Alexandria.
They saw it as a warehouse for all human knowledge but the
only window into this warehouse was the “search” function.
Kosmix’s vision was to create programs that would access
this web intelligence and mine it to create new applications.
“Fundamental to building such a Web intelligence platform
is the need to structure the Web into categories,” said Hari-
narayan in a previous online interview. “These categories
become the handles on which programs operate that humans
can use in their day-to-day interactions. Much of this came
from the search and domain experience we had cultivated
during our tenure at Junglee and Amazon.”
Computer science was a fairly new field, and the Internet
even newer, when Harinarayan decided to devote his stud-
ies to it at IIT Madras in India. He was born into a family
of doctors and entrepreneurs in Bombay and grew up in
Madras. Harinarayan’s family valued education, and also the
Indian national pastime of cricket. He was the captain of his
high school cricket team and also played tennis in college.
According to Harinarayan, the rigorous education system
of India, combined with his interest in sports, helped him to
learn a great deal about people.
“As Plato said, ‘You can discover more about a person in an
hour of play than a year of conversation,’” remarked
Harinarayan.
Harinarayan moved to the United States in 1988 and stud-
ied for his master’s in computer science under the advisement
of Professor Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA Engineering.
“I absolutely loved working with Professor Kleinrock. He
was 100 percent supportive of my work and helped me a great
deal,” remembered Harinarayan. “Under Professor Kleinrock’s
direction, I focused on the area of networking, and the Inter-
net is part of that, of course. I really enjoyed my time there and
met some great people, like Ben Horowitz.” (Horowitz was
profiled in the spring 2011 issue of UCLA Engineer.)
When asked what his secret to success is, Harinarayan said
he doesn’t have one. At no time in his life did he imagine being
where he is today and added that he is a terrible planner.
“If you want to be successful, you can’t think about being
successful. If I start to think I’m successful, then I cease to be
successful,” said Harinarayan. “You always want to be at a
point where you feel you’ve got to figure it out, or you feel you
need to solve something that would make people’s lives better.
You’ve got to have a focus, a passion in life.”
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endowed chaiR in civil enGineeRinG
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assistant Professor Yvonne Y. chen
Ph.D. — California Institute of Technology
Yvonne Chen’s research interests center on the
engineering of synthetic biological systems with
modular, programmable functions for a wide
range of applications, particularly in health and
medicine. Her current research focuses on engi-
neering immune cells for targeted cancer therapy.
Prior to joining UCLA Engineering, Chen was
a research scientist at the Center for Immunity
and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children’s
Research Institute. She received her Ph.D. in
chemical engineering from the California In-
stitute of Technology. Chen will spend the next
two years as a Junior Fellow with the Harvard
University Society of Fellows before arriving at
the UCLA campus in the fall of 2013.
assistant Professor alexander a. sherstov
Ph.D. — The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Sherstov’s research is in theoretical
computer science, with broad interests that include
complexity theory, computational learning, and
quantum computing.
Prior to joining UCLA Engineering, Sherstov was
a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research.
While he was a graduate student at the University of
Texas at Austin, Sherstov received four best student
paper awards at major international conferences on
theoretical computer science.
Sherstov was born and raised in the former Soviet
Union, in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. He
came to the United States in 2000 to attend Hope
College in Holland, Michigan, where he graduated
summa cum laude.
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William Yeh named to RichaRd G. newman aecom
endowed chaiR in civil enGineeRinG
W illiam W-G. Yeh, UCLA distinguished professor
of civil and environmental engineering, has been
named the inaugural holder of the Richard G.
Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering.
The chair was made possible by a $1.5 million gift from
members of the executive team of AECOM, a global provider
of professional technical and management-support services.
“Bill is an outstanding scholar, teacher and a leader in his
field. I am pleased he will be the first holder of this chair,”
said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering. “I am also
tremendously grateful to AECOM for their generous sup-
port. This endowment will help Bill to continue his important
work as an educator and researcher in the important areas of
hydrology and water resources.”
Yeh pioneered the development of large-scale optimization
models that utilize systems analysis techniques to plan,
manage and operate several of the nation’s large water
resources systems.
Additionally, Yeh developed nonlinear inverse algorithms
for parameter identification in groundwater hydrology, and
his methodologies and algorithms for parameter estimation
have been widely adopted in groundwater modeling.
Yeh’s work has garnered many national and international
distinctions including election to the National Academy
of Engineering.
“I am deeply honored and humbled to be appointed as the
inaugural Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in
Civil Engineering,” Yeh said. “It is a distinct honor for me
to associate my name with such a distinguished individual
as Richard G. Newman. It is my intent to apply the endow-
ment effectively to enhance teaching, research and service
to UCLA, as well as to the greater community.”
The endowed chair was established in recognition of
Newman’s leadership and service to AECOM, where he
served as chairman for more than two decades, and CEO
until 2005. AECOM is one of the largest and most respected
firms of its kind. Since its launch as an independent company
in 1990, Newman led the firm’s worldwide expansion and
oversaw its transformation into a multifaceted corporation
that offers services ranging from financing, strategizing and
planning to procurement, design, construction management
and operations.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/prof-yeh
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YangYangBahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering,
has been named to UCLA’s Northrop Grumman
Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical
Engineering.
The chair highlights the school’s excellence in the area of
opto-electronics and photonics, including devices, circuits
and systems research. The application areas of opto-elec-
tronics and photonics include biotechnology, high-speed
optical networks, data communication and conversion,
and radar.
“Bahram is a leader in the field of photonic devices and
opto-electronic systems and is an exceptional educator and
scholar,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering.
“This chair will help Bahram to continue to make signifi-
cant contributions to an important area. I could think of no
one better suited to hold this chair.”
Jalali’s research focuses on silicon photonics, fiber optic
networks and biophotonics. In recent years, he has devel-
oped an ultrafast, light-sensitive video camera that captures
images at some 6 million frames per second and a bar code
reader that is a thousand times faster than any device cur-
rently in use. Jalali has published 300 scientific papers and
holds eight U.S. patents.
“I am sincerely humbled to have the privilege of being
named the Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair,”
Jalali said. “Northrop Grumman Corporation’s generosity
and support will boost our ability to better serve UCLA
students and local industry.”
Jalali is a fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America
and the American Physical Society. He was the recipient
of the 2007 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of
America for the invention and demonstration of the first
silicon laser. He serves on the board of the California
Science Center and the board of visitors of Columbia
University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and
Applied Science.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security
company providing innovative systems, products and
solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems
and technical services to government and commercial
customers worldwide.
This endowed chair was established through a $1.16
million gift.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/prof-jalali
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YangYang
Y ang Yang, professor of materials science and engi-
neering, has been named the holder of the Carol and
Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineer-
ing. This chair is the first in the world dedicated to the area
of electronic information displays.
The chair was established with a gift from Lawrence
E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61, an executive in the electronic
information display industry, and his wife, Carol.
Yang’s research focuses on conjugated polymers and
organics, polymer LEDs (light-emitting diodes), and related
polymer electronic, photonic and bio-devices. His work
with polymer solar cells has led to the creation of higher
quality, more affordable and energy-efficient materials for
use in consumer electronic devices such as flat-panel televi-
sions, plasma displays and cell phones, as well as electronic
information displays.
“In the last decade, Yang has made significant advance-
ments in the application of organic LEDs (OLEDs) to elec-
tronic displays. Further, his groundbreaking work in the
area of polymer solar cells has also achieved considerable
attention,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering.
Last year, Yang was featured as one of 2010’s “hot”
scientists by Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch, and the
publication’s “Hot Papers” database categorized eight of
his recent reports as highly cited.
silicon laser. He serves on the board of the California
Science Center and the board of visitors of Columbia
University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and
Applied Science.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security
company providing innovative systems, products and
solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems
and technical services to government and commercial
customers worldwide.
This endowed chair was established through a $1.16
million gift.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/prof-jalali
“It is a tremendous honor to become the Carol and
Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair,” Yang said.
“I am particularly impressed by Mr. Tannas’ vision
and contributions to the area of electronic display
technology. I look forward to using this endowment
to enrich education here at UCLA Engineering, as
well as enhance research that will help create more
energy-efficient display technology.”
“It is gratifying to know that our gift will help
UCLA Engineering for many generations to come by
supporting the teaching and research activities of a
distinguished faculty member like Professor Yang,”
Lawrence Tannas said.
Tannas, who earned his bachelor’s degree in 1959
and master’s in 1961 from UCLA, is president of
Tannas Electronic Displays Inc., a company special-
izing in research, development and licensing of intellec-
tual property for preparing liquid crystal displays used
in avionics. As president of Tannas Electronics, he also
devotes his time to consulting, lecturing and research.
Tannas is considered one of the foremost experts on
electronic displays.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/prof-yyang
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Marjorie ’46 and Ralph ’50 Crump
Professor Emeritus William Van Vorst
T he UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science has established the William D.
Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering, made
possible by a $2 million gift from UCLA alumni Ralph and
Marjorie Crump.
he taught here, and we could not be more pleased with the
significance of this chair.”
Van Vorst, now a professor emeritus, began teaching
at UCLA Engineering in 1946 and earned his Ph.D. from
the school in 1953. He spent much of his academic career
exploring the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel, and
his work resulted in the development of two vehicles fueled
by hydrogen.
“The establishment of a chair in my name was a won-
derful surprise,” Van Vorst said. “Clare [Van Vorst’s wife]
and I have been friends with the Crumps for 60 years, and
I remember being very fond of him as a student. Ralph has
donated to some great causes, and I am honored by this
recognition.”
Ralph Crump received his bachelor’s degree in engineer-
ing from UCLA in 1950, and Marjorie earned a bachelor’s
at UCLA in 1946. The couple was the driving force behind
the establishment of UCLA Engineering’s Crump Institute
of Medical Engineering in 1980, which has become the
Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging. A former San
Fernando Valley engineer, Ralph Crump is president of the
Crump Industrial Group. He has been granted numerous
patents and, with Marjorie, founded eight companies.
“I have maintained a relationship with Professor Van
Vorst since graduating in 1950,” Ralph Crump said. “It
is our hope that for generations to come, accomplished
scholars who regard teaching and student mentorship as
highly as Professor Van Vorst does will feel privileged by
this prestigious appointment.”
This is the fourth endowed chair funded by the Crumps
— three at UCLA and one at Dartmouth College.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/vanvorst-chair
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new endowed chair in ChemiCal engineering
The endowed chair, which the Crumps named in honor
of Van Vorst, a longtime professor at UCLA Engineering,
will support a highly accomplished scholar in chemical
engineering who has a proven track record of excellence in
teaching and student mentorship.
“Ralph and Marjorie Crump have been friends and
supporters of the school for many years, and we are
tremendously grateful for their generosity,” said Vijay K.
Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering. “Professor Van Vorst
touched the lives of many of our students in the time that
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he taught here, and we could not be more pleased with the
significance of this chair.”
Van Vorst, now a professor emeritus, began teaching
at UCLA Engineering in 1946 and earned his Ph.D. from
the school in 1953. He spent much of his academic career
exploring the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel, and
his work resulted in the development of two vehicles fueled
by hydrogen.
“The establishment of a chair in my name was a won-
derful surprise,” Van Vorst said. “Clare [Van Vorst’s wife]
and I have been friends with the Crumps for 60 years, and
I remember being very fond of him as a student. Ralph has
donated to some great causes, and I am honored by this
recognition.”
Ralph Crump received his bachelor’s degree in engineer-
ing from UCLA in 1950, and Marjorie earned a bachelor’s
at UCLA in 1946. The couple was the driving force behind
the establishment of UCLA Engineering’s Crump Institute
of Medical Engineering in 1980, which has become the
Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging. A former San
Fernando Valley engineer, Ralph Crump is president of the
Crump Industrial Group. He has been granted numerous
patents and, with Marjorie, founded eight companies.
“I have maintained a relationship with Professor Van
Vorst since graduating in 1950,” Ralph Crump said. “It
is our hope that for generations to come, accomplished
scholars who regard teaching and student mentorship as
highly as Professor Van Vorst does will feel privileged by
this prestigious appointment.”
This is the fourth endowed chair funded by the Crumps
— three at UCLA and one at Dartmouth College.
The complete release is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/vanvorst-chair
New eNdowed Chair in ChemiCal engineering
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1 Students graduating with school honors gather before commencement.
2 Students gathered on the IM field before heading into Drake Stadium. With UCLA Engineering’s traditional commencement location of Pauley Pavilion undergoing a massive improvement project, Drake was this year’s location.
3 and 4 New UCLA Engineering graduates celebrate with their friends.
5 Ph.D. graduates Foad Mashayekhi and Soojung Claire Hur with their advisors, bioengineering professors Daniel T. Kamei (L) and Dino Di Carlo (R).
6 The 2011 Commencement Speaker was Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chair-man of the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, Chairman and CEO of both the Institute for Advanced Health, and the Healthcare Transfor-mation Institute.
7 Associate Dean Rick Wesel with bioengineering graduate Shivani Dharmaraja, the 2010-11 Outstanding Bachelor of Science.
8 Chemical engineering graduate Helen Durand was the student speaker.
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6 The 2011 Commencement Speaker was Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chair-man of the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, Chairman and CEO of both the Institute for Advanced Health, and the Healthcare Transfor-mation Institute.
7 Associate Dean Rick Wesel with bioengineering graduate Shivani Dharmaraja, the 2010-11 Outstanding Bachelor of Science.
8 Chemical engineering graduate Helen Durand was the student speaker.
1 All Senior Dinner attendees gather for a large group photo on the Patio of Covel Commons.
2 Carlos Ramirez, Juan Hernandez and Romulo Magallanes
3 Ho Tung, Matthew Pinchak and Monica Kracy
4 Dana Plutchak, Anisha Keshavan, Anna Hoang, Jillian Cross, Breanna Marcink and Christina Wong
5 On behalf of the school, Dean Vijay K. Dhir accepted the 2011 Senior Gift from campaign committee members Isaac Abayahoudaeian, Marie Gonzalez, Attic Weng, Brandon Buccowich and James Shieh.
6 ESUC officer Jennifer Wang presented the Student Group of the Year to IEEE, whose president, Jeannie Chen, accepted the award for the club.
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UCLA Engineering scholarships and graduate fellowships play a vital role in removing financial barriers to an engineering degree, while at the same time rewarding the best and brightest students. This past academic year, 157 undergraduates were awarded scholarships, and 45 graduate students were awarded fellowships. These could not be possible without the generosity and vision of the school’s supporters. At annual brunches, students and supporters get a chance to meet each other.
1 Dean Vijay K. Dhir (center) with seven graduate students who received a Dean’s Fellowship.
2 Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80 (fourth from left) with eight graduate students who received a Samueli Graduate Fellowship.
3 Chih-Ming Ho, Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Professor, with a few undergraduate scholarship recipients.
4 Raj and Sumermal Vardhan (center) with four students who received scholarships that they endowed, Thomas Marcil, Brandon Lanthier, Jack Megorden and Christina Fries.
5 Betty Knesel (center), along with six student recipients of the scholarship she endowed, Brett Beekley, Jeffery Hick, Joseph Schlies, Erica Chen, Sherry Hanson and Nicholas Wane, along with Professor and Materials Science and Engineering Department Chair Jenn-Ming Yang (L) and Professor King-Ning Tu (R).
6 Dean Dhir with seven undergraduates who received Boeing scholarships, Melissa Erickson, Tanuj Thapliyal, Wesley Tamanaha, Ashley Jin, Angela Gutierrez, Michael Wagner and Adita Chandramohan.
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1 The high school students presented their posters in the lobby of the california NanoSystems Institute building.
2 Students Joshua cho and Justine Figuerres present their research on microfluidic systems.
3 Students applaud during the awards ceremony.
4 The entire group gathers for a photo.
5 Students Jimmy Vo and Elena Stroud presented their research project which used the Xbox Kinect to control a robot arm.
SummEr ReseaRch Program
2011 U CLA Engineering’s 2011 High School Summer Research Program brought a new
record of 54 students to campus.
The program is geared towards introducing high school students to the vast field of
engineering. They conduct their research in UCLA Engi-
neering labs under the guidance of faculty and graduate
student mentors. At the end of the eight-week program, the
students present their work at a poster session, with family,
friends, fellow students, faculty and staff in attendance.
The program is supported by the Nicholas Endowment,
the Samueli Foundation and Lockheed Martin.
More information is available online at:
http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/high-school/high-
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a lumni of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engi-
neering and Applied Science have been leaders and
contributors to the aerospace industry for many
years, and part of the reason for this success are classes that
challenge students to apply their knowledge and imagina-
tion in comprehensive projects.
One example is Introduction to Space Technology, a
course students know as MAE (Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering) 161B. The course introduces key elements
of successful space missions, covering space systems and
space system technology.
“I always thought space travel was cool, and it was fun
to learn how to plan trajectories to other planets,” said
Anisha Keshavan, a graduating senior majoring in aero-
space engineering and applied mathematics who took the
class in winter quarter. “I mean, who doesn’t wish we
could travel to the Mars one day?”
The Winter Quarter 2011 class was taught by Profes-
sor Richard Wirz whose research includes advanced space
propulsion systems. The final exam required students to
design a spacecraft for a mission of their own choosing.
This included providing details for the necessary technolo-
gies for seven spacecraft systems. Also, they needed to
select the appropriate rocket to launch their spacecraft,
calculate the time to the target and the duration of the mis-
sion, supply potential supplementary objectives, take into
account the specific atmospheres and gravitational effects
of different planets and moons, as well as a whole host of
variables specific to the mission they chose.
“I was impressed with their curiosity and ability to as-
similate several seemingly unrelated topics and make sense
of how they are related and work together to make the
mission a success,” Wirz said.
Mission ideas for the students’ final projects in-
cluded planet and moon landing vehicles; intra-solar
system communication satellites; earth-orbiting satel-
lites that would clean up space junk; and spacecraft
targeted for the outermost reaches of the Solar System,
just to name a few.
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Keshavan designed a spacecraft to observe the
sun directly opposite the Earth at what’s known
as Lagrange point L3. Her design, similar to the
European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,
included a Doppler-sensitive photometer, a photo-
metric imager and an ultraviolet spectrograph.
The complete story is available online at:
www.engineer.ucla.edu/space-tech-class
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a duo of UCLA electrical engineering seniors were
one of only 60 student groups nationwide to
participate in the prestigious Posters on the Hill
program, held by the Council on Undergraduate Research.
The organization promotes high-quality undergraduate
student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship
and counts more than 900 college and universities as
its members.
For the past two years, Carlo Paredes and Neal Shah
have been conducting microfluidic research under the
guidance of electrical engineering assistant professor
Robert N. Candler. The group has developed customizable
components to make the transfer of fluids to lab-on-a-
chip devices much easier, more consistent, as well as
less expensive.
The two students and Candler were given an opportu-
nity to travel to Washington, D.C. to present their poster.
Their tour included stops at a few offices of the California
congressional delegation.
“It was great speaking to people who were genuinely
interested in our research,” Paredes said. “To be more
specific, my favorite part was fielding questions about the
device and subsequently hearing an, ‘Oh, that’s cool,’ fol-
lowed by a look of interest.”
Shah and Paredes were also the only engineering stu-
dents from the University of California system to attend
the program. They first became interested in undergradu-
ate research opportunities in their sophomore year through
Candler’s regular coffee hours for students. Candler
wanted to develop an inexpensive, yet durable and custom-
Mission ideas for the students’ final projects in-
cluded planet and moon landing vehicles; intra-solar
system communication satellites; earth-orbiting satel-
lites that would clean up space junk; and spacecraft
targeted for the outermost reaches of the Solar System,
just to name a few.
izable fluid interface for lab-on-a-chip devices, which
can conduct lab tests on thumbnail-sized platforms.
However getting the sample fluids onto the devices can
be difficult and expensive. Their new type of device
solved this by acting as a very precise intermediary
between a syringe carrying the fluid and the lab-on-a-
chip device that will analyze the sample.
“We envision these microfluidic interconnects being
used in resource-limited settings, such as developing
nations and military outposts, where access to medical
equipment and even trained medical professionals may
be severely limited,” Candler said.
Paredes performed the design and fabrication of the
prototypes, Shah designed and executed testing.
Eventually, these devices could be produced on site
as needed at medical facilities, as 3-D printing technol-
ogy becomes more ubiquitous, Candler said.
The complete story is available online at:
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/capitol-hill-students
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space tecHnology course launcHes students into space careers
Keshavan designed a spacecraft to observe the
sun directly opposite the Earth at what’s known
as Lagrange point L3. Her design, similar to the
European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,
included a Doppler-sensitive photometer, a photo-
metric imager and an ultraviolet spectrograph.
The complete story is available online at:
www.engineer.ucla.edu/space-tech-class
A student explained his project during final presentations.
Neil Shah, Professor Robert Candler and Carlos Paredes on Captiol Hill.
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A new capstone design sequence for all graduating
mechanical engineering (ME) seniors was unveiled
last winter quarter by the Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering Department. The two-term sequence was created
to provide students with a better design experience.
In the first quarter, students are given the tools they need
to perform the design project (software and hardware)
and in the second quarter, they focus on finalizing their
design, then building and testing it. The class of 100
worked together in smaller teams.
Professor Adrienne Lavine, then chair of the depart-
ment, challenged a group of faculty to revise the capstone
sequence while at the same time reduce costs.
Leading the charge for this new sequence (162 D/E)
was Professor Daniel Yang, who also teaches the course
with two other faculty, Professors T-C. Tsao and Robert
Shahram Shaefer. Instruction for the first term focused on
conceptual design including mechanical component design
and mechatronics to thermo design and mechanical system
design. Lab work included CAD (computer-aided design),
CAD analysis, mechatronics and conceptual design for
individual projects.
“Industry today is very interested in students who’ve
taken hands-on design courses like this one,” said Yang.
“For four years, students at the school learn a great deal
about theory. They need to use what they’ve learned and
apply it to this design sequence. These two courses are
very practical and provide the necessary hands-on learn-
ing experience. The sequence also encourages teamwork
in design, in presentations as well as in competition.”
“We definitely learned the value and importance of
time management and teamwork in all conditions, espe-
cially under stress,” said student Jessica Chu. “Working
with a group and developing an understanding of how
to attack a given task were definitely two skills we honed
that will be required for industry success.”
The project for this year was to design and build an
autonomous vehicle for the transportation of bulk mate-
rial: a robot rice rover. There were a few requirements
too. The rover not only needed to follow a pre-designed
pathway but it had to be able to dump a payload of rice
into a collection bin at the end of the path.
“What I enjoyed most about this sequence,” stated
senior Seok-Joon Hong, “was the interaction between
team members. This type of project let me communicate
ideas and improve concepts that would have been impos-
sible by myself. The team experience was invaluable to
me as someone looking to go into industry.”
The complete story is available online at:
www.engineer.ucla.edu/ME162
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MecHanical engineering sequence
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Southern California imports between 80 to 90 percent
of its water from outside the metropolitan region.
And much of it comes from the Sierra Nevada.
So to learn right at the source, UCLA students in the
Civil and Environmental Engineering 157M hydrology
of mountain watersheds class took a five-day field trip to
Sagehen Creek Field Research Station, eight miles north
of Truckee, California.
“We depend heavily on the yearly snowpack in the
Sierra Mountains which melts and flows into California
reservoirs in the spring,” said Terri S. Hogue, a UCLA
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
who teaches the class. “Understanding the amount and
distribution of the snowpack, as well as the water content
in the snow, or snow water equivalent, is critical for ac-
curate spring forecasts of water supply for the state. Urban,
agricultural and recreational users depend on these water
supply forecasts for planning and management of this criti-
cal resource.”
The advanced class focuses on the study of catchment
processes in snow-dominated and mountainous regions.
Students measure and quantify snowpack properties,
watershed fluxes, investigate geochemical properties of sur-
face and groundwater systems, classify mountain streams
and evaluate flooding potential.
The field trip to Sagehen has been a part of the class
since Hogue started teaching it in 2006. The trip’s goals
are to understand snow-dominated watershed processes,
familiarize students with the observational data and uncer-
tainties in hydrologic design, and utilize a range of equip-
ment to gather that data. Students also connect to where
much of Southern California’s water comes from.
This year, California had a big year for snow, with the
statewide snowpack at 144 percent above average. The class
of 32 students faced tough late winter conditions, despite the
late April stay at the mountain research station.
apply it to this design sequence. These two courses are
very practical and provide the necessary hands-on learn-
ing experience. The sequence also encourages teamwork
in design, in presentations as well as in competition.”
“We definitely learned the value and importance of
time management and teamwork in all conditions, espe-
cially under stress,” said student Jessica Chu. “Working
with a group and developing an understanding of how
to attack a given task were definitely two skills we honed
that will be required for industry success.”
The project for this year was to design and build an
autonomous vehicle for the transportation of bulk mate-
rial: a robot rice rover. There were a few requirements
too. The rover not only needed to follow a pre-designed
pathway but it had to be able to dump a payload of rice
into a collection bin at the end of the path.
“What I enjoyed most about this sequence,” stated
senior Seok-Joon Hong, “was the interaction between
team members. This type of project let me communicate
ideas and improve concepts that would have been impos-
sible by myself. The team experience was invaluable to
me as someone looking to go into industry.”
The complete story is available online at:
www.engineer.ucla.edu/ME162
“It was gorgeous, but it definitely made the process
more difficult,” said Carolyn Chou, who graduated in
June and is now studying hydrology at Princeton Univer-
sity. “Hiking in fresh snow every day was slower than
Matthew Chin
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buildS camaraderie and competition
MecHanical engineering sequence
Snow dayS:
if we were hiking on hard pack, and taking measure-
ments in freezing conditions was definitely more
difficult than if temperatures had been warmer.”
Hogue and the graduate teaching assistants made
adjustments to the planned measurements depend-
ing on the conditions. For these UCLA students, this
course could be the first step in a career in water
resources engineering, a field where there is a large
variety of opportunities.
The complete story, with video, is available online
at: http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/hydrology-class
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alumni news
uCLA recently honored Vinton Cerf, vice president
and chief Internet evangelist for Google Inc., as its
Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year.
The Dickson Alumnus of the Year award, UCLA’s oldest
and highest alumni tribute, is given to someone who has
rendered a special and outstanding service to UCLA or
who, by personal achievement, has brought great honor
and distinction to the university.
Cerf, widely known as one of the “fathers of the Inter-
net,” co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architec-
ture of the Internet. In addition, as vice president of MCI
Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986, he led the
engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email ser-
vice to be connected to the Internet. In 1994, he rejoined
MCI as senior vice president of technology strategy. He is
currently working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
on the interplanetary Internet to communicate from planet
to planet.
As chief Internet evangelist of Google, Cerf is respon-
sible for identifying enabling technologies and applications
to support the development of advanced Internet-based
products and services.
Cerf was chairman of the board of the Internet Cor-
poration for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN);
founding president and a member of the Internet Society;
a member of the board of advisors of Scientists and Engi-
neers for America; and member of the board of trustees
of Gallaudet University, serving the deaf and hard of
hearing.
Among his many awards, Cerf received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed
in the U.S., for work that has “transformed global com-
merce, communication and entertainment.” Cerf earned
his bachelor’s degree at Stanford.
Vinton Cerf ms ’70, PhD ’72UCLA EdwArd A. diCkson ALUmnUs of thE YEAr:
Vinton Cerf
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founding president and a member of the Internet Society;
a member of the board of advisors of Scientists and Engi-
neers for America; and member of the board of trustees
of Gallaudet University, serving the deaf and hard of
hearing.
Among his many awards, Cerf received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed
in the U.S., for work that has “transformed global com-
merce, communication and entertainment.” Cerf earned
his bachelor’s degree at Stanford.
Vinton Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72
You’ve had some great experience with starting your own company. i imagine it’s very hard work to get established. For students just starting off and hoping to take the start-up route, what are some things they should keep in mind?It’s very important to keep an open mind about your
business and not to get too attached to any single idea.
Good ideas will come at you a couple times a week, but
executing on any idea well takes an enormous amount of
discipline. At Applied Semantics, we pivoted about four
times in one year before we finally reached a business idea
that could generate any significant revenue. Be nimble and
act quickly and decisively in your pursuit of the customer.
Though starting a company presents a lot of risks and unknowns, what makes the challenge exciting to you?We live in a very exciting time because the capital required
to start a business is much less than it was just ten years
ago, and significantly less than it required twenty years
ago (inflation adjusted, of course). All you really need is
an idea, some code, a shared server, and some bandwidth,
and your can start distributing your application or Web site to
millions of users. This great opportunity is what also increases
the risks associated with what many intuitively view is stable.
For example, Netflix destroyed Blockbuster in a matter of a
few years because this economy allows for more disruption.
Corporate jobs at Blockbuster felt stable at one point, but in
reality, the new opportunities made these jobs much more
risky. Challenging the norm, and disrupting industries is fun
and has the potential to bring you more stability.
What was the hardest part about starting your own company? The hardest part for me was the emotional toll the roller
coaster ride took. Your own company is not just a job; it con-
sumes your whole life. We were less than a month away from
running out of money three separate times. We had to lay off
a few of my friends, including a close classmate from UCLA.
We had to deal with lawsuits. When I was 23, and working for
a 10,000 person company, I didn’t lose sleep when we had sev-
eral unprofitable quarters. That all changes when everything
and everybody is depending on you and your partners.
Eytan Elbaz ’95: CarVing one’S own PathEytan Elbaz is a founding member of applied Semantics, the company that created adSense. In 2003, the startup
was sold to Google for $102 million and contributed technology towards Google adSense. For the next five years,
Elbaz stayed on at Google as head of Domain channel, increasing its revenues to more than $600 million annually.
Recently, Elbaz returned to the startup world, raising angel funding from companies like Windsor Media, lerer
Ventures, and techStars, to put towards a his latest endeavor, a new company called Scopely. In parallel with
his technical career, Elbaz also enjoys producing short films and comedy sketches. Elbaz lives in los angeles and
graduated from ucla with a bachelor’s in computer Science and Engineering in 1995.
CarEEr Column
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alumni news
1950sZalman Philip Saperstein ’54, MS ’62 is the author of A
Drinkers Guide to Pure Water—Is Your Water Safe?,
published in 2006, which explores water safety and
recent scientific findings. Saperstein is also the author
of When Intelligence and Love Ruled the World—The
Transformation, published in 2010.
1960sJack K. Holmes ’60, MS ’63, PhD ’67 is the recipient of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aerospace Communications award for 2011. The award
for outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace
communications will be presented to Holmes in Nara,
Japan in December 2011.
William Vietinghoff MS ’62 has been hired by the Boeing
Company as a visitor consultant to lead bus tours
conducted monthly at the Boeing Santa Susana Field
Laboratory in coordination with NASA and the DOE.
The facility was originally established by North Ameri-
can Aviation in the 1950s. Until its closure in 2006, the
Field Laboratory was the primary location in America
for rocket engine development. At one of the bus stops,
Vietinghoff provides a description of the challenges,
problems and successes encountered during rocket en-
gine test firing in the early days with only slide rules and
limited technical predictability.
Ken Bondy ’63, MS ’64 was elected to honorary member-
ship in the Structural Engineers Association of Southern
California (SEAOSC) in June 2011.
Wayne Stone ’65, MS ’67, MPH ’74, DEnv ’78 has been work-
ing for Grontmij | Carl Bro Vietnam in their Hanoi
office for the last 10 years. Grontmij | Carl Bro is an
international engineering consulting firm based in both
the Netherlands and Denmark. Stone’s responsibilities
have included working with Vietnamese government
officials to improve environmental protection measures
in both industrial and urban development plans. More
recently, he has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of
Construction and Ministry of Health to develop response
plans to climate change and sea level rise.
Don Brown ’66 is continuing his post-retirement high-
school teaching career. He has accepted a mathematics
teaching position for the 2011-2012 school year at Trin-
ity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida. He and his
wife, Cathy, will be relocating from Virginia to Florida.
Garen Staglin ’66 has teamed up with former U.S. Rep-
resentative Patrick Kennedy to co-chair the One Mind
Campaign. The Campaign unites all brain disorders from
autism to Alzheimer’s in terms of advocacy and has de-
veloped a 10-year neuroscience roadmap to develop cures
for all of these disorders. The plan has been endorsed by
the National Institutes of Health, the Society for Neuro-
science, and the ANCP, as well many other institutions.
The campaign was launched on May 25 at the JFK Li-
brary with an endorsement speech by Vice President Joe
Biden. UCLA will be the host of the first annual report
on the progress of the campaign on May 24 – 25, 2012.
See the story by CNN at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/
HEALTH/05/20/staglin.kennedy.brain.moonshot.
More news and updates can be found at
www.1mind4research.org
Robert Barker ’68, MBA ’70 retired in January 2010 after 16
years at Micrel Semiconductor having served as both
Vice President of Finance & CFO and Vice President
of Corporate Business Development. He was appointed
to the board of directors and audit committee at GCT
Semiconductor in April 2011. GCT provides RF products
for the 4G, LTE and WiMAX markets.
alumni Class nOTes
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the Netherlands and Denmark. Stone’s responsibilities
have included working with Vietnamese government
officials to improve environmental protection measures
in both industrial and urban development plans. More
recently, he has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of
Construction and Ministry of Health to develop response
plans to climate change and sea level rise.
Don Brown ’66 is continuing his post-retirement high-
school teaching career. He has accepted a mathematics
teaching position for the 2011-2012 school year at Trin-
ity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida. He and his
wife, Cathy, will be relocating from Virginia to Florida.
Garen Staglin ’66 has teamed up with former U.S. Rep-
resentative Patrick Kennedy to co-chair the One Mind
Campaign. The Campaign unites all brain disorders from
autism to Alzheimer’s in terms of advocacy and has de-
veloped a 10-year neuroscience roadmap to develop cures
for all of these disorders. The plan has been endorsed by
the National Institutes of Health, the Society for Neuro-
science, and the ANCP, as well many other institutions.
The campaign was launched on May 25 at the JFK Li-
brary with an endorsement speech by Vice President Joe
Biden. UCLA will be the host of the first annual report
on the progress of the campaign on May 24 – 25, 2012.
See the story by CNN at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/
HEALTH/05/20/staglin.kennedy.brain.moonshot.
More news and updates can be found at
www.1mind4research.org
Robert Barker ’68, MBa ’70 retired in January 2010 after 16
years at Micrel Semiconductor having served as both
Vice President of Finance & CFO and Vice President
of Corporate Business Development. He was appointed
to the board of directors and audit committee at GCT
Semiconductor in April 2011. GCT provides RF products
for the 4G, LTE and WiMAX markets.
Tom Holtom P.E. (Harold Thomas Holtom) ’68 recently joined GSF
Enterprises, Inc., as senior project manager. In this role,
Holtom oversees all private and public projects from San
Diego to Central California. Previously, Holtom was
principal construction manager of Themed Specialty
Construction for Walt Disney Imagineering on the $1.4
billion Disneyland Resort expansion, the project director
of the THEA Award winning Caesar’s Magical Empire
at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, and Project Executive for
the Architectural Interiors of the Forum Shops at Caesar’s.
Holtom is married and lives in Newport Beach, Calif.
Tom corbett ’69, and co-founding partner Thom Butler,
recently unveiled plans for their Sonoma County-based
startup, Barrier Free Adventures. The start up company
is focused on social media and smartphone services for
travelers with disabilities and looks to partner with both
local and international businesses in order to provide
significant information and assistance for travelers with
disabilities worldwide. Corbett, who serves as CEO of the
new venture, has previously served on the boards of two
companies developing Braille keyboards and mouse prod-
ucts for the blind. More recently, Corbett was a partner
in a non-profit production company (cfct.org), producing
and hosting Internet TV programs, and educational and
informational videos.
Michael V. Frank ’69, PhD ’78 is currently director of engineer-
ing at Washington Closure Hanford (a URS LLC). He will
take the position of risk manager for Nuclear Management
Partners (also a URS LLC) at the Sellafield Sites in the
United Kingdom. Sellafield Ltd is the company respon-
sible for safely delivering, decommissioning, reprocessing,
nuclear waste management, and fuel manufacturing activi-
ties on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Now under the ownership of Nuclear Management Part-
ners, Sellafield Ltd has the largest concentration of nuclear
expertise in Europe, with over 50 years of experience. The
Sellafield site is home to over one thousand nuclear facili-
ties including the Magnox and Thorp reprocessing plants,
the Sellafield Mixed Oxide plant and a range of nuclear
waste treatment facilities.
1970sWilliam R. Goodin MS ‘71 PhD ‘75, MEngr ‘82, director of UCLA
Extension’s Technical Management Program, has received
the 2010 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award from the
Society of Women Engineers (SWE). The award celebrates
the work of a man or company who has made a signifi-
cant contribution to the acceptance and advancement of
women in engineering. Goodin also received Tau Beta
Pi’s McDonald Mentor award. The award was created to
celebrate excellence in mentoring and advising among the
engineering honor society’s educators and engineers who
have consistently supported the personal and professional
development of their students and colleagues.
Sadegh Radjai ’72, MS ’75 is vice president of advertising
and marketing, at Hamshahri, a daily newspaper, in
Tehran, Iran.
Nik Djordjevic ’75, MS ’78 is the manager of Aerodynamics,
Fluid Mechanics and Performance Group at Lockheed
Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif. He
is also an adjunct faculty member in the Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Department’s graduate program at
the San Jose State University College of Engineering, and
an associate faculty member in the Engineering Depart-
ment at West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif.
armando Benavides MS ’77 is currently employed by Boeing
Satellite Systems and recently received two patents – “Sys-
tem and Method for Compensating for Temperature Effects
on GPS Transponders System” and “Method for Determin-
ing the Beam Center Location of an Antenna.”
1980sJane (Gienger) Kucera ’84 is working as editor on a second
book titled, Desalination: Water from Water, which
discusses twelve desalination techniques/technologies and
future prospects with authors from around the globe. This
book is to be published through Scrivener Publishing and
John Wiley in late 2012. Kucera was also invited to address
the annual American Electric Power (AEP) convention on
the topic of normalization of reverse osmosis data, and is
also conducting a workshop at the 2011 International
Water Conference titled, “Reverse Osmosis: Back to Basics.”
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alumni news
James P. Blanchard ’83, MS ’84, PhD ’88 has recently been
appointed as the chair of the Department of Nuclear
Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His
research interests include radiation damage in fission and
fusion environments, fusion reactor design, laser-induced
stresses, and nuclear microbatteries. Blanchard is a for-
mer student of UCLA mechanical and aerospace engineer-
ing professor Nasr Ghoniem.
Stephen D. Heister PhD ’88 has been appointed as the Rais-
beck Engineering Distinguished Professor for Engineer-
ing and Technology Integration at Purdue University.
Heister, a former student of UCLA mechanical and
aerospace engineering professor Ann Karagozian,
has been at Purdue’s School of Aeronautics and
Astronautics since 1990. He is currently the director
of the Maurice Zucrow Laboratories.
1990sMarshall Davert MS ’92, PhD ’93 was announced as AECOM’s
executive vice president, responsible for the Water in
Americas business line. In this role, Davert oversees the
performance, strategic direction and growth of AECOM’s
water business in all areas, including water, wastewater,
water resources and community infrastructure in
the Americas.
Robert Hulvey MS ’93 was recently elected a Distinguished
Engineer at Broadcom Corporation. Hulvey holds the po-
sition of Associate Technical Director and has been with
the company for 11 years in the Bluetooth business group.
Jennifer (Eyre) White ’94, MS ’97 recently leveraged her exten-
sive background in napping (much of which was accrued
during her engineering studies) to publish a humorous gift
book, The Practical Napper: Tips, Facts, and Quotes for
the Avidly Recumbent, published by Andrews McMeel
in June 2011. She works as a freelance engineering writer
and lives in Northern California with her husband, Ken-
nard White, and three kids.
David Crawford ’95 was recently presented
with the prestigious Walt Disney Legacy
Award meant to acknowledge individuals
that consistently support the goals of the
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Segment.
Crawford is the Director of Creative
Development at Walt Disney Imagineering
R&D and is responsible for developing the next genera-
tion of ride systems for Disney theme parks. He has more
than 40 utility patents or pending applications.
Michael Allen Jensen PhD ’94 commenced his tenure as the
editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on An-
tennas and Propagation in August 2010. This peer-re-
viewed journal ranks 2nd among IEEE journals in terms
of number of downloads. Jensen is currently professor
and department chair of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at Brigham Young University.
He has founded/co-founded three companies and actively
serves on IEEE editorial boards and conference commit-
tees. In 2008, Jensen was elevated to IEEE Fellow for con-
tributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices
and multi-antenna wireless communications systems.
Rob Sherwood MS ’95 joined the executive
team as program manager of a new
start-up company called Moon Express.
Sherwood will be leading the technical
team of Moon Express as they build
the first privately funded robotic lunar
lander. The team is competing for the
$30 million Google Lunar X Prize and has already won
a $10 million NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations
Data (ILDD) award. The long term goal of Moon Express
is mining of platinum group metals on the Moon for use
in fuel cells on Earth.
Jeffrey A. Goldman MS ’97, PhD ’98
is founder and president of
GoldBot Consulting, Inc. which
recently celebrated their 3rd year
in business with a sponsored tent
at the Virginia Gold Cup.
Together with two other consulting companies, they
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David crawford ’95 was recently presented
with the prestigious Walt Disney Legacy
Award meant to acknowledge individuals
that consistently support the goals of the
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Segment.
Crawford is the Director of Creative
Development at Walt Disney Imagineering
R&D and is responsible for developing the next genera-
tion of ride systems for Disney theme parks. He has more
than 40 utility patents or pending applications.
Michael allen Jensen PhD ’94 commenced his tenure as the
editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on An-
tennas and Propagation in August 2010. This peer-re-
viewed journal ranks 2nd among IEEE journals in terms
of number of downloads. Jensen is currently professor
and department chair of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at Brigham Young University.
He has founded/co-founded three companies and actively
serves on IEEE editorial boards and conference commit-
tees. In 2008, Jensen was elevated to IEEE Fellow for con-
tributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices
and multi-antenna wireless communications systems.
Rob Sherwood MS ’95 joined the executive
team as program manager of a new
start-up company called Moon Express.
Sherwood will be leading the technical
team of Moon Express as they build
the first privately funded robotic lunar
lander. The team is competing for the
$30 million Google Lunar X Prize and has already won
a $10 million NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations
Data (ILDD) award. The long term goal of Moon Express
is mining of platinum group metals on the Moon for use
in fuel cells on Earth.
Jeffrey a. Goldman MS ’97, PhD ’98
is founder and president of
GoldBot Consulting, Inc. which
recently celebrated their 3rd year
in business with a sponsored tent
at the Virginia Gold Cup.
Together with two other consulting companies, they
i understand you have a new start-up called Scopely… what qualities do you look for in your work force? Beyond technical skills, what characteristics are important?The two most important characteristics I look for are moti-
vation and intelligence. I actually don’t consider experience
to be too important. A hardworking, smart person can
figure out any non-specialized job in any industry in just a
few months. Team building is fun. You are putting together
your family for the next three or four years.
i have read that you have a passion for film making… For those thinking of making a transition outside of engineer-ing, what advice would you give them? Does the engineer-ing degree or do engineering skills translate well to other types of careers?Film making is a fun hobby for me. Actually, making films
taught me something important about being an engineer,
and that is, I actually like being a technical person working
on technical problems. As I ventured into the films,
it reminded me why I went into technology in the
first place. From my point of view, it’s the most
fascinating field, where all the most exciting innovation
is happening.
Considering your education and experience at UCLA Engineering, how do you think it’s contributed to your success? What about the things you’ve learned here has stayed with you in your career?At college, I learned that you need to carve your own
path, recognize your unique opportunities, and take
advantage of whatever tools and resources you can find.
The degree is the minimum requirement; everything else
that you figure out along the way is what will get you
far. Learn to work well with others. As far as course-
work, databases and statistics are things I still use today.
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alumni news
raised over $600 for the Paralyzed Veterans of America
charity. GoldBot builds innovative custom geospatial
data mining software and other analytic solutions for
their customers.
Julian Hsu ’97 (Japanese), MS ’00, MBA ’08 joined Google in
Irvine in April 2011. He and his wife Vanessa (UCLA) ’97
are expecting their fourth child, a son, in November 2011.
Brett Poirier ’97 received an MS in Astronautical Engineer-
ing from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
Calif., in September 2011, and was one of a handful of
graduating civilian students.
Mikhail Tsirlin ’98, MS ’00 is now a senior staff systems
engineer/scientist at Northrop Grumman Corpora-
tion. His daughter Rosalie Tsirlin, future Bruin
Class of 2030, was born in September 2008.
2000sLourdes V. Abellera MS ’01, PhD ’05 recently joined the edito-
rial board of the journal Environmental Monitoring
and Assessment. The journal, published by Springer, is
circulated internationally and provides articles in the ap-
plication of monitoring data to evaluate risks to humans
and the environment.
Ryan Shier ’02 is the founder of Bubble Imagineering
Inc., an engineering consultation/contracting
company that strives for inspiration, innovation,
invention and imagination.
Aviva Presser Aiden ’03 and her family celebrated the first
birthday of their son Gabriel Galileo Aiden in June.
Damien Stolarz ‘03 recently passed the Patent Bar and is
now registered to practice in patent cases before the
United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Andreas Savvides PhD ’03, the Barton L. Weller Associated
Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science departments at Yale, and his wife, Alycia, are
glad to announce a new family addition, Katerina-Anna
Savvides, who was born on May 27, 2011. Savvides also
started a company, Seldera LLC, to develop intelligent
sensing solutions for a sustainable future. This company
will commercialize research from Yale in behavior interpre-
tation and energy efficiency using wireless sensors.
Joseph Hsiung ’05, MS ’06 and his wife Fiona ’05
welcomed the birth of their son, Daniel J.
Hsiung in February.
Joseph Vardner ’06 graduated from Harvard Law School cum
laude and begins work in the fall for the Department of
Justice’s Antitrust Division in Washington, DC.
Tim Canan ’07 received an M.D. from the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA in June and started his
internal medicine residency at the Ronald Reagan UCLA
Medical Center. He is proud to be in his 10th consecutive
year as a Bruin!
Carin (Siegerman) Folman PhD ’07 and her husband, Bill, wel-
comed the birth of their son Noah on April 8, 2011.
Philip Kao ’07 recently volunteered to work
with water treatment systems in rural
villages of Taiwan, China and Ecuador
for nine months. He implemented the first
water treatment system in the rural village
of Estero de Platano, Ecuador. This water
system facility now provides the safest and
most affordable water to the village when compared with
all the vendors available. Prior to this, Kao worked for
Accenture, a global IT consulting firm for three years. He
is now married to a fellow Bruin, Ruth Chiang ’05 (Psychology),
who is a first year resident for a pediatrician hospital.
They are happily living in the historic district of Orange
in Southern California. Kao’s blog can be found here:
http://hydrophilicmission.blogspot.com/
Jammie Peng ’09 recently graduated from Stanford University
with an MS in materials science and engineering. She
is currently working as a Software QA Engineer at
Lab126, creator of the Amazon Kindle, and part of the
Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies.
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In MeMorIaM:
Paul Baran MS ’59 laid the foundation for the internet
Paul Baran MS ’59, a distinguished engineer,
inventor and entrepreneur whose best-known
invention of packet-switching laid the technologi-
cal foundation for the Internet, died at the age of
84 earlier this year.
Baran received his bachelor’s degree in electri-
cal engineering from Drexel university in 1949, and his master’s de-
gree in engineering from ucla in 1959 while also working at Hughes
aircraft company.
Following his move to the ranD corporation in the early 1960s,
Baran developed the concept of dividing information into “message
blocks” before sending them out across a network. each block would
be sent separately, then rejoined into a whole at their destination.
This concept was first developed during the cold War for keeping u.S.
telecommunications infrastructure intact following a “first strike.”
Baran left ranD in 1968 and co-founded the Institute for the
Future, a not-for-profit research group specializing in long range
forecasting. He was also a prolific inventor, creating several new
technologies. In all, he founded seven start-up companies, five of
which went public.
Baran received much recognition and many honors for his ac-
complishments, including the national Medal of Technology and
Innovation in 2008, election to the national Inventors Hall of Fame in
2007, and election to the national academy of engineering in 1996.
In 2009, the ucla Henry Samueli School of engineering and applied
Science presented Baran with the alumnus of the Year award, the
school’s highest honor.
“Paul was one of ucla engineering’s most accomplished and influ-
ential alumni,” said Dean Vijay K. Dhir. “He was a brilliant engineer,
whose technical vision and detailed concepts on packet switching
left a great legacy. and though he was well-deserving of the many,
many honors he received, Paul was always modest, humble and a role
model for engineering excellence.”
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2010sTiffany Tsao ’10 was recently promoted at NET-
GEAR, Inc. Also, Tsao holds a position on
the boards of directors for the Silicon Valley
Engineering Society and in the North American
Taiwanese Engineering & Science Association.
Tsao has also been the secretary for the Society
of Women Engineers in the Santa Clara Valley
section for the past two years.
Savvides, who was born on May 27, 2011. Savvides also
started a company, Seldera LLC, to develop intelligent
sensing solutions for a sustainable future. This company
will commercialize research from Yale in behavior interpre-
tation and energy efficiency using wireless sensors.
Joseph Hsiung ’05, MS ’06 and his wife Fiona ’05
welcomed the birth of their son, Daniel J.
Hsiung in February.
Joseph Vardner ’06 graduated from Harvard Law School cum
laude and begins work in the fall for the Department of
Justice’s Antitrust Division in Washington, DC.
Tim canan ’07 received an M.D. from the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA in June and started his
internal medicine residency at the Ronald Reagan UCLA
Medical Center. He is proud to be in his 10th consecutive
year as a Bruin!
carin (Siegerman) Folman PhD ’07 and her husband, Bill, wel-
comed the birth of their son Noah on April 8, 2011.
Philip Kao ’07, recently volunteered to work
with water treatment systems in rural
villages of Taiwan, China and Ecuador
for nine months. He implemented the first
water treatment system in the rural village
of Estero de Platano, Ecuador. This water
system facility now provides the safest and
most affordable water to the village when compared with
all the vendors available. Prior to this, Kao worked for
Accenture, a global IT consulting firm for three years. He
is now married to a fellow Bruin, ruth chiang ’05 (Psychology),
who is a first year resident for a pediatrician hospital.
They are happily living in the historic district of Orange
in Southern California. Kao’s blog can be found here:
http://hydrophilicmission.blogspot.com/
Jammie Peng ’09 recently graduated from Stanford University
with an MS in materials science and engineering. She
is currently working as a Software QA Engineer at
Lab126, creator of the Amazon Kindle, and part of the
Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies.
LEgaciEs
courtney O. Wong ’11 (civil) and
her parents stephen B. Wong ’71 (Zoology)
and nancy F. Wong
Peter chang ’11 (EE) and his
sister Helen chang Hall ’02
(Physiological science)
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EnrollmEnt 2010-11Undergraduates 3,301Master’sStudents 858DoctoralStudents 925Total 5,084
DEgrEEs AwArDED (2011 projEctions)B.S. 768M.S. 441Ph.D. 132Total 1,341
Full-time Faculty: 159
patents Awarded: 29
gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose: $21,648,599
publications: UCLA Engineering faculty published four books, 16 chapters, 409 journal articles and 351 conference proceedings.
Editorial postions: UCLA Engineering faculty held 38 editorships and 54 associate editorships.
research Expenditures: $100,479,387
2010-11 ANNUAL REPORT
fAcULTy AwARds 2010-11
DollArs by pUrposE 2010-2011
capital 45%
program research 33%
Faculty 10%
student support 7%
Discretionary 5%
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Albert carnesale, UCLA Chancellor
Emeritus and professor of public policy and
of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering. He was elected for “bringing
engineering excellence and objectivity to
international security and arms control,
and for leadership in higher education.”
Carnesale also received the Harvard Medal
in recognition of his many years of services
at the university.
Electrical engineering professor behzad
razavi has been selected to receive one
of IEEE’s most prestigious technical field
awards, the 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson
Award in Solid-State Circuits. Razavi is be-
ing recognized for his pioneering contribu-
tions to the design of high speed and high
frequency CMOS communication circuits.
yahya rahmat-samii, holder of the Northrop
Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics, has
received the 2011 IEEE Electromagnetics
Award for his “fundamental contributions
to reflector antennas, near-field measure-
ments and diagnostics, antenna and human
interactions, and optimization algorithms in
electromagnetics.” Rahmat-Samii was also
honored with a 2011 UCLA Distinguished
Teaching Award.
Professor tatsuo itoh, the Northrop Grumman
Chair in Electrical Engineering, was honored
with a Microwave Career Award at IEEE
MTT-S International Microwave Symposium.
This is the premier award from the Society.
jin Hyung lee, assistant professor of electrical
engineering, received a Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) award from the Na-
tional Science Foundation. It is the NSF’s most
prestigious award of support for junior faculty
who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
Lee also received a 2010 Okawa Foundation
Research Grant.
jennifer wortman Vaughan, assistant professor of
computer science, received a Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) award from the National
Science Foundation. It is the NSF’s most presti-
gious award of support for junior faculty who
exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
Three UCLA Engineering assistant professors
received a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator
Award: Dino Di carlo, of Bioengineering; yu Huang,
of Materials Science and Engineering; and jin
Hyung lee, of Electrical Engineering. The innova-
tor award supports creative new investigators with
highly innovative research ideas at an early stage
in their career.
Electrical engineering associate professor Aydogan
ozcan was selected as one of the top 10 innovators
by USAID, NASA, the U.S. Department of State
and NIKE, Inc. He also received one of Popular
Mechanics magazine’s 2010 Breakthrough Awards
for the development of his cellphone microscope.
annual report 2010-11
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EnrollmEnt 2010-11Undergraduates 3,301Master’sStudents 858DoctoralStudents 925Total 5,084
DEgrEEs AwArDED (2011 projEctions)B.S. 768M.S. 441Ph.D. 132Total 1,341
Full-time Faculty: 159
patents Awarded: 27
gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose: $21,648,599
publications: UCLA Engineering faculty published three books, 13 chapters, 354 journal articles and 321 conference proceedings
Editorial postions: UCLA Engineering faculty held 38 editorships and 54 associate editorships.
research Expenditures: ((to be determined, will give at later date))
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jennifer wortman Vaughan, assistant professor of
computer science, received a Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) award from the National
Science Foundation. It is the NSF’s most presti-
gious award of support for junior faculty who
exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
Three UCLA Engineering assistant professors
received a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator
Award: Dino Di carlo of Bioengineering; Yu Huang,
of Materials Science and Engineering; and jin
Hyung lee, of Electrical Engineering. The innova-
tor award supports creative new investigators with
highly innovative research ideas at an early stage
in their career.
Electrical engineering associate professor Aydogan
ozcan was selected as one of the top 10 innovators
by USAID, NASA, the U.S. Department of State
and NIKE, Inc. He also received one of Popular
Mechanics magazine’s 2010 Breakthrough Awards
for the development of his cellphone microscope.
In addition, he received USC’s Body Comput-
ing Slam Prize, a competition for up-and-
coming networked medicine research teams
at the annual Body Computing Conference
and the 2011 SPIE Early Career Achievement
Award, which recognizes innovative technical
contributions in optics and photonics.
Yi tang, professor of chemical and biomo-
lecular engineering, received the Society for
Industrial Microbiology’s Young Investigator
Award. The Award recognizes researchers
35 years of age or younger who have made a
significant research contribution in industrial
microbiology or biotechnology.
richard wirz, assistant professor of mechani-
cal and aerospace engineering, was awarded
a U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Research
Program grant, to study near-surface cusp
confinement of micro-scale plasma.
Electrical engineering professor Abeer Alwan
was selected a Fellow of the International
Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
for her significant contributions to the field of
speech communication science and technology.
Electrical engineering assistant professor chi
on chui was awarded the Chinese American
Faculty Association (CAFA) Robert T. Poe
Faculty Development Award for research on
cardiovascular disease diagnostic devices.
Also, a research team that included Chui and
graduate student Jorge Kina was awarded the
Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE
International Symposium on Defect and Fault
Tolerance in VLSI Systems.
jason cong, Chancellor’s Professor of Com-
puter Science, received the 2010 Technical
Achievement Award from the IEEE Circuits and
Systems (CAS) Society. The award recognizes
exceptional technical contributions to a field
within the scope of the society over a period
of years. Also, Cong, along with his former
Ph.D. student Eugene Ding (now with Xilinx),
received this year’s ACM/IEEE A. Richard
Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic
Design Automation at the 48th Design Auto-
mation Conference. The award was given for
“pioneering work on technology mapping” by a
paper published at least ten years prior.
UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir has
been appointed to the Aeronautics and
Space Engineering Board (ASEB). The ASEB
provides an independent, authoritative
forum for space engineering and aeronau-
tics research within the National Research
Council, the operating arm of The National
Academies.
Electrical engineering assistant professor
lara Dolecek was a recipient of an award
through the UCLA Hellman Fellows
Program. The program was established
through the kind generosity of the Hellman
Family Foundation to help promising young
professors take their research and creative
endeavors to a higher level. Twelve UCLA
faculty members were selected for this in the
program’s inaugural year.
Computer science professor petros Faloutsos
and his co-authors (Michalis Faloutsos and
Christos Faloutsos) won an ACM SIG-
COMM Test of Time Award 2010 for their
1999 paper “On Power Law Relationships of
the Internet Topology.”
Electrical engineering professors lei He and
mihaela van der schaar, and their students
Zhen Cao and Brian Foo, received the
2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Darlington Award for their paper titled
“Optimality and Improvement of Dynamic
Voltage Scaling Algorithms for Multimedia
Applications.”
Professor tatsuo itoh, the Northrop Grum-
man Chair in Electrical Engineering, was
honored with a Microwave Career Award
at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave
Symposium last month. This is the premier
award from the Society.
ted iwasaki, professor of mechanical and
aerospace engineering, received the 2010
Steve Hsia Biomedical Paper Award at the
World Congress on Intelligent Control and
Automation. The paper was co-authored
with Z. Chen of the University of Newcastle.
Civil and environmental engineering associ-
ate Professor jennifer jay was named the
2011 Pritzker Fellow. Established through a
gift from UCLA Institute of the Environment
and Sustainability (IoES) Advisory Board
Chair and businessman Tony Pritzker, the
Pritzker Fund supports teaching and cur-
riculum development at IoES.
UCLA mechanical and aerospace engineer-
ing professor Ann Karagozian received the
Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service
from the Department of the Air Force. The
award is the highest granted to civilians by
the United States Air Force.
pirouz Kavehpour, associate professor of me-
chanical and aerospace engineering, received
the 2010 L. E. Scriven Young Investigator
Award from the International Coating Sci-
ence and Technology, which honors innova-
tive work in interfacial fluid mechanics.
christopher lynch, professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering, received the 2011
Intersociety Adaptive Structures and Materi-
als Systems Prize from the ASME Aerospace
Division. The award recognizes significant
contributions to the sciences and technolo-
gies associated with adaptive structures and/
or materials systems.
shaily mahendra, assistant professor of civil
and environmental engineering, was named
a 2011 PopTech Science and Public Leader-
ship Fellow. Fellows are high-potential early-
and mid-career scientists recognized for their
work in areas of critical importance to the
nation and the planet. Mahendra was also
awarded a UCLA Hellman Fellowship.
Computer sciences professors todd millstein
and rupak majumdar received the ACM
SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI (Program-
ming Language Design and Implementation)
Paper Award for 2011. The award is given
each year for a paper that is ten years old
and has been highly influential in the area of
programming languages.
UCLA computer science professor judea
pearl was selected by the editorial board of
IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of 10 inaugu-
ral members of its Artificial Intelligence Hall
of Fame. Pearl was also nominated to present
an Institute of Mathematical Statistics (ISM)
Medallion Lecture at the Joint Statistical
Meetings (JSM)/ISM 2013 meeting. The
IMS Medallion nomination recognizes a
significant research contribution in statistics
and probability.
Computer science professor majid sar-
rafzadeh was recently honored as a keynote
speaker at the Eighth Annual Healthcare
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Unbound Conference. His speech ad-
dressed concerns over the cost and effec-
tiveness of America’s health care system.
�Ertugrul�Taciroglu and�Eric�Hoek, both
associate professors of civil and environ-
mental engineering, were each awarded
a 2011 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineer-
ing Research Prize. The prize recognizes
members of the American Society of
Civil Engineers who demonstrate notable
achievements in research related to civil
engineering.
�Mechanical and aerospace engineering
professor Tsu-Chin�Tsao and graduate
student Herrick Chang received the
Best Paper Award in the International
Symposium of Flexible Automation held
in Tokyo, Japan, July 2010, for the paper
“Repetitive Control of a Levitated Shaft
– FPGA Implementation based on Powell-
Chau Filters.”
�Electrical engineering professor John�Vil-
lasenor�was appointed as a nonresident
Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institu-
tion. This appointment recognizes Vil-
lasenor’s work addressing the technology
and policy aspects of cybersecurity.
�Two UCLA Engineering faculty members
were named IEEE fellows for its 2011
class. Electrical engineering professor
Chih-Kong�Ken�Yang was recognized for
leadership in enhancement of input-
output efficiency in integrated circuits.
Song-Chun�Zhu, professor of statistics and
computer science, was recognized for con-
tributions to statistical modeling, learning
and inference in computer vision.
Alumni New Academic AppointmentsJaafar El Awady PhD 2008
Mechanical Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Nasr Ghoniem
Vladimir Braverman PhD 2011
Computer Science
Whiting School of Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Rafail Ostrovsky
Gyungsu Byun PhD 2010
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
West Virginia University
Advisor: Frank Chang
Pei-Ling Chi PhD 2011
Electrical Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Advisor: Tatsuo Itoh
Yung-Chia Chiu PhD 2009
College of Ocean Science and Resource
National Taiwan Ocean University
Advisor: William Yeh
Youngjae Chun PhD 2009
Department of Industrial Engineering
Swanson School of Engineering, The University
of Pittsburg,
Advisor: Gregory J. Carman
Tien-Kan “TK” Chung PhD 2009
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
Advisor: Gregory J. Carman
Barton Forman PhD 2010
Civil and Environmental Engineering
A. James Clark School of Engineering,
University of Maryland
Advisor: Steve Margulis
Tae-Joon Jeon PhD 2008
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Inha Universty, South Korea
Advisor: Jacob Schmitt
Min Lee PhD 2007
Division of Advanced Prosthodontics,
Biomaterials, and Hospital Dentistry
UCLA School of Dentistry
Advisor: James Dunn
Sung-Hee Lee PhD 2008
Information and Communications
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Advisor: Demetri Terzopoulos
Uichin Lee PhD 2008
Knowledge Service Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology
Advisor: Mario Gerla
Anne Lemnitzer PhD 2009
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine
Advisors: Jonathan Stewart and John Wallace
Guojie Luo PhD 2011
Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
Peking University, Beijing, China
Advisor: Jason Cong
Nicholas Mastronarde PhD 2011
Electrical Engineering
The State University of New York at Buffalo
Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar
Nikki Meshkat PhD 2011
Mathematics
Santa Clara University
Advisor: Joe DiStefano
Claudio Palazzi PhD 2007
Computer Science
University of Padova, Italy
Advisor: Mario Gerla
Fernando Pereira PhD 2008
Computer Science
Univ. Federal de Minas Gerai, Brazil
Advisor: Jens Palsberg
Bibhudatta Sahoo PhD 2009
Electronics and Electrical Communication
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Advisor: Behzad Razavi
William Skeith III PhD 2011
Computer Science
City College of New York
Advisor: Rafail Ostrovsky
Lisa Star PhD 2011
Civil Engineering
California State University, Long Beach
Advisor: Jonathan Stewart
Tina T.-C. Tseng PhD 2011
Chemical Engineering
National Taiwan University of
Science and Technology
Advisor: Hal Monbouquette
Hideaki Tsutsui PhD 2009
Mechanical Engineering
Bourns College of Engineering, UC Riverside
Advisor: Chih-Ming Ho
Chia-Hsiang Yang PhD 2010
Electrical Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Advisor: Dejan Markovic
George Youssef PhD 2010
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
California State University, Northridge
Advisor: Vijay Gupta
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Guojie luo PhD 2011
Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
Peking University, Beijing, China
Advisor: Jason Cong
Nicholas Mastronarde PhD 2011
Electrical Engineering
The State University of New York at Buffalo
Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar
Nikki Meshkat PhD 2011
Mathematics
Santa Clara University
Advisor: Joe DiStefano
claudio Palazzi PhD 2007
Computer Science
University of Padova, Italy
Advisor: Mario Gerla
Fernando Pereira PhD 2008
Computer Science
Univ. Federal de Minas Gerai, Brazil
Advisor: Jens Palsberg
Bibhudatta Sahoo PhD 2009
Electronics and Electrical Communication
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Advisor: Behzad Razavi
William Skeith III PhD 2011
Computer Science
City College of New York
Advisor: Rafail Ostrovsky
lisa Star PhD 2011
Civil Engineering
California State University, Long Beach
Advisor: Jonathan Stewart
Tina T.-c. Tseng PhD 2011
Chemical Engineering
National Taiwan University of
Science and Technology
Advisor: Hal Monbouquette
Hideaki Tsutsui PhD 2009
Mechanical Engineering
Bourns College of Engineering, UC Riverside
Advisor: Chih-Ming Ho
chia-Hsiang Yang PhD 2010
Electrical Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Advisor: Dejan Markovic
George Youssef PhD 2010
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
California State University, Northridge
Advisor: Vijay Gupta
PoST-DocToral ScHolarS Emmanuel Baudrin
Faculté de Pharmacie, Institut de Chimie de
Picardie
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France
Post-doctoral advisor: Bruce Dunn
Fan Jin
Bio-X
University of Science & Technology, China
Post-doctoral advisor: Gerard Wong
Wonhee lee
Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology
Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology
Post-doctoral advisor: Dino Di Carlo
Noah Malmstadt
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California
Post-doctoral advisor: Jacob Schmitt
abhijit Mishra
Materials Science
India Institute of Technology at Ghandinagar
Post-doctoral and Ph.D. advisor: Gerard Wong
Fanyi ouyang
Industrial Engineering
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Post-doctoral advisor: King-Ning Tu
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi
Engineering and Mathematics
King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology, Saudi Arabia
Post-doctoral advisor: Stefano Soatto
Yongsheng Zhao
Institute of Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Science
Post-doctoral advisor: Qibing Pei
Endowed chair HoldersBen Rich Lockheed Martin
Endowed Chair in Engineering
chih-Ming Ho
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed
Chair in Engineering
Yang Yang
Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in
Electrical Engineering
alan Willson, Jr
Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Term
Chair in Civil Engineering Materials
Gaurav Sant
Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking
Deborah Estrin
Nippon Sheet Glass Company
Chair Materials Science
Bruce S. Dunn
Norman E. Friedmann Chair in
Knowledge Sciences
carlo Zaniolo
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical
Engineering/Electromagnetics
Yahya rahmat-Samii
Northrop Gruman Chair in
Electrical Engineering
Tatsuo Itoh
Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic
Chair in Electrical Engineering
Bahram Jalali
Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering
Kang Wang
Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair
in Civil Engineering
William Yeh
Rockwell International Chair in Engineering
J. John Kim
William Frederick Seyer Endowed Chair in
Materials Electrochemistry
Jane P. chang
Wintek Endowed Chair in
Electrical Engineering
M. c. Frank chang
cHaNcEllor’S ProFESSorS asad abidi
Jiun-Shyan (JS) chen
Jason cong
James c. liao
Demetri Terzopoulos
Mihaela van der Schaar
ucla Engineering Dean’s advisory councilDr. William F. Ballhaus, Jr.
CEO (Retired)
The Aerospace Corporation
Mr. charles Bergan
Vice President
Engineering Research & Development
Qualcomm
Mr. aaron S. cohen ’58
Vice Chairman and Founder
National Technical Systems
Mr. lou cornell, P.E.
Vice President
Southern California District Manager
AECOM
Dr. r. Paul crawford
Director of Health Research
Intel Labs
Mr. lucien “al” couvillon, Jr. ’62, MS ’66
Vice President for Corporate R&D (Retired)
Boston Scientific Corporation
Mr. richard a. croxall
Vice President and Chief Engineer (Retired)
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Dr. Siddhartha Dalal
Chief Technology Officer,
RAND Corporation
Dr. Vijay K. Dhir
Dean
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science
Mr. James l. Easton ’59
Chairman and President
Jas D. Easton, Inc.
Mr. Gary W. Ervin
Corporate Vice President and President
Aerospace Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Dr. B. John Garrick MS ’62, PhD ’68
President and CEO (Retired)
PLG, Inc.
Mr. Sam F. Iacobellis MS ’63
Deputy Chairman (Retired)
Rockwell International Corporation
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Dr. William A. Jeffrey
President and CEO
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Dr. Leslie M. Lackman
Adjunct Professor
Deputy Director, UCLA Engineering
Institute for Technology Advancement
Mr. Jeff Lawrence ’79
President and CEO
Clivia Systems
Dr. Steven D. Liedle
Project Manager
Bechtel Power Corporation
Mr. Rajeev Madhavan
Chairman and CEO
Magma Design Automation, Inc.
Ms. Joanne M. Maguire MS ’78, CERT ’89
Executive Vice President
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Group
Mr. Pankaj Patel
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Dr. Rami R. Razouk ’75, MS ’75, PhD ’80
Senior Vice President
Engineering and Technology
The Aerospace Corporation
Mr. Edward K. Rice
Chairman
CTS Cement Manufacturing Company
Dr. Kevin Riley
President
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
Dr. Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80
Co-founder
Broadcom Corporation
Mr. Gerald Solomon
Executive Director
Samueli Foundation
Dr. Dwight C. Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86
Professor
Director, UCLA Engineering
Institute for Technology Advancement
Mr. Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61
Electronics Consultant
Tannas Electronics
Mr. Murli Tolaney
Chairman
MWH Global, Inc.
Dr. John J. Tracy
CTO & SVP of Engineering,
Operations & Technology
The Boeing Company
Mr. Stephen Trilling CERT ’00
Vice President
Security Technology and Response
Symantec Corporation
Mr. Nicholas M. Uros ME ’84, CERT ’93
Vice President
Advanced Concepts and Technology
Raytheon Systems Company
Dr. David A. Whelan MS ’78, PhD ’83
Vice President, General Manager,
and Deputy to the President
The Boeing Company
Faculty Patents 2010–11Mechanical and aerospace engineering
professor Gregory J. Carman, Dong Gun Lee
and Motoki Ujihara were issued a patent
for energy harvesting by means of thermal-
mechanical device utilizing bistable
ferromagnets.
Electrical engineering professor M.C. Frank
Chang and Daquan Huang were issued a patent
for phase coherent differential structures.
Professor Chang, Huang and William Hant
were issued a patent for tunable artificial
dielectrics.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering
professor Yoram Cohen and Michal Uchymiak
were issued a patent for a method and system
for monitoring reverse osmosis membranes.
Computer science professor Mario Gerla and
M. Yahya Sanadidi were issued a patent for
high-throughput communication systems,
communication terminal, session relay, and
communication protocol.
Electrical engineering professor Lei He was
issued patents for a fast dual-VDD buffer
insertion and buffered tree construction for
power minimization; and for FPGA circuits
and methods considering process variations.
Electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh, Cheng
Jung Lee and Kevin M.K.H. Leong were issued a
patent for compact dual-band resonator using
anisotropic metamaterial.
Professor Itoh, Leong and Anthony Lai were
issued a patent on multi-band radiating elements
with composite right/left-handed metamaterial
transmission line.
Professor Itoh and Ji-Yong Park were issued a
patent for a self-based receiver system using a
multi-fed antenna.
Electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali, Jason
Chou and Daniel Solli were issued a patent for an
apparatus and method for Raman spectroscopy and
microscopy with time domain spectral analysis.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor
Vasilios Manousiouthakis was issued a patent for
hydrogen production by a thermochemical water
splitting cycle.
Professor Manousiouthakis and Alberto Posada
were issued a patent for a method for fabricating
a conduction-cooled high-temperature supercon-
ducting cable.
Materials science and engineering professor Qibing
Pei was issued a patent for materials for the forma-
tion of polymer junction diodes.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering associate pro-
fessor Laurent Pilon and Kamal Katika were issued a
patent for a time-resolved non-invasive optometric
device for medical diagnostic.
Materials science and engineering professors King-
Ning Tu and Ya-Hong Xie, along with Chang Ching
Yeh, were awarded a patent for methods of fabricat-
ing highly conductive regions in semiconductor
substrates for radio frequency applications.
Electrical engineering adjunct professor Ingrid
Verbauwhede and Kris J.V. Tiri were issued a
patent for logic systems for DPA and/or side
channel attack resistance.
Electrical engineering professor Richard Wesel,
Wen-Yen Weng and Andres Vila Casado were issued
a patent for variable-rate low-density parity check
codes with constant blocklength.
Bioengineering professor Benjamin Wu was issued
two patents for NELL-1 enhanced bone mineraliza-
tion; a patent for a NELL-1 peptide; and a patent for
pharmaceutical compositions for treating or prevent-
ing bone conditions.
annual report 2010-11
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Electrical engineering professor Tatsuo itoh, Cheng
Jung Lee and Kevin M.K.H. Leong were issued a
patent for compact dual-band resonator using
anisotropic metamaterial.
Professor itoh, Leong and Anthony Lai were
issued a patent on multi-band radiating elements
with composite right/left-handed metamaterial
transmission line.
Professor itoh and Ji-Yong Park were issued a
patent for a self-based receiver system using a
multi-fed antenna.
Electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali, Jason
Chou and Daniel Solli were issued a patent for an
apparatus and method for Raman spectroscopy and
microscopy with time domain spectral analysis.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor
Vasilios Manousiouthakis was issued a patent for
hydrogen production by a thermochemical water
splitting cycle.
Professor Manousiouthakis and Alberto Posada
were issued a patent for a method for fabricating
a conduction-cooled high-temperature supercon-
ducting cable.
Materials science and engineering professor Qibing
Pei was issued a patent for materials for the forma-
tion of polymer junction diodes.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering associate pro-
fessor Laurent Pilon and Kamal Katika were issued a
patent for a time-resolved non-invasive optometric
device for medical diagnostic.
Materials science and engineering professors King-
ning Tu and Ya-Hong Xie, along with Chang Ching
Yeh, were awarded a patent for methods of fabricat-
ing highly conductive regions in semiconductor
substrates for radio frequency applications.
Electrical engineering adjunct professor ingrid
Verbauwhede and Kris J.V. Tiri were issued a
patent for logic systems for DPA and/or side
channel attack resistance.
Electrical engineering professor richard Wesel,
Wen-Yen Weng and Andres Vila Casado were issued
a patent for variable-rate low-density parity check
codes with constant blocklength.
Bioengineering professor Benjamin Wu was issued
two patents for NELL-1 enhanced bone mineraliza-
tion; a patent for a NELL-1 peptide; and a patent for
pharmaceutical compositions for treating or prevent-
ing bone conditions.
Professor Xie was issued patents for Low crosstalk
substrate for mixed-signal integrated circuits; for
a quantum dot based optoelectronic device and
method of making same; and for a system control-
ling nucleation in self-assembled films.
Professor Xie and Jeehwan Kim were issued a
patent for a method of forming dislocation-free
strained thin films.
Materials science and engineering professor
Yang Yang was issued a patent for a transistor
with tunneling dust electrode.
Professor Yang and Jianyong Ouyang were
issued a patent for bistable nanoparticle-poly-
mer composite for use in memory devices.
Professor Yang and Elbert Wu were issued a
patent for a stacked layer electrode for organic
electronic device.
The 2011 Boelter Society Honor RollLifETiME MEMBErsThis honor roll gratefully acknowledges those
who have given $100,000 or more to support
the students and faculty of the UCLA Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied
Science over the course of their lifetime or
through their estate.
Degrees listed include UCLA alumni and
parents of engineering students.
Mr. Robert B. Allen
Dr. Paul Baran MS ’59
Mr. Balu Balakrishnan MS ’76
and Mrs. Mohini Balakrishnan
Mr. Harold S. Becker ME ’59
and Ms. Marilyn L. Becker
Dr. Mark Berman MS ’92, PhD ’95
and Ms. Sharon B. Berman ’91
Mr. Bernard L. Beskind ’62, ME ’66
and Mrs. Lois R. Beskind
Mr. John Burnett
Dr. Vinton G. Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72
and Ms. Sigrid L. Thorstenberg
Mr. Brian L. Cochran ’54
and Mrs. Nancy A. Cochran ’58
Mr. Aaron S. Cohen ’58
and Mrs. Nancy D. Cohen
Dr. Robert N. Crane MS ’65, PhD ’70
Mr. Ralph E. Crump ’50
and Mrs. Marjorie L. Crump ’46
Mr. Noel J. Deitrich ’67
Professor Roy Doumani
and Mrs. Carol Doumani
Mr. James L. Easton ’59
and Mrs. Phyllis F. Easton
Dr. Gerald Estrin
and Dr. Thelma Estrin
Dr. Christopher P. Ferguson ’86, PhD ’99
Mr. Barry J. Forman ’60, MS ’62
Ms. Dorothea H. Frederking
Dr. Norman E. Friedmann ’50, MS ’52, PhD ’57
and Dr. Irene C. Kassorla ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’68
Dr. B. John Garrick MS ’62, PhD ’68
and Ms. Amelia Garrick
Dr. Richard L. Gay ’73, MS ’73, PhD ’76
Dr. H. P. Gillis
Mr. Bruce E. Gladstone ’57, MS ’62
and Mrs. Beverly J. Gladstone ’59
Ms. Victoria F. Goldberg ’87, MBA ’93
Dr. Hisayo Graham MS ’60, PhD ’69
Dr. Larry B. Gratt ’62, MS ’64, PhD ’69
Dr. Armond Hairapetian ’87, MS ’88, PhD ’93
and Mrs. Elena Hairapetian ’96
Mr. Kevin G. Hall, Parent ’06
Dr. Robert Hawley MS ’91, PhD ’97
Mr. Jerome Hollander ’48
and Mrs. Sonya Hollander
Dr. Jau-Hsiung Huang MS ’85, PhD ’88
and Ms. Hua J. Chang MBA ’88
Mr. Hyley Huang, Parent ’09
Ms. Pearl Illg ’70
Mr. B. V. Jagadeesh
Mrs. Elizabeth Argue Knesel
Mr. Jeff Lawrence ’79
and Ms. Diane E. Troth MS ’81
Terence Lim ’92
Dr. Robert P. Lin
and Ms. Lily W. Lin
Mr. W. N. Lin, Parent ’11
Dr. Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92
and Ms. Jui-Chuan Yeh MPH ’96
Mr. Daniel C. Lynch MA ’65
Dr. Henry T. Nicholas, III ’82, MS ’85, PhD ’98
Ms. Stacey E. Nicholas ’85, MS ’87
Dr. Tracy Nishikawa MS ’85, PhD ’88
and Dr. Gail K. Masutani MS ’81, PhD ’88
Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan MS ’89, PhD ’92
Mr. Michael W. Phelps ’71, MS ’71
Mr. Richard W. Phillips ’68, MLS ’75
Dr. Simon Ramo
Dr. Charles P. Reames MS ’80, ENG ’82, PhD ’85,
and Mrs. Deborah A. Reames
Mr. Edward K. Rice
and Dr. Linda L. Rice
Dr. Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76 PhD ’80
and Ms. Susan F. Samueli
Dr. Shioupyn Shen PhD ’91
and Ms. Waishan Wu
Dr. Shiva Shivakumar ’94
Dr. Alfred W. Sommer
and Ms. Joyce Sommer
Mrs. Kirsten L. Sommer ’60
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
and Ms. Michelle C. Soon-Shiong
Professor Oscar M. Stafsudd, Jr. ’59, MS ’61, PhD ’67
and Mrs. Jacqueline Stafsudd ’69
Mr. Eugene P. Stein ’68
and Ms. Marilyn L. Stein
Mr. David E. Storrs ’82, MS ’83
Mr. Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61,
and Mrs. Carol A. Tannas, Parents ’85
Mr. Raymond M. Taylor, Jr. ’62, MS ’66,
MBA ’86
Dr. Spyros I. Tseregounis MS ’82, PhD ’84
and Dr. Linda P. B. Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84
Mr. Sumermal Vardhan
and Mrs. Raj Kumari Vardhan, Parents ’92, ’98
Mr. V. M. Watanabe ’72
Dr. Robert K. Williamson ’62, MS ’64, PhD ’69
and Mrs. Sandra Williamson
Dr. Tien-Tsai Yang PhD ’68
and Dr. Jane J. Yang PhD ’71, Parents ’92
Dr. William W. Yeh
and Dr. Jennie P. Yeh, PhD ’75
Anonymous donors
2010-2011 MEMBErsThis honor roll gratefully acknowledges gifts
made to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science from July 1,
2010 to June 30, 2011.
* 10th Anniversary Members
‡ 5th Anniversary Members
Dean’s Visionaries—$1,000,000 or more
Mr. Ralph E. Crump ’50
and Mrs. Marjorie L. Crump ’46
Mr. W. N. Lin, Parent ’11
Dr. Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80
and Ms. Susan F. Samueli
Dean’s Ambassadors—$100,000 to $999,999
Mr. Balu Balakrishnan MS ’76 and
Mrs. Mohini Balakrishnan
Mr. Aaron S. Cohen ’58
and Mrs. Nancy D. Cohen
Mr. James L. Easton ’59
and Mrs. Phyllis F. Easton
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Dr. Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92
and Ms. Jui-Chuan Yeh MPH ’96
Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan MS ’89, PhD ’92
Dr. Charles P. Reames MS ’80, ENG ’82, PhD ’85
and Mrs. Deborah A. Reames
Mr. Edward K. Rice
and Dr. Linda L. Rice
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
and Ms. Michele C. Soon-Shiong
Anonymous donor
Dean’s Scholars—$50,000 to $99,999
Dr. B. John Garrick MS ’62, PhD ’68
and Ms. Amelia Garrick
Ms. Peggy L. Johnson
and Mr. Eric S. Johnson, Parents ’12
Mr. Ryo Kokubu
Dr. Simon Ramo
Mr. Eric E. Schmidt
Dr. Shioupyn Shen PhD ’91
and Ms. Waishan Wu
Mr. Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61
and Mrs. Carol A. Tannas, Parents ’85
Mr. Vijayakumar Tella MS ’88
Dr. King-Ning Tu
Boelter Investors—$25,000 to $49,999
Mr. Mark Cuban
Boelter Fellows—$10,000 to $24,999
Mr. Raymond S. Beggs
Dr. Mark Berman MS ’92, PhD ’95
and Ms. Sharon B. Berman ’91
Dr. Mary E. Bosak ’72, MA ’72, EDD ’77
and Mr. Richard G. Somers
Ms. Yen-Ju Chen ’88
and Mr. Fai-Lon Kuo
Ms. Josephine Cheng ’75, MS ’77
and Mr. Michael Y. Pong
Ms. Jin Hee Choi
and Mr. Young Soo Cha, Parents ’14
Ms. Dorothea H. Frederking
Mrs. Marjorie R. Friedlander
Mr. Che-Yi Lin
Mr. Daniel C. Lynch MA ’65
Mrs. Rosita N. Mal
and Dr. Ajit K. Mal
Mr. Pankaj S. Patel, Parent ’06
Dr. Edwin B. Stear PhD ’61
and Mrs. Jo Ann Stear
Mr. Eugene P. Stein ’68
and Ms. Marilyn L. Stein
Dr. Spyros I. Tseregounis MS ’82, PhD ’84
and Dr. Linda P. B. Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84
Dr. Tien-Tsai Yang PhD ’68
and Dr. Jane J. Yang PhD ’71
Mr. Russell G. Yee
and Ms. Anne C. Wang Yee ’89
Mr. Allen M. Yourman, Jr. ’76, MS ’78
and Mrs. Kimberley E. Yourman ’73
Boelter Sponsors—$5,000 to $9,999
Mr. Andrew D. Africk ’88
and Mrs. Jackie Africk
Dr. Charles R. Baker MS ’63, PhD ’67
Mr. David C. Banks ’80, MS ’81
and Mrs. Judy Banks, Parents ’12
Dr. James D. Barrie ’83, MS ’85, PhD ’88
and Dr. Leslie A. Momoda ’85, MS ’87,
PhD ’90
Mr. Alan P. Cutter ’61, MBA ’64
Mr. Bob English ’82
and Ms. Anna M. Zara
Mr. Steven B. Fink ’74
and Mrs. Catherine Fink ’73
Dr. Kenneth I. Friedman ’61
Dr. William R. Goodin MS ’71, PhD ’75,
ME ’82
and Ms. Caroline Dockrell
Mr. Ernest R. Harris ’49
Mr. Andrew A. Holden, Parent ’12
Mr. Paul J. Jansen
and Ms. Deborah K. Jansen, Parents ’13
Mr. Russell W. Krieger, Jr. ’70
and Ms. Linda M. Krieger
Dr. Leslie M. Lackman
and Ms. Marjorie M. Lackman
Mr. Jeff Lawrence ’79
and Ms. Diane E. Troth ’80, MS ’81
Mr. Kenneth H. Ma ’83, MS ’84
and Mrs. Linda Ma
Ms. Carol L. Massey, Parent ’13
Mr. Jerry Y. Ogawa ’69
Ms. Rica Orszag ’93
and Mr. Jonathan M. Orszag
Mr. Marvin Rubinstein ’53
Mr. David S. Sabih MS ’62
Mr. Thierry Sanglerat
and Mrs. Rita Y. Sanglerat, Parents ’12
Mr. Tom Shiokari ’50, MS ’60‡
and Mrs. Nobuko Shiokari‡
Dr. George S. Stern ’58, MA ’59, PhD ’64
and Mrs. Adele R. Stern
Mr. David K. Triolo ’80‡
Dr. Yang Yang
and Mrs. Danmei Lee
Anonymous donor
Boelter Associates—$2,500 to $4,999
Dr. William Ballhaus, Jr.
and Mrs. Jane Ballhaus
Mr. Robert J. Barker ’68, MBA ’70
and Ms. Ildiko V. Barker
Mr. Benton Bejach*
and Mrs. Wanlyn Bejach*
Dr. Gary H. Burdorf ’87, MS ’89, PhD ’93
and Mrs. Sherry L. Burdorf ’86, MBA ’90
Mr. Douglas Corbett ’73
and Ms. Lisa L. Corbett
Mrs. Natalie W. Crawford ’61
Dr. Vijay K. Dhir
and Ms. Komal Dhir
Mr. Navin H. Doshi
and Ms. Pratima Doshi
Dr. Dennis J. Drag MS ’69, PhD ’82
and Mrs. Leslie A. Drag
Dr. Richard L. Gay ’73, MS ’73, PhD ’76
Dr. Hisayo Graham MS ’60, PhD ’69
Mr. Robert A. Green ’72, JD ’75
and Ms. Judy A. Green, Parents ’03
Mr. Paul E. Griffin, Jr. ’53
and Mrs. Gloria N. Griffin ’61
Dr. Gene C. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67
and Ms. Gwendolyn O. Gritton
Dr. Carl E. Hess
and Ms. Tracy L. Pirnack, Parents ’11
Mr. Jeffrey A. Houck
and Ms. Monica C. Houck, Parents ’12
Dr. Francis H. Kishi ’53, MS ’58, PhD ’63
Mr. Keith R. Leonard, Jr. ’84, MBA ’95
and Ms. Nanette L. Leonard ’84
Ms. Judy P. Liu
Mr. Gary E. MacDougal ’58
and Ms. Charlene MacDougal
Dr. Asad M. Madni ’69, MS ’72
and Mrs. Gowhartaj A. Madni, Parents ’08
Ms. Roxann M. Marumoto ’85, MS ’87‡
and Mr. David H. Julifs‡
Mr. Brian N. Mc Innis ’95
Mr. Craig R. Moles MS ’89
and Mrs. Nancy L. Moles
Mr. James Murray ’70, MS ’71‡
and Ms. Carol L. Donald‡
Mr. Carey S. Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95‡
Dr. Dodd R. Portman
and Mrs. Lucia Portman, Parents ’12
Mr. Kenneth W. Privitt ’77, MS ’80
and Mrs. Nancy G. Privitt ’78
Mr. Chulanur P. Ramakrishnan
and Ms. Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10
annual report 2010-11
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Boelter Associates—$2,500 to $4,999
Dr. William Ballhaus, Jr.
and Mrs. Jane Ballhaus
Mr. Robert J. Barker ’68, MBA ’70
and Ms. Ildiko V. Barker
Mr. Benton Bejach*
and Mrs. Wanlyn Bejach*
Dr. Gary H. Burdorf ’87, MS ’89, PhD ’93
and Mrs. Sherry L. Burdorf ’86, MBA ’90
Mr. Douglas Corbett ’73
and Ms. Lisa L. Corbett
Mrs. Natalie W. Crawford ’61
Dr. Vijay K. Dhir
and Ms. Komal Dhir
Mr. Navin H. Doshi
and Ms. Pratima Doshi
Dr. Dennis J. Drag MS ’69, PhD ’82
and Mrs. Leslie A. Drag
Dr. Richard L. Gay ’73, MS ’73, PhD ’76
Dr. Hisayo Graham MS ’60, PhD ’69
Mr. Robert A. Green ’72, JD ’75
and Ms. Judy A. Green, Parents ’03
Mr. Paul E. Griffin, Jr. ’53
and Mrs. Gloria N. Griffin ’61
Dr. Gene C. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67
and Ms. Gwendolyn O. Gritton
Dr. Carl E. Hess
and Ms. Tracy L. Pirnack, Parents ’11
Mr. Jeffrey A. Houck
and Ms. Monica C. Houck, Parents ’12
Dr. Francis H. Kishi ’53, MS ’58, PhD ’63
Mr. Keith R. Leonard, Jr. ’84, MBA ’95
and Ms. Nanette L. Leonard ’84
Ms. Judy P. Liu
Mr. Gary E. MacDougal ’58
and Ms. Charlene MacDougal
Dr. Asad M. Madni ’69, MS ’72
and Mrs. Gowhartaj A. Madni, Parents ’08
Ms. Roxann M. Marumoto ’85, MS ’87‡
and Mr. David H. Julifs‡
Mr. Brian N. Mc Innis ’95
Mr. Craig R. Moles MS ’89
and Mrs. Nancy L. Moles
Mr. James Murray ’70, MS ’71‡
and Ms. Carol L. Donald‡
Mr. Carey S. Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95‡
Dr. Dodd R. Portman
and Mrs. Lucia Portman, Parents ’12
Mr. Kenneth W. Privitt ’77, MS ’80
and Mrs. Nancy G. Privitt ’78
Mr. Chulanur P. Ramakrishnan
and Ms. Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10
Dr. Peter B. Sender
and Mrs. Haya S. Sender, Parents ’09
Mr. Akira Shinoda ’67
Mrs. Minda S. Sizto
and Mr. Ning C. Sizto, Parents ’10
Mrs. Judy S. Snow
and Mr. William R. Snow, Parents ’12
Mr. Alex Spataru ’70, MBA ’79
and Ms. Anne-Marie Spataru MBA ’78
Mr. Lee M. Stewart ’67*
and Ms. Sue G. Stewart*
Dr. Dwight C. Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86
and Ms. Deborah Streit
Mr. Robert E. Vitali ’76, MS ’78
Dr. Kin Wah Wong PhD ’77
Dr. Ren Xu PhD ’92
and Ms. Jane Zhang ’05
Boelter Contributors—$1,000 to $2,499
Mr. John S. Adams ’62
and Ms. Arlene G. Adams
Mr. Darren Aghabeg ’89
and Mrs. Angela Aghabeg
Dr. Song-Haur An MS ’81, ENG ’83, PhD ’86
and Mrs. Agnes An
Mrs. Cynthia A. Arnell
and Dr. Richard E. Arnell, Parents ’12
Dr. Ethan Aronoff PhD ’71
and Mrs. Barbara Aronoff
Dr. Pramod P. Bansal PhD ’72
and Ms. Manju Bansal
Mr. Fred J. Barker
and Mrs. Su Barker, Parents ’14
Dr. John R. Barr MS ’70, PhD ’78
and Ms. Mary E. Barr
Dr. Richard S. Baty PhD ’70*
and Mrs. Linda S. Baty*
Dr. Eric P. Bescher MS ’89, PhD ’97
Mr. Stevan A. Birnbaum ’65
Mr. Glen Boe ’60
and Ms. Jean E. Boe
Mr. Henry W. Burgess MS ’75
and Ms. Cindy Burgess
Mr. J. Steven Chaffin
and Mrs. Janice D. Chaffin MBA ’81
Mr. Paul H. Chandler MS ’74
and Mrs. Kathleen R. Chandler
Mr. Benny C. Chang ’70, MS ’72
and Ms. Janet B. Chang ’77
Mr. Leang-Kai Chang
and Ms. Li-Chu Wu, Parents ’13
Mrs. Shelly Chang
and Dr. Frank M. Chang, Parents ’03
Mr. Stanley E. Charles ’56, MS ’68
and Mrs. Mary Louise Charles ’60
Mr. Eddie C. Chau ’89
Mr. Charles C. Chen MS ’91
and Ms. Ping S. Chen
Dr. Chih Chen MS ’98, PhD ’99
Professor In-Gann Chen
Professor Jen-Sue Chen
Mr. Chii-Fa Chiou
and Mrs. Ellia W. Chiou, Parents ’07, ’11
Dr. Wesley W. Chu
and Ms. Julia Chu
Mr. Abraham Chuang ’97
Mr. Stephen R. Clapp ’82
and Mrs. Mari M. Clapp, Parents ’12
Mr. Neal M. Cohen ’87
and Ms. Adrienne D. Cohen ’86
Mrs. Kathleen Y. Coleman JD ’84
and Mr. Joseph L. Coleman, Parents ’14
Mr. Karal D. Cottrell ’60
and Mrs. Ann R. Cottrell
Mr. Casey Crandall MS ’76
Ms. Arlene O. Dabbs ’80
Mr. Curtis L. Dahlberg ’73
Mr. Patrick W. Dennis ’76, MS ’78,
MBA ’82, JD ’82‡
and Ms. Nancy L. Dennis ’79‡
Mr. Michael Deutsch ’78, MS ’80
and Mrs. Elena Deutsch
Mrs. Nirmala Dharmaraja
and Mr. Prithviraj Dharmaraja, Parents ’11
Dr. Bruce S. Dunn MS ’72, PhD ’74
and Ms. Wendy R. Dunn
Dr. Mordecai N. Dunst ’75, MA ’78
and Mrs. Karen R. Dunst, Parents ’13
Dr. Paul R. Eggert MS ’77, PhD ’80
and Mrs. Stacey Byrnes
Mrs. Melissa M. Eldredge
and Mr. Charles H. Eldredge, Parents ’13
Mr. Augustine M. Esogbue ’64
Mr. Mark A. Ethington ’86
and Ms. Lisa M. Ethington
Mr. Gregory A. Fountain
and Dr. Annette C. Fountain, Parents ’13
Mrs. Jean K. Futami MBA ’87
and Mr. Norman A. Futami, Parents ’13
Dr. Terry N. Gardner PhD ’75
and Ms. Shifra Gardner
Mr. Arnold J. Gaunt ’86‡
Dr. Rodney C. Gibson MS ’66, PhD ’69
and Mrs. Nancy P. Gibson, Parents ’92
Dr. Albert J. Glassman PhD ’71
Dr. Thomas P. Goebel PhD ’69
Mrs. Patricia T. Gonzalez
and Mr. Ruben R. Barba, Parents ’08
Mr. Arnold Hackett ’87
Dr. William Hant PhD ’70
and Dr. Myrna A. Hant ’64, PhD ’87, Parents ’96
Mr. Frank J. Hanzel, Jr. ’79, MS ’81
Mr. Adam D. Harmetz ’05
and Ms. Helen A. Seliverstov ’04
Mr. Jan C. Harzan ’76
and Ms. Annette Harzan
Mr. John M. Haworth
Mr. Paul J. Heinrich
and Mrs. Sharron L. Heinrich ’82, Parents ’08
Mr. Wai K. Ho ’78, MS ’79‡
and Mrs. Sou K. Ho‡
Mrs. Hsiou-Ling C. Hsiang, Parent ’13
Mr. Linden Hsu ’91
Dr. Jerry Q. Huang MS ’88, PhD ’93
and Ms. Zhen Fu
Mr. Stephen D. Ishmael MS ’76
Dr. Takashi Iwamoto MS ’92, PhD ’95
Mr. Reginald Jue MS ’80‡
and Ms. Kathryn C. Jue‡
Mr. Henry G. Jung ’87
Dr. Ann Renee Karagozian ’78
and Dr. Theodore Aram Sarafian
Mr. Andrew E. Katz ’69, JD ’72
and Mrs. Denise L. Katz
Dr. Paul Kazimiroff
and Ms. M. Renee Mc Reynolds, Parents ’12
Mr. David W. Kim ’98, MS ’01
Dr. Harqkyun Kim PhD ’96
Dr. Seon Myung Kim PhD ’90
Dr. Sheung K. Kim PhD ’82
and Ms. Chin E. Kim
Dr. Yong U. Kim MS ’83, PhD ’87*
and Ms. Elizabeth Kim*
Mr. JamYuen Ko MS ’92
Ms. Jenny G. Ko JD ’97
and Dr. Loren A. Chow PhD ’99
Mr. Kerry H. Kokubun, Parent ’12
Mrs. Rosalie K. Kuhlmann ’91
Mrs. Lillian H. Kusayanagi
Mr. Shane P. Lansing MS ’98
Mr. Robert C. Leamy ’70
and Mrs. Patricia Watts Leamy ’70
Mr. Robert Gerard Lepore ’76, MS ’78
and Ms. Lori E. Lepore, Parents ’14
Mr. Ralph C. Levin ’51
Mr. Nigel N. Liang MS ’06
and Ms. Wei-Chi Lin MS ’07
Dr. Chien-Neng Liao PhD ’99
Professor Kwang-Lung Lin
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Mr. Shawmo E. Lin
and Mrs. Grace Lin, Parents ’12
Dr. Chengyi Liu
Mr. Yuk C. Lo ’84
Dr. Gordon Lu
Ms. Cindy W. Ma ’99, MS ’02
Dr. Akio Makishima
and Mrs. Yumiko Makishima
Mr. John D. Mc Donnell ’60, MS ’65
and Mrs. Donna M. Mc Donnell
Mr. Roger P. Murry, Sr. ’73, MS ’76
and Mrs. Catherine B. Murry
Mr. Don S. Myers ’64‡
and Mrs. Deborah K. Myers‡
Mr. Mas Nagami ’53
and Ms. Dorothy Nagami
Mr. Kenneth W. Nam
and Ms. Elena Nam, Parents ’12
Mr. Sean F. Nazareth ’92, MS ’94
and Ms. Julie J. Nazareth ’93
Dr. Richard Nesbit ’58, MS ’60, PhD ’63
and Mrs. Rose Marie Nesbit ’57
Dr. Andrew Kenneth Newman MS ’95, PhD ’05
and Ms. Amy Lam ’94
Dr. Howard S. Nussbaum ’71, MS ’72, PhD ’76
and Mrs. Deborah M. Nussbaum
Dr. Bill Overman ’73, PhD ’81
and Mrs. Rita Overman
Mr. Daniel C. Pappone ’77
and Ms. Syndie B. Meyer
Mrs. Asha S. Parikh
and Mr. Sanjay K. Parikh, Parents ’09
Mr. Chan K. Park ’91
and Mrs. Cindy S. Park
Mr. Brian D. Pasion ’98, MS ’00
Mr. Christopher G. Peak
and Mrs. Jacquelyn J. Weber, Parents ’12
Mr. Daniel J. Peterson ’80
and Mrs. Lisa J. Peterson ’81
Dr. Michael Y. Pines MS ’71, PhD ’75
and Ms. Elaine W. Pines
Mr. Steven D. Powell ’00, MBA ’10
Dr. Alfonso F. Ratcliffe ’51, MS ’63, PhD ’70
and Mrs. Dolores C. Ratcliffe
Mrs. Mary Lee Ray
and Mr. James C. Ray, Jr., Parents ’11
Mr. Joseph J. Rice ’88
and Mrs. Monica Rice
Mr. Dennis E. Rosenfeld, Parent ’12
Ms. Rhonda M. Sakaida ’81, MS ’84
Dr. Sumio Sakka
Mr. John P. Schauerman ’79
and Ms. Claudia H. Schauerman
Dr. Eve M. Schooler MS ’88
and Dr. Robert E. Felderman MS ’86, PhD ’91
Mr. Van N. Schultz ’74, MS ’75
and Mrs. Susan R. Schultz ’75, Parents ’04
Mr. Hermann D. Schurr ’82, MS ’85
and Mrs. Juliet N. Schurr ’82, MS ’86,
Parents ’12
Mr. Stephen S. Schwartz, Parent ’13
Ms. Jill Baran Scott
and Mr. William M. Scott, Parents ’12
Mr. William H. Seaman
Dr. Durwin L. Sharp ’70, MBA ’74, PhD ’79
and Ms. Christianne Melanson
Mr. Takashi Shiozaki ’69
and Mrs. Leslie E. Shiozaki
Mr. Steve J. Shire
and Ms. Maria Yang, Parents ’13
Dr. Michael W. Sievers ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’80‡
and Mrs. Charlene M. Sievers‡
Mr. Yet M. Siu ’53
and Mrs. Marion L. Siu, Parents ’75, ’77, ’78
Ms. Cynthia C. Smith
and Mr. Bruce J. Smith ’65
Mr. David P. Smith MS ’68
Mr. Justin M. Sobaje ’99, MS ’00, JD ’04
Dr. Bart B. Sokolow ’70, MS ’73, DENV ’77
and Ms. Harriet J. Scharf
Dr. Craig W. Somerton ’76, MS ’79, PhD ’82
Mrs. Kenlyn Somppi-Emerson ’83, MBA ’90
Mr. Ronald S. Squires
and Ms. Sherri L. Squires, Parents ’12
Mrs. Padmini Srinivasan
and Mr. V. V. Srinivasan, Parents ’12
Dr. Michael K. Stenstrom
Dr. Jongook Suh MS ’05, PhD ’06
Mr. Steve Suryan ’87
and Mrs. Karen Suryan
Mr. John Susnir ’51, CTSE ’62
and Ms. Gloria M. Susnir
Mr. Jeremy L. Switzer ’98, MBA ’07‡
and Ms. Midco Kit-Lui Switzer‡
Ms. Elizabeth Tarbuck
Mr. David Ting ’93, MBA ’01
and Ms. Grace H. Ting ’93
Mr. Yuji Toriyama
and Ms. Teruko Toriyama, Parents ’12
Mr. Ghassan Toubia ’81
Mr. Che M. Tsai ’88
and Ms. Josan C. Chen
Dr. Frank C. Tung PhD ’68
and Ms. Roberta T. Tung
Mr. John K. Vallens ’00
Mr. Jonathan A. Walcott ’02
Dr. Christopher W. Walker
Dr. George R. Wang MS ’85, PhD ’90
and Ms. Sharon S. Wu
Mrs. Shirley C. Wang
and Dr. Raymond Wang, Parents ’10
Mr. Jeffrey S. Way ’76
and Mrs. Linda K. Way
Mr. Leonard Wexler ’64, MS ’68
and Ms. Anita J. Wexler ’62
Mr. Charles E. Wilcoxson ’85, MBA ’94
and Ms. Jeanine W. Wilcoxson
Mr. Kenneth Wolfe
and Ms. Elaine D. Wolfe, Parents ’94
Mr. Kim Fan Wong
and Ms. Christine F. Ng, Parents ’12
Dr. Albert T. Wu PhD ’05
Dr. Ben M. Wu‡
and Mrs. Betty Wu‡
Dr. Yuhuan Xu PhD ’95
Dr. Masayuki Yamane
Dr. Everett Yeh
Dr. William W. Yeh
and Dr. Jennie P. Yeh, PhD ’75
Dr. Ian Yip
and Dr. Marion K. Ho, Parents ’14
Dr. Shigeru Yoshida
Mr. Farouk Youssef
and Dr. Laila Hanna, Parents ’11
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Mr. Yuji Toriyama
and Ms. Teruko Toriyama, Parents ’12
Mr. Ghassan Toubia ’81
Mr. Che M. Tsai ’88
and Ms. Josan C. Chen
Dr. Frank C. Tung PhD ’68
and Ms. Roberta T. Tung
Mr. John K. Vallens ’00
Mr. Jonathan A. Walcott ’02
Dr. Christopher W. Walker
Dr. George R. Wang MS ’85, PhD ’90
and Ms. Sharon S. Wu
Mrs. Shirley C. Wang
and Dr. Raymond Wang, Parents ’10
Mr. Jeffrey S. Way ’76
and Mrs. Linda K. Way
Mr. Leonard Wexler ’64, MS ’68
and Ms. Anita J. Wexler ’62
Mr. Charles E. Wilcoxson ’85, MBA ’94
and Ms. Jeanine W. Wilcoxson
Mr. Kenneth Wolfe
and Ms. Elaine D. Wolfe, Parents ’94
Mr. Kim Fan Wong
and Ms. Christine F. Ng, Parents ’12
Dr. Albert T. Wu PhD ’05
Dr. Ben M. Wu‡
and Mrs. Betty Wu‡
Dr. Yuhuan Xu PhD ’95
Dr. Masayuki Yamane
Dr. Everett Yeh
Dr. William W. Yeh
and Dr. Jennie P. Yeh, PhD ’75
Dr. Ian Yip
and Dr. Marion K. Ho, Parents ’14
Dr. Shigeru Yoshida
Mr. Farouk Youssef
and Dr. Laila Hanna, Parents ’11
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Roll. If you discover an error or omission,
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