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Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Electrical Engineering

Annual Report 2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5

Message from the new Department Chair: Gregory J. Pottie 3

New Dean of Engineering: Jayathi Y. Murthy 4

New Faculty

- Sam Coogan 5

- Ankur Mehta 6

- Chee Wei Wong 7

Endowment/Donors

- Mukund Padmanabhan donates $2.5M for Semiconductor Lab 8

Faculty Highlights

- Asad Abidi: UC Berkeley EECS Distinguished Alumnus 9

- Aydogan Ozcan Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor 10

- Asad Madni Elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and Eminent Member of IEEE-HKN 11

- Tatsuo Itoh Received Honorary Degree from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 12

- Bahram Jalali Received IET Achievement Medal 12

- Mona Jarrahi Named Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences & Lot Shafai Mid-Career Award by IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 13

- Yahya Rahmat-Samii: Novel Antenna Concepts for Brain-Machine Interface System 14

- Eli Yablanovitch wins Isaac Newton Medal from the Institute of Physics 16

- Fast Track and New Community College Partnerships 16

Student Clubs: - UCLA IEEE Student Chapter 17

- UCLA HKN 17

Outstanding Student and Teaching Awards 18

In Memoriam: Professor A.V. Balakrishnan, 1922-2015 19

Members of National Academies 20

Electrical Engineering Faculty

- Circuits and Embedded Systems 22

- Physical and Wave Electronics 26

- Signals and Systems 30

Department Overview 34

Alumni Advisory Board 36

Students in Academia 37

Industrial Relations: Electrical Engineering Partnerships 38

- MediaTek Fellows: Hsinhung Alvin Chen & Zuow-Zun Joseph Chen 38

New Books by Faculty 39

Table of Contents

Electrical Engineering 2014-20152

UCLA Electrical Engineering:

Transforming Lives, Transforming the World

T he UCLA Electrical Engineering Departmentserves the State and the Nation by advancing thestate of the art through its research programs and

by teaching the next generation of electrical engineersthe fundamentals and practical skills required for suc-cess. We are part of a proud tradition in which electricalengineers have devised inventions that have transformedour civilization through near-instantaneous electroniccommunication, ubiquitous availability of power throughthe electrical grid, electronic computers, digital camerasand displays, and advanced signal processing that enablesmachines to respond to speech, images, and sensor dataat massive scales.

Among many other accomplishments, researchers inthe UCLA EE Department have enabled radios to befabricated on a single integrated circuit, laying the foun-dations of the explosive applications of wireless technol-ogy and devised the basic wireless sensor networktechnology that underlies the coming Internet of Thingsrevolution. Other research accomplishments for whichour faculty have been recognized include developmentof space-based antennas, advances in microwave circuits,development of sensors for the transportation and aerospace industries, advances in control systems foraerospace, and development of fundamental advances indigital signal processing. Our faculty is dedicated toteaching, research and service, constantly seeking to improve how we serve our students and alums andreaching out to the broader community. Our alumni arepillars of the aerospace, semiconductor, and telecommu-nication industries, and beyond this have pursued abroad range of pursuits including entrepreneurship, law,engineering consulting, and academia. Our students arehighly qualified and bring many gifts of scholarship,service, and inventiveness. Our student chapters of HKNand IEEE are outstanding, consistently winning nationalawards as they pursue service roles and design competi-

tions. In the best tradition of the profession, the UCLAEE Department welcomes change and new challengesand looks forward to continuing to provide the highquality research and educational experiences our stake-holders expect and deserve. Whether you want to learnmore about electrical engineering, to become a student,to plan your studies, to explore how you can become in-volved in our research mission, or to understand howcontinued involvement with the Department can advance your career or company, on behalf of the Department, I welcome you and encourage you in yourexplorations. — Gregory J. Pottie

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Message from the Chair

Gregory J. PottieChairman

Iam pleased to announce the appointment of Jayathi Y.Murthy as Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineeringand Applied Science (HSSEAS), effective January 1, 2016.Professor Murthy is the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Depart-

ment Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineeringat The University of Texas at Austin ( January 2012-pre-sent). She served as director of PRISM: NNSA Centerfor Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivabilityof Microsystems (2008-2014). A member of the facultyat Purdue University from 2001 to 2011, ProfessorMurthy served as the Robert V. Adams Professor in theSchool of Mechanical Engineering. At Carnegie Mel-lon University, she served as associate professor of me-

chanical engineering (1998-2001) and director of theThermal Management, Electronics Cooling, and Pack-aging Laboratory Institute for Complex EngineeredSystems (1999-2001). During her 1988-1998 employ-ment at Fluent Inc., a leading vendor of CFD software,she developed the unstructured solution-adaptive finitevolume methods underlying their flagship software Flu-ent, and the electronics cooling software package

ICEPAK. More recently, her research has addressed sub-micron thermal transport, multiscale multiphysics sim-ulations of MEMS and NEMS, and uncertaintyquantification in these systems.

Professor Murthy received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, an M.S.from Washington State University and a B. Tech fromthe Indian Institute of Technology. She is the recipientof many honors including the IBM Faculty PartnershipAward 2003-2005, the 2009 ASME EPPD Woman En-gineer of the Year Award, the 2012 ASME EPPD ClockAward and numerous best paper awards. In 2012, she wasnamed a distinguished alumna of the Indian Institute of

Technology. Professor Murthyserves on the editorial boards ofNumerical Heat Transfer and International Journal of ThermalSciences and is an editor of the2nd edition of the Handbook ofNumerical Heat Transfer. She is amember of the American Societyof Mechanical Engineers and theauthor of more than 280 techni-cal publications. In addition, shehas served on numerous nationalcommittees and panels on elec-tronics thermal management andCFD.

I want to thank the search/ad-visory committee for assemblingan outstanding pool of candidatesand for its role in recruiting Jay-athi. The committee was chairedby Joseph Rudnick, Dean of theDivision of Physical Sciences.Other members were: Asad Abidi,Jane Chang, Linda Demer, BruceDunn, Carlos Grijalva, Chih-Ming Ho, Eric Hoek, Diana Huf-

faker, Richard Kaner and Richard Korf. I also want torecognize and thank Dean Vijay Dhir for his distinguishedleadership of the school since February 2002.

Chancellor Block and I are confident that HSSEAS willreach new heights under Jayathi’s leadership. Please joinme in congratulating her and welcoming her to UCLA.Scott L. WaughExecutive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Jayathi Y. Murthy Appointed as Dean of the HSSEAS


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Jayathi Y. Murthy

Control of Networked Systems and Applications to Transportation

Professor Sam Coogan’s research focuses on correct-by-design control of networked systems to ensurethese systems behave as expected and required. Engi-

neered systems are increasingly composed of intercon-nected components, often designed in isolation, resulting incomplex networked systems. At the same time, our increased dependence on these systems implies that wemust be able to guarantee their correct behavior. His research draws from domains including control and dynamical systems theory, formal methods in computerscience, and optimization. The work emphasizes applica-tions to transportation systems where connected vehiclesand connected infrastructure provide new opportunitiesfor safety and efficiency.

Control and Verification of Networked Cyber-Physical SystemsNetworked systems often consist of physical componentscoupled through the tight integration of digital computa-tion and communication. These networked cyber-physicalsystems pose unique challenges for control and verifica-tion. For example, such systems include physical compo-nents that are often controlled over communicationchannels with finite capacity that imply a finite range ofinputs, or are operated with software that, at any point intime, is executing one of a finite number of routines. Thephysical components require a continuous model to cap-ture physically relevant states such as position and velocity,while other components, such as software and communi-cation, often rely on discrete models of operation. Analyz-ing the networked systems requires a hybrid approach thatcombines these continuous and discrete elements.

The key to obtaining tractable algorithms for control andverification of networked cyber-physical systems is to ex-ploit structure inherent in the physical components andtheir interconnection. Professor Coogan’s research hasshown that models for the controlled flow of physical ma-terial among a network of interconnected componentspossess mixed monotonicity structure that generalizes thewell-known notion of monotone dynamical systems.

Formal Methods in ControlControl theory has traditionally explored relatively simpleobjectives of system behavior such as stabilizing a systemaround an equilibrium point or ensuring that the systemdoes not enter an unsafe operating condition. In contrast,algorithmic tools in computer science have been developedto provide formal guarantees for the correct behavior of

complex software and hardware systems. These formalmethods ensure bank transactions are secure, communica-tion and computation are reliable, and autopilots operatesafely. Existing techniques apply to software, but don’t ac-commodate the rich variability of the physical world.

Professor Coogan’s research brings the tools of formalmethods to control theory so that a control system’s closed-loop behavior is guaranteed to satisfy similarly diverse ob-jectives, for instance to guarantee your morning commuteis short and your carshare fare is cheap. Developing formalmethods for control systems requires new techniques forabstracting dynamical, continuous-state systems to finitemodels amenable to formal verification and synthesis al-gorithms. A primary focus of Professor Coogan’s researchis to develop the necessary theory and practical algorithmsto ensure that these techniques scale well with system size.

Efficient and Intelligent Transportation SystemsMuch of Professor Coogan’s research is motivated by thepractical problems found in next generation transportationsystems, which are particularly rich examples of networked,cyber-physical systems. These next generation transporta-tion systems will need to operate efficiently in densely pop-ulated environments, accommodate new technologiesamong legacy systems, and intelligently incorporate newdata and communication for improved safety and mobil-ity. His research has shown that modeling traffic flow as acompartmental dynamical system provides a theoreticalfoundation for optimal traffic flow control and congestionanalysis. Professor Coogan seeks to develop the mathe-matical theory and algorithms to solve these and other ap-plication-driven problems in complex, networked systems.


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Sam Coogan

Professor Ankur Mehta envisions a future with wide-spread integration of robots into everyone’s everydaylife. From home and office automation to education to

healthcare, ubiquitious robotics promises to greatly im-prove overall quality of life. Such pervasive cyber-physicalsystems must often deliver uniquely specified functionality,requiring the on-demand creation of custom robots. Func-tional specifications must be interpreted then resolved intointegrated electromechanical mechanisms. Designs mustbe efficiently verified, validated, and optimized. The gener-ated systems must be manufactured and then programmedto execute the required tasks.

Professor Mehta’s work takes an interdisciplinary ap-proach to addressing theory and systems issues both indi-vidually and in networked swarms. Just as we can addressany computational problem by saying “there’s an app forthat,” his research aims to bring that paradigm into the realworld — for any physical task: “there’s a robot for that.”

On-Demand DesignProducing a new robotic system today typically requiresdomain-specific expertise across a range of disciplines. Todemocratize access to robotics and put the creation of cus-tom devices into the hands of the end users, ProfessorMehta uses computational tools to generate integratedrobot designs from high-level descriptions. His recent worktowards such a hardware compiler was awarded the 2014IROS best paper award: a system that encapsulates me-chanical, electrical, and software design elements into acommon software-defined-hardware infrastructure, allow-ing custom programmed electromechanical devices by hi-erarchically connecting existing library components todefine their robot design. The compiler outputs everythingnecessary to manufacture, program, and control the speci-fied design in its entirety.

Current work on the hardware compiler focuses onadding further automation to the design system. ProfessorMehta is investigating the use of structured or natural lan-guage inputs to generate designs from high-level functionalor task-based specifications. These designs can be simu-lated and analyzed, and the results can be fed back to re-fine an auto-generated design.

Rapid fabricationThe goal also is to enable the fabrication of integrated ro-botic systems using a personal scale robot printer. Em-ploying 2D and 3D printing techniques to manufacture

mechanical robot bodies from common compiled design,coupled with a method of incorporating off-the-shelf sens-ing, actuation, communication, and control devices usingplug-and-play electronics modules, his system enables per-sonal manufacture of functional printable robots from al-ready compiled designs.

In addition, Professor Mehta is researching the inte-grated manufacture of the electronics subsystem itself, witha goal of creating a “robot on a chip” — a solution com-prising all of the components necessary for a completerobot controller onto a single silicon die. His past work haspaved the way for a single chip radio, and his current workwill extend that.

Autonomous controlTo enable mobility for ubiquitous personal robots, the lo-calization and guidance subsystem must be lightweight, in-expensive, and trivially deployable if not self-contained.Professor Mehta’s earlier work achieved rudimentary lo-calization along with flight stability for individual robotsusing a small inertial controller of less than 10g. Those re-sults can be improved within multi-robot networks, andhis upcoming research will investigate controllers for au-tonomous mobile robots that efficiently employ collectivebehaviors to achieve accurate network-wide localizationwithin unstructured indoor environments using low-over-head sensors.

Pervasive Personal RobotsOn-demand design and fabrication of custom programmable machines — By Professor Ankur Mehta


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Ankur Mehta

Professor Chee Wei Wong Explores ZeroPhase Refraction Photonic Crystal

In his research, Professor Chee Wei Wong hasdemonstrated that light can travel on an artificialmaterial without leaving a trace under certain condi-

tions. This technology can have many applications, fromthe military to telecommunications. In a study published at Nature Photonics’s website,Professor Wong and research partnerSerdar Kocaman demonstrated how anoptical nanostructure can be built to control the way light bounces off of it.

When light travels, it bends — in tech-nical terms, it disperses and incurs “phase”— an oscillating curve that leaves a trailof information behind. Those oscillationsshow an object’s properties, such as shapeand size, which makes it possible to identify it. However, when light hits Professor Wong’s specially engineeredmaterial, it leaves no trace.

Every natural known material has apositive refractive index: when light hitsan object, it bends or refracts. Professor Wong’s researchetched tiny holes into a structure, creating a materialknown as a “photonic crystal” which behaves as if it haszero refractive index, allowing light to travel with an

ultrafast velocity in this environment. The material, acoating no thicker than one-hundredth of a strand ofhair, has properties that don’t occur in nature.

“We’re very excited about this. We’ve engineered andobserved a metamaterial with zero refractive index,” said

Kocaman. “Even in a vacuum, light prop-agates with phase advancement. Withthe zero phase advancement, what we’veseen is that the light travels through thematerial as if the entire space is missing.”

“We can now control the flow of light,the fastest thing known to us,” ProfessorWong said. “This can enable self-focusinglight beams, highly directive antennas,and even potentially an approach to hide objects, at least in the small scale or in anarrow band of frequencies.”

The zero-index material was based ona negative refractive index material and a superlattice material demonstrated consecutively in 2008 and 2009 by the

researchers. Professor Wong demonstrated that the optical phase advancement can be controlled and eveneliminated under certain conditions.

The study, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, was led by Professor Wong andKocaman, in collaboration with researchers at Columbia University, University College of London,Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Institute ofMicroelectronics of Singapore. It was the first timephase and zero-index observations have been made onboth a photonic chip scale and at infrared wavelengths.These photonic chip circuits can be useful in fiberopticnetworks.

Professor Wong is a recipient of the DARPA YoungFaculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the 3MFaculty Award, and elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and Fellow of the American Soci-ety of Mechanical Engineers. He has published fivebook chapters, 90+ journal papers and 130+ conferencearticles, and delivered 70+ invited talks at universitiesand industry. He has been awarded 18 patents and hasfive provisional patents currently. His work has appeared in Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics,Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, NanoLetters, Nature Scientific Reports, amongst others.


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Chee Wei Wong

Light waves hit specially engineered material without leaving a trace. The actual material is no thicker than one-hundredth of the diameter of a strand of hair.

UCLA alumnus Mukund Padmanabhan has made a gift of$2.5 million in support of Engineering VI, the newbuilding under construction for the UCLA Henry Samueli

School of Engineering and Applied Science. The donation is thefourth Padmanabhan has made to his alma mater, and thelargest. His three previous donations, of $500,000 each,support the Guru Krupa Foundation Fel-lowships in Electrical Engineering. The new$2.5 million contribution will create theMukund Padmanabhan Systems ScalingTechnology Laboratory in Engineering VI.

The lab will be dedicated to making advances in the performance, cost-effective-ness and energy efficiency of heterogeneously integrated microsystems, including 3-D integrated circuits and assemblies. Such systems have extensive commercial and industrial applications, ranging from cellphones and computers to equipment usedin sophisticated health care, military and space applications.

Padmanabhan, whose research at UCLA focused on integrated circuits and signal processing, said he was

inspired by the school’s continuing commitment to cutting-edge research and engineering education.

“I see the quality of the work being done by the studentswho benefit from the Guru Krupa Foundation Fellow-ships, and I feel very satisfied that research is progressingfull speed ahead at UCLA,” said Padmanabhan, who

studied electrical engineering, earning hismaster’s degree in 1989 and Ph.D. in 1992.“When I learned that UCLA wanted to advance the frontiers of 3-D integrated circuit design, I felt that this was the rightproject to further extend my commitment tothe school. I look forward to the lab makinggreat advances and cementing UCLA’s roleas a premier research institution.”

After graduating from UCLA, Padmanab-han joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NewYork. Today, he does research in statistical

financial modeling for Renaissance Technologies, a NewYork-based hedge fund management firm.

Padmanabhan is the founder of the Guru Krupa Foun-dation, a nonprofit organization thatprovides educational opportunitiesto those who could not otherwiseafford it, assistance to impoverishedfamilies and support for cultural andreligious organizations in the UnitedStates and India.

Engineering VI is a 150,000-square-foot anchor for innovationbuilt in the heart of the UCLAcampus. The first phase of thebuilding was completed in early2015. The Mukund PadmanabhanSystems Scaling Technology Laband other research and teachingcenters now occupy a part of thebuilding. Construction on the second and final phase of Engineer-ing VI started in March 2015 andis scheduled to be completed in2017. The state-of-the-art $130million structure was financed entirely by donations from UCLAEngineering alumni, supporters andresearch partners. — Bill Kisliuk


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Mukund Padmanabhan

Engineering VI

UCLA Receives $2.5 Million Donation from Alumnus

Mukund Padmanabhan for Semiconductor LabGift to UCLA Engineering will further cement UCLA as a premiere research institution


Faculty Highlights

Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor Asad Abidihas been chosen as a recipient of the Distin-guished Alumni Award for 2015 by the Depart-

ment of Electrical Engineering and ComputerSciences at the University of California, Berkeley,where he received both his master and doctorate de-grees in electrical engineering.

The award is in recognition of the valuable contri-butions of the most distinguished alumni. Selection isbased on a record of outstanding performance, as evidenced by sustained excellence in one or more ofthe following areas: research and engineering achieve-ments, leadership in the profession and in public af-

fairs, service and/or support to UC Berkeley.Professor Abidi is widely recognized for his seminal

contributions in the area of integrated circuits and wasresponsible for the development of the RF CMOStechnology which revolutionized wireless communica-tions. As an educator, he has the dedication and passion to bring out the best in his students to maketheir mark in the field. His former students are nowtechnology leaders at leading communication IC companies in the world.

The award presentation took place in conjunctionwith the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Sympo-sium (BEARS) on Thursday, February 12, 2015.

Professor Asad Abidi Selected by UC Berkeley to Receive its 2015 EE Distinguished Alumni Award


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A ydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at theUCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering

and Applied Science, has been named a 2014 HowardHughes Medical Institute Professor, recognized for his breakthrough research and innovative approach to undergraduate education.

Ozcan is one of 15 researchers from around the coun-try named a 2014 HHMI Professor. Awardees receive a$1 million grant to be used over five years to pursuehigh-impact, interdisciplinary research and effectivelyintegrate their work with creative approaches to under-graduate education.

Ozcan, who is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, develops cost- effectiveand field-portable photonics tools for microscopy, sensingand diagnosis. Devices invented in his lab — includinglightweight smartphone attachments to detect the presence of mercury in water, malaria in blood cells andallergens in food — are designed for point-of-care useand are adaptable to rural and resource-poor areas.

Some of his previous honors include winning the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2010and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientistsand Engineers (PECASE) in 2011.

Using the HHMI grant, Ozcan has launched a program in which undergraduate researchers form interdisciplinary teams annually to design, build and testnovel technologies for telemedicine and global healthapplications.

In addition to Ozcan, Tracy L. Johnson, MariaRowena Ross Chair in Cell Biology and Biochemistryand associate professor in the Department of Molecu-lar, Cell and Developmental Biology, was named a 2014Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.

Johnson and Ozcan bring to five the number ofUCLA professors who have been named HHMI professors since the program started in 2002.

“Exceptional teachers have a lasting impact on students,” said HHMI President Robert Tjian. “Thesescientists are at the top of their respective fields and theybring the same creativity and rigor to science educationthat they bring to their research.”

Headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute seeks to transform science educationin the United States by encouraging hands-on, research-oriented and interdisciplinary instruction.Over the years, the organization has awarded morethan $935 million to 274 colleges and universities inthe United States. – By Bill Kisliuk

Aydogan Ozcan Named 2014 HowardHughes Medical Institute Professor

Aydogan Ozcan with hisportable microscopy device

Distinguished Professor Asad Madni ElectedFellow of The National Academy of Inventorsand Eminent Member of IEEE-HKN

T he Board of Governors of IEEE — Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) have elected Distinguished Adjunct ProfessorAsad M. Madni to be inducted as an Eminent Member —

the organization’s highest membership category conferredupon those select few whose outstanding technical attain-ments and contributions through leadership in the fields ofelectrical and computer engineering have resulted in significant benefits to humankind. His award citation reads“for technical attainments and contributions to societythrough outstanding leadership in the profession of Electrical and Computer Engineering.” Since 1950, only136 individuals have been selected to receive this presti-gious honor (Professor Madni will be the 137th recipient)including, Frederick E. Terman, Harry Nyquist, JohnBardeen, Simon Ramo, John R. Pierce, Jack Kilby, GordonE. Moore, Leonard Kleinrock, Vinton Cerf, four NobelLaureates; and honorary members Thomas Alva Edison,Alexander Graham Bell, Walter House Brattain, RobertNoyce and David Packard.

In recognition of his 69 issued or pending patents, Pro-fessor Madni has also been elected as a Fellow of the NationalAcademy of Inventors (NAI) for “demonstrating a highly prolificspirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstandinginventions that have made a tangible impact on quality oflife, economic development, and the welfare of society.”The National Academy of Inventors was established inyear 2010 to honor academic invention; recognize and encourage inventors; enhance the visibility of universityand non-profit research institute technology and innova-tion; encourage the disclosure of intellectual property; educate and mentor innovative students; and translate theinventions of its members to benefit society and mankind.

During his extraordinary career, Professor Madni led thedevelopment and commercialization of numerous intelligent sensors, systems and instrumentation including:-Extremely Slow Motion Servo Control System for

Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector System which provided it with unprecedented accuracy & stability, resulting in truly remarkable images that have enhancedour understanding of the universe -Revolutionary Quartz MEMS GyroChip technol-

ogy which is used worldwide for Electronic StabilityControl and Rollover Protection in passenger vehiclesand for inertial navigation in major aerospace and commercial aviation platforms - Intelligent actuation system for Huygens Probe, an

atmospheric entry probe carried to Saturn’s moon Titan as

part of the Cassini-Huygens mission. The system was instrumental in the precise landing of the probe on Titan’sXanadu region after it separated from the Cassini orbiter -First broadband, miniaturized, solid-state, Microwave

Noise & Deception Jamming System used for ECM in unmanned aerial targets, manned aircrafts, and ECMpods. The system is used by all three US services and anumber of allies to provide a realistic ECM threat environment, and has significantly enhanced US EW capability

- Transmission Line/Antenna System Ana-lyzer (AN/PSM-40)which replaced an en-tire rack of equipmentand was the first systemcapable of detecting thelocations and magni-tude of multiple faults in coaxial and waveguide transmission lines/antenna systems within minutes andwith unprecedented accuracy. This breakthrough established the basis for future communication systems& network analysis and significantly enhanced the combat readiness of the US Navy.

Professor Madni is currently collaborating with Professor Bahram Jalali in guiding doctoral research inthe area of high speed instrumentation utilizing time-stretch and novel digital signal processing techniques,including a single-shot ultra-fast analyzer for networkanalysis of optical and electronic devices.


Faculty Highlights

In making the award, The Institution of Engineering and Technology cited Professor Bahram Jalali’s “pioneeringcontributions to silicon photonics and real-time instru-

mentation and their application in cancer detection.”Professor Jalali, who also has joint appointments with the

Bioengineering Department, the California Nano Systems

Institute and the UCLA School of Medicine Departmentof Surgery, has been a member of the Electrical Engineer-ing faculty since 1992. In 2003, Jalali’s lab demonstrated thefirst silicon optical amplifier, and in 2004 reported the firstsilicon laser. In 2007, his lab developed a new type of camerathat can record 100 million frames per second, and this newtechnology is in the clinical testing stage for detection ofrare cancer cells in blood samples.

Among other honors, Professor Jalali is also a fellow ofthe American Physical Society, the Optical Society ofAmerica and IEEE. He is the recipient of the Wood Prizefrom the Optical Society of America for the invention ofthe first silicon laser.

The IET mission is to inspire, inform and influencethe global engineering community, supporting tech-nology innovation to meet the needs of society by providing expert advice, publishing journals, and offering scholar ships and medals. The organization has160,000 members worldwide. — by Bill Kisliuk


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Professor Itoh Received Honorary Degree from

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

On May 5, 2015, Rector of Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona (UAB) announced that its GoverningCouncil resolved to award an Honorary Doctorate

(Doctora Honoris Causa) to Distinguished Professor Tatsuo Itoh. He is the first Honorary Doctor proposed bythe School of Engineering of UAB. “Professor Itoh is possibly without a doubt the most influential researchertoday in the field of radio frequency and microwave engi-neering, as demonstrated by his 48 books and chapters,over 440 articles published, 80 theses directed, 10 patentsand more than 32,000 citations,” UAB website describes.

Among many technical contributions, Professor Itoh’swork on transmission line metamaterial known as CRLH(Composite Right/Left Handed) structures is highly appreciated as it has introduced a new paradigm in antennasand microwave circuits that offers features and functionalitieswhich were unimaginable only a few years previously.

Professor Itoh has been at UCLA since 1991 and holdsthe Northrop Grumman Chair in Microwave Electronics.He received a number of awards and recognitions includingmembership in National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors, IEEE Microwave EducatorAward, IEEE Microwave Career Award and European Microwave Association Outstanding Career Award.

Professor Jalali Received IET Achievement Medal

Tatsuo Itoh

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Faculty Highlights

Mona Jarrahi Named Kavli Fellow and Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Awardee

A ssociate Professor Mona Jarrahi has been named a2014 Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. TheKavli fellow program honors young scientists who are

considered leaders in their fields and have made significantcontributions to science. Kavli fellows are selected by the advisory board of the Kavli Foundation and members of theNational Academy of Sciences from young researchers whohave already made recognized contributions to science, including recipients of major national fellowships and awardsand who have been identified as future leaders in science.

Professor Jarrahi has also received the Lot Shafai Mid- Career Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for her pioneering contributions to plasmonic antennas and optical phased arrays for terahertzand microwave systems. This award recognizes the techni-cal accomplishments and future potential of an outstand-ing woman of mid-career status in the field of antennasand propagation, whose prior technical accomplishmentsand future potential earmark them as current and futureleaders in the field of antennas and propagation, as well asrole models for future generations of women in the field.

Professor Jarrahi’s research focuses on ultrafast electronicand optoelectronic devices and integrated systems fortera-hertz/millimeter-wave sensing, imaging, computing,and communication systems by utilizing novel materials,

nano-structures, quantum well structures, electromechani-cal structures, as well as innovative nano-plasmonic concepts.The pioneering research conducted by Professor Jarrahi andher outstanding achievements have received significant attention from scientific and industrial communities andhave been recognized by numerous prestigious awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scien-tists and Engineers; Early Career Award in Nanotechnologyfrom the IEEE Nanotechnology Council; OutstandingYoung Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theoryand Techniques Society; Booker Fellowship from the UnitedStates National Committee of the International Union ofRadio Science; Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engi-neering Award from National Academy of Engineering;Young Investigator Awards from the Army Research Office,the Office of Naval Research, and the Defense AdvancedResearch Projects Agency; Early Career Award from theNational Science Foundation; the Elizabeth C. Crosby Research Award from the University of Michigan; and best-paper awards at the International Microwave Symposiumand International Symposium on Antennas and Propaga-tion. She is also a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, a Traveling Lecturer of OSA, a Visiting Lecturer of SPIE, and a seniormember of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE societies.

Mona Jarrahi


Wireless brain-machine interface (BMI) is a youngmultidisciplinary field that holds enormous potential as a therapeutic technology to help

large numbers of people suffering from a wide variety of severe neurological disorders, such as paralysis, stroke,and spinal cord injury. BMI systems record neural dataand transform thought into action, which can fulfill thedream of many patients — living independently, usingprosthetic limbs in the same way as biological ones. Toachieve that, such systems require sensors for neuralrecording, programs for brain simulation, and finally, awireless link to communicate with an external unit thatdecodes neural data and controls prosthetic limbs. Development of wireless, ultra low power, bi-directionaland fully implantable neural interfaces plays a key rolein this endeavor. Additionally, patient’s comfort shouldalso be addressed in the design.

Collaborating with a research group at Tampare University, Finland, the UCLA Antenna Research,Analysis, and Measurement Laboratory (ARAM)demonstrated miniature implantable antennas that arecapable of powering up the implanted neural recording microsystem and communicating with a transmittingantenna outside human body. Operating at the medicalimplant communications service (MICS) frequencyband (402–405 MHz), such novel antennas providelow cost and low power solutions for wireless neural interfaces. They can potentially enable the widespread application of BMI technology.

Power is transferred from outside to the implants byshort-range RFID inspired backscattering technologyusing near-field inductive links with loop antennas,which is a desirable method to transfer power efficientlythrough short distances and highly dissipative media,such as the human body. In an RFID backscatteringsystem, an external reader antenna transmits an

Novel Antenna

Yahya Rahmat-Samii


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Wireless brain machine interface system

unmodulated carrier signal from which the implant antenna captures energy to power the implanted microelectronic system, while the data is transferred bymodulating the complex impedance at the implant antenna terminal according to the captured neural signal.

To characterize the wireless channel, UCLA ARAMnumerically simulated the link between a neural sensingantenna and an external transmitting antenna in the pres-ence of the full human head model as shown in the figure.The implanted antenna was placed in CSF fluid, a layersurrounding the brain. The primary motor cortex area ofthe brain was chosen as the implant site, since the primary motor cortex elicits movements of individualbody parts, making a suitable target of BMI for thought-control prosthetics.

From the clinical point of view, the implantable antennashould be biocompatible and miniaturized without increasing the size of the implant significantly. Thus, millimeter-size ultra-compact antennas are required forlocalized neural recording systems. To enhance link powerefficiency, UCLA ARAM following the lead from Tampare University evaluated 1 mm 3-D cubic loop antennas, which provide a wider current path and a largercoupling area compared to their planar counterparts withthe same cross-section area. Moreover, such ultra compactloops are capable of powering up the neural recording IC,making them strong candidates for the realization of future BMI technology.

On the transmitting antenna side, the challenge is to design a transmitting loop that provides high inductivecoupling with the implanted loop as well as low near electric field, which means low specific absorption rate(SAR) compliant to FCC regulation. Using an optimizedplanar loop antenna with segmenting structure, UCLAARAM was able to meet both the ends. Moreover, toachieve the ultimate goal of clothing-integrated and

wearable BMI systems, different types of conductive textiles are characterized and considered to realize wearableon-body BMI reader antennas, which fulfill the require-ments of wearable antennas being compact, lightweight,surface conformal and even washable.

Significant progress has occurred in the field of BMItechnology during the last decade. Such novel designs ofBMI antennas constitute an important milestone in thedevelopment of wireless BMI systems, and a new era ofwireless body-centric systems.

Concepts for Brain- Machine

Interface Systems



Faculty Highlights

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Photonic crystals can manipulate lightin the same way that a semiconductorlike silicon can steer electrical current.

Professor Eli Yablonovitch, a pioneer in“photonic crystals,” which can repel, trapand steer light, received the Isaac NewtonMedal, the highest honor given by the In-stitute of Physics in London. ProfessorYablonovitch proposed and created the crys-tals in the 1980s, while working at BellCommunications Research. His descriptionof photonic crystals was published in 1987when these materials had never been man-ufactured. It is the second most-cited paperever published in the prestigious journalPhysical Review Letters.

Professor Yablonovitch research was builton an idea formulated 100 years earlier in1887, by British physicist Lord Raleigh, who suggested that a material with a repeating, regular structure— such as a crystal — could block light of particular wave-lengths. “Raleigh developed the idea of the one-dimensionalphotonic crystal,” Professor Yablonovitch explained. “That’ssomething that we’ve lived with for over 100 years. But no

one really thought of extending Raleigh’sidea into two and three dimensions.”

A one-dimensional photonic crystal is asimple stack of layers, but nobody knewwhat shape a 2D or 3D example wouldtake. It took Yablonovitch’s team four years,and a lot of failed experiments, to produce“Yablonovite” — the first 3D photoniccrystal. It consisted of a ceramic material,drilled with three intersecting series ofcylindrical holes, 6mm across.

“Its power was obvious,” ProfessorYablonovitch said. “The multiple scatteringswork out such that no matter which way thelight tries to go, it’s blocked — in everyimaginable direction. And even in directionsthat we cannot imagine, it’s still blocked.”

Today, 2D photonic crystals are used in“silicon photonics” — integrated circuits

that use both light and current to transfer information,widely used in large data centers. Other researchers haveadapted the discovery to guide light in devices used in pre-cise appliactions such as laser surgery. — By JonathanWebb, adapted from BBC News

E ach year the UCLA EE Department accepts qual-ified community college students as transfers. Traditionally there has been relatively little interac-

tion between the Department and these colleges at thelevel of cooperation on curriculum, forcing many transferstudents to take additional courses. This delays their timeto graduation. With the leadership of Professor OscarStafsudd, himself an alumnus of the community collegesystem, we are moving towards a smoother transition. Apartnership with the Santa Monica College will enabletheir new engineering program to offer all the lower division courses required of UCLA students. This takesadvantage of new low-cost kits which enable circuits laboratories to be offered without the traditional expensivebench-top equipment. We have recently introduced thesekits into our own lab sequence. We will adapt the sequenceto make it even less resource intensive. From this

experience, we hope to expand our interactions,making the course materials available to othercommunity colleges that traditionally provide

many applicants. This new approach adds to our existing relationships in

providing summer research oppportu-nities to community college studentsvia federally funded programs.

Professor Eli Yablonovitch Wins Isaac Newton Medal

New Community College PartnershipsA Fast Track to Success

Eli Yablonovitch

Under the leadership of Prof. ChanJoshi, a new enrichment programwithin the EE undergraduate

program has been initiated for the2015/16 academic year. Students withhigh scholastic achievement are selectedto be members of the Fast Track program. This features regular advisingmeetings, encouragement to attend special honors sections of courses, and enhanced oppor-tunities for early participation in the research programsof the Department. The program has multiple goals. Thefirst is to encourage more highly capable students tostudy EE at UCLA. The second is to make a dent in the serious shortage of US students pursuing graduate degrees by showing more students the exciting career opportunities that it opens up. In the inaugural year, 20

students are in the FastTrack program, with many

enrolled in a new physicshonors sequence. In subsequent years, the Department will roll

out additional enrichmentprograms in its own courses.

Chan Joshi

Oscar Stafsudd

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Student Clubs


UCLA IEEE Student Chapter

UCLA HKN

UCLA IEEE (Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers) is one of the largest engineering-focused

clubs at UCLA. In addition to our corporate infoses-sions, workshops, and events aimed to help students incareer building and professionalism, UCLA IEEE isknown for the challenging, educational, but still funprojects that allow students to get a true hands-on experience in electrical engineering that classroom lec-tures do not offer.

The OPS (Open Project Space) program is geared toward first and second-year students, aimed at teachingthe fundamentals of hands-on electrical engineering.Our computer science-focused analogy, C3 (Code, Create, Compete), allows computer science majors tojoin in on the fun with their own customized projects.For more advanced students who want a challenging robotics experience, the Micromouse and Natcar projectsare perfect choices to build something crazy. Outside ofthese structured programs, students are also free to innovate and imagine up independent projects, whichIEEE sponsors and helps to create.

IEEE hosts several large events each year that areopen to the wider engineering community. Often work-ing with other groups on campus, UCLA IEEE hostsan annual fair showcasing local startups, as well as an all-day professional development workshop. 2015 also de-buted the first annual (IDE)A Hacks HardwareHackathon — a 36-hour design-and-build event wherestudents work to create a product from their imagina-tion and are judged accordingly.

The UCLA IEEE club is located on the second floorof Boelter Hall with its own lab space in the StudentCreativity Center. The lab currently has a 3D printer anda mini-CNC mill that students can use for a small fee.Our lab is stocked with parts for anybody to use,whether they are part of the electrical engineering, computer science, or any other major.

Awards:

- IEEE Region 6 Exemplary Student Branch Award

- IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Large Student Branch

- UC Davis Natcar Competition – 1st, 5th, 6th

- UCSD Grand PrIEEE Natcar – 3rd, 4th, 5th

- Region 6 Micromouse Competition (UCI) – 2nd

- All-America Micromouse Competition (UCLA) – 2nd

- UCSD California Micromouse Competition – 2nd

- IEEE Student Professional Awareness Venture (S-PAVe)

The UCLA Iota Gamma Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu(HKN) is a unique organization dedicated to encour-

aging and recognizing excellence through a balance ofscholarship, service, leadership, and character in the electrical and computer engineering fields.

In 2015, the club has provided valuable service byconducting training sessions in MATLAB and LabView. HKN members also provide tutoring services.The club also hosts lunches with professors, technicaltalks, and visiting companies. With the IEEE, it co-hosts the annual EE Department Town Hall whereconcerns of students are discussed with the faculty.

The Iota Gamma Chapter of HKN continues to seeimpressive student involvement under the guidance of itsadvisor Professor Benjamin Williams. A total of 58 undergraduates were inducted, bringing its current activemembership to over 200 members. The Iota GammaChapter was awarded the 2013-2014 Outstanding Chap-ter Award – the tenth consecutive win for the chapter.


Student Awards

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Outstanding Student and Teaching Awards

Clayton Schoeny received theHenry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award (lecturecourse) with ChairmanM.-C. Frank Chang.

Brad Liu, recipient of the HenrySamueli Excellence in TeachingAward (lab course) with Chair-man M.-C. Frank Chang, and ViceChair for Undergraduate Affairsand his advisor Oscar Stafsudd.

Xufeng Kou, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Physical& Wave Electronics: Magnetic Topological Insulator andQuantum Anomalous Hall Effect. Advisor: Kang L. Wang.

Abde Ali Kagalwalla, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation inCircuits & Embedded Systems: Computational Methodsfor Design-Assisted Mask Flows. Advisor: Puneet Gupta.

Jie Xu, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Signals &Systems: Networks of Strategic Agents: Social Norms, Incentives and Learning. Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar.

Onur Atan, Outstanding Master’sThesis Award in Signals &Systems: Bandit Frameworkfor Systematic Learning inWireless Video-based FaceRecognition pictured next toChairman M.-C. Frank Chang, andadvisor Mihaela van der Schaar.

Jean Paul Santos, Outstanding Mas-ter’s Thesis in Physical & WaveElectronics: Multiband CircularlyPolarized Patch Antenna Array forthe Development of Direct-to-EarthCommunications in Mars Rovers,beside Chairman M.-C. Frank Chang,and advisor Yahya Rahmat-Samii.

Gary Yeung, The OutstandingBachelor of Science DegreeRecipient, pictured withChairman M.-C. Frank Chang.

Hannah Chou, The ChristinaHuang Memorial Prize recipient and Chairman M.-C. Frank Chang.

In Honor of Distinguished Professor A.V. Balakrishnan, 1922-2015

A.V. Balakrishnan, Distinguished Professor Emeritusand Research Professor of Electrical Engineer-

ing, passed away on Monday, March 16, 2015. He was 92.Bal, as he was widely known, was a member of the

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty for more than 50 years. Over hislong and distinguished career, he supervised 54 master’sstudents, 18 Engineer degree recipients and 54 Ph.D. graduates, many of whom went on to careers in academiaand industry.

He greatly valued his role as advisorand friend, and often spoke of howproud he was of his students.

Bal grew up in Chennai, India. Heearned his B.Sc. and an M.A. from theUniversity of Madras. After moving tothe U.S., he earned an M.S. in electricalengineering (1950) and his Ph.D. inmathematics (1954), both from USC.

Following his Ph.D., Bal was a projectengineer at the Radio Corporation ofAmerica (RCA), taught at USC andUCLA, and was a researcher at SpaceTechnology Laboratories in RedondoBeach. He joined UCLA Engineering at the associate professor level in 1961.

Bal was a teacher and scholar of the highest order. Hepublished single-authored papers, while encouraging hisstudents to publish their work under their own names.

Twice, he served as chair of the Department of SystemsScience. He also held an appointment in Mathematics. Forseveral years, he was the director of the Flight SystemsLaboratory at UCLA, which was supported by NASA.

Bal was named a Fellow of IEEE in 1966 and a LifeFellow in 1996. He received the NASA Public ServiceMedal in 1996; the Richard E. Bellman Award in 2001from the American Automatic Control Council for dis-tinguished achievements in control theory; and the Dis-

tinguished Alumni Award in Academia fromUSC Viterbi in 2004. — By Matthew Chin


In Memoriam

Kalman Filtering Theory

AppliedFunctionalAnalysis

Semigroup of Operators:Theory and Applications

CommunicationTheory

StochasticDiferentialSystems

Introduction toRandom

Processes inEngineering

Aeroelasticity


Members of National Academies

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In 2007, Professor Asad A. Abidiwas inductedinto the National Academy of Engineering forhis contributions to the development of MOS integrated circuits for RF Communications. Priorto joining UCLA in 1985, Professor Abidi workedat Bell Laboratories, as a member of the technical staff in the Advanced LSI Develop-ment Laboratory. He received a number ofawards and honors throughout his career, including the 1988 TRW Award for InnovativeTeaching, the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award,presented for the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published by the IEEE,and the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award insolid state circuits.

Professor Mau-Chung Frank Chang waselected to the National Academy of Engineer-ing in 2008 for his contributions in develop-ment and commercialization of III-V-basedheterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) andfield-effective transistors (FETs) for RF wirelesscommunications. Prior to joining UCLA, Professor Chang was the Assistant Director atRockwell Science Center where he success-fully developed and transferred AlGaAs/GaAsHeterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) andBiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuitstechnologies from the research laboratory tothe production line. His research focuses onthe development of high-speed semiconduc-tor devices, integrated circuits for RF andmixed-signal communication, and interconnectsystem applications. Professor Chang receivedthe IEEE David Sarnoff Award (IEEE-wide Technical Field Award) and the Pan Wen-YuanFoundation Award.

Professor Tatsuo Itoh pioneered the interdis-ciplinary electromagnetics research beyondtraditional electromagnetic engineering. He

was elected to the National Academy of Engi-neering in 2003, “for seminal contributions inadvancing electromagnetic engineering for microwave and wireless components, circuits,and systems.” He developed several numeri-cal methods to understand microwave problems, and developed the first CAD program for designing E-plane filters for millimeter wave systems. His research focuseson combining solid state devices and electro-magnetic circuits for cost-effectiveness andsystem performance, developing the firstglobal simulator for the RF front end. He alsocreated the Active Integrated Antenna, whichis not only a radiating element, but also a circuit element for the RF front end.

Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi was recognized by the National Academy of Engineering as the founder of the experimen-tal field of plasma accelerators. He establishedthe first group that proposed to significantlyshrink the size and cost of particle accelera-tors by using charged density waves in plasmas (or ionized gas) using powerful laserpulses or particle beams. Joshi has advancedthe understanding of nonlinear optics of plasmas, laser fusion and basic plasmaphysics. He has received numerous awards forhis work, including the American Physical Society’s James Clerk Maxwell Prize and Excellence in Plasma Physics Award, the IEEE’sParticle Accelerator Science and TechnologyAward, the USPAS Prize for Accelerator Physicsand Technology, and the AAC Prize for Advanced Accelerator Concepts. He is a fellowof the American Physical Society, IEEE and theInstitute of Physics.

Professor Kuo-Nan Liou is Director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and

Engineering. He pioneered the use of combina-tions of remote sensors to obtain important cloudice and aerosol parameters and climate radia-tive forcing. He derived the analytic four-streamsolution for radiative transfer and discovered thedepolarization principle to differentiate ice crystals and water droplets. Professor Liou waselected a Member of the National Academy ofEngineering in 1999 and was the Chair of SpecialFields and Interdisciplinary Engineering Section.Elected a Member of the Academia Sinica in2004, he is also a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, AGU,AMS and OSA. He shared the Nobel Peace Prizebestowed on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.

Professor Asad M. Madni was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering in 2011. Priorto joining UCLA, he was President, COO andCTO of BEI Technologies Inc., where he led thedevelopment and commercialization of intelli-gent micro-sensors and systems for aerospace,defense, industrial and transportation indus-tries. Prior to joining BEI he was Chairman,President & CEO of Systron Donner Corp. Hishonors include the IEEE Millenium Medal, IET J.J. Thompson Achievement Medal, TCI MarconiMedal and UCLA Professional AchievementMedal. In 2004, he received the UCLA Engi-neering Alumnus of the Year Award and in 2010was awarded the UCLA Engineering LifetimeContribution Award. He is a Fellow of the NAI,IEEE, IEE, IET, AAAS, NYAS, SAE, IAE and AIAA.

Professor Stanley Osher was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences for “major con-tributions to algorithm development and appli-cations in level set methods, high-resolutionshock capturing methods, and PDE-basedmethods in imaging science.” He has been at


Members of National Academies

UCLA since 1976 and is Director of SpecialProjects at the Institute for Pure and AppliedMathematics. Dr. Osher was a Fulbright and Al-fred P. Sloan Fellow, and received the NASAPublic Service Group Achievement Award, theJapan Society of Mechanical Engineers Com-putational Mechanics Award, the SIAM PioneerPrize, and the SIAM Kleinman Prize.

Professor C. Kumar Patel, National Academyof Sciences, made numerous seminal contributions in gas lasers, nonlinear optics,molecular spectroscopy, pollution detectionand laser surgery. He received numerous honors, including the National Medal of Science for his invention of the carbon dioxidelaser. He also received the Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America, the Franklin Insti-tute’s Ballantine Medal, the Pake Prize of the American Physical Society, and the CoblentzSociety’s Coblentz Prize.

Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii was elected to the National Academy ofEngineering in 2008 for his contributions to thedesign and measurement of reflector andhand-held device antennas. Many of his designconcepts are currently used in cell phones,aerospace, earth-observation satellites, andsatellite dishes. Prior to joining UCLA, he was aSenior Research Scientist at Jet PropulsionLaboratory. His honors include the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from theIEEE Antennas and Propagation Society; the2005 International Union of Radio Science’sBooker Gold Medal; the 2000 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association’s Distinguished Achie vement Award; the IEEE’sThird Millennium Medal; and a DistinguishedAlumni Award from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Henry Samueli was elected to the NationalAcademy of Engineering in recognition of his“pioneering contributions to academic re-search and technology entrepreneurship in thebroadband communications system-on-a-chipindustry.” Dr. Samueli has over 25 years of ex-perience in the fields of digital signal process-ing and communications systems engineeringand is widely recognized as one of the world’sleading experts in the field. He received hisB.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical en-gineering from UCLA. Since 1985, Dr. Samueliis a professor in the Electrical Engineering De-partment. He is the co-founder of BroadcomCorporation. In 2010, Professor Samueli received the UCLA Medal.

Professor Jason Speyer was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering for “the de-velopment and application of advanced tech-niques for optimal navigation and control of awide range of aerospace vehicles.” He pio-neered new deterministic and stochastic con-trol, team and differential game strategies,estimation, and model-based fault detection,identification, and reconstruction theories and algorithms, as well as matrix calculus of vari-ations for the Apollo autonomous navigationsystem. He pioneered the development andmechanization of periodic optimal control foraircraft fuel-optimal cruise and endurance, aswell as differential carrier phase GPS blendedwith an inertial navigation system. He is a fel-low of AIAA and IEEE (Life Fellow) and receivedthe IEEE Third Millennium Medal as well asseveral AIAA Awards.

Professor Dwight Streit became a memberof the National Academy of Engineering in2001 for contributions to the development andproduction of heterojunction transistors and

circuits. Prior to joining UCLA, he was vicepresident, director, technical fellow and con-tributing engineer for advanced technologiesat Northrop Grumman and TRW Space & Elec-tronics. He is also a Fellow of the Institute ofElectrical and Electronic Engineers and theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the NASA SpaceFoundation Technology Hall of Fame.

Professor Eli Yablonovitch, National Academyof Engineering, National Academy of Sciences,is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Elec-tronic Engineers, the Optical Society of America,and the American Physical Society. He has beenawarded the Adolf Lomb Medal, the W. StreiferScientific Achievement Award, the R.W. WoodPrize, and the Julius Springer Prize. He is an Ad-juct Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA,and also a Professor of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at UC Berkeley.

Professor Alan N. Willson, Jr. was recognizedby the National Academy of Engineering in2014 for “contributions to the theory and applications of digital signal processing.” Hehas played an important role in the field of circuits and systems, been responsible for cutting-edge research in theory and applica-tion of digital signal processing (including VLSIimplementations), digital filter design and non-linear circuit theory. Among the many notablehonors, he has received the Vitold BelevitchAward from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer GraduateTeaching Award, and the George WestinghouseAward from the American Society for Engi-neering Education. He is the only person tohave twice received the W.R.G. Baker PrizePaper Award for best paper published in allIEEE journals, transactions and magazines.

Circuits & Embedded Systems


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Design Automation for Computer Systems

We investigate methodologies and algorithms for design of digital, mixed-signal as well as FPGA-based reconfigurable integrated circuits in the context of emerging challenges of energy efficiency,security, reliability, variability and manufacturability.We look at how technology changes in devices aswell as how semiconductor fabrication influence design ( especially layout). On the other hand, our research seeks to dramatically reduce cost of tech-nology by utilizing design intent in technology development and process control. The effects ofnanoscale semiconductor technologies span the entire hardware- software stack and as such we havebeen looking into architecture and system softwaretechniques to mitigate variability and reliability challenges of increasingly unpredictable circuit fabric. Our efforts also target modeling and designof Internet of Things and energy systems in additionto electronic systems.

Ankur Mehta

Puneet Gupta

Jason Cong

Also: Lei He



Babak DaneshradDanijela Cabric C.-K. Ken YangDejan Markovic

Energy-Efficient Digital Architectures and Circuits

We are focusing on digital integrated circuit optimization in the power-area-performancespace, its application to emerging health care and communication algorithms, and the in-vestigation of design principles with post-CMOS devices. This includes advanced communi-cation algorithms such as those found in future cognitive radios and new advances in biomedical applications.

Neuroengineering

We address challenges that limit our ability to obtain information as well as our ability to process it in incrediblysmall and low-power form factors, to advance technologyfor science, therapy and global health. Our work brings together low-power data processing, biosignal interfaces,communication, and energy aspects to push the limits ofbiosignal transducer systems, where the energy, size andprocessing requirements are often orders of magnitudemore challenging than in conventional applications. Thecross-disciplinary nature of our work naturally stimulatescollaboration across the areas of signal processing, circuitsand systems, and devices, as well as interactions at the biological and engineering levels.

Jason CongDejan Markovic

Emeriti Faculty

Rajeev JainGabor TemesJack WillisAlan Willson

Also: Jason Cong



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Communication Circuits

We develop integrated circuits for datacommunications spanning the entiregamut of data rates, ranges, and commu-nication media: from wireless to wired,from PCB traces to plastic waveguides,from intra-chip to long haul links, from cel-lular to space communications, from VHFto terahertz frequencies, and from lowpower links to multi-Gb/s links. Our focusis on CMOS electronics and our facultymembers are pioneers in this field. We address the fundamental challenges posedby noise, device nonlinearity, and variabil-ity in effecting communications in harshenvironments, employing theoreticalanalysis, creative circuit design, and algorithmic digital correction techniques.The recent focus has been on enabling truesoftware defined radios, mm-wave and terahertz applications.

Sudhakar PamartiAsad Abidi

Henry SamueliBehzad Razavi

Also:M.-C. Frank ChangY. Ethan Wang

Wentai Liu

Adjunct Faculty

Shervin MoloudiHooman Darabi

C.-K. Ken Yang



Embedded and Mobile Computing, and Cyber-Physical Systems

We focus on foundational hardware and software technologies and architectures for comput-ing and communication capabilities necessary for emerging embedded, mobile, and cyber-physical systems. Such systems are found in emerging application domains of criticalsocio-economic importance, such as robotics, mobile health, sustainable built environments,smart electrical grids, smart water networks, and transportation systems. Our research addresses the fundamental capabilities needed by these systems such as energy efficiency,real-time performance, location awareness, precise time synchronization, adaptation to variations, secure operation, etc., and also develops novel implementation methods spanningthe entire system stack from application and operating system software down to the proces-sor, datapath, memory, and I/O hardware.

Sensor Information Acquisition, Processing, and Applications

Sensory information is foundational to modern electronic computing systems across myriad application domains such ashealth, energy, environment, and communications. Our researchis developing innovative technologies for the entire waveform-to-decision pathway through which sensor information flows,often in real-time, distributed and resource-constrained settings.In work, we are developing (i) high-sensitivity and low-powertransducers and A/D converters for capturing and digitizing sensor signals, (ii) high-performance hardware-software platforms for processing sensor data; and (iii) efficient algorithmsand protocols for processing sensor data to derive rich inferencesunder power, processing, and security constraints in networkedsettings. Moreover, the results of our research are being appliedto real systems in various applications.

Majid Sarrafzadeh Mani SrivastavaWilliam KaiserLei He

Also: Puneet Gupta, Ankur Mehta, Paulo Tabuada

Faculty:Chi On ChuiWilliam KaiserAydogan OzcanGregory J. PottieMani Srivastava

Physical & Wave Electronics


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Electromagnetics

Electromagnetics embodies all aspects of science andengineering topics stemming from Maxwell’s equations,describing the behavior of electric and magnetic fieldsand their interactions with electric charges and currents.The science of electromagnetics underlies nearly allmodern electric, computation, and communicationstechnology. Both our coursework and research addresstheoretical, computational, optimization, design andmeasurement aspects of electromagnetic devices for avariety of applications, including wireless communica-tions, satellite, space and ground systems, medical andsensor applications, multi-function antennas and meta-materials in frequencies ranging from microwaves andmillimeter waves to terahertz.

M.-C. Frank Chang Tatsuo Itoh

Kuo-Nan Liou Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Frederick Schott

Also:Robert CandlerMona JarrahiWarren MoriAydogan OzcanBenjamin Williams

Y. Ethan Wang

Emeritus Faculty



Robert Candler Chi On Chui

Diana Huffaker Subramanian S. Iyer

Mona Jarrahi Dwight Streit

King-Ning Tu Kang Wang Chee Wei Wong Jason C. S. Woo

Nanoelectronics, Devices and Heterogeneous Integration

In the area of nanoelectronics and solid-state devices, UCLA is atthe forefront of research. Major research efforts are ongoing forthe synthesis and design of advanced materials, such as two- dimensional semiconductors, topological insulators, and magnetic oxides — both their fundamental properties and theirapplications to ultra-scaled logic and memory devices. We alsohave extensive activities in the design and fabrication of ultra-scaled devices on both silicon and compound semiconductors,such as power and RF transistors, spin-based switches and mem-ory elements, tunnel FETs, and other novel devices that are suitable for applications that go beyond conventional scaling. Another major thrust is the development of neuromorphic (i.e.brain-inspired) devices and nanosystems for computation and information processing. Nanoelectronic devices are under investigation for use as sensors for compact biomedical sensingtools. This area also includes the development of Micro- andNano-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS and NEMS.) In addition,we investigate new methods of interconnecting heterogeneousdevices for a more holistic interpretation of Moore's law. Many ofthese research activities take place in collaboration with other research groups, both within and outside EE, on circuit/system/device co-design and co- optimization. The nanoelectronics research in the department is supported by advanced commer-cial simulation tools for device analysis, a state-of-the-art nano-fabrication facility, and device characterization equipment withcapability from DC to over 100GHz.

Emeriti Faculty

Fred G. Allen Harold Fetterman

Dee Son PanChand Viswanathan



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Photonics

Photonics deals with the generation, detection, and manipulation of light — specifically how it can be harnessedto provide useful functions. For example, nearly all of theinformation on the internet is transported by encoding itonto signals of infrared light carried on optical fibers.Many unknown materials can be identified by studyinghow light interacts with them (i.e. by scattering, absorb-ing, phase shifting, or polarizing some incident photons).The name “photonics” emphasizes the importance ofquantum mechanical properties of light and its interactionwith matter. Many topics in photonics research involve development and/or use of lasers. Our research programencompasses topics such as how light interacts both withmatter on the nanoscale and in plasmas, as well as newways to generate, detect, and control light in underdevel-oped spectral regions. Applications under investigation include the diverse topics of solar energy generation, lensless microscopy for cell-phone based telemedicine,high energy laser wakefield particle accelerators, ultra-high frame rate imaging, silicon photonics, biomedical imaging, and use of stabilized lasers for ultra-high precision measurements — just to name a few.

Bahram Jalali

Katsushi Arisaka Warren Grundfest

Jia-Ming Liu

Oscar Stafsudd

Also:Diana HuffakerMona JarrahiChan JoshiChee Wei Wong

Benjamin Williams

Aydogan Ozcan

Emeritus Faculty

Harold Fetterman



Plasma Electronics

Plasma Electronics covers a wide spectrum of activitiesthat include electro-dynamics of charged particles in external fields, non-linear optics of plasmas, high energy-density plasmas, laser-plasma interactions, basicplasma behavior, computer simulations of laboratory andspace plasmas and fusion plasmas. The applicationsbeing studied are plasma-based charged particle accelerators, free electron lasers, other plasma-based radiation sources, laser-fusion, astrophysical plasmas,plasma propulsion, gas lasers and plasmas for lighting.There are opportunities to do experimental, theoretical

and computer simulations research inall these areas. Close collaborationsexist with national laboratories at Livermore and SLAC and the grouphas in-house state-of-the art labora-tories including the Neptune Labora-tory that houses the world’s mostpowerful CO2 laser. The group alsohas the Dawson II computationalcluster for research on inertial con-finement fusion, plasma acceleratorsand astrophysical plasmas.

Keisuke Goda

Chan Joshi Warren Mori

Asad M. Madni Yi-Chi Shih Eli Yablonovitch

Adjunct Faculty

Pedram Khalili

Emeritus Faculty

Francis F. Chen

Signals & Systems


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Gregory J. Pottie

Suhas Diggavi

Ali H. Sayed

Kung Yao

Communications and Networking

UCLA has a tradition in Communications and Networking research: for example, the first Internet packets were sentfrom UCLA and the Viterbi Algorithm was developed here.In an increasingly interconnected and online world, our research encompasses computer networks, social net-works, wireless networks, on-chip networks and biologi-cal networks. Our work spans from fundamental questionsin communications networking, autonomous vehicular networks, multimedia telecommunications, coding theory, algorithms, resource allocation, game theory, network economics, information theory and security, to applica-tions in mobile computing, sensors and embedded sys-tems, distributed control systems, media distribution,green computing, intelligent cities, smart grid, cognitiveradios, emergency networks and mobile health.

Christina Fragouli

Also:Danijela CabricBabak DaneshradSam CooganAsad MadniAnkur Mehta

Mihaela van der Schaar

Mani SrivastavaPaulo TabuadaJohn VillasenorRichard D. Wesel

Emeriti Faculty

Nhan LevanPaul K.C. WangDonald Wiberg

Izhak Rubin

Lixia Zhang

Ali Mosleh


Signals & Systems

William J. Kaiser

Abeer Alwan Lara Dolecek

John Villasenor

Stefano Soatto

Paulo Tabuada

Signal Processing and Machine Learning

We rely on signals to interact with the physical and virtualworld. A challenge today is how to collect, analyze, store, andprocess large data in an efficient and scalable manner. Our signal processing research targets the inference, visualization,representation, and learning of a broad spectrum of signals related to media (including speech, video and social media networks), sensors (for medical, military, space, process controlor environmental applications), communications and controlnetworks (such as wireless and utility networks), and adaptivearrays (such as acoustic and radar). This applies to problemsranging in scale from the microscopic to Big Data. Researchcontributes to disciplines descended from both EE and CSroots, such as machine learning, statistical signal processing,

stochastic modeling, graphical models, information theory, adaptation and learn-ing algorithms, inference over networks,distributed signal processing, data analysis and distributed optimization.

Also:Danijela CabricAsad MadniGregory J. PottieAli H. SayedMihaela van der SchaarMani Srivastava

Alan Willson

Emeriti Faculty

Kung Yao


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Control and Decision Systems

Control and decision systems research aims to develop themathematical principles explaining how complex systems canbehave correctly in uncertain environments. One key programstrength is in cyber-physical systems that network togethercollaborating computational elements with physical elements.We work in improving their functionality, autonomy, andadaptability, analyze their performance and ensure their secure operation. Applications include autonomous vehicles,transportation networks, medical systems, robotics coordina-tion, smart buildings and smart power grids. Another strengthis in the intersection of economics with engineering.

Adjunct Faculty

Alan Laub Jason L. SpeyerSam Coogan

Ezio Biglieri Dariush Divsalar Ingrid Verbauhwede

Paulo Tabuada

Also:Ankur Mehta Ali MoslehIzhak RubinAli H. Sayed

Mihaela van der Schaar

Also:Asad Madni

Panagiotis Christofides


Signals & Systems

Information, Computation and Optimization Theory

Information theory research develops the fundamental limits ofcompression, encryption, and channel coding of data in a variety ofnetworks, storage media and communications systems. Applicationareas include new types of storage systems, and more efficient andsecure networks. Computation theory research characterizes thefundamental complexity of problems and the types of algorithmsthat can be used to solve them efficiently and/or approximately.Optimization theory research studies how minimizing cost func-tions inherent in problems spanning from economics to broadswaths of engineering can be formulated and efficiently solved.

Stanley Osher Vwani Roychowdhury

Christina Fragouli Richard D. WeselLieven Vandenberghe

Also:Suhas DigaviLara DolecekAlan LaubAnkur MehtaIzhak RubinAli H. SayedMihaela van de SchaarPaulo Tabuada

Stephen Jacobsen

Emeritus Faculty


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Recognitions

Society Fellows 47NAE Members 14NAS Members 3National Academy of Inventors 2Marconi Prize 1

Faculty and Staff

Ladder Faculty 46Courtesy Appointments 15Emeriti Faculty 14Adjunct 10Lecturers 12Staff 45

Research Funding for 2014-2015

Research CentersThe Electrical Engineering Department contributes to the following Research Centers:

- Andersen School of Management — Easton TechnologyManagement Center (ASM))

- California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)- Center for Development of Emerging Data Storage

Systems (CoDES2)- Center for Engineering Economics, Learning and

Networks (CEELN)- Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE)- Center for Systems, Dynamics, and Control (SyDyc)- Center of Excellence for Green Nanotechnologies (CEGN)- CHIPS — Center for Heterogeneous Integration and

Performance Scaling - Expedition into Hardware Variability-Aware Software- Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME)- Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE)

- Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)- Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)- Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA)- Integrated Modeling Process and Computation for

Technology (IMPACT+ )- Integrated Systems Nanofabrication Clean Room (ISNCR)- Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and

Engineering (JIFRESSE)- Nanoelectronics Research Facility (NRF)- Public Safety Network Systems (PSNS)- Translational Applications for Nanoscale Multiferroic

Systems (TANMS)- Water Technology Research Center (WaTer)- Western Institute for Nanoelectronics (WIN)- Wireless Health Institute (WHI)

Industry$8,313,078

Federal $16,546,058

State of California$500

University Endowments$1,420,924

Total $26,362,398

* Additional $81,840 funding from sales and services


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Rejected623

Admitted

192

Rejected492

Admitted

140

Rejected203

Admitted

Graduate Applicants for Fall 2015 Graduate Student Fellowships (in US$)Department Fellowships $776,917Dean’s GSR Support & NRT

Matching Funds $449,191Non-Resident Tuition Support for

Teaching Assistants $291,972Broadcom Fellowship $137,490Dissertation Year Fellowships $105,624Graduate Opportunity Fellowships $99,864MediaTek Fellowships $72,564Faculty Unrestricted Fellowships $52,575Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Top

Score Fellowships $51,384Sandia Excellence in Science &

Technology Fellowship $40,000Henry Samueli Partial Fellowships $34,254Dr. Ursula Mandel Fellowship $30,000Dean’s Fellowship & Camp Funds $29,000IGERT Fellowship $25,389Northrop Grumman Fellowships $23,015Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship $22,116Kalosworks $14,148Raytheon Fellowship $13,176Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Research Fellowship $11,290Living Spring Fellowship $10,309Borgstrom Fellowship $10,000Rockwell Fellowship $8,116Conference Travel Funds $7,300Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award $5,000Malcolm Stacey Fellowship $5,000Mindspeed Fellowship $4,957Total $2,330,651

Graduate StudentsStudents Enrolled 497Applicants for Fall 2014 2010Admitted 409New Students Enrolled 176Median Incoming GPA 3.79

Undergraduate StudentsStudents Enrolled 684Applicants for Fall 2014 1814Admitted 424New Students Enrolled 183Average Incoming GPA 4.36 (weighted)

3.93 (unweighted)

Graduate Students Admitted

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United States170

Iran56

India353

China894

South Korea 32

Taiwan 79 Other

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B. S. (158) Ph.D. (36)M. S. (161)

Total Applicants1789

Signals & Systems

Circuits & EmbeddedSystems


Total Admitted 471


Alumni Advisory Board

Sharon Black Special Projects Program Director, Raytheon

Phil BangayanDirector of Marketing,NBC/Universal

Ray (Ramon) GomezTechnical Director,Broadcom

Heba A. ArmandGroup Product Manager,Avery Consumer Products

David DoamiDirector, Program Manager,Northrop Grumman

Leonard BonillaRetired Program Manager,Raytheon

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

Asad MadniEE AAB Chair President, COO and CTO (Retired),BEI Technologies, Inc.

Robert GreenAttorney,Christie, Parker, and Hale, LLP

Daniel GoebelSenior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

William GoodinRetired Associate Directorof Alumni Relations,UCLA HSSEAS


2014 / 2015 Academic Placement

Students in Academia

Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Ph.D., 2013Brigham Young UniversityAcademic Advisor: Behzad RazaviShiuh-hua Wood was a Postdoctoral Scholarin the Communication Circuits Laboratory atUCLA in 2013. He was a Senior Design Engi-neer in the RFIC design group in Qualcomm,developing low-power circuits for Bluetoothtransceivers. He joined the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering ofBrigham Young University in 2014. His research interests include RF/analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical devices and communication systems.

Arthur Charles Densmore, Ph.D., 2015Department of Electrical EngineeringCalifornia State University, Long BeachAcademic Advisor: Yahya Rahmat-SamiiArthur Densmore graduated with the 2014Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation in PhysicalWaves and Electronics Award as well as boththe 2013 and 2014 EE Department HenrySamueli Excellence in Teaching Awards. He isthe principal author of US Patent 5398035,Satellite-tracking millimeter-wave reflectorantenna system for mobile satellite-tracking;He has joined General Dynamics SATCOM Division and holds a Part-Time Lecturer posi-tion in the Electrical Engineering Departmentat California State University, Long Beach.

Jere Harrison, Ph.D., 2014Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLAAcademic Advisor: Robert CandlerDr. Harrison received his Ph.D. in 2014 from

UCLA and has continued as a Postdoctoral researcher developing strong and compactparticle beam optics with the UCLA ElectricalEngineering and Physics departments. He hasauthored numerous research publications andpatents in the areas of magnetic devices andmicro-machining. His recent research inter-ests include novel plasma and particle beamdevices for x-ray and neutron production.

Ata Mahjoubfar, Ph.D., 2014Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLAAcademic Advisor: Bahram JalaliAta Mahjoubfar is currently a PostdoctoralScholar at UCLA. He was the co-founder ofOSA/SPIE student chapter at UCLA and itspresident in 2012. He is the author of morethan 25 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include ultrafast data acquisition and analytics, image and signalprocessing, machine vision and learning, imaging and visualization, biomedical tech-nology, and financial engineering.

Cem Tekin, Ph.D., 2013 (Univ. of Michigan)Bilkent University, Ankara, TurkeyPostdoc Advisor: Mihaela van der SchaarDr. Cem Tekin's research spans the area ofmachine learning, data mining and game theory, with an emphasis on online learningand multi-armed bandit problems. His inter-ests lie in both developing the theory in theseareas and applying these findings in real-world engineering systems. Specifically, he focuses on online learning problems in bigdata with applications including real-time

stream mining, social recommender systems,and personalized/smart healthcare. He hasalso developed multi-armed bandit algorithmsfor dynamic spectrum access and cognitiveradio networks.

Chung-Tse Michael Wu, Ph.D., 2014Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering — Wayne State UniversityAcademic Advisor: Tatsuo ItohChung-Tse Michael Wu is currently an Assis-tant Professor at Wayne State University. Dr. Wu was the recipient of 2011 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Student Prizeand the 2013 APMC Best Student PaperAward. He won the 2nd place award in the2014 International Microwave Symposium(IMS) Student Design Competition. His research interests include applied electro-magnetics, antennas, passive and active microwave components, microwave systemsand metamaterials.

Jie Xu, Ph.D., 2015University of MiamiAdvisor: Mihaela van der SchaarDr. Jie Xu is currently an Assistant Professorin the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at the University of Miami. His research spans the area of machine learning,data mining and game theory. His interests liein both developing the theory in these areasand applying it in real-world engineering systems, such as communication networks,cyber-security systems, online social plat-forms and healthcare informatics.

Cem Tekin Chung-TseMichael Wu

Jie XuArthur CharlesDensmore

Jere Harrison Ata MahjoubfarShiuh-hua Wood Chiang

Electrical Engineering Partnerships


T he Electrical Engineering Department is dedicated to initiating and forging partnerships with industry, inwhich education and research in academia tightly connects to contributions in industry. The UCLA

Electrical Engineering Department proudly announces the initiation of the Electrical Engineering Partnerships(EEP). The UCLA EEP works directly with partners in nurturing the talent pipeline through enhancing industry visibility, propagating industry’s evolving needs into our courses and hands-on projects, providing access to resources within UCLA including state-of-the-art facilities, and exploring collaborative research opportunities. Support for the program is used for enhancing the department’s laboratory and instructional capabilities, promoting hands-on experience for undergraduates, and aiding students in their academics andresearch. More details are available at the EEP website: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/industry.

T his past year, MediaTek Inc. announced their support of the UCLA electrical engineering departmentwith two graduate research fellows. The rigorous selection process from proposals written only by

qualified Ph.D. candidates involves finalists presenting their proposals to MediaTek researchers. Two proposals with the highest technical merit and likelihood of success were selected. Hsinhung AlvinChen, a graduate student of Professor Asad Abidi, will pursue research on Adaptive Calibration of Time-Interleaved Analog-To-Digital Converter, while Zuow-Zun ( Joseph) Chen, a graduate student of Professor Frank Chang, has selected to investigate A Low-Noise Sub-Sampling Fractional-N ADPLL.The MediaTek Fellowship provides full graduate student researcher (GSR) support including nonresi-dent tuition (NRT) for one academic year and a possible paidsummer internship.

MediaTek, founded in 1997, is a pioneering fabless semicon-ductor company and a market leader in cutting-edge systems ona chip for wireless communications, multi-media, and networkinfrastructure. In 2013,the company was the fourth largest inte-grated circuits designer worldwide. Headquartered in Hsinchu,Taiwan, MediaTek recently opened offices in Santa Clara andSan Diego, California. Hsinhung Chen Zuow-Zun Chen


Annual Report 2014-2015

Annual Report 2014-2015Editors/CoordinatorsGregory J. Pottie, Professor & ChairmanJacquelyn T. Trang, Chief Administrative Officer

WritersExecutive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott L. WaughProfessor Sam CooganProfessor Ankur MehtaJonathan Webb, from BBC NewsProfessor Asad Madni

Jason CongYahya

Rahmat-Samii Ali H. SayedFrancis Chen Paul WangKing-Ning TuHooman Darabi

New Books by FacultyNumerous textbooks for graduate and undergraduate instruction are authored by our electrical engineering faculty.

Professor Yahya Rahmat-SamiiProfessor Mona Jarrahi William Kisliuk, UCLA Engineering Director of MarketingMatthew Chin, UCLA Engineering Communications Manager Stuart Wolpert, UCLA Media Relations and Public Outreach

Senior Media Relations Representative

DesignMauricio Feldman-Abe, Principal Designer

Administration

Gregory J. Pottie Department ChairmanAbeer Alwan Vice-Chair, Undergraduate AffairsMona Jarrahi Vice-Chair, Graduate AffairsC.-K. Ken Yang Vice-Chair, Industry Relations

Area Directors

Danijela Cabric Director, Circuits and Embedded Systems

Benjamin Williams Director, Physical and Wave Electronics

Izhak Rubin Director, Signals and Systems

ABET Committee

Gregory J. Pottie Department ChairmanAsad Madni Alumni Advisory Board ChairAbeer Alwan Professor and Vice-Chair,

Undergraduate AffairsC.-K. Ken Yang Professor and Vice-Chair,

Industry Relations

Centers Directors and Committees Chairs

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

Robert N. Candler, Director, Nano-Electronics Research Facility

Suhas Diggavi, Chair, Recruitment CommitteeLieven Vandenberghe, Chair, Non-Tenure CommitteeChandrashekar Joshi, Chair, Tenure Committee

Chair, Courses and Curriculum Committee

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

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