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Russell O'Neill
Distinguished Service Award Recipients
| 2005 |
Baley Fong (CBE) |
| 2004 |
Adam D. Harmetz (CS) |
| 2003 |
Gigi Lau (EE) |
| 2002 |
Rex Lorenzo (CS) |
| 2001 |
May Tseng (EE) |
| 2000 |
Marnelli Tabbada (EE) |
| 1999 |
Wendy Yee (EE) |
| 1998 |
Christopher Cox (MAE) |
| 1997 |
George Lopez (MS) |
| 1996 |
Shailen Mistry (EE) |
| 1995 |
Roderick Son (CSE)
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| 1994 |
Brian P. Tzeng (EE) |
| 1993 |
Michele Tesciuba (MAE)
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| 1992 |
Evalyn Cortez-Davis (CEE) |
| 1991 |
Avi Tesciuba (CEE) |
| 1990 |
Susanna Thompson (EE) |
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Jinsong Huang, a graduate student
working with Professor Yang
Yang, has won a Materials Research Society Graduate Student
Award (Silver Medal) at the MRS
Fall 2006 Meeting for his paper on "Highly Efficient Red Emission
Polymer Phosphorescent Lighting Emitting Diodes Based on Two Novel
Ir(piq)3 Derivatives." It is one of the most prestigious and competitive
awards available for graduate students in materials research. Among
42 technical symposia and 5000 papers presented at the meeting,
only 30 student authors won MRS Graduate Student Awards.
Seife Wooldeyesus, a senior in the EE department,
has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA),
a scholarship program sponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association
(SIA) through the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Education
Alliance (SRCEA). This award is for outstanding undergraduate students
conducting independent research sponsored by one of the SRC focused
research centers, in this case, the MARCO-FENA center at UCLA.
The Automated Reasoning Group at UCLA, led by computer science professor
Adnan Darwiche,
participated in the Uncertainty in A.I. Conference in Boston, Mass.
in July. The UCLA team achieved an outstanding performance, being
the only team to solve all problem instances in the allotted time.
The team includes current and former graduate students of the Automated
Reasoning Group: David Allen, Mark Chavira,
Arthur Choi, and Jinbo Huang.
The team was supported by computer science staff member, Keith
Cascio.
In the operational systems design category at the 43rd
Design Automation Conference, the first place award was given
to Herwin Chan, Andres I. Vila Cadaso,
Juthika Basak, Miguel Griot, Wen-Yen
Weng, Richard
Wesel, Bahram
Jalali, Eli
Yablonovitch and Ingrid
Verbauwhede for the demonstration of uncoordinated multiple
access in optical communications, according to DAC.
Three of the 10 undergraduate students recently selected to participate
in the CNSI
Summer 2006 Research Fellowship Program are engineering students.
Each will receive a $5,000 stipend for research work conducted in
the lab of a CNSI faculty member. They are Benjamin Chiang,
an electrical engineering major (faculty mentor, Yong
Chen, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering); Korey
Kam, a materials science and engineering major (faculty
co-mentors, Bruce
Dunn, professor of materials science and engineering, and Owen
Witte, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor
of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics); and Kunal
Mehta, a bioengineering major (faculty mentor, Jacob
Schmidt, assistant professor of bioengineering).
The Association of Uncertainty in
Artificial Intelligence 2006 Best Student Paper Award was awarded
jointly to Ilya Shpitser and Judea
Pearl for their paper "Identification of Conditional Interventional
Distributions." This award is given each year by the AUAI for an
outstanding technical contribution made by a student. The authors
of "Pearl's Calculus of Intervention is Complete" (Yimin Huang and
Marco Valtorta, University of South Carolina) were also honored.
Nathan Kwok, an M.S. student (advisor: H. Thomas
Hahn) was awarded the 1st Place at the SAMPE
University Research Symposium International Competition in the
Master’s Degree category for his paper and presentation titled “Contact
Resistance for Self-Healing Composites.” Judging was based on technical
content, originality, significance of ideas, and delivery in both
the paper and presentation in the area of advanced materials.
At the Institute of Transportation
Engineers Student Night, Darren Poon, Christopher
Wessel, and Kent Tsujii won Best Overall
Project for "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Electronic Driver
Feedback Sign," and Alicia Kinoshita, Brian
Low, Jesus Bordallo, Anna Nazarov,
Robert Campbell, and Joaquin Soto
won Most Practical Project for their "Evaluation of the Effectiveness
of the 2003 MUTCD Speed Hump Striping."
UCLA's chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate students took
home two of five prizes at the South
Coast Air Quality Management District's Ultrafine Particle Conference.
Teresa L. Barone placed second for her work on
"The Morphology of Ambient Ultrafine Particles at Los Angeles International
Airport," and Anshuman Amit Lall and Weizhi
Rong placed fifth for their work on "Online Measurement
of Ultrafine Aggregate Number, Surface Area, and Volume Distributions."
Under the direction of computer science faculty Joseph
Shinnerl and Jason
Cong, and mathematics professor Tony Chan,
UCLA graduate students Kenton Sze and Min
Xie produced the best wirelength result under congestion
control and received second place for their mPL6 tool at the 2006
International Symposium on Physical
Design placement contest. Nine teams from major research universities
worldwide participated. Placement tools were tested on eight designs
released by IBM, ranging from 300,000 to over 2,500,000 placement
objects. mPL6 was able to place the design with over 2,500,000 objects
in less than eight hours. The mPL6 tool is available for download
at http://cadlab.cs.ucla.edu/cpmo/.
UCLA's AIChE
ChemE Car team placed second at the Regional
Conference at UC Davis in April.
The paper “Demonstration of Uncoordinated Multiple Access in Optical
Communications,” was awarded a first place at the Student Design
Contest (System Category) jointly organized by the 2006 ACM
Design Automation Conference and the 2006 IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The paper was
co-authored by H. Chan, A. Vila Casado,
J. Basak, M. Griot, W.
Weng, and electrical engineering professors Richard
Wesel, Bahram
Jalali, Eli
Yablonovitch, and Ingrid
Verbauwhede.
UCLA Engineering’s Iota Gamma Chapter of Eta
Kappa Nu, the electrical and computer engineering honor society,
has been selected as a recipient of the Outstanding Chapter Award
(OCA) for 2004-05.
A paper on the Illumimote system, a novel high-performance light
sensor module for sensor networks in film production, has been awarded
the 2nd place award and a cash prize of $2000 at the Student Design
Contest (System Category) jointly organized by the prestigious ACM
Design Automation Conference and the IEEE
International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The paper was
co-authored by Heemin Park, Jonathan Friedman,
and electrical engineering professor Mani
Srivastava from the Networked
and Embedded Systems Lab, and Pablo Gutierrez,
Vids Samanta, and
Jeff Burke from the UCLA
Hypermedia Studio. For more information on Illumimote, please
see http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu/research/illumimote.
Computer science professor Mario
Gerla, with PhD students Claudio Enrico Palazzi
and Giovanni Pau, recently won the Best Full Paper
Award at the 3rd
ACM International Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology.
The paper is coauthored with Stefano Ferretti and Marco Roccetti
from University of Bologna (Italy) and is titled “FILA, a Holistic
Approach to Massive Online Gaming: Algorithm Comparison and Performance
Analysis.”
The American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation
has announced the winners of its 2004/2005 Student Design Competitions
and UCLA Engineering’s KABOOM team (Chris Covell, Natasha
Barra, Patrick Greene, Cassandra Guess, Kenneth Parker, Harshil
Shah) garnered first place in “Undergraduate Team Space—Mission
to Rendezvous with and Divert an Incoming Asteroid.” Administered
by AIAA’s Student Programs Department, the competition recognizes
excellence in aerospace engineering study at both the undergraduate
and graduate level, and are judged by members of AIAA Technical
Committees.
UCLA computer science graduate students Petros Efstathopoulos,
Steve VanDeBogart, and computer science professor
Eddie Kohler, together
with colleagues at MIT and Stanford/NYU, presented a paper at SOSP,
the premier operating system conference, "Labels and Event
Processes in the Asbestos Operating System." It was one of
five papers selected for fast-track publication in ACM Transactions
on Operating Systems. Additional information on the Asbestos operating
system is available online at http://asbestos.cs.ucla.edu/.
Eric Lyster, a doctoral student in chemical engineering,
has received the prestigious National
Water Research Institute Fellowship. He also has received an
outstanding paper award at meeting of the North
American Membrane Society for his paper on "Numerical Model
of Concentration Polarization: Considerations of Membrane Channel
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