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2001-02
Faculty Awards and Honors
Arunachalam Balakrishnan, professor of electrical engineering, received
a Technical Achievement Award at the Fourth International Conference on Nonlinear
Problems in Aviation and Aerospace for his outstanding contributions to, and
his exemplary leadership role in nonlinear mathematical analysis in science and
engineering.
Chemical engineering professor Jane Chang received a 2002 TRW Excellence
in Teaching Award recognizing her reputation as an outstanding instructor and
many contributions to the field.
Professor Frank Chang, electrical engineering, received a Distinguished
Alumni award from National Tsing Hua University for his contributions in semiconductor
technologies for high-speed electronics.
Panagiotis D. Christofides, chemical engineering professor,
was elected to the position of associate editor of IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control (TAC) for 2003. IEEE TAC is a premier journal
in the field of control engineering.
Computer science professor Jason Cong received the 2000 SRC Technical
Excellence award honoring his work in the area of interconnect estimation, planning
and synthesis for sub-micron designs. This award is given annually to researchers
who, over a period of years, have demonstrated creative, consistent contributions
to the field of semiconductor research, and who are ground breakers and leaders
in their fields.
Professor Michael Deem, chemical engineering, was awarded the Camille
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for demonstrating outstanding scientific accomplishments
and a dedication to the education of his students.
Sheldon Friedlander, a National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
member and chemical engineering professor, received the 2001 Particle
Technology Forum Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of significant
scientific and technical contributions to the field of particle
technology, as well as leadership in promoting scholarship, research,
development, and education in this field.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering Professor Chih-Ming Ho, NAE member
and associate vice chancellor for research, has been awarded the Kuo-Nien Chair
Professorship, one of eleven honorary professorships offered by National Tsing
Hua University to distinguished scholars around the world.
Tatsuo Itoh, electrical engineering professor, received
the Nikola Tesla Award for Applied Electromagnetics from the Serbian
Academy of Science and Arts, the most eminent scientific and art
institution in Serbia.
Professor Ann Karagozian, mechanical and aerospace engineering, received
the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service from the US Air Force, for four
years of service on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and for chairing
a study on Sensor Technologies for Deeply Buried Facilities.
Professor John Kim, mechanical and aerospace engineering, is a winner
of the 2002 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. The prizes are given to accomplished
individuals in science, engineering, medicine, arts, and community service. Kim
also received the 2001 Otto Laporte Award honoring outstanding research in fluid
dynamics from the American Physical Society. The award recognizes his pioneering
work in the development of direct numerical simulation as a tool in turbulence
research and contributions to the understanding of the physics and control of
turbulent boundary layers.
Leonard Kleinrock, member of the NAE and computer science
professor, received the 2001 Okawa Prize for pioneering and outstanding
contributions to queuing theory and packet switching theory, the
foundation technology of the Internet.
Professor James Liao, chemical engineering, was elected to the College
of Fellows, Class of 2002, by the American Institute of Medical and Biological
Engineering for his contributions in cellular and molecular bioengineering.
Computer science professor Judea Pearl, an NAE member, received the 2001
Lakatos Award for his book Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference.
The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy
of science in the form of a book published in English during the previous six
years.
Yahya Rahmat-Samii, chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, was
elected a foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science
and Arts in 2001, the only foreign member elected that year. Founded in 1771,
this is one of the oldest science academies in Europe. Rahmat-Samii also received
a 2002 JPL/NASA Award of Exceptional Technical Excellence for significant achievement
in the development of advanced specialized rain radar technologies to identify
precipitation events within a hurricane.
Stefano Soatto, computer science professor, received a 2001
Okawa Foundation fellowship. The award will support his work in
modeling visual processes for communication and remote interaction.
Professor Jason Speyer, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and his
Autonomous Vehicles Systems Instrumentation Laboratory won the NASA Public Service
Group Achievement award. The group was recognized, in part, for making significant
strides towards demonstrating a sustained 10 percent fuel savings of the trailing
aircraft during autonomous close formation flight. Speyer shares the award with
David Chichka, Walton Williamson, Dale Cooper, Mamoun Abdel-Hafez, and Ihnseok
Rhee.
Michael Stenstrom, associate dean and professor of civil
and environmental engineering, received an award for innovation
in Water Quality Protection from the California Regional Water
Quality Control Board, in part for his contributions to storm water
research. His specific projects include the development of a land-use
and drainage model for the Santa Monica Bay watershed and the assessment
of toxicity in urban runoff.
Professor Jonathan Stewart, civil and environmental engineering, received
the 2001 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award for his significant
contributions in the research, teaching, and practice of geotechnical earthquake
engineering. He was honored for his work in the analysis of field performance
data to gain insight into complex phenomena and the translation of those insights
into practical engineering models.
King-Ning Tu, chair of the Materials Science and Engineering
Department, recently was elected as a member of the Academia Sinica.
Academia Sinica, the highest academic institution in the Republic
of China, has only 225 members.
Professor William Van Vorst, chemical engineering, received the Jules
Verne Award from the International Association for Hydrogen Energy for pioneering
contributions to hydrogen energy in general and hydrogen fueled transport in
particular.
Lieven Vandenberghe, electrical engineering professor, received
a 2002 TRW Excellence in Teaching Award recognizing his reputation
as an outstanding instructor and many contributions to the field.
Professor Richard Wesel, electrical engineering, was selected to participate
in the National Academy of Engineering's eighth annual Frontiers of Engineering
symposium. The participants - from industry, academia, and government - were
nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and were chosen from a field of
nearly 150 applicants.
Ming Wu, electrical engineering professor, was elected an
IEEE Fellow for contributions to optical microelectromechanical
systems and high-speed optoelectronics.
Professor Eli Yablonovitch, electrical engineering, received the 2001
Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics for the impact of photonic crystals
on basic research, as well as on a great variety of applications. This is the
second year in a row that a UCLA professor has received this international award.
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