2002-03 - Faculty Honors and Awards Recognizing Excellence in Research and Education Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Mohamed Abdou was appointed as a member of the US Department of Energy (DOE), Fusion Energy Advisory Committee's Development Path Panel, tasked with developing a plan for fusion energy in response to President Bush's initiative. He is also a member of the DOE's Basic Energy Science Advisory Committee. Electrical engineering professor Asad Abidi was named among the top contributors to the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the most prestigious design conference in the semiconductor industry. Hassan Babaie, a lecturer in electrical engineering, received the 2002 Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award from the department. Greg Carman, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The fellow grade recognizes significant engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Jane P. Chang, professor of chemical engineering, has been named an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator for 2003 for her proposal titled "Atomic Scale Engineering of Dielectric Thin Films on Wide Band Gap Semiconductors." Jiun-Shyan Chen, civil and environmental engineering professor, was elected as the At Large member of the US Association for Computational Mechanics. He also sat on the Scientific Committee of the 7th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. Chemical engineering professor Yoram Cohen was awarded the 2003 Lawrence K. Cecil Award from the Environmental Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recognition of his "pioneering contributions to research and education in multimedia environmental systems and helping shape the modern approach to environmental protection from a multimedia perspective." Computer science professor Joseph DiStefano III received the 2003 UCLA Harvey Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. Bruce Dunn, professor of materials science, was named to the Nippon Sheet Glass Chair in Materials Science and Engineering. The UCLA Emeriti Association selected electrical engineering professor emeritus Robert S. Elliott as 2002 Emeritus of the Year, noting that he is "a model of gracious leadership and continuing dedication to emeriti, university, and public interests." Computer science chair Milos Ercegovac was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to the theory and practice of digital arithmetic. Petros Faloutsos, computer science professor, received a 2002 Okawa Foundation Research Grant for his work in computer graphics and animation research. The Okawa Foundation promotes study and analysis in the fields of information and telecommunications. Chemical engineering professor Sheldon K. Friedlander chaired the Emerging Issues in Nanoparticle Aerosol Science and Technology Workshop, held in June 2003 at UCLA. Computer science professor Mario Gerla was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to ad hoc wireless networks. Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Nasr Ghoniem was one of two UCLA professors awarded a 2003 Faculty/Staff Partnership Award by the UCLA Staff Assembly for demonstrating a "commitment to the values of collaboration and collegiality as demonstrated by developing partnerships with staff." John J. Gilman, adjunct professor of materials science and engineering, was elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The honor is based on Gilman's contributions to dislocation behavior of ceramics, disclination behavior of polymers and leadership in the development and production of metal glasses. Electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for advances in electromagnetic engineering for microwave and wireless components, circuits and systems. Jack Judy, professor of electrical engineering, received a 2002 Okawa Research Grant from the Okawa Foundation for his research on neural-electronic interfaces. Ann Karagozian, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, had her membership on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board approved by the White House for a four-year term. The Secretary of the Air Force selected 13 from a field of 119 nominees for this honor. Earlier this year she also was appointed chair of the Air Force SAB Panel on Long Range Strike Targets and Effects, and chair, External Advisory Board, Sandia National Labs' Grand Challenge: Laboratory Director's R&D Project on Near-Real Time Sensing for Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) Defeat. Chang-Jin Kim, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the 2002 ALA Achievement Award from the Association for Laboratory Automation for contributions to the development of a programmable digital microfluidic circuit chip as a new paradigm in the manipulation of liquids. Computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also received a 2002 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Fellow Award, which recognize outstanding achievement in OR/MS research, practice, management, education and service. Mechanical and aerospace engineering professors Adrienne Lavine and Robert M'Closkey received 2003 Henry and Susan Samueli Teaching Awards for outstanding contributions to the teaching mission of the mechanical and aerospace engineering department. Electrical engineering professor H. John Orchard received the 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Achievement Award, which recognizes outstanding technical contributions over a period of years. Computer science professor Judea Pearl became a Corresponding Member of the Spanish Academy of Engineering. Behzad Razavi, professor of electrical engineering, was recognized by the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the premier conference in the area of microelectronic circuits, as one of the top 10 authors in the 50-year history of the conference. Electrical engineering professor Henry Samueli was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for pioneering contributions to academic research and technology entrepreneurship in the broadband communications system-on-a-chip industry. Ali Sayed, professor of electrical engineering, was appointed by the Executive Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. The publication is a leading source for information in the signal processing field. Jonathan P. Stewart, professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a 2003 Northrop Grumman Teaching Award for professionalism and demonstrating outstanding teaching capabilities inside and outside of the classroom. Materials science professor King-Ning Tu was a recipient of the 2003 Founder's Award - Ions at Caltech, 1967-76 for contributions to scientific advancement on the subjects of ion implantation, silicide formation, and solid phase epitaxy in microelectronic devices. Electrical engineering professor Alan Willson received the Mac VanValkenburg Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for "major contributions to theory, design methods, and hardware implementation of nonlinear circuits and digital signal processing algorithms, to graduate education, and for leadership in the CAS Society." It is the top award granted by the Society. Chih-Kong Ken Yang, electrical engineering professor, was a 2003 Northrop Grumman Teaching Award recipient for professionalism and demonstrating outstanding teaching capabilities inside and outside of the classroom. Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering for introducing band-gap engineering and applying semiconductor concepts to electromagnetic waves in artificial periodic structures.