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2003-04 Faculty Honors and Awards
A Tradition of Excellence
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the leading scientific and engineering society in Acoustics and a member of the American Institute of Physics, has elected electrical engineering professor Abeer
Alwan as a Fellow for her contributions to research in speech production and perception and applications to speech technology.
Electrical engineering professor A.V. Balakrishnan received
an honorary doctoral degree from the West University of Timisoara, located in
Romania, for his seminal contributions to the analysis and design of control
systems.
Greg P. Carman, professor of mechanical and
aerospace engineering, has been invited to speak at the National
Academy of Engineering Forum 10th Annual Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium, Sept. 9-11. He was also named the recipient of the
2004 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Adaptive Structures
and Material Systems Prize in honor of his contributions to smart
materials and structures.
Computer science assistant professor Junghoo “John” Cho received an NSF CAREER Award to develop a scientific foundation for archiving the history and evolution of the Web: tracking changes, storing multiple versions of Web pages, and providing the stored pages to users through an easy-to-access interface.
Chemical engineering associate professor Panagiotis D. Christofides has been selected to receive the 2004 Donald P. Eckman Award, given by the American Automatic Control Council for his pioneering contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, accompanied by creative applications to advanced materials processing, particulate processes and fluid dynamic systems.
Chemical engineering professor Yoram Cohen was appointed to the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute at the Technion in Israel.
Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received an alumni leadership award from his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. He was also inducted into the University of Kentucky’s Engineering Hall of Distinction.
Computer science professor Joseph DiStefano, III received the 2004 Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award. DiStefano was chosen for his role in developing two graduate programs: biomedical systems (now systems biology) and biocybernetics, as well as his efforts to develop and sustain the cybernetics interdepartmental undergraduate degree.
Milos Ercegovac, professor and chair of UCLA’s
computer science department, was elected a foreign member of
the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Belgrade-based
Academy is the most eminent scientific and art institution in
Serbia and dates back to 1886. Ercegovac is a specialist in digital
arithmetic, digital design, and computer system architecture.
Computer science professor Deborah Estrin was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her innovations in scalable network protocols and sensor network research.
Sheldon Friedlander, Parsons Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received the ETH Stodola Medal from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Friedlander was selected by the Institute’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering to receive the award for his work in the field of aerosol engineering, or the science and technology of fine particles in gases, with applications to air pollution and advanced materials.
Electrical engineering assistant professor Lei He received an NSF CAREER Award to develop an interconnect-centric layout design methodology that incorporates on-chip inductance.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Chih-Ming Ho has been appointed to the advisory board of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute, which is dedicated to advancing the art, science and practice of nanotechnology.
Electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh has been selected
to
serve
as a distinguished microwave lecturer of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society.
Electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to the application of time-frequency techniques in microwave photonics.
Civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Jennifer Jay received an NSF CAREER Award to study mercury methylation in sulfate-reducing biofilms.
Bioengineering assistant professor Daniel Kamei won the prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award given by the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, which will support his research on analyzing cellular processes to improve existing cancer therapies.
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world's leading
professional society in the broad areas of aeronautics and astronautics, elected
mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Ann
Karagozian as a Fellow. She also received the UCLA Staff Assembly’s Faculty/Staff Partnership Award, which recognizes those faculty who actively develop and encourage faculty/staff partnerships.
Alan C. Kay, an adjunct professor of computer science at UCLA and a senior fellow at HP labs, was awarded the 2003 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. It is considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” He also received the Charles Stark Draper Prize with three colleagues for their 1970s work at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in creating the first practical networked personal computer, and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation for “creating the concept of personal computing and contributing to its realization.”
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Adrienne Lavine was elected Academic Senate Vice Chair/Chair-Elect of the UCLA Academic Senate. She will hold this position for one year, then serve as Chair of the Academic Senate the following year. The Academic Senate Chair leads the campus-wide Academic Senate and serves as the conduit between the faculty and the administration.
Electrical engineering professor Jia-Ming Liu was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for [his] contributions to ultrafast nonlinear optical processes and nonlinear dynamics of lasers.”
Civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Steven Margulis received an NSF CAREER Award to investigate regional land-atmosphere interactions in order to ultimately better understand and model weather and climate processes. He also received a NASA New Investigator in Earth Science Award to monitor cold land processes and the significant role they play in the climate system.
Carlo Montemagno, professor and chair of bioengineering, received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Experimental) for “his pioneering research into methods of integrating single molecule biological motors with nano-scale silicon devices, which opens up new possibilities for nanomachines.”
Jens Palsberg, computer science professor, received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support his research in resource-aware compilation. The Okawa Foundation promotes study and analysis in the fields of information and telecommunications.
Computer science professor Judea Pearl has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence with the 2003 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award, which recognizes Pearl’s significant contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications, building a firm mathematical and theoretical foundation through ground-breaking work in heuristic search, reasoning under uncertainty, constraint processing, non-monotonic reasoning and causal modeling.
Electrical engineering chair and professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii has received the prestigious NASA Certificate of Recognition Award and cash prize for “the creative development of a scientific contribution which has been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the aerospace technology program of NASA.”
Glenn Reinman, computer science assistant professor, received a 2004 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award for his innovative class presentations and curricula, including a design cycle trade-offs requirement; taking time after class to provide students with advanced supplementary course materials; and developing a two-part series of graduate courses covering advanced topics in microprocessors architecture.
Electrical engineering professor Henry Samueli, who is also co-founder and chairman of Broadcom Corporation, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Electrical engineering professor Ali H. Sayed received the prestigious 2003 Kuwait Prize for Basic Sciences for his extensive research contributions in the area of adaptive systems, including a publication record of over 200 articles and four books. The Kuwait Prize is one of the highest honors given in Kuwait for intellectual achievement. Sayed also was named a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the year 2005. The Distinguished Lecturer Program enables chapters to invite individuals who are well known educators, authors and researchers in the fields of signal processing to lecture at chapter meetings.
Computer science associate professor Stefano Soatto is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision. He will serve as the Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2005.
Civil and environmental engineering associate professor Jonathan P. Stewart will travel to Italy early next year as part of the 2004-2005 J. William Fulbright Scholarship program. Stewart will spend four months lecturing at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Tsu-Chin Tsao received his department’s Henry Samueli Outstanding Teaching Award.
King-Ning Tu, professor of materials science
and engineering, was selected in June as a recipient of the
Founder’s Award 2003 "Ions at Caltech, 1967-76," for his
contributions to scientific advancement on the subjects of
ion implantation, silicide formation, and solid phase epitaxy
in microelectronic devices. He also received the 2004 Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Lectureship Award.
Bioengineering assistant professor Ben Wu received a 2004 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of his role in developing the new bioengineering undergraduate curriculum, which includes 20 new innovative courses; his work as the Biomedical Engineering Society’s faculty advisor; and his numerous contributions to the department. He was also elected to the Academy of Prosthodontics, the oldest and most prestigious professional organization in the field of prosthodontics. There are only 71 active fellows and 11 associate fellows in this elite academy.
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