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UCLA Engineering Professor Honored as UCLA’s Alumnus of the Year

Professor Henry Samueli

Electrical engineering professor Henry Samueli (’75, ’76, ’80) will be honored as UCLA’s 2005 Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year at the UCLA Awards Ceremony on Sunday, May 15, 2005. The Alumnus of the Year Award is given for special and outstanding service to UCLA, and is awarded to individuals who have brought great honor and distinction to the University.

“For the prestige he brings to UCLA and for all his support and commitment to UCLA, he richly deserves to be recognized as UCLA’s 2005 Alumnus of the Year,” noted Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Samueli is co-founder, chairman, and chief technical officer (CTO) of Broadcom Corporation. The Office of the CTO is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom's research and development activities as well as helping coordinate corporate-wide engineering development strategies. He has over 25 years of experience in the fields of communications systems engineering and digital signal processing.

Since 1985, Samueli has been a professor in the electrical engineering department at UCLA in the School that bears his name. He has supervised advanced research programs in broadband communications circuits and digital signal processing, and he has published more than 100 technical papers in these areas.

He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 in recognition of his pioneering contributions to academic research and technology entrepreneurship in broadband communications, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Samueli also was named the UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year in 2000.

For additional information on the event, please call 310-206-3798 or visit http://www.uclalumni.net/involvement/awards/EventInfo.cfm.