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1960s
William J. Lloyd BS ’62, PhD ’70 has been named chief technical officer and director of Research and Development at Eastman Kodak, and elected a senior vice president. Lloyd was previously director of the Inkjet Systems Program at Kodak. In 2000, he served as the
Co-CEO during the startup phase of Phogenix Imaging, a joint venture between Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard.
E. G. Coffman, Jr. MS ’62, PhD ’66 has been awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award for a career of notable scholarly contributions to the computer science community by the Association for Computing Machinery. Coffman pioneered time-sharing systems and computer networks, and conducted seminal research in performance evaluation. He also made fundamental contributions in scheduling theory, queueing theory and combinatorial optimization.
Joseph C. Mills BS ’67, MS ’69, PhD ’72, has received the 2004 Black Engineer of the Year Pioneer Award for his work on the International Space Station. The Pioneer Award is given to individuals who have made professional gains in fields that may have been previously not occupied by African Americans. Mills spent many years in the nuclear industry and most recently served as vice president and program manager on the space station, overseeing the station’s solar power requirements.
John Junkins MS ’67, PhD ’69 has received the 2004 Tycho Brahe Award from the Institute of Navigation for contributions made to the science of space navigation, guidance and control. The award is named in honor of the 16th-century pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose measurements of the motion of Mars later led to the discovery of the laws of planetary motion.
1970s
Akhil Tripathi MS ’70 has been named chief information officer for the Harleysville Group. In this position, he will direct the company’s information technology strategy, integration and development efforts, and will also oversee related technology services.
Thomas Hanrahan BS ’72, MS ’74 has been appointed director of Linux
engineering at the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux. Hanrahan is responsible for managing all of the Lab’s engineering, testing and technical professionals worldwide.
Pawan Gupta BS ’74 has been named vice president of Product Management for BSQUARE, which provides smart device solutions. He will be responsible for managing the company’s efforts to create innovative new software products and bring those products to market.
Sue Baumgarten MS ’76 has been appointed deputy general manager at Raytheon Technical Services Company in Reston, VA. She will focus on the company’s growth strategy development and implementation, mission support, business development and development of solution sets.
Lee Chung MS ’79 has been appointed
vice president of the Corporate Marketing Division for UMC, a leading global
semiconductor foundry. He is responsible for identifying specific technologies
needed to support market requirements, defining UMC’s technology and IP roadmap,
outlining product solution packages, and performing benchmark analyses.
1980s
Heidi Shyu MS ’81, ENG ’82, has been selected to chair the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, an independent group that provides technical advice to Air Force leadership. Her tenure will begin October 1, 2005.
S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan PhD ’83 has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Lew Bauman MS ’87, PhD ’89 has been appointed the chief administrative officer for Monterey County. He was formerly the county’s public works director, where he managed three
divisions: engineering, operations and administration.
Armond Hairapetian BS ’87, MS ’88, PhD ’93 has joined Miramar Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm, as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). Hairapetian brings more than 15 years of technical and general management experience in the area of analog, RF and mixed-signal integrated circuits to the position.
Ravi Mazumdar PhD ’83, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to the modeling, control and performance analysis of networks.”
Ljiljana Trajkovic PhD ’86 has been
elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to computer aided design tools for circuit analysis.” She is a professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University.
1990s
Alan Kwentus MS ’91, PhD ’95 has been named vice president of digital
signal processing (DSP) technology development for KeyEye Communi-cations, Inc. He will lead KeyEye’s DSP development team, which is responsible for developing digital systems .
Alejandro Diaz BS ’98 recently led a simulated exploration of Mars in the Utah desert sponsored by the Mars Society. Diaz and his crew spent 14 days at the Mars Desert Research Station. He is a Boeing Integrated Defense Systems engineer, and part of the Extravehicular Activity team of the International Space Station program.
Chris Ferguson PhD ’99, a professional poker player, was featured in the November 2004 issue of UCLA Alumni magazine in an article that touched on several career highlights.
Carlo Van den Bosch BS ’93 has been named a partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP. Van den Bosch is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Orange County office. He specializes in intellectual property litigation and transactions, with substantial expertise in high-tech, Internet, entertainment and media
matters.
2000s
Jaclyn C. Silva BS ’01, a systems engineer at Northrop Grumman, has received the Most Promising Engineer Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. The award
recognizes the outstanding technical achievements of an engineer with no more than three years of work experience after graduation.
Ahmed M. Eltawil PhD ’03 has joined
the University of California, Irvine as an assistant professor in the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Department. Eltawil’s research interests include
the design of system and VLSI architectures for broadband wireless communication,
and implementations and architectures for digital signal
processing.
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