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UCLA Engineering Alumni News
1960s
Asad M. Madni BS ’69, MS ’72 was awarded the prestigious 2005 Achievement Medal from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK) for outstanding contributions to intelligent system design and signal processing.
1970s
Simon S. Lam MS ’70, PhD ’74, Regents Chair in Computer Sciences at University of Texas at Austin, and his students have received the 2004 Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for Secure Network Programming (SNP), the first secure sockets layer for Internet applications, aimed at achieving secure network programming for widespread use. SNP was designed and implemented by Simon Lam, Raghuram Bindignavle, Shaowen Su, and Thomas Woo in 1993, while at the University of Texas at Austin Networking Research Laboratory. The Software System Award is given to an institution or individual(s) for developing software systems that have had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts and/or commercial acceptance
Raymond Hoppes BS ’71, MS ’75 has been named the project lead for Space Situational Awareness on the SENSOR Program for Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions in Colorado Springs, CO. He will focus on prototype development of new concepts for speeding space surveillance information from radar and electro-optic sensors to users.
Bartlett W. Patton BS ’73, MS ’74 has been named chief operating officer of Kleinfelder, Inc., a geotechnical, environmental and materials engineering consulting firm, and will be responsible for the firm’s 60 offices. Patton has 30 years of experience serving in business managerial roles in the engineering and construction field and providing technical oversight on geotechnical and environmental projects, and has been with Kleinfelder for more than 10 years.
Ghanshyam P. Purohit MS ’77, PhD ’98, a technical fellow at Boeing, has received the the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2005 Wyld Propulsion Award in recognition of his technical expertise, leadership, and innovative contributions to hypergolic bipropellant systems and zero-gravity capillary flow devices. The AIAA Wyld Propulsion Award is presented for outstanding achievement in the development and application of rocket propulsion systems.
A. Anton Frederickson MS ’78, PhD ’81 has been appointed president and chief operating officer of the newly created Titan Group, which consists of several strategic components of the company's recently acquired L-3 Titan subsidiary. He will guide the operations and strategy of four division lines: Technical Resources Division, Systems Integration Division, the Sea and Air Division, and the Enterprise Services and Solutions Division.
1980s
Jim Ting MS ’82 has been named senior vice president of software development for MediaSentry Inc., a leading provider of content protection and business management services to the entertainment and software industries. He will be responsible for expanding the company’s position as a market-leader by focusing on both innovation and proven management methodologies. Prior to joining MediaSentry, he was senior vice president of development engineering for Easylink Services Corporation.
Jon Jones MS ’83 has been appointed vice president and deputy general manager at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Company. Previously, Jones was vice president and deputy general manager of Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Ariz. where he was responsible for assisting the business president with oversight of the 40 programs in production and development. In all, Jones has more than 28 years experience in manufacturing, engineering and business leadership.
Levent Ozcolak MS ’85 has been appointed division vice president and general manager, interface products division at Exar Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance, mixed-signal silicon solutions for communications infrastructure. He has been with Exar for 20 years, and was most recently the acting general manager, Interface Products Division.
Mihajlo Kazic MS ’86, PhD ’88 has published his first book in the United States, Emperor of the Galatians. Originally published in Germany, the novel was selected as the Book of the Week.
Bill Foote BS ’87 is developing a Java-based standard for DVD interactivity called “Blu-Ray” with Sun Microsystems.
1990s
Rex Black BS ’90 has been elected president of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB). ISTQB determines appropriate levels of knowledge and skills for test engineers working at entry, advanced and expert levels, and is composed of national boards representing 18 countries.
Jason Hartlove BS ’90 has been appointed senior vice president and general manager of MagnaChip Semiconductor’s Imaging Solutions Division. He will be responsible for MagnaChip’s CMOS image sensor businesses, including marketing, R&D, and operations. Most recently Hartlove served as vice president and general manager at Agilent Technologies.
Ted Rado BS ’91 has been appointed vice president of marketing for Mellanox™ Technologies Ltd, a leader in performance business computing interconnects. He has worldwide responsibility for all marketing-related functions. Prior to joining Mellanox, he was vice president of marketing and a co-founder of Analogix Semiconductor focusing on high-speed physical layer solutions for both backplane and system interconnect applications.
Edwin Tso BS ’91, MS ’93 earned an MBA degree from USC in 1996. He was a consultant at Peoplesoft and SAP in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a manager at Southern California Edison.
Elliott Einbinder BS ’95 has, with his wife Jasmine, two beautiful daughters and one son. They’re both software engineers who own and operate their own E-commerce business.
Jim Thorne BS ’95 earned his PhD in chemical engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2003. He is currently working for a resarch instrument company, CRAIC Technologies, in Altadena.
Enrico Zio MS ’95 has been promoted to professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research focus is on nuclear power plants, including safety and reliability issues.
David Lackner BS ’96 has been hired as senior analyst for Lux Research, Inc., a research and advisory firm focusing on the business and economic impact of nanotechnology, to expand the firm’s west coast presence. Prior to joining Lux Research, he was a member of NASA’s renowned Ames Research Center, where he directed technology transfer and strategic partnerships, and commercialized innovations developed by the federal government’s largest dedicated nanotechnology group.
Joseph Pekarek PhD ’96 has received the 2005 Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society for “Innovation in Software Design and Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship.” The Outstanding Young Engineer Award recognizes an outstanding young member who is less than 39 years old at the time of nomination, who has distinguished himself/herself through a sequence of achievements. In 1994, Pekarek founded Applied Wave Research (AWR) where he spent four years developing the first Microwave Office suite.
Lizhi Sun MS ’97, PhD ’98 has joined the University of California, Irvine as an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Sun works in the area of micromechanics of heterogeneous materials and composites, damage mechanics, nanomechanics, and biomechanics.
Haeng-Ki Lee MS ’97, PhD ’98 has received an accelerated promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, a leading university in Korea. Lee works in the area of micromechanics of heterogeneous materials and composites, damage mechanics, computational solid mechanics, structural retrofit and repair, impact and crash simulation, and multi-scale modeling of materials.
Wei Wang PhD ’99 was named a recipient of the inaugural Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Awards, a program that honors early-career university professors who demonstrate exceptional talent for novel research and leadership in their discipline. Wang, a member of the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is pursuing research in the area of data mining, a branch of computer science that focuses on finding patterns within vast data collections. She specializes in bioinformatics applications.
Mason Peck MS ’99, PhD ’01, an assistant professor at Cornell University, received one of 12 NASA Institute for Advanced Concept funding awards. Peck’s proposal was for “Magnetically Inflated Cable System for Space Applications,” which if feasible could be deployed by space explorers to form the structure of a space telescope one kilometer across.
2000s
Fan Yang PhD ’02 received a Young Scientist Award in 2005 from the International Union of Radio Science.
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