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2004-05 Annual Report
Faculty Awards and Honors
Professor Oddvar Bendiksen, mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his paper “Modern Developments in Computational Aeroelasticity.” It is the organization’s premier award, given for the best original paper published during the preceding year. Bendiksen also received the Kenneth Harris James Prize from the Aerospace Industries Divisional Board of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for the same paper. In addition, he received the Henry Samueli Outstanding Teaching Award from the mechanical and aerospace engineering department.
Chemical engineering professor Jane Chang has been named the recipient of the 2005 American Vacuum Society Peter Mark Award, which recognizes outstanding theoretical or experimental work by a young scientist or engineer. The award is “for pioneering work in the synthesis, processing and characterization of novel materials for applications in microelectronics and optoelectronics.”
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Board of Directors has named electrical engineering professor Frank
Chang the recipient of the 2006 David Sarnoff Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions in electronics.
Wesley Chu, computer science professor, received the IEEE Computer Society 2003 Technical Achievement Award “for contributions to Intelligent Information Systems.” The award is presented to individuals whose professional work has been outstanding and innovative in the fields of computer and information science and engineering within the past fifteen years.
Chemical engineering professor Yoram Cohen has been elected to the Board of Directors of the North American Membrane Society for a three-year term.
Jason Cong, computer science professor, received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support his research on architecture and synthesis for three-dimensional integrated circuits. The Okawa Foundation is a non-profit organization in Japan that supports studies in information science and telecommunications.
Bioengineering professor Timothy Deming received the Samsung – IUPAC Macromolecular Division Young Polymer Scientist Award at the 40th IUPAC International Symposium on Macromolecules in Paris, one of two awards given for scientific excellence.
Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, was named the recipient of the 2004 Max Jakob Memorial Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Chemical Engineers. Dhir is the first person from UCLA to receive the award since it was given to Llewellyn M.K. Boelter, the founding dean of the School of Engineering.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Rajit Gadh, director of WINMEC, was named to then Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn’s Broadband Executive Panel, which is charged with examining the role of broadband, Wi-Fi, and next generation wireless can play in accelerating economic development in the city.
Warren Grundfest, professor of bioengineering and electrical engineering, has received an appointment through the Independent Physician Associate program to serve as a Bioengineering Consultant and Advisor to the Director of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command. Grundfest will assist the Army in identifying biomedical technologies for healthcare.
Professor H. Thomas Hahn, mechanical and aerospace engineering,
was honored with a symposium in his name at the 19th Annual Conference of the
American Society for Composites.
Electrical engineering professor Lei He was selected to receive a 2005 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award. He is recognized for his contributions to the graduate VLSI curriculum, efforts toward a graduate CAD research class, and high teaching evaluation scores.
Professor Eric M.V. Hoek, civil and environmental engineering has filed a provisional patent application for a new hydrophilic and antimicrobial reverse osmosis membrane intended for use in desalination and water purification processes.”
Civil and environmental engineering professor Jennifer Jay has been chosen as one of only 20 young National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported scientists and engineers to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). it is the highest national honor for investigators in the early stages of promising scientific careers.
Professor Woody Ju, civil and environmental engineering, was appointed as the Chairman of the American Concrete Institute’s Committee on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete for a multi-year term. The ACI is considered the authority on concrete behavior, design and performance.
Electrical engineering professor William J. Kaiser has been awarded the 2005 Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching With Technology. Kaiser was chosen for his development and instructional use of a tool, Individualized Interactive Instruction (3I), to facilitate a new level of student-instructor interaction. 3I provides real-time feedback into the instruction process, enabling the instructor to target areas of deficiency for the whole class while giving students a private mechanism to convey their understanding to the instructor.
Ann Karagozian, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for extensive contributions in the fluid mechanics of combustion systems, including the study of jets in crossflow, strained flames distorted by complex flows, acoustically driven reactive cavity flows and detonation phenomena.” In addition, she was appointed by to serve as the Vice Chair of the Air Force’s Scientific Advisory Board, and also was appointed to the National Center for Microgravity Research Science Council.
Prior to the 57th annual meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society in Seattle, colleagues and friends celebrated the career and accomplishments of mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Robert
E. Kelly at a technical symposium.
Computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock received an honorary Laureate degree – as a Doctor of Internet Science – from the University of Bologna in Italy, the oldest university in the Western world.
Richard Korf, professor of computer science, has been selected
to receive the 2005 Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition
of his service as an outstanding teacher, his concern for students, his persistence
and dedication to the daily tasks of teaching, and his commitment to high academic
standards. His exceptional teaching style has made a great impact on the academic
and professional careers of his students and has been adopted by other faculty
at UCLA and other universities. In addition, he is honored for teaching a course
that trains new teaching assistants, as well as his service as an exemplary graduate-student
research adviser and his outstanding curriculum development
Ajit K. Mal, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering for “specific achievements in the area of wave propagation with applications in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM).”
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Neil Morley has been elected to the executive committee of the American Nuclear Society Fusion Energy Division for a three-year term.
Computer science professor Rafail Ostrovsky received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support his research on security and cryptography. The Okawa Foundation is a non-profit organization in Japan that supports studies in information science and telecommunications.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Laurent Pilon received an NSF CAREER Award to support research in “Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling of Closed-Cell Nanoporous Media.” Pilon also was selected to receive a 2005 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, in recognition of his role in revising the undergraduate curriculum in thermal sciences, for introducing a new graduate course, and efforts in increasing the number of doctoral students from underrepresented groups.
Greg Pottie, associate dean for research and physical resources and an electrical engineering professor, was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to the modeling and applications of wireless sensor networks.”
Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii, electrical engineering, has won the prestigious Booker Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). This is a senior award of URSI given once every three years, and will be presented at the URSI General Assembly in October 2005 in New Delhi, India. URSI is one of the largest and oldest international scientific bodies on all aspects of radio science, from fundamentals of wave propagation to radio astronomy and communications. Rahmat-Samii was honored for his pioneering contributions to reflector antenna design and practice, near-field measurements and diagnostic techniques, handheld antennas and human interactions, genetic algorithms in electromagnetics, and the spectral theory of diffraction. In addition, he was elected to serve as Vice Chair/Chair-Elect for the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science.
Electrical engineering professor Vwani Roychowdhury received the Best Paper Award at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-To-Peer Computing. The paper, co-authored by UCLA researchers Oscar Boykin and Nima Sarshar, is titled “Percolation Search in Power Law Networks: Making Unstructured Peer-To-Peer Networks Scalable.” It was the only one from among more than 130 submissions selected as best paper.
Professor Ali H. Sayed, electrical engineering, has received
the 2005 Frederick Emmons Terman Award. The Terman Award is bestowed annually
upon
an
outstanding
young
electrical
engineering educator in recognition of the educator’s contributions to the profession.
The award is sponsored by the Hewlett-Packard Company.
Electrical engineering professor Henry Samueli was selected as UCLA’s 2005 Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year. 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.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering lecturer Shahram Sharafat has been selected as one of two recipients of the UCLA Faculty/Staff Partnership Award this year. The award honors faculty who show a commitment to actively developing and encouraging collaborations between faculty and staff.
Computer science professor David Smallberg was selected as the Professor of the Year by the Engineering Society of the University of California.
Professor Jason Speyer, mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “the development and application of advanced techniques for optimal navigation and control of a wide range of aerospace vehicles.” Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
Civil and environmental engineering professor Keith Stolzenbach received a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, one of only six awarded. Selected by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching, the award recognizes and honors “distinguished teaching” and those “who bring respect and admiration to the scholarship of teaching.”
Electrical engineering professor Jason Woo was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for “contributions to nanoscale silicon on insulator and bulk metal oxide semiconductor device physics and technology.”
Electrical engineering professor Ken Yang has been awarded the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award, which recognizes the unusual and dedicated efforts of Student Branch Counselors and Branch Chapter Advisors.
Computer science professor Lixia Zhang has been chosen to serve on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), which is chartered both as a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC). Its responsibilities include architectural oversight of IETF activities, Internet Standards Process oversight and appeal, and the appointment of the RFC Editor.
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