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Celebrating Excellence
2005-06 Faculty Awards and Honors
Materials science and engineering professor emeritus Alan
Ardell has been selected to receive the Albert Sauveur
Achievement Award for 2005 “for pioneering experimental and theoretical
research on the roles of elasticity and volume fraction in the kinetics
of coarsening and microstructures of dispersed phases in two and
three dimensional systems.”
Civil and environmental engineering professor J. S. Chen
has been elected as a Fellow of the U.S. Association for Computational
Mechanics for his contributions in “nonlinear finite element and
meshfree methods, stabilized meshfree methods, and recently in multi-scale
materials modeling.”
Computer science assistant professor Junghoo (John) Cho
has received a 2005 IBM Faculty Award. The award is an annual grant
given to select faculty members based on the quality and the importance
of their work.
Chemical engineering professor Yoram Cohen has
been elected vice chair of the AIChE Separations Division.
Computer science professor Jason Cong’s research
group garnered the 2005 Best Paper Award of the ACM Transactions
for the Design Automation of Electronic Systems. The group paper
presents a novel FPGA architecture based on k/m-macrocells, with
in-depth quantitative architecture design and evaluation.
Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected into the National
Academy of Engineering – the highest professional honor accorded
to an American engineer – for his work on boiling heat transfer
and nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety. He also received
the 2005 American Nuclear Society Thermal Hydraulics Division’s
Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to the field.
Computer science professor Deborah Estrin has been
chosen as the recipient of the first Association for Computing Machinery’s
Athena Lecturer Award. Estrin was nominated for this award by SIGMOBILE,
who selected just two nominees from a list of 14 top women in the
field of computer science.
Computer science professor emeritus Gerald Estrin
has received the Israeli Software Industry Pioneer Award, presented
by the Israeli high-tech industry “in recognition of the entrepreneurship,
leadership, hard work and outstanding achievements put forth in
creating the first computer in Israel.”This award also recognizes
his integral role in the establishment of the Israeli high-tech
industry and the strengthening of Israel’s economy, security, and
scientific capabilities.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Nasr Ghoniem
has been selected as one of five members of the International Advisory
Oversight Committee for the European Project “PERFECT: for Prediction
of Irradiation Damage Effects on Reactor Components.” PERFECT is
developing predictive tools for reactor pressure vessels and internal
structures.
Mechanical and aerospace professor Vijay Gupta
has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. The Fellow grade recognizes exceptional engineering achievements
and contributions to the engineering profession.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor H. Thomas
Hahn has been elected President of the International Committee
on Composite Materials for a two-year term. ICCM is an international,
non-governmental, not-for- profit, scientific and engineering organization
dedicated to composite materials.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Chih-Ming
Ho has been elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
The society inducts former postdoctoral fellows and junior or visiting
faculty at Johns Hopkins who have gained marked distinction in their
fields of physical, biological, medical, social or engineering sciences
or in the humanities.
Yu Huang, assistant professor of materials science
and engineering,was named a winner of the second annual Nano 50™
Awards, which recognize the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators
that have significantly impacted - or are expected to impact – the
state of the art in nanotechnology.
Electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali
and Ozdal Boyraz (at UC Irvine) have been named among Scientific
American’s prestigious annual “Scientific American 50” list for
their innovative work with silicon lasers.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Ann Karagozian
has been chosen to chair a new, high level study for the Air Force
Scientific Advisory Board on “Technology Options for Improved Air
Vehicle Fuel Efficiency.”
Computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock has
been awarded the Computer and Communications Prize from Nippon Electronics
Corporation, with co-winners Robert E. Kahn and Lawrence G. Roberts.
The award recognizes pioneers in the fields of computing and communications
technologies. Kleinrock also has received an honoris causa degree
of “Honorary Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Telematica” from
the Politecnico di Torino, the first such honorary degree awarded
in the field of Internet technology.
The 2005 American Control Conference in June honored the life and
contributions of computer science adjunct professor Boris
Kogan with a special session, honoring him as “one of the
premier controls researchers of the former Soviet Union.”
Eddie Kohler, assistant professor of computer science,
was named one of Technology Review’s TR35, a group of the world’s
top young innovators. Kohler also received an NSF CAREER Award that
will support his work in developing a new component-based design
for file systems and disk storage with particular focus on file
system consistency. Additionally, he received a Microsoft Research
New Faculty Fellowship.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor James Liao
was awarded 2006 W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
by the California Institute of Technology. He also has been awarded
an “Honorary Epistar Chair Professorship” for 2006 by the College
of Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in Hsin-chu, Taiwan.
Jia-Ming Liu, professor of electrical engineering,
received a prestigious 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, among the most
coveted honors accorded to scholars, artists and writers. Liu will
use his Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research on three-dimensional
intracellular laser nanoscopy – using lasers to see structures inside
a cell with a resolution on the scale of only nanometers.
Lutz Mädler, visiting researcher and lecturer in
chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received the 2005 Smoluchowski
Award from the Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (Association for
Aerosol Research) in recognition of his research in aerosol reaction
engineering.
Assistant professor Rupak Majumdar, computer science,
received an NSF CAREER Award that will support his work in exploring
new ideas to extend the capabilities of modern software verification
tools to handle larger programs and more complex properties.
Todd Millstein, assistant professor of computer
science,was selected to receive an NSF CAREER Award to investigate
a framework that allows programmers to easily document, enforce,
and validate relied-upon programming disciplines, which provide
important additional structure on programs.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering adjunct associate professor
Neil Morley received the 2005 Excellence in Fusion
Engineering Award from the Fusion Power Associates for his outstanding
technical contributions to fusion development in areas such as high
heat flux components, liquid walls and MHD fluid flow and heat transfer.
Computer science professor Richard R. Muntz has
been awarded the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery SIGMETRICS
Achievement Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions
to performance modeling, especially the landmark enabling of the
modern theory of queueing networks.
Electrical engineering associate professor Fernando Paganini
recently became a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers. Membership requires at least ten years in
professional practice and significant performance over a period
of at least five of those years.
The Association of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2006 Best
Student Paper Award was awarded jointly to Ilya Shpitser and Judea
Pearl for their paper “Identification of Conditional Interventional
Distributions.”
Electrical engineering professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii
has received a NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Award for
“Fan Beam Patterns Radiated from a Parabolic Reflector Antenna.”
Awards are given in recognition of contributions to the National
Space Program and to the mission of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Electrical engineering professor and chair Ali Sayed
received the 2005 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American
Society for Engineering Education. The Terman Award is bestowed
annually upon an outstanding young electrical engineering educator
in recognition of the educator’s contributions to the profession.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Jeff Shamma
has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers “for contributions to feedback control and
systems theory.”
Civil and environmental engineering professor Michael Stenstrom
has been awarded the 2005 Water Quality Award from the Los Angeles
Regional Water Quality Control Board for his study, “Alternative
Approaches to Stormwater Quality Control.” The Water Quality Awards
honor individuals, organizations, businesses and public agencies
that have worked tirelessly and successfully to protect or restore
water quality in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
Ertugrul Taciroglu, assistant professor of civil
and environmental engineering, received an NSF CAREER Award to support
the development of a computational platform for analysis and simulation
of structural responses during extreme events such as explosions
and high velocity impacts.
Assistant professor Yi Tang, chemical and biomolecular
engineering, received an NSF CAREER Award for his work in studying
the metabolic pathway, the molecular assembly, and the combinatorial
potential of tetracycline biosynthesis.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named computer
science and engineering professor Demetri Terzopoulos
as the recipient of an Academy Award for Technical Achievement.
The award, which Terzopoulos shares with colleagues at both Pixar
and Microsoft, was given for his “pioneering work in physically
accurate techniques to simulate realistic cloth for motion pictures.”
Mechanical and aerospace engineering lecturer Shih-Hsi Tong
received a Professional Development Award for Non-Senate Faculty
Members from the Office of the Chancellor, Faculty Diversity. The
award offers funding to assist with professional development projects
such as curriculum development, books, software, or other items.
Materials science and engineering professor King-Ning Tu
has received a 2007 Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials
Division Distinguished Scientist Award from the Minerals, Metals
& Materials Society. He also has been honored with the 2005 Applied
Materials Lecture Award at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Electrical engineering assistant professor Mihaela van der
Schaar has received a 2005 IBM Faculty Award. The award
is an annual grant given to select faculty members based on the
quality and the importance of their work.
Electrical engineering professor Eli Yablonovitch
delivered the prestigious biannual UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
on “The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap:The Collision of Physics,
Economics, and Sociology.” The lecture program honors the university’s
most distinguished scholars in science, the arts, humanities and
social disciplines.
Computer science professor Lixia Zhang has been
elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers “for contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols
in packet switched networks.”
Dhir: UCLA Photography
Kleinrock: Louis Bachrach
Kohler: UCLA Photography
Muntz: UCLA Photographic Services
Sayed: UCLA Photography
Terzopoulos: AMPAS
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