Henry Samueli, UCLA Professor and Co-Founder of Broadcom, Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Date: May 11, 2004
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Henry Samueli, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

UCLA professor of electrical engineering Henry Samueli has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Samueli is a co-founder and chairman of Irvine-based Broadcom Corp., a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. He is also Broadcom's chief technical officer and is responsible for the company's research and development activities.

Since 1985, Dr. Samueli has been a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has supervised advanced research programs in broadband communications circuits.

Samueli is one of five UCLA professors to be named a Fellow by the Academy this year. Also honored are John Baldessari, professor of art; Andrea Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy; Joel Handler, professor of law and Donald Martin, professor of mathematics.

In an announcement issued April 30, Academy President Patricia Meyer Spacks said; "I am honored to welcome these outstanding and influential individuals to the nation's oldest and most illustrious learned society. These new members have made extraordinary contributions to their fields and disciplines through their commitment to the advancement of scholarly and creative work in every field and profession."

Last year Samueli was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his pioneering contributions to academic research and technology entrepreneurship in the broadband communications system-on-a-chip industry.

Samueli received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at UCLA. After working in the private sector, he returned to UCLA in 1985 as a faculty member and became a full professor in 1994, where he has supervised advanced research programs in broadband communications circuits. He has been on a leave of absence from the UCLA faculty since 1995.

In 1999 Samueli and his wife Susan donated $50 million to the schools of engineering at UCLA and the University of California, Irvine. The Samuelis designated $30 million of their gift to UCLA and $20 million to UCI. That year, the UCLA engineering school was renamed the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In 2000 he was honored with the UC Presidential Medal - the highest system-wide honor the University of California can bestow.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people," according to the Academy announcement. The current membership includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.