UCLA Engineering Tech Forum Intro
8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks
Vijay K. Dhir
Dean, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
9:15 AM Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA) Presentation
Dwight C. Streit
Director, ITA
9:30 AM Keynote
Henry Samueli '75, MS '76, PhD '80
Co-founder and CTO, Broadcom Corporation

Connecting everything®: A Professor’s Dream Becomes Reality
10:00 AM Faculty Startup Presentations
Professor Dejan Markovic, Electrical Engineering
Chip Design Redefined: Efficiency and F
lexibility
Professor Rafail Ostrovky, Computer Science
Novel Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Professor Yang Yang, Materials Science and Engineering
Plastic Solar Cell: Breaking the 10% Commercialization Barrier
11:15 AM Keynote
Fred H. Walti II
Executive Director, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

LA Cleantech Incubator at La Kretz Innovation Campus
11:45 AM Faculty Startup Presentations
Professor Yunfeng Lu, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Development of Effective Therapeutic Protein Nanocapsules
Professor Shaily Mahendra, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bioremediation: Bacteria Clean the Environment by Eating Toxic Pollutants
12:25 PM Lunch, Research Demos, and Student Poster Session
 
1:30 PM Faculty Startup Presentations
Professor Eric Chiou, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Photothermal Nanoblade for Single Cell Surgery and Supersized Cargo Delivery
Professor Jacob Schmidt, Bioengineering
High Throughput Cell-Free Ion Channel Drug Discovery
Serhan Isikman, Senior Researcher, Electrical Engineering
Lensfree On-Chip Microscopy and Tomography Toward Telemedicine Applications
 
2:25 PM

Student Posters and Corporate Awards Presentations

2:50 PM Farewell Address and Thank You
   

 

 

Program is subject to change.