UCLA Engineering | 2008 Technology Forum

	FORUM SPEAKERS
	Featured Speakers
		Vijay K. Dhir Dean "Welcome Address"
		Raymond L. Orbach Under Secretary of Science Department of Energy Keynote Address + 1st L.M.K. Boelter Lecture "Transformational Research and our Energy Future"
	Bioengineering
		Marty Culjat Assistant Researcher "Ultrasound Imaging of Fractures in Hard Tissues"
		Richard Fan PhD Candidate "A Pneumatic Haptic Feedback System to Assist Rehabilitation After Lower Limb Amputation"
		Jarrod Hanson PhD Candidate "Nanoscale Double Emulsions Stabilized by Amphiphilic Diblock Copolypeptides"
		Tae-Joon Jeon PhD Candidate "Bringing Lipid Bilayer Technologies from Benchtop to Marketplace"
		Daniel Kamei Assistant Professor "Cell Traffic Control: Applications in Cancer Drug Delivery"
		Victor Sun PhD Candidate "Block Copolypeptide Vesicles for Drug Delivery"
	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
		Jane Chang Professor "Applications of multifunctional metal oxide materials"
		Panagiotis D. Christofides Professor "Networked Fault-tolerant Control: Theory and Applications"
		Yoram Cohen Professor "Advancing Desalination Research and Training: A Collaboration of Academia, Industry, Water Utilities, and Government"
		James Liao Professor "Next Generation Biofuels"
		Harold G. Monbouquette Professor and Chair "Micromachined Multielectrode Microprobes for Neurotransmitters"
		Tatiana Segura Assistant Professor "TBA"
		Yi Tang Assistant Professor "Production of Blockbuster Drugs Using Biocatalysis"
	Civil and Environmental Engineering
		Janet Barco Post Doctoral Researcher "Linking Hydrology and Stream Geochemistry in Urban Fringe Watersheds"
		Scott Brandenberg Assistant Professor "Fragility of Bridges in Liquefied Soil"
		Eric Hoek Assistant Professor "Increasing Energy-Efficiency of Desalination with Nanotechnology"
		Terri Hogue Assistant Professor "Linking Hydrology and Stream Geochemistry in Urban Fringe Watersheds"
		Woody Ju Professor "Introduction to Computational Damage Mechanics, and Applications to Materials and Structures"
		Steve Margulis Assistant Professor "Improving Water Resource Characterization and Management from Space"
		Michael Stenstrom Professor "Energy Conservation at Wastewater Treatment Plants: New Instrumentation to Monitor Aeration Efficiency"
		Mladen Vucetic Professor "Profound Effects of the Rate of Loading on Input Soil Parameters for Site Response Analyses"
	Computer Science
		Paul Bunn PhD Candidate "Optimal-Rate Routing in Adversarial Networks"
		Nishanth Chandran PhD Candidate "Covert Multi-Party Computation"
		Jason Cong Professor and Chair "Advances in Electronic Design Automation for Giga-scale Integration "
		Deborah Estrin Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking and Director Center for Networked Embedded Sensors (CENS) "An Overview of CENS"
		Vipul Goyal PhD Candidate "Reducing Trust in Identity Based Cryptosystems"
		Yuval Ishai Professor - Technion, Israel Institute of TEchnology "Cryptography with Constant Computational Overhead"
		Peter Osterweil Senior Software Engineer - CENS "Leveraging the "Public-Space" to help Secure the Internet's Infrastructure"
		Rafail Ostrovsky Professor and Director Center for Information and Computation Security (CICS) "An Overview of CICS"
		Omkant Pandey PhD Candidate "Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data"
		Peter Reiher Adjunct Associate Professor "How to prevent IP Spoofing"
		Amit Sahai Associate Professor "Efficient Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge"
	Electrical Engineering
		Jonas Borgstrom PhD Candidate "Efficient HMM-Based Estimation of Missing Features, with Applications to Robust Speech Recognition"
		Julan Hsu PhD Candidate "Cross-Layer Routing and Transmission Rate Control Algorithms for Wireless Multi-Hop CSMA/CA Ad Hoc Networks"
		Ajey Jacob Intel Fellow "Overview of Western Institute of Nanoelectronics "
		Bahram Jalali Professor "Silicon Photonics"
		Shervin Moloudi Consultant "An outphasing Power Amplifier for a Software Defined Radio"
		Ali Parsa PhD Candidate "OA New Transceiver Architecture for the 60-GHz Band"
		Zhi Quan PhD Candidate "Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio Networks"
		Ali H. Sayed Professor and Chair "Overview of Electrical Engineering Department"
		Daniel Solli Post Doctoral Fellow "Optical Rogue Waves"
		Xiaojing Xu PhD Candidate "Direct Antenna Modulation – A Promise to Go Beyond the Antenna Size Limitation"
	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
		Harsh Baid PhD Candidate "Dynamics Based Defects Detection in Composite Structures"
		Eric Pei-Yu Chiou Assistant Professor "Optoelectronic Tweezers: Massively Parallel Manipulation of Droplets, Cells, and Molecules with Light"
		Rajit Gadh Professor "RFID Research in Manufacturing, Automotive and Aerospace"
		Chih-Ming Ho Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair and Director Center for Cell Control "Rapid Search for Optimized Drug Cocktails"
		Jake Hundley PhD Candidate "Mechanical Property Simulation of Titanium Graphite Fiber Metal Laminates"
		Ann Karagozian Professor "Research Activities Relevant to Efficient Energy and Propulsion Systems"
		Pirouz Kavehpour Assistant Professor "Detection and Quantification of Nano-films Using Fluorescence Microscopy"
		Adrienne Lavine Professor and Chair "Breadth and Innovation in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research at UCLA" "Educational Outreach in the Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing"
		Christopher Lynch Professor "Ferroelectric Materials for Sensor and Actuator Applications"
		Ajit Mal Professor "Dynamics Based Defects Detection in Composite Structures"
		Shahram Sharafat Adjunct Professor "Digital Materials: From Atoms to Advanced Materials"
		Tsu-Chin Tsao Professor "Precision Engineering and Control for NanoManufacturing"
	Materials Science and Engineering
		Bruce Dunn Professor "Materials and Architectures for Electrochemical Power Sources"
		Mark Goorsky Professor and Chair "Sustainable Energy" "Materials Integration for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications"
		Yu Huang Assistant Professor "Nanoscale heterostructure for device applications"
		Ioanna Kakoulli Professor "From macro to nano length scale imaging and analysis of bioarchaeological materials"
		Suneel Kodambaka Assistant Professor "In situ Microscopy – Key to Understanding Nanomaterials Synthesis"
		Vidvuds Ozolins Associate Professor "Advanced materials for hydrogen storage"
		Qibing Pei Professor "Polymers for unattainable properties"
		King-Ning Tu Professor "Nano silicide formation in nano Si wires"
		Ya-Hong Xie Professor and Vice Chair "Understanding the fundamental limits in the scaling of Phase-change Random Access Memory Technology based on Chalcogenide Materials"
		Jenn-Ming Yang Professor "Advanced hybrid fiber-metal laminates for aircraft structures"
		Yang Yang Professor "Polymers for energy harvesting"


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