 Professor Paul K.L. Yu has been elected Fellow of the SPIE for achievements in semiconductor optical modulators and analog fiber optic links. |
 Electrical engineers at UCSD together with researchers from Sun Microsystems and Stanford University will receive $44 million from DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop connections between computer chips using light rather than wires. read more
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 Professor Young-Han Kim has received NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. His research program aims to provide a common set of conceptual, mathematical, and algorithmic tools for the emerging convergence of computation, control, and communication over networks, with the ultimate goal of developing
a unified framework for characterizing fundamental performance limits of such systems.
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 San Diego, CA, February 08, 2008 -- UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering professor Paul Siegel – a leading authority on coding for hard disk magnetic recording systems – has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for the invention and development of advanced coding techniques for digital recording systems." |
 Professor Robert Hecht Nielsen has been named "Engineer Of The Year 2008 in San Diego", for his work on Confabulation Theory. This is an award by fourteen major technical societies, including the IEEE and AIAA.
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 Professor Truong Nguyen has received "Best Undergraduate Teaching Award" for 2006-2007. This is a student voted award that recognizes extraordinary comitment to education by UCSD faculty.
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 Two ECE Profs, Two Spin-Outs, Two Award Nominations - 07 Dec 2007
Products from two different companies spun out by electrical engineers at UC San Diego are finalists for CONNECT’s 2007 Most Innovative New Product “MIP” Award – in the Communications Technology & Hardware category.
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 Professor Paul K.L. Yu has been elected Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to semiconductor waveguide modulators and detectors.
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 Most Complex Silicon Phased Array Chip - 30 Oct 2007 UC San Diego electrical engineers have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. This DARPA-funded advance is expected to find its way into U.S. defense satellite communication and radar systems. In addition, the innovations in this chip design will likely spill over into commercial applications, such as automotive satellite systems for direct broadcast TV, and new methods for high speed wireless data transfer. |
 Online Game Feeds Music Search Engine Project - 26 Sep 2007
UC San Diego electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts (like the senior author’s mom) to find the kind of music they want to listen to – without knowing the names of artists or songs. |
 Professor Paul H. Siegel has been appointed as the holder of a CMRR Endowed Chair.This distinguished appointment is a reflection of the high regard in which Professor Siegel is held by the UCSD academic community.
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 UC San Diego Establishes Department of NanoEngineering - 03 Jul 2007
Seeking to capitalize on the potential of a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials built on the scale of individual molecules, UC San Diego has established a new Department of NanoEngineering within its Jacobs School of Engineering effective July 1, 2007.
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 SPIE has awarded a $2000 scholarship to Joshua Ray Windmiller, a Bachelor of Science student at the University of California, San Diego. His interests are in the areas of lightwave communications and nanoscale optics and is especially interested in nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, and optical fiber communications as they are burgeoning research endeavors. Read more
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 The University of California Sweeps RFIC Student Paper Awards - 15 Jun 2007 Engineering graduate students from three University of California campuses -- Berkeley, Davis and San Diego -- won first, second and third places respectively for the best student papers in the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) portion of the prestigious 2007 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2007) held in Honolulu, HI, last week, June 3-8, 2007.
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 Air Force Says Basic Research at UC San Diego Helps U.S. `Anticipate Threats` - 14 Jun 2007 Pentagon official tells Congress that 5-year-old, $7 million UC San Diego nanostructured supersensors project is evidence that basic research can help U.S. anticipate threats; ECE`s Yu-Hwa Lo is a co-PI on the multidisciplinary team that includes engineers in Calit2`s Nano3 cleanroom facility.
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 Professor Farrokh Najmabadi has received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Fusion Technology Award, to recognize outstanding contributions to research and development in the field of fusion technology. Read more |
 Electrical Engineering Grad Student Racks Up Awards - 14 May 2007 For his work on how semiconducting nanowires grow and behave, Shadi A. Dayeh, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, has recently earned a series of awards.
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 Why Nanowires Make Great Photodetectors - 20 Apr 2007 The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, according to a new UC San Diego study that highlights the possibility of nanowires as light detectors with single-photon sensitivity. Nanowires are crystalline fibers about one thousandth the width of a human hair, and their inherent properties are expected to enable new photodetector architectures for sensing, imaging, memory storage, intrachip optical communications and other nanoscale applications, according to a new study in an upcoming issue of the journal Nano Letters.
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 Professor Massimo Franceschetti has received a Young Investigator Award sponsored by the Office of Naval Research to investigate diversity in wireless communication from a physical perspective. His work aims at revealing fundamental limits of multiple antenna systems and wireless networks.
Starting from the laws of Electromagnetic propagation, it ties the physical aspect of communication to the information-theoretic aspects. Results will provide useful design guidelines for next generation wireless systems.
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 Improved Automated Image Labeling
Electrical engineers from UC San Diego report progress on the development of automated image labeling and retrieval techniques that will enable a new generation of image search engines.
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 Professor James Buckwalter has received a Young Faculty award sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research in nonlinear pulse propagation in mixed-mode silicon integrated circuits. This work hopes to develop methods to tailor signal propagation on-chip and help future ICs beat limitations imposed by transistor and interconnect scaling.
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 RFIC Phased Array Receiver Breakthrough - 07 Mar 2007
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), provider of a leading program in mixed-signal, microwave and millimeter-wave RFICs, today announced that it has developed an 8-element RFIC phased array receiver covering the 6-18 GHz frequency range.
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Jan Cox has been named the recipient of the 2007 Betsy Faught Award in recognition of her excellence and outstanding achievement in the management of ECE. This is the UCSD's highest honor bestowed to MSOs. |
 4D Imaging Wins JSOE Research Prize - 26 Feb 2007 --- With a flash of light, photons simultaneously fly toward the face of a person waiting to be identified for security purposes. The packets of light bounce off the face and land on a specially engineered photon sensor that clocks when each photon arrived and uses the information to reconstruct a three dimensional image of the face almost instantaneously.
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 UCSD Cell Phone Pioneer Elected to NAE - 12 Feb 2007 --- If you like the slim cell phone that you hardly know is in your pocket or purse, one of the many people you have to thank is Peter Asbeck, an electrical engineer from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. And while you’re at it, congratulate him on earning one of the highest professional distinctions possible for an engineer – election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
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UCSD Engineering, Technology and Computer Sciences Ranked 9th in the World - 08 Feb 2007 --- The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published online this month by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. |
 Professor Shayan Mookherjea has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award |
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 Ian Galton Named Best ECE Teacher
December 12, 2006 -- Professor Ian Galton has been awarded the ECE Best Teacher Award. Galton primarily teaches subjects related to integrated circuit design with applications for communication systems.
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 UCSD Grad Grabs Venture Funding
December 6, 2006 -- Quanlight, an emerging LED (light-emitting diode) company whose core technology was developed at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, today announced a recent series A investment of $1 million from Blackbird Ventures Inc., a private venture funding group in San Diego. Quanlight anticipates closing its Series B round in the spring of 2007.
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 UCSD Grad Wins Award for Functional Brain Imaging Insights
December 6, 2006 -- David Wipf, a recent graduate of the electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. program at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has won an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2006 NIPS Conference -- Neural Information Processing Systems -- for his work on human functional brain imaging.
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 Jacobs School Student Leaders Tell Their Stories
November 28, 2006 -- Sourobh Raychaudhuri and Barath Raghavan, both Ph.D. candidates at UC San Diego’s Jacob’s School of Engineering, have received the R.B. Woolley Graduate Leadership Award for the 2006-2007 academic year. The $5,000 award recognizes continuing graduate students who have a record of notable academic achievements and demonstrate leadership in professional and Jacobs School activities.
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Optofluidics Researchers and Industry Representatives Meet To Discuss Future Work. 
October 26, 2006 -- The UCSD division of Calit2 and ECE professor Shaya Fainman recently hosted the Optofluidics Translational Research and Commercialization Workshop. The invitation-only meeting brought together academic researchers affiliated with the DARPA Center for Optofluidic Integration and industry representatives. |
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 UCSD Students Win Prestigious U.S. DoD Scholarship
October 10, 2006 -- Four UC San Diego students are among the 32 nationwide recipients of the 2006 Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship program run by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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 Semeon Y. Litvin was selected as a 2006 SPIE scholarship winner. Litvin is an undergraduate student in the Optics program at the University of California, San Diego. His area of interest is in optics and superconductors. read more |
 Prof. Pamela Cosman has been appointed to be the new director of the Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), effective July 1, 2006. Founded in 1995, the CWC is one of the nation`s premier centers for research in and education on wireless communications. read more |
 6/28/06: Vice Chancellor for Research, Richard Attiyeh, announced the appointment of Farrokh Najmabadi as the Director of the Center for Energy Research at UC San Diego, effective July 1, 2006. Professor Najmabadi is a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and has served as the Center`s Deputy Director since September 1, 2004. read more |
 6/28/06: The surveillance system, dubbed "Eagle Eyes" was developed by UCSD ECE professor Mohan Trivedi and his team of graduate students and researchers. read more |
 Sourobh Raychaudhuri is one of two recipients of the Jacobs School of Engineering R. B. Woolley Graduate Leadership Award for the 2006-07 academic year. read more |
 Professor Curt Schurgers has been selected as a Hellman Fellow for 2006. The purpose of the Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards, funded through the generosity of Chris and Warren Hellman, is to substantially support the research and creative activities of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their work. |
3/31/06:U.S. News Ranks Electrical Engineering 16th read more
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 3/28/06: Prof. Radic has demonstrated a way to translate signals in optical fiber between the current infrared standard and a wide range of other bands of light. technology that could benefit airborne, undersea, sensing and other communications. read more
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|  Shadi A. Dayeh, Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi & Antoni Chan were selected as the Outstanding TAs of the ECE Department. read more
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 2/13/06:More than 400 experts from around the world participated in a weeklong workshop to inaugurate Calit2`s new Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center. Streaming video of key presentations and tutorials is now available. read more
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 2/7/06: The university has appointed Professor Alon Orlitsky to direct the new initiative Information Theory and Applications Center (ITA) . read more
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 2/2/06: Professor Nguyen`s innovative technologies in the area of video delivery to mobile devices and thin-clients, using existing communication channels, are shown to have a practical impact. read more
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 Robert Saperstein, our 2005 JSOE Woolley Fellow, has been selected as one of the 2006 Summer Graduate Teaching Fellows at UCSD.
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 1/28/06: Professor Acampora is part of UCSD`s Center for Networked Systems, a collaboration ontopics ranging from broadband access to Internet epidemiology. View his talk in the CNS half-yearly Research Review. read more
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 11/16/05: Professor Milstein is the first holder of the Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Communication Access Techniques read more |
 10/3/05: Professor Sadik Esener, " Nanotechnology will allow doctors to deliver an array of promising new anti-cancer treatments to the exact positions in the body where they are needed". read more
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 9/12/05:Professor Tara Javidi "Time and again our theoretical research has shown how the stochastic nature of the wireless channel can significantly change the rules-of-thumb of networking," read more |
 8/19/05:Information Theory faculty receive 4 of the 27 grantsawarded in 2005 by the NSF Theoretical Foundations program. read more
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 8/8/05: Edward Yu, "Increasing Solar Cell Efficiency Via Incorporation of Engineered Metallic Structures." read more
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 6/22/05: Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos receives a five year CAREER award by NSF, for work incomputer vision. read more |
 5/20/05:Professor Vardy has been selected as a Fullbright Scholar, 2005-2006 |
 5/2/05:Professor Massimo Franceschetti receives the 2005S. A. Schelkunoff Award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. read more |
| 1/1/05:Professor Truong Nguyen elected Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the theory and applications of filterbanks and wavelets. |
Alon Orlitsky, the inaugural holder of the QUALCOMM Endowed Chair in Information Theory and its Applications
