Faculty Awards

Professor Duygu Kuzum Awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Professor Duygu Kuzum is awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding…

Assistant Professor Xiaolong Wang Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Professor Xiaolong Wang is chosen by the Sloan Foundation to receive one of the most prestigious awards for early career scientists. Since they were first awarded in 1955, Sloan…

Associate Professor Abdoulaye Ndao Elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences

Professor Abdoulaye Ndao has been named a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), one of the highest honors for scientists working to advance research and innovation in…

Associate Professor Dinesh Bharadia receives Young Alumni Award of IIT Kanpur

Honouring his stellar contributions in the fields of Advancing Wireless Communication and Networked Sensing and Translational Research, IIT Kanpur confers upon Prof. Dinesh…

Assistant Professor Yuanyuan Shi Receives NSF CAREER Award

UC San Diego Electrical Computing and Engineering assistant professor, Yuanyuan Shi, was recently awarded a 2025 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which will provide five…

Professor Robert Heath elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Professor Robert Heath has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), which is one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. NAE members…

Assistant Professor Yang Zheng receives the 2025 Donald P. Eckman Award

Assistant Professor Yang Zheng has received the 2025 Donald P. Eckman Award, presented by the American Automatic Control Council. The Donald P. Eckman Award recognizes one…

2025 Outstanding Engineering Service Award by SDCEC

The San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC) is an umbrella organization consisting of local engineering society chapters, both collegiate and professional. They recognize the…

IEEE Fellow Class of 2025

UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department had 4 new faculty elevated to become Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of…

IROS Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation

Prof. Xiaolong Wang and his student Ruihan Yang won the IROS Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation.  This is an award out of 3645 submissions at IROS this year. It is a…