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 2025, the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. The faculty are Patrick Mercier, Shayan Mookherjea, Tse Nga Ng and Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic.

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is reserved for a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored have contributed significantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society at large.

ECE Professor Patrick Mercier is named a Fellow of the IEEE of 2025 for his “contributions to low-power and energy-efficient circuits and systems”. Professor Mercier’s research group endeavors to imagine, create, prototype, and test integrated microsystems for applications that can only be realized through extreme miniaturization of electronic devices.

As PI of the Energy-Efficient Microsystems Lab, co-Director of the Center for Wearable Sensors, and Site Director of the Power Management Integration Center, , Professor Mercier is also the vice-chair of the ECE department.

Professor Shayan Mookherjea is named an IEEE Fellow of 2025 for his “contributions to optoelectronic devices and their applications”. Professor Mookherjea joined the UCSD faculty in 2003, his and the Micro/Nano-Photonics group (http://mnp.ucsd.edu) study chip-scale linear, non-linear and quantum photonic devices.

ECE Department professor and faculty member Tse Nga (Tina) Ng is elected to the IEEE Fellow Class of 2025 for “her contributions to flexible organic electronics used in large-area imagers and sensing systems”. Prior to joining the Jacobs School faculty in 2015, Dr. Ng previously worked at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where her projects involved engineering solution materials and inventing new devices and systems for ink-jet and other types of digital fabrication. Professor Ng’s current research focuses on the development of flexible electronics. 

Photo Credit: Ng’s Lab

Professor Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic is named an IEEE Fellow in 2025 for her “contributions to millimeter wave wireless communications”. Professor Gonzalez-Prelcic works in signal processing for wireless communication, from the fundamentals of signal processing and wireless communications all the way to their applications in cellular systems for people, vehicles and factories. Her research group has made important contributions in millimeter wave wireless communications, solving fundamental problems related to configuring the hybrid MIMO architectures using signal processing and machine learning techniques.

Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to 0.1% of IEEE members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow.

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