Faculty Awards
2017 IEEE Fellow - Professor Nuno Vasconcelos
Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member,…
2016-17 Hellman Fellowship - Professor Vikash Gilja
Professor Vikash Gilja receives Hellman Fellowship for his research on brain-machine interfaces using neural signals to control prosthetic devices.
2016 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award: Professor Michael Yip
About the Award Description: To recognize the best paper of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) published in the previous calendar year.Established: 2016Prize: A…
2015-16 Best Teacher Awards
The ECE Department was pleased to honor and present Professor Vikash Gilja with the Jacobs School Best Undergraduate Teacher Award, and Professors Paul Siegel and Ian Galton with…
2016 UC San Diego Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action & Diversity Award - Professor Pam Cosman
The annual Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards Program honors staff, faculty, students, departments, and organizational units or groups that make…
2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award - Professor Bhaskar Rao
The IEEE Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within…
2016 NSF Career Award - Professor Piya Pal
Prior to joining the UC San Diego faculty, Professor Piya Pal received an NSF CAREER Award for a project on “Smart Sampling and Correlation-Driven Inference for High-Dimensional…
2016 NSF Career Award - Professor Boubacar Kante
Professor Boubacar Kante was selected for his project on "Bound State in the Continuum Lasers." The project aims to "investigate and develop for the first time a novel type of…
2016 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Recipient - Roberto Padovani
The third-generation (3G) cellular technology enabled by the vision and leadership of Roberto Padovani is transforming lives around the word by supporting voice and wireless…