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Recent Faculty & Department News
Evelyn Hu
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Professor Evelyn Hu elected to the National Academy of Sciences: The NAS is the country's most prestigious scientific organization and election to membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Hu joined the UCSB faculty in 1984 and serves as scientific director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Her research focuses on the formation of nanophotonic devices that may provide more energy-efficient lighting sources and may also facilitate new, faster computation and communications - more... (April 2008) |
Professor Kenneth Rose receives the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award: The paper co-authored with his former students Drs. Aggarwal and Regunathan, "Efficient bit-rate scalability for weighted square error optimization in audio coding," was published in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (July 2006). This major award honors a paper of exceptional merit, appearing in one of the Society's Transactions within a 5-year window. This is the second time in three years that Rose has received this award - more (March 2008)
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Convergence Vol 9 |
"More from Less," "Which Way to the Hydrogen Highway," and "Control Freaks," are featured in the UCSB Engineering & Science Magazine Convergence (v. 9). These articles showcase the work of ECE faculty and affiliated faculty members Steve Denbaars, Shuji Nakamura, Umesh Mishra, Petar Kokotovic, Andrew Teel, Roy Smith, Forrest Brewer, and John Bowers - more... (Fall 2007) |
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The UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Department introduces the first issue of "ECE News" - Highlights include articles on the Center for Bio-Image Informatics; the world's first hybrid silicon laser; an interview with UCSB ECE Alumnus, Isaac Barpal, a pioneer of hybrid vehicle technology; nanotechnology training programs for students and teachers; the Techology Management Program; CE student senior projects; and the Leadership in Team Engineering Program (LITE) - pdf... (May 2007) |
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Recent Student News
ECE Ph.D. student, Sheng-Chih Lin, research highlighted on the cover of the Jan. 2008 "IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices" journal - the journal cover image shows a self-consistent simulation of the temperature profile of a modern silicon integrated circuit adapted from the paper titled ‘‘ Cool Chips: Opportunities and Implications for Power and Thermal Management’’ by S-C Lin and K. Banerjee, published in the same issue. Lin's doctoral work was on thermal management of nanoscale integrated circuits. He worked with Prof. Kaustav Banerjee and graduated in Dec. 2007.. He is now on the Technical Staff at Intel Corp - journal cover... (Feb 2008) |
Sheng-Chin Lin
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Firat Kart
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Firat Kart, an ECE graduate student, won first prize in the Services Computing Contest for a presentation, demonstration and paper on "A Distributed e-Healthcare System Based on the Service Oriented Architecture" at the IEEE Services Computing Conference / International Conference on Web Services (SCC/ICWS)
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Recent Alumni News
"ECE News" Interviews Isaac Barpal - Isaac Barpal, who earned both an MS and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UCSB (in '68 and '70 respectively), credits UCSB with allowing him to pursue highly innovative work during his Ph.D. program on parallel hybrid propulsion systems, the technological foundation of today's hybrid cars - more... (May 2007) |
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Faculty & Department News
Hespanha named as a 2008 IEEE Fellow: The Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named Professor Joao Hespanha as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to stability techniques for switched and hybrid systems - more... (January 2008)
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Evelyn Hu
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Hu First to Receive an Endowed Chair Established for UCSB Director of the California NanoSystems Institute in Memory of Peter J. Clarke: UCSB has received a $350,000 gift from Tegal Corp. of Petaluma to establish the endowed chair. The chair is named for the late scientific pioneer Peter J. Clarke. In 1967, Clarke invented the first commerically successful magnetron sputtering devise. Hu, Director of the UCSB CSNI, is a professor in the ECE and Materials departments - more... (July 2007) |
An Article Entitled "Silicon and Beyond" in the Award-Winning UCSB Engineering and Science Magazine Convergence Features the Research of ECE Faculty Members Mark Rodwell and Chris Palmstrom. "Has the semiconductor revolution run its course? Not quite, say these researchers, who are working on new materials and looking for a miracle or two..." - pdf... (Summer 2007) |
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Steve Butner
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Professor Steven Butner honored with a UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award – The Distinguished Teaching Award acknowledges the efforts of Senate faculty members who have successfully united teaching and research. Professor Butner has been a member of the UCSB faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1981. Numerous students describe Steve as, “one of the best teachers in the college of engineering.” - more... (May 2007) |
U.S. News |
U.S. News Ranks UC Santa Barbara Graduate Programs Among Best (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – In its annual rankings of leading graduate and professional programs at American universities, U.S. News & World Report magazine has rated UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering and its Gevirtz Graduate School of Education among the country's leaders. The Ph.D. programs in the biological sciences and in chemistry were also highly rated - more... (April 2007) |
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index has placed the UCSB Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at number 10 and the Computer Engineering Program at number six in their 2005 rankings of top research universities. The index by Academic Analytics ranks 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions - more... |
ECE Department |
Volkan Rodoplu |
Professor Volkan Rodoplu awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award - The NSF CAREER Award is one of the most prestigious national awards given to young faculty. His research "QoS Maps for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" develops new methodologies to collect, refine and disseminate quality-of-service metrics in mobile, wireless sensor networks, thus enabling networks of small, microprocessor-sensors to scale to thousands to millions of nodes - more... (January 2007) |
Professor Sanjit Mitra elected as a 2006 Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India - Founded in 1930, the National Academy of Sciences, India is the oldest Science Academy in India. Its main objective is to provide a national forum for the publication of research work carried out by Indian scientists and to provide opportunities for exchange of views among them - more... (January 2007) |
Sanjit Mitra |
John Bowers |
UCSB's Professor John Bowersand Intel Corporation listed on Discover magazine's Top 100 Technology Advances in 2006 - The January 2007 issue of Discover magazine has listed "Bower's joint research on laser emitting chips for signal processing" as one of its top 100 technology advances of 2006 - more... (January 2007)
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Professor Arthur Gossard and co-authors awarded the 2005-2006 Newcomb Cleveland Prize - Professor Gossard and his co-authors from the UCSB Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation have been selected as the recipients of the 2005-2006 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their paper "Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots" - more... (December 2006)
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Arthur Gossard |
The ECE Electronics Shop is going lead free - Paul Gritt, ECE Department Technical Support Manager, has announced that the Shop has ordered solder and irons to support lead-free student labs. All support staff will use lead free solder as well. Students will be trained and expected to use lead free solder by Winter 2007. Keeping students, faculty and staff safe from harmful chemicals is the department's first priority. Going lead-free is part of the Shop's commitment to maintaining a safe working environment. (December 2006) |
John Bowers
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UCSB's John Bowers and Intel Corporation win PC Magazine's 2006 Technical Excellence Award for Best Semiconductor Technology - PC Magazine announced its 2006 Technical Excellence Awards. UCSB / Intel's Hybrid Silicon Laser won the award for Best Semiconductor Technology. Professor John Bowers, Alex Fang and Hyundai Park from UCSB as well as Oded Cohen, Mario Paniccia, and Richard Jones from Intel Corporation developed on this technology - more... (December 2006) |
Professor Allen Gersho wins the 2007 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award - The IEEE Board of Directors
named Professor Gersho as the recipient of its 2007
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
with the following citation: "For contributions to the
theory and application of speech coding" - more... |
Allen Gersho |
Sanjit Mitra |
Professor Sanjit Mitra elected as a Foreign Fellow of INAE - The Indian
National Academy of Engineering (INAE) honors Indian and Foreign
nationals who are elected by "peer" committees in
recognition of their personal achievements in engineering
in
new and developing fields of technology. Election to the Academy
is only by nomination made by Fellows of INAE affiliated to
various engineering sections. Professor Sanjit K. Mitra was
recently elected a Foreign Fellow of INAE for his major contributions
to signal and image processing - more... |
Professor Joao
Hespanha's work awarded as the 2006 George Axelby Outstanding Paper - Hespanha's paper "Uniform Stability of Switched Linear
Systems: Extensions of LaSalle's Invariance Principle"
was selected for the Axelby Award that recognizes outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control - more...
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UCSB Engineering has
been listed as the top graduate program in the The Princeton Review's list of "Top
20 Graduate Engineering Programs" - To help inform students about the quality of graduate engineering programs, The Princeton Review has collected and validated institutional and program specific data over the past two academic years to develop its first-ever list of the Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs - more... |
UCSB's Professor John Bowers and Intel develop the world's first hybrid silicon laser - This chip
that emits and guides light could drive silicon photonics
into wide use in future computers and data centers - more...
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John Bowers |
Umesh Mishra |
Professor Umesh
Mishra receives the IEEE David Sarnoff Award 2007 for the "Development
of Gallium Nitride Electronics" - The IEEE David Sarnoff Award was established in 1959 through agreement between the RCA Corporation and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to recognize exeptional contributions to electronics - more...
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2006 Millenium Technology Prize Awarded to UCSB's Shuji Nakamura - The award recognizes his invention of revolutionary new light sources: blue, green, and white light-emitting diodes and the blue laser diode. The award, which includes a cash prize of one million Euros (approximately $1.3-million USD) is the world's biggest technology award. Presented by Finland's Millennium Prize Foundation, the award recognizes outstanding technological achievement aimed at promoting quality of life and sustainable development - more...
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Shuji Nakamura |
Hua Lee |
Professor Hua Lee named the 2005-2006 Electrical Engineering Outstanding Faculty
Award - Hua Lee has been selected
by the department's graduating seniors as the outstanding faculty member based on his teaching
excellence. The award was presented at the commencement ceremony, held
on June 17, 2006.
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CE Professors Steve Butner and Rich Wolski named "Outstanding Faculty" - Electrical and Computer Engineering's Steve Butner
and Computer Science's Rich Wolski were selected by their department's graduating seniors as outstanding
faculty members in Computer Engineering for 2005-2006 based
on their teaching excellence. The award was presented at the
commencement ceremony held June 17, 2006.
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Steve Butner |
Sanjit Mitra |
Professor Sanjit K. Mitra receives the 2006
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal - The IEEE recognizes exceptional
achievements by individuals and
organizations. The IEEE Board of Directors has given this award
to Professor Mitra with the following citation "for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering
education through pioneering textbooks, innovative laboratory
development, and curriculum reform" - more... |
Student News
ECE 4 Students Complete Course Design Project that Monitors the UCSB Lagoon - ECE 4 is a class offered in the Spring of each year as an introductory class to engineering for freshmen. The class is designed to be project and team oriented and not lecture based. This year’s project focuses on developing sensors that monitor the UCSB Lagoon in an attempt to better analyze temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and turbidity levels - more... (June 2007) |
ECE 4 Students
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KEYT News
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Computer Engineering Program Senior "Capstone" Project Day covered by Santa Barbara ABC Affiliate KEYT 3 - This year's event was sponsored by Google and featured final projects by ECE 189, CS 189, ECE 188 and the Leadership in Team Engineering Program - more... (June 2007)
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CE Capstone Award
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Geographic Location Audio Information System (G.L.A.I.S) group winners of "Computer Engineering Capstone Project Presentation Day / Best ECE Project" award - Team members Davis Brimer, Samantha Alt, Ethan Kravitz, David Fong and Daniel Popescu took home the $1000 award for their project at the Google sponsored event - more... (June 2007)
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ECE Graduate student Bridget Benson has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. NSF makes annual awards to graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This extremely competitive fellowship provides three years of financial support. Bridget's research interests span computer engineering and aquatic sciences, focusing on building adaptive sampling techniques and computing devices for monitoring lakes and oceans. (May 2007) |
Bridget Benson |
Davis Brimer |
Fourth-year computer engineering major Davis Brimer and physics major Alex Proctor, leaders of Active Life Technologies, received $10,000 for the Most Fundable Idea and $5,000 for the Alumni Choice Award at the New Venture Competition at UCSB. The company took home the top prize for its invention, the Osteoprobe - a device that measures bone density in a living patient - more... (April 2007)
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Fionna Dunne and Nicholas Clark win the 2006 Best Undergraduate Paper Award at the International Telemetering Conference - The International Foundation for Telemetering (IFT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the professional and technical interests of the "Telemetering Community." The basic purpose of the IFT is the promotion and stimulation of technical growth in telemetering and its allied arts and sciences - more... (April 2007)
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