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News
- ECE Events at Picnic Day Featured in the Sacramento Bee
- April 29, 2013
- ECE Picnic Day displays featured in the Sacramento Bee include projects from Prof. Knoesen's EE Emerge program, sponsored by Texas Instruments. ECE was included in 4 of the 14 photos in the online edition of the Picnic Day story (photos 5-8) and in the one photo that ran in the print edition of the paper (photo 8).
- UC Davis Shines at 2013 Freescale Cup
- April 29, 2013
- The Freescale Cup autonomous race car competition was held on Picnic Day at the UC Davis Conference Center. 22 teams competed from UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UCLA. UC Davis had 5 of the top 6 fastest cars! A video of the competition can be seen at https://community.freescale.com.
- ECE Graduate Student Wins DoD NDSEG Fellowship
- April 11, 2013
- ECE graduate student Akash Anand has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for his research on low-loss high power handling tunable RF/microwave filters. Akash is the first UC Davis College of Engineering student to win this prestigious fellowship.
- Prof. Zhi Ding Receives IEEE Communication Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award
- April 10, 2013
- Professor Zhi Ding receives the 2012 IEEE Communication Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award for "outstanding contributions in the field of Wireless and Mobile Communications Theory, Systems, and Networks "
- Prof. Stephen O'Driscoll receives NSF CAREER Award
- March 5, 2013
- Professor Stephen O'Driscoll has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award entitled "CAREER: Bio-Adaptive Wireless Power Transfer And Signal Acquisition For Implantable Medical Devices." The five-year award will support his work on power transfer and ultra low power IC design for implantable devices.
- LDPC code developed by Prof. Shu Lin used in NASA’s LDCM
- February 26, 2013
- NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission completed a successful transmission of the X-band downlink, which is the first operational use of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes at coding rate 7/8 and is the first use of LDPC codes for a space to ground link for any agency or company. This LDPC code is developed by Prof. Shu Lin. View the LDCM launch here.
- ECE Undergraduate Students Win First Place in the 2012 IEEE MTT-s Video Competition
- February 07, 2013
- UC Davis ECE undergraduate students Jhonnatan Ascate and Christopher Young along with Huangqing Xiao, a summer exchange student from Zhejiang University (China), have been awarded first place in the 2012 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-s) Video Competition for their video entry entitled “Visualizing Electromagnetic Waves”.
- Massive Open Online Course Offered by Professor John Owens
- February 07, 2013
- Professor John Owens has started a massive open online course (MOOC), Introduction to Parallel Computing, through Udacity. This is the first MOOC taught by a UC Davis faculty member. It has more than 15 thousand students.
- Professor John Owens co-PI in $2M DARPA Project
- January 15, 2013
- Professor John Owens is a co-PI on a $2M project to develop an open-source platform for accelerated and real-time graph analytics on GPU compute clusters. This project is funded by the DARPA XDATA program and led by SYSTAP, LLC.
- Prof. Chen-Nee Chuah Recognized as ACM 2012 Distinguished Scientist
- January 4, 2013
- Professor Chen-Nee Chuah has been recognized as an ACM 2012 Distinguished Scientist based on her innovative research contribution and singular impacts on the dynamic computing field, specifically, in network design and routing. In 2012, ACM has identified 41 distinguished members from over 100,000 members worldwide.
- Anna Scaglione Named Co-Recipient of the 2013 Donald G. Fink Award
- January 3, 2013
- Professor Anna Scaglione has been named co-recipient of the 2013 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, together with former UCD ECE Research Associate Dr. Zhifang Wang and Dr. Stefano Galli, for their paper “For the Grid and Through the Grid: The Role of Power Communications in the Smart Grid" published in the IEEE Proceedings in June 2011. This award is given for “the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published in the IEEE Transactions, Journals, Magazines, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE between 1 January and 31 December of the preceding year.”
- Professor Qing Zhao Elevated to IEEE Fellow
- November 28, 2012
- Professor Qing Zhao has been selected for elevation to IEEE Fellow for "contributions to learning and decision theory in dynamic systems and cognitive networking". IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an "extraordinary record of accomplishments" and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed 0.1% of the voting membership.
- UC Davis PhD Candidate Lin Li Invited to Rising Stars in EECS Workshop
- November 20, 2012
- Professor John Owens Taking Part in $1.6M DOE Project
- November 5, 2012
- ECE Professor John Owens is a co-PI on a $1.6M DoE award entitled "Efficient Probability of Failure Calculations for QMU using Computational Geometry." The project is led by Scott Mitchell from Sandia National Laboratories.
- Professor Stephen O'Driscoll Receives the 2012-13 UC Davis Hellman Fellowship
- October 13, 2012
- ECE Professor Stephen O'Driscoll is one of twelve professors to share the 2012-13 Hellman Grant. Professor O'Driscoll's research topic "Location adapive wireless power transfer for implantable medical devices" incorporates the innovative nature encouraged by the Hellmann Family Foundation.
- Professor Saif Islam is Co-founder of Startup Company Nano-Sharp
- September 19, 2012
- The new UC Davis startup company, co-founded by ECE Professor Saif Islam, MAE Professor David Horsely and ECE Postdoctoral Scholar Logeeswaran V. Jayaraman, focuses on creating economical and better performing razor blades and surgical tools with silicon wafers and semiconductor manufacturing technology.
- Professor Erkİn Şeker Receives $1.3M Award from UC Office of Research
- September 6, 2012
- Professor John Owens Taking Part in $764K UC Projects
- September 6, 2012
- Professor Neville Luhmann Receives the IEEE John R. Pierce Award
- August 23, 2012
- Professor Neville Luhmann receives the 2012 John R. Pierce award for "outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of vacuum electronics as a scientist, engineer and educator".
- Professor Qing Zhao Receives A $400K Award from ARO
- July 27, 2012
- Professor Bevan Baas Receives A $270K Award from SRC
- July 23, 2012
- Four ECE Faculty Among Recipients of UC Davis Research Investment Awards
- July 19, 2012
- Professors Josh Hihath, Andre Knoesen, Anna Scaglione and Erkin Seker are among the recipients of UC Davis RISE research awards for interdisciplinary concepts in science and engineering. Twelve RISE awards, totaling $10 million over 3 years, were selected from 115 submissions.
- Professor Anna Scaglione Taking Part in $840K NSF Project
- July 19, 2012
- Professor M. Saif Islam Receives Dean's Outstanding Mid-career Research Faculty Award
- June 8, 2012
- The Dean's Faculty Awards honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering. The awards will be presented at the College of Engineering's 50th Anniversary Awards Gala on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Olympic Club, Lakeside in San Francisco.
- UC Davis NatCar Teams Sweep the Competition!
- June 4, 2012
- The UC Davis NatCar teams, led by ECE development engineer Lance Halsted, swept the competition by taking first, second and third places against UCB, UCSD, UCLA, CalPoly and other schools.
- Jinyong Oh wins a Korea-US Science Cooperation Graduate Scholarship (KUSCO-KSEA)
- June 4, 2012
- Jinyong Oh, a Ph.D candidate at the Integrated Nanodevices & Nanosystems Lab is one of fifteen students who will receive the KUSCO-KSEA scholarship in 2012. The scholarship recognizes outstanding graduate students in the United States who have demonstrated a potential to become future leaders for closer cooperation between the U.S. and Korea. An award ceremony will be held in the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship 2012 (Aug 8-11) at Los Angeles, CA.
- Afton Geil wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- April 16, 2012
- Student Afton Geil mentored by Professor John Owens, wins highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Dr. Keqin Liu Wins the 2012 Zuhair A. Munir Award
- April 12, 2012
- The winner of the 2012 Zuhair A. Munir Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation is Dr. Keqin Liu for his research entitled "On Multi-Armed Bandit in Dynamic Systems". Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in June 2010. His research was completed under the mentorship of Professor Qing Zhao in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Professor Jerry Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, to Join ECE
- March 9, 2012
- Jerry Woodall will join ECE as Distinguished Professor effective July 1, 2012. Woodall is well known for his prolific and seminal contributions to compound semiconductor materials and devices for high-speed circuits and photovoltaic applications. He is also engaged in work on “green” energy storage using bulk aluminum alloys. Woodall, who has co-authored over 350 publications and holds over 60 patents, will add a wealth of industrial and academic experience to the department.