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News
- 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.
- Professor Brian Kolner Elevated to IEEE Fellow
- November 29, 2011
- Professor Brian Kolner has been selected for elevation to IEEE Fellow for "contributions to optical waveform analysis and mode locked lasers". 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.
- Four New Faculty Join ECE!!!!
- November 16, 2011
- The UC Davis ECE Department is pleased to announce that four new members will join its faculty this year. Professors Joshua Hihath and Erkİn Şeker, who began fall quarter, do research in physical electronics with an emphasis on biology: Hihath from the molecular transport side and Şeker from a materials interface perspective. Professors Xiaoguang "Leo" Liu and Omeed Momeni, who will join this winter and summer, respectively, do research in microwave/mmWave/THz electronics: Liu focuses on micro/nano-electromechanical systems while Momeni studies high-performance circuits and systems.
- Graduate Student Anh Tran and Professor Baas Receive Best Paper Award
- October 31, 2011
- Graduate student Anh Tran and Professor Bevan Baas receive the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 2011. Their paper was entitled "RoShaQ: High-Performance On-Chip Router with Shared Queues."
- Professor Yoo Receives Dean's Faculty Award
- September 27, 2011
- Professor Ben Yoo will receive this year's "Outstanding Senior Research Faculty Award" for the College of Engineering. This award will be presented along with others honoring the achievements of outstanding faculty at a reception on November 3rd, 5:00-7:00 pm in the lobby of Kemper Hall.
- Professor Stephen O'Driscoll wins the 2011 ASUCD Excellence in Education Award for the College of Engineering
- May 26, 2011
- Professor Stephen O'Driscoll was awarded the 2011 ASUCD Excellence in Education Award for the College of Engineering. These teaching awards are completely student-funded, student-nominated, and student-chosen. One award is presented to an outstanding instructor from each college (except for Letters & Science, which has one award for each of its three divisions).
- Professor John Owens leads Graphics Systems theme in Center for Visual Computing
- April 26, 2011
- Intel's Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing, a $2.5M/5-year collaboration between Intel and eight universities, includes Associate Professor John Owens who leads UC Davis's involvement as theme leader in "Graphics Systems" theme within the center. (ISTC home, Press Release)
- Dr. Nicolas K. Fontaine Wins the 2011 Zuhair A. Munir Award
- April 13, 2011
- Fontaine's Ph.D. research on "Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation and Measurement" was completed in June 2010 under the mentorship of ECE Professor S. J. Ben Yoo.
- 2011 Industrial Affiliates Conference
- The Annual Industrial Affiliates Conference will be held on Friday, April 15, 2011. Click here for more information and registration.
- Professor Brian Kolner elected to Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- March 11, 2011
- Professor Kolner has been elected to Fellow of the Optical Society of America for "conceiving and developing the optical time lens and for contributions to the understanding of low-frequency noise properties of femtosecond solid state lasers." The OSA Fellow Member designation is awarded to select OSA members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of optics.
- Professor Qing Zhao receives Best Paper Award
- February 2, 2011
- Professor Qing Zhao was awarded the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award for her paper co-authored with Brian M. Sadler of ARL entitled "A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access", published in the Vol. 24, No. 3, May 2007 issue. The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award honors the authors of a paper of exceptional merit and broad interest on a subject related to the Signal Processing Society's technical scope and appearing in the Society's magazine. The award will be presented at the Society's Awards Ceremonies at ICASSP to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May, 2011.
- Professor Anna Scaglione Elevated to IEEE Fellow
- December 16, 2010
- Professor Scaglione has been selected for elevation to IEEE Fellow for "contributions to filterbank precoding for wireless transmission and signal processing for cooperative sensor networks". 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.
- Professor Qing Zhao Is Named a 2010-11 Chancellor's Fellow
- October 15, 2010
- Professor Qing Zhao has been selected as a 2010-11 Chancellor's Fellow. The Chancellor's Fellows Program is supported in part by funds from the Davis Chancellor's Club and the Annual Fund of the University of California, Davis. The Program was established in 2000 to honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members early in their careers. It includes a one-time award of $25,000 to be used for support of research, teaching, and service activities, together with the designated title Chancellor's Fellow.
- ECE Graduate Student Wins Prestigious NSF Fellowship
- April 27, 2010
- Integrated Nanodevices and Nanosystems Lab (Inano) masters student Heim Kirin Grewal won the highly competitive and prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Sandia Fellowship 2010. Only twelve fellowships were awarded in the nation. Dr. Jack L. Skinner will be Heim Kirin Grewal's Sandia research supervisor whose work involves plasmonics and nanofabrication; the integration of nano- and microscale devices.
- ECE Architecture Course Featured on iTunes U
- April 27, 2010
- Associate Professor John Owens's Graphics Architecture class (EEC 277) is now featured on iTunes U.
- Professor Islam Receives 2010 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
- April 18, 2010
- Professor Saif Islam is one of 3 recipients of this year's Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for undergraduate teaching. The award will be presented at a ceremony in conjunction with other Academic Senate and Academic Federation awards on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5:30 p.m. in ARC Ballroom A.