Rubinet Announcements
2024
- We are part of a multidisciplinary team that received $6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging that aims at applying AI/ML to provide objective quantitative understanding the neuropathologic landscape of Alzheimer's Disease, leading to better precision medicine approaches, especially for people within the Hispanic community.
- Congrats to Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai for receiving the Anil Jain Memorial Award! This award, established in memory of Professor Anil K. Jain who has made seminal contributions to the field of signal processing and computer vision, recognizes a graduate student whose dissertation has high intellectual scope, high quality in research contribution, and excellence in presentation.
- Congrats to Luca Cerny-Oliveira for being selected to receive the Khadar B. Shaik Memorial Award. This award, established in the memory of Dr. Khadar B. Shaik who received his PhD in ECE at UC Davis (2014), recognizes a graduate student who has advanced to candidacy and has shown great promise for intellectual contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering.
- Congrats to Kartik for being selected to receive the 2024 ECE Best Teaching Assistant Award and Smita Bakshi Digital Learning and Teaching Award! The Smita Bakshi Award was established in 2020 to recognize teaching assistants in ECE who made exceptional innovations in the use of technology or developed digital material to improve learning outcomes for the curriculum.
- Congrats to PI Chuah for her election to AAAS Fellow Class of 2023 and for receiving the
College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Award
- Congrats to Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai for being selected to receive the 2024 College of Engineering (COE) Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award! This award recognizes a COE graduate student who has made significant contributions to their field of research or discipline.
- Congrats to Ammar Haydari for completing his PhD and joining SandboxAQ as an AI Research Resident.
- Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai is co-organizing the 2nd Workshop on Vision-based Industrial Inspection (VISION) at ECCV 2024. Look out for the call for paper!
- Congrats to Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai for being selected to attend the CVPR 2024 Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium
provides a unique opportunity for the recipient to interact with experienced researchers in computer vision.
2023
- Congrats to Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai for completing his PhD and starting at Apple as ML research scientist!
2022
- Congrats to Ali Khodadadi for completing his PhD! Kudos to you for balancing a full-time job, part-time graduate studies, and being a new dad!
- Congrats to our alum, Dr. Danjue Li, for receiving the 2022 DEI Alumni Leadership Award from the ECE Department at UC Davis
- Congrats to Ammar Haydari for winning the ITS CA and CTF scholarship for 2022-23 academic year
- Congrats to Chitrabhanu Gupta for his 2022-23 Translational Health Data Science Fellowship
- Congrats to Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai for receiving the 2022 Smita Bakshi Digital Learning and Teaching Award from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
- Congrats to Jeff (Zhengfeng) Lai for receiving the ICML 2022 Participation Grant and R13 Grant Travel Awards from the American Association of Neuropathologists Annual meeting to present his papers at the two conferences, respectively
News Archive
2021
- Congrats to Luca Cerny Oliveira for his 2021-22 Translational Health Data Science Fellowship
- Congrats to Dongjie Chen for his Best Student Paper Award in IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)
- Congrats to Greg Rehm for completing his phD and starting his new position at Resmed
- Congrats to Vishal, Rahul, Prashanth, and Sarmad for completing their MS degrees
- Congrats to Dr. Debraj Basu for his new position at Dascena
- Congrats to Dr. Chao Wang for his new position as Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2020
2019
2018
- Congrats to Greg for being selected as one of the three Abstract Award Winners at the Inaugural Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Symposium held on Oct 26, 2018!
- Congrats to Greg Rehm for being awarded the NIH F31 Fellowship!
- Congrats to Aveek Das for completing his PhD and starting his new position at Forescout.
- Congrats to Mani Amoozadeh for completing his PhD and starting his new position at RedPineSignals.
2017
- Congrats to Arun Raghuramu for completing his PhD and starting his new position at Forescout.
2016
- Congrats to Chang Liu and Mehdi Malboubi for winning the Best Paper Award
for their paper published in IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2016.
2015
- Congrats to Mehdi Malboubi for completing his PhD thesis and starting his new position at AT&T.
- Congrats to Mohammad Rezaur for completing his PhD thesis, and his
new position at Cisco.
- Congrats to PI Chuah for her election to IEEE Fellow Class of 2015.
2014
- Congrats to Mohammad and Jinyuong for their INFOCOM 2015 paper,
and to Arun for his PAM 2015 paper.
- We welcome our new postdoc, Jinyoung Han, to our group.
- Congrats to our group (Mehdi and Aveek, specifically) for the
acceptance of two papers in IEEE INFOCOM 2014.
2013
- Shiliang Tang, who participated in the Global Research Experience
in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) 2013, won the "Outstanding research
performance" award. Congratulations to Shiliang and his mentor, Mehdi!
2012
- Prof. Chuah was elected as ACM Distinguished Scientist.
- Congrats to Atif Nazir for completing his PhD..
- Our Programmable Measurement project received Year 2 funding
from HP Labs 2012 Innovation Research Award.
- Congrats to Guanyao Huang for completing his PhD, and
for winning the Chinese Government Award for
Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
2011
- Our Programmable Measurement project was selected for
HP Labs 2011 Innovation Research Award
- RUBINET hosted STEM teachers through the NSF
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site project Computing Research
Experiences for STEM Teachers (CREST).
- Congrats to Fred Liu for completing his PhD.
2010
- Congrats to Haiping, Dhruv, and Saqib for completing their
PhD dissertations!
- Congrats to (Leo) Xin Liu for completing his
PhD and best wishes for his move to Microsoft/Seattle!
- UC Davis Magazine article on RUBINET research,
supported through Chuah's Chancellor's Fellow Award.
2009
- Congrats to Behrooz for completing his PhD dissertation work!
- (Leo) Xin's paper won the Top 10% Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2009.
2008
- Congratulations to the RUBINET Lab’s most recent PhD graduates:
- Jianning Mai (Fall 2008)
- Jason LeBrun (Spring 2008), currently with Sentilla
- Lihua Yuan (Summer 2008), currently with Microsoft
- Dhruv Gupta’s paper “Efficient Monitoring in Wireless Mesh Networks: Overheads and Accuracy Trade-offs” is one of the Best Paper Candidates at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2008)!
2007
- Congratulations to the first batch of PhD graduates:
- Ram Keralapura (Winter 2007), currently with Narus
- Danjue Li (Winter 2007), currently with Cisco Systems
2005
Honors/Fellowships
I am very fortunate to work with a great group of students, some of which have also benefited from the following fellowships:
- NIH F31 Fellowship
- Northrop Grumman Fellowship
- Fulbright/LASPAU Scholarship
- Carlos Colman-Meixner (2011-13)
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
- Graduate Scholars Fellowship
- UC Davis Non-Resident-Tuition-Fee Award:
- Hewlett-Packard Citris Fellowships:
- Lihua Yuan (2005-06)
- Danjue Li (2004-05)
- Ram Keralapura (2003-04)
- Hewlett-Packard Citris Undergraduate Award
- Patrik Satarzadeh (Summer 2003)
- GAANN Fellowship
- Accel Fellowship