We are thrilled to announce that UCLA Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (UCLA CHIPS) student,Haoxiang Ren, and High Performance Mixed Mode Circuit Design Group student, James Chiou, won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America) 2024! UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering

International journal publisher, Nature, highlighted some of Professor Ozcan’s work on AI-based diagnostics. UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering

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Congratulations to Prof. Aydogan Ozcan for receiving UCLA Samueli V.M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award! His research focuses on improving biomedical applications, like telemedicine and global health, to democratize medical technologies & services.

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Congratulations to UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering Associate Professor Jonathan Kao on receiving the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award! For more information, please see the article here:
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Dr Jinxi Gou won the best industry paper award at the IEEE ICASSP 2024 Conference held at Seoul, Korea UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering

IEEE Photonics Society featured Dr Ozcan and his Pioneering Research on Biomedical Imaging and Microscopy UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering

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Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii and others published an article entitled “Novel Hybrid Particle Swarm and Brainstorm Optimization: Electromagnetic applications with enhanced performance” in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Early Access)

Congrats to UCLA Profs. Aydogan Ozcan & Mona Jarrahi, and CNSI at UCLA biophotonics@UCLA lab members Jingxi Li, Bijie Bai, Tianyi Gan & Yi Luo, for winning Advanced Photonics' 2023 best research paper award!
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After leading UCLA to become the 1st university team to win an XPRIZE, the Institute for Carbon Management led by Prof. Gaurav Sant Gaurav Sant UCLA_CEE UCLAMSE is ready to scale the testing of its CarbonBuilt ultra-low carbon concrete tech National Carbon Capture Center #engineerchange

Dr. Ozcan’s lab published a new paper in Nature Communications on an optoelectronic neuron array that achieves broadband and low-loss optical nonlinearity accessible with ambient light

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Professor Babakhani’s team published a paper in IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits on a “A 400-GHz Efficient Radiator and OOK Transceiver for Multi-Gb/s Wireless Communication in Silicon”

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Congratulations to Dr Hamed Rahmani on his new academic position at the Department of ECE at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Dr Rahmani was Professor Aydin Babakhani’s Ph.D. student. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2020. UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering

Congratulations to UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering Professor Aydin Babakhani’s student, Sidharth Thomas, for receiving the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Congrats to the 2024 UCLA Samueli University of California Edward K. Rice Student Award recipients Wenzhong Yan Ph.D. ’23 UCLAMechAeroEng, Matthew Wang ’22, M.S. ’23 UCLA CS Department, Jaqueline Lim ’23 UCLA_CEE & Bradley Schulz ’23 UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering! #engineerchange UCLA_Alumni
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Assistant Prof. Sergio Carbajo has worked with U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE Office of Science) to co-lead a science panel on novel radiation and particle sources as well as co-writing a report on laser technology.
Read more about it here!
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Broadband nonlinear modulation of incoherent light using a transparent optoelectronic neuron array Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… UCLA Samueli Engineering CNSI at UCLA UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Chem & Biochem UCLA Materials Science and Engineering

UCLA Unveils AI-Powered Autopsy Tissue-Staining Method Using Deep Learning samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-unveils-a… Nature Communications @uclaengineering CNSI at UCLA UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Bioengineering

Congrats to University of California Asst. Prof. Nader Sehatbakhsh Nader Sehatbakhsh UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering on receiving an U.S. National Science Foundation Early CAREER award. Sehatbakhsh’s 5-year $638K grant will fund research into securing potential data leaks and access points.
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Foundation models raise questions on 'forward compatibility' of sensors. A disruptive, new sensor is not well represented in training data for FM, whereas legacy sensors are more compatible

Pradyumna Chari seminar topic in UCLA-Caltech Memorial Lecture tmw at 12 noon PT.

Virtual histological staining of unlabeled autopsy tissue Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering UCLA Bioengineering CNSI at UCLA #VirtualTissueStaining