Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science UCLA Electrical Engineering 2007-2008 205244_Cover_R1.indd 1 9/2/2008 3:09:03 PM SELECT HIGHLIGHTS Professors M. C. Frank Chang and Yahya Rahmat-Samii are elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Asad Abidi receives the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. Professors Abeer Alwan, Diana Huffaker, Jia-Ming Liu and Mani Srivas- tava are elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow. Associate Professor Diana Huffaker receives the $3M National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship award from the Department of Defense. Assistant Professor Benjamin Williams receives the Young Faculty Award from DARPA. DARPA awards a major multi-year multi-million dollar contract to support research by Pro- fessor Jason Woo and collaborators on revolutionary switching devices. Professor Behzad Razavi publishes a new textbook entitled Fundamentals of Microelec- tronics, Wiley, 2008. Professor Ali H. Sayed publishes a new textbook entitled Adaptive Filters, Wiley, 2008. The department gratefully acknowledges the help and support of: Jackie Trang, design and editing Deeona Columbia, photos pp. 25, 30 Rose Weaver LaMountain, photos pp. 21 Deeona Columbia and Martha Contreras, UCLA Electrical Engineering Office of Student Affairs Sylvia Abrams, Principal Accountant, UCLA School of Engineering The HSSEAS Office of External Affairs, CENS, CNSI, FENA, and WIN for various photographs and text 205244_Cover_R2.indd 2 9/8/2008 3:47:32 PM UCLA Electrical Engineering Department Bradley International Hall Annual Report 2007-2008 We are honored to share with you Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID), the achievements of our depart- and the US Defense Advanced Research Agency ment during the 2007-2008 aca- (DARPA) awarded a multi-year contract totaling close to demic year. Several of our faculty $7.2M to a team of Electrical Engineering researchers members received outstanding rec- led by Professor Jason Woo to develop a revolutionary ognitions for their scholarly achieve- switching device. ments. We continue to recruit aggressively in an effort to ex- Professors M. C. Frank Chang and pand our reach and strengthen collaborations with other Yahya Rahmat-Samii were both inducted to the Na- areas and particularly the medical sciences. Over the tional Academy of Engineering (NAE), the highest last 3 years, nine assistant and one associate profes- professional lifetime distinction accorded to American sors were hired in areas ranging from bio-photonics to engineers. Their induction to the NAE follows last year’s medical imaging, lasers, circuits, nano and semicon- induction of Professor Asad Abidi. Over the last 5 years, ductor devices, cognitive radios, and embedded control our department has had 6 faculty members elected to systems. The infusion of a relatively large number of the National Academy of Engineering, a testament to bright and dynamic junior faculty members is helping the growing recognition and strengths of our program. the department stretch to new areas with confidence and optimism for the future. Professor Abidi was also recognized with the prestigious 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Our industry relations program is being reinvigorated. Circuits. In addition, four of our faculty members were Stronger ties are being cemented with industry through elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow: Professor Abeer focused research collaborations, regular student in- Alwan for contributions to speech perception and pro- ternships, mutual visits, and annual research reviews. duction modeling and their applications, Professor Diana Several companies are active members of our Indus- Huffaker for the development of optoelectronic materials try Affiliates Program including The Aerospace Corpo- and processing, Professor Jia-Ming Liu for contributions ration, Boeing, Broadcom, Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, to the control and applications of nonlinear dynamics of Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm, Raytheon, Samsung, lasers, and Professor Mani Srivastava for contributions Sony, Synplicity, Toshiba, and Viasat. During the 2008 to energy-aware wireless communications and sensor Annual Research Review meeting, over 40 companies networking. Furthermore, Professor Diana Huffaker was sent representatives to interact with our faculty and stu- selected to receive the prestigious National Security dents. Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow Award from We are proud of the accomplishments of our depart- the DoD. Up to $3 million of research support is granted ment. We are also grateful to our staff and supporters to each NSSEFF Fellow for up to five years. for their continued and valued contributions to our pro- Our faculty members continue to be actively engaged gram. in major multi-disciplinary research centers and in- stitutes such as the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), the Center on Functional Engineered Nano Ar- chitectonics (FENA), and the Western Institute of Nano- electronics (WIN). During 2007-2008, the US Depart- Ali H. Sayed ment of Defense (DoD) provided $2.9M to support the Department Chairman 1 205244_2008.indd 1 9/2/2008 1:40:31 PM Overview Faculty and Staff Recognitions Ladder Faculty 43.5 FTEs Society Fellows 32 Courtesy Appointments 9 NAE Members 7 Emeriti Faculty 11 NAS Members 2 Adjunct Faculty 14 National Medal of Science 1 Lecturers 27 Staff 45 Research Facilities Laboratories and Research Groups: 32 Space: 102,669 square feet Department Contributes to 9 Research Centers: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Center for Embedded Networking Sensing (CENS) Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE) Center for Systems, Dynamics and Controls (SyDyC) Flight Systems Research Center Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics Focus Center (FENA) Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) Nanolab Nanoelectronics Research Center (NRC) Western Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Research Funding 2007-2008 ($21M) Federal $11M (52%) Industry $7.5M (36%) State $1M (5%) University & Endowments $1.5M (7%) 2 205244_2008.indd 2 9/2/2008 1:40:31 PM Overview Undergraduate Students Graduate Students Students Enrolled 563 Students Enrolled 342 Applicants 983 Applicants 1204 New Students Enrolled 216 New Students Enrolled 72 Average Freshman GPA 3.83 Average Incoming GPA 3.71 EE Degrees Conferred 2007-2008 Graduate Applicants for Fall 2007 45 44 Countries with over 5% of 1204 total applicants Summer 2007 40 Fall 2007 35 Winter 2008 Other: 173 United States:14% 289 United States: 289 29 Spring 2008 30 24% 24% 25 23 25 23 People’s Republic of South Korea: 112 China: 361 9% 20 18 30% India: 153 14 13 Republic of 15 11 12 13% 10 China: 116 10 10% 5 5 0 BS (121) MS (79) PhD (45) Fellowships Received by Electrical Engineering Graduate Students Full Fellowships $ 419,550.00 Non-Resident Tuition Support for Teaching Assistants $ 217,186.00 Dean’s GSR Support $ 187,555.00 Partial Fellowships $ 160,095.00 One-Quarter Merit Fellowships $ 120,045.00 Henry Samueli Fellowships $ 113,678.00 Faculty Unrestricted Fellowships $ 86,202.00 Chancellor’s Prize $ 83,911.00 Dissertation Year Fellowships $ 55,023.00 NSF Graduate Fellowship $ 38,968.00 Camp Fellowship $ 30,000.00 Dean’s Fellowship $ 25,000.00 Borgstrom Fellowship $ 10,000.00 Raytheon Fellowship $ 8,967.00 Rockwell Fellowship $ 8,967.00 Conference Travel Funds $ 1,200.00 Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Fellowship $ 500.00 TOTAL $ 1,628,847.00 3 205244_2008_R1.indd 3 9/8/2008 4:12:17 PM Faculty Highlight: Professor M.C. Frank Chang Electrical Engineering Pro- communications and simul- fessor Mau-Chung Frank taneous and bi-directional Chang has been elected chip-to-chip CPU-to-Memory to the National Academy communications. He also pio- of Engineering (NAE) for neered the development of his seminal contributions to multi-gigabit/sec ADC, DAC the discovery, development CMOS Voltage Controlled and DDFS in both GaAs HBTs and commercialization of Oscillator, measured with and Si CMOS technologies for a subharmonic mixer III-V based Heterojunction and driven with a 166 both commercial and defense Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) GHz local oscillator. The systems; the millimeter-wave Professor M.C. Frank Chang mixing frequency is ( and Field Effect Transistors fVCO reconfigurable radio trans- - 2*fLO)=fIF, or fVCO-2*(166 (FETs) technologies for RF/wireless communications. GHz)= 8.2 GHz, yielding ceiver (60-100GHz) based on His pioneering work in realizing mass-produced GaAs fVCO= 324 GHz! transformer-folded-cascode HBT power amplifiers with high efficiency and high lin- (Origami) high-linearity circuit earity has enabled modern wireless communications topology; and the low phase that require sophisticated modulations for high data noise CMOS VCO (FOM<-200dB/Hz) by using digitally rates and high output power to cover a wide area with controlled on-chip artificial dielectric (DiCAD). minimum battery-power consumption. Among other awards, Professor Chang received the Prior to joining UCLA IEEE David Sarnoff Award (IEEE-wide Technical Field in 1997, Professor Award) in 2006, Taiwan’s most prestigious Pan Wen- Chang was the As- Yuan Foundation Research Award in 2008, and the Best sistant Director and Paper Award from the IEEE Computer Society at the Department Manag- 2008 International Symposium on High Performance er of the High Speed Computer Architecture (HPCA). He has authored over Electronics Labora- 270 technical papers and holds 20 U.S. patents. On-Wafer VCO Test Set devel-