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fall 2011, issue no. 26

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EnginEEring Vi nEw anchor for innoVation

> combatting Emerging Environmental threats

> Venky harinarayan MS ‘90: redefining E-commerce

UCLA EngineerFall 2011_R1.indd 159 10/5/11 8:29 PM

The next decade promises to be an exciting one for the

UCLA Henry School of Engineering and Applied Science.

In three years, our new state-of-the-art Engineering VI

building will be completed. It will house research labs in

emerging areas critical to the 21st century, such as green

energy, personalized health care, personalized learn-

ing, sustainability and clean water. This much-needed

addition to the engineering complex will have a multi-fold impact – pro-

viding numerous benefits to UCLA students, faculty, as well as Southern

California’s business and scientific communities. Several pages have been

dedicated in this issue to this important building. I invite you to learn more

about the impact Engineering VI will have and the opportunities for you to

support its completion.

This issue also includes a feature on assistant professor of civil and

environmental engineering Shaily Mahendra, and her work on finding

new methods to clean up emerging environmental threats with the help

of microorganisms; and a profile of alumnus Venky Harinarayan MS ’90,

of the angel investor group Cambrian Ventures. An entrepreneur himself,

Harinarayan’s company was recently acquired by retail giant Walmart in

an effort to expand the landscape of their global e-commerce division.

In addition, this issue includes a variety of stories on the undergradu-

ate experience here at the school. You’ll get an inside look at some of our

upper division classes and learn about a pair of undergraduates, whose

laboratory research experience led to national recognition on Capitol Hill.

Finally, this issue also includes research highlights on LED photovolta-

ics, stretchable OLEDs, and genomics; provides profiles of new faculty

and of newly named endowed chair holders; and contains our 2010-11

annual report.

I invite you to enjoy this issue of UCLA Engineer.

Sincerely,

Vijay K. Dhir

Dean

DeanVijay K. Dhir

associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs

Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources

assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer

Department chairsBenjamin Wu Bioengineering

Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jens Palsberg Computer Science

M.C. Frank Chang Electrical Engineering

Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering

Tsu-Chin Tsao Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDJiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Vijay K. Dhir William Goodin Harold G. Monbouquette Mary Okino Richard D. Wesel

externaL affairs commUnicationsWileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing

Matthew Chin Communications Manager

Amy Gonsalves Communications Assistant

office of externaL affairs(310) 206-0678 www.engineer.ucla.edu [email protected]

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UCLA EngineerFall 2011.indd 6243 10/3/11 7:26 PM

DeanVijay K. Dhir

associate DeansRichard D. Wesel Academic and Student Affairs

Jane P. Chang Research and Physical Resources

assistant DeanMary Okino Chief Financial Officer

Department chairsBenjamin Wu Bioengineering

Harold G. Monbouquette Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering

Jens Palsberg Computer Science

M.C. Frank Chang Electrical Engineering

Jenn-Ming Yang Materials Science and Engineering

Tsu-Chin Tsao Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

UcLa engineer aDvisory BoarDJiun-Shyan (J.S.) Chen Vijay K. Dhir William Goodin Harold G. Monbouquette Mary Okino Richard D. Wesel

externaL affairs commUnicationsWileen Wong Kromhout Director of Media Relations and Marketing

Matthew Chin Communications Manager

Amy Gonsalves Communications Assistant

office of externaL affairs(310) 206-0678 www.engineer.ucla.edu [email protected]

design: Etch Creative

6 engineering vi: new anchor for innovation

10 emerging contaminants in Water?microbes to the rescue

12 redefining e-commerce in today’s online World

2 research news

14 faculty news

18 school news

20 student news

28 alumni news

36 2010-11 annual report

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Wileen Wong Kromhout

S tretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern

electronic materials that can bend and stretch,

have the potential to be used in a wide range of

applications, including wearable electronics, “smart skins”

and minimally invasive biomedical devices that can move

with the body.

Today’s conventional inorganic electronic devices are

brittle, and while they have a certain flexibility achieved

using ultrathin layers of inorganic materials, these devices

are either flexible, meaning they can be bent, or they are

stretchable, containing a discrete LED chip interconnected

with stretchable electrodes. But they lack “intrinsic stretch-

abilty,” in which every part of the device is stretchable.

Now, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School

of Engineering and Applied Science, led by UCLA profes-

sor of materials science and engineering, Qibing Pei, have

demonstrated for the first time an intrinsically stretchable

polymer light-emitting device.

They developed a simple process to fabricate the trans-

parent devices using single-walled carbon nanotube poly-

mer composite electrodes. The interpenetrating networks

of nanotubes and the polymer matrix in the surface layer

of the composites lead to low sheet resistance, high trans-

parency, high compliance and low surface roughness.

The metal-free devices can be linearly stretched up

to 45 percent and the composite electrodes can be revers-

ibly stretched by up to 50 percent with little change in

sheet resistance.

Because the devices are fabricated by roll lamination

of two composite electrodes that sandwich an emissive

polymer layer, they uniquely combine mechanical robust-

ness and the ability for large-strain deformation, due to the

shape-memory property of the composite electrodes. This

development will provide a new direction for the field of

stretchable electronics.

The research was published in the journal Advanced

Materials. The team included Pei, UCLA postdoctoral

fellow Zhibin Yu, Xiaofan Niu and Zhitian Liu.

The research was supported by the National Science

Foundation.

polymer light-emitting devices that can be

Stretched like rubber

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A polymer light-emitting device being stretched linearly by up to 45 percent.


Image depicts tracks made by pathogen,

Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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polymer layer, they uniquely combine mechanical robust-

ness and the ability for large-strain deformation, due to the

shape-memory property of the composite electrodes. This

development will provide a new direction for the field of

stretchable electronics.

The research was published in the journal Advanced

Materials. The team included Pei, UCLA postdoctoral

fellow Zhibin Yu, Xiaofan Niu and Zhitian Liu.

The research was supported by the National Science

Foundation.

Bacteria use various appendages to move across

surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial

biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky

form of movement known as “twitching” motility, which

is made possible by hairlike structures on their surface

called type IV pili, or TFP.

“TFP act like Batman’s grappling hooks,” said

Gerard Wong, a UCLA professor of bioengineering

and of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA Engineer-

ing and the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.

“These grappling hooks can extend and bind to a surface

and retract and pull the cell along.”

In a study published in Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences, Wong and his colleagues at UCLA

Engineering identify the complex sequence of movements

that make up this twitching motility in Pseudomonas

aeruginosa, a biofilm-forming pathogen partly responsible

for the deadly infections seen in cystic fibrosis.

During their observations, Wong and his team made

a surprising discovery. Using a high-speed camera and a

novel two-point tracking algorithm, they noticed that the

bacteria had the unique ability to “slingshot” on surfaces.

The team found that linear translational pulls of

constant velocity alternated with velocity spikes that were

20 times faster but lasted only milliseconds. This action

would repeat over and over again.

The ability to turn and change direction is essential for

bacteria to adapt to continually changing surface condi-

tions as they form biofilms. The researchers found

that the slingshot motion helped P. aeruginosa move

much more efficiently through the polysaccharides

they secrete on surfaces during biofilm formation,

a phenomenon known as shear-thinning.

“Bacterial cells secrete polysaccharides on surfaces,

which are kind of like molasses,” Wong said. “Because

these polysaccharides are long polymer molecules

that can get entangled, these are very viscous and can

potentially impede movement. However, if you move

very fast in these polymer fluids, the viscosity becomes

much lower. The fluid will then seem more like water

than molasses.”

Since the twitching motion of bacteria with TFP

depends of the physical distributions of TFP on the

surface of individual cells, Wong hopes that the analy-

sis of motility patterns may in the future enable new

methods for biometric “fingerprinting” of individual

cells for single-cell diagnostics.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of

Health and the National Science Foundation. The lead

authors are post-doctoral scholar Fan Jin, and Jacinta

C. Conrad from the University of Houston.

The complete release is available online at:

http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/batman-bacteria


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Bacteria use Batman-like grappling hooks to

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A polymer light-emitting device being stretched linearly by up to 45 percent.


Graphs depict power of fixed-effects (FE) method, random-effects (RE) method and Eskin’s new random-effects (RE) method in a simulation varying “between-study heterogeneity.”

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Recent breakthroughs in the analysis of genetic varia-

tion in large populations have led to the discovery

of hundreds of genes involved in dozens of com-

mon diseases. Many of these discoveries were enabled by

performing “meta-analysis,” which combines information

from multiple genetic studies in order to create even

larger studies.

One of the difficulties in meta-analysis of genetic studies

is “heterogeneity,” or differences in the strength of genetic

variants on the disease across the different studies. Previous

methods for handling heterogeneity have performed very

poorly compared with traditional approaches, even when

heterogeneity is known to be present among the studies.

Now, Eleazar Eskin, an associate professor of computer

science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and

Applied Science, and recent Ph.D. Buhm Han have developed a

new statistical method for combining association studies which

performs well in the presence of heterogeneity.

“What is surprising about this work is that it presents

a way to increase the amount of information we get from

very large and expensive studies previously undertaken by

just changing the statistics used to analyze the data,” said

Eskin. “So we get more information about which variants

are involved in disease without having to spend more money

collecting additional data.”

The research was published in the American Journal of

Human Genetics.

This method should lead to the discovery of many more

genes involved in diseases when applied to combine the

results of existing genetic association studies.

This research was partially supported by the National

Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and

the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Phone losing chaRge?

could improve search for genes involved in common diseases

new statistical method

ReseaRch news


Polarizing organic photovoltaic film

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performing “meta-analysis,” which combines information

from multiple genetic studies in order to create even

larger studies.

One of the difficulties in meta-analysis of genetic studies

is “heterogeneity,” or differences in the strength of genetic

variants on the disease across the different studies. Previous

methods for handling heterogeneity have performed very

poorly compared with traditional approaches, even when

heterogeneity is known to be present among the studies.

Now, Eleazar Eskin, an associate professor of computer

science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and

Applied Science, and recent Ph.D. Buhm Han have developed a

new statistical method for combining association studies which

performs well in the presence of heterogeneity.

“What is surprising about this work is that it presents

a way to increase the amount of information we get from

very large and expensive studies previously undertaken by

just changing the statistics used to analyze the data,” said

Eskin. “So we get more information about which variants

are involved in disease without having to spend more money

collecting additional data.”

The research was published in the American Journal of

Human Genetics.

This method should lead to the discovery of many more

genes involved in diseases when applied to combine the

results of existing genetic association studies.

This research was partially supported by the National

Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and

the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for

harvesting and recycling energy for electronic

devices — one that involves equipping these

devices’ LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polariz-

ers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight and

their own backlight into electricity.

LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of

today’s electronic devices, including smartphones, TV

screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet com-

puters. They work by using two polarized sheets that

let only a certain amount of a device’s backlight pass

through. The UCLA Engineering team created a new

type of energy-harvesting polarizer for LCDs called a

polarizing organic photovoltaic, which can potentially

boost the function of an LCD by working simultaneous-

ly as a polarizer, a photovoltaic device and an ambient

light or sunlight photovoltaic panel.

The research was published in the journal

Advanced Materials.

“I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve

the efficiency of LCD displays,” said Yang Yang, a pro-

fessor of materials science and engineering and principal

investigator on the research. “In addition, these polar-

izers can also be used as regular solar cells to harvest

indoor or outdoor light. So next time you are on the

beach, you could charge your iPhone via sunlight.”

From the point of view of energy use, current LCD

polarizers are inefficient, the researchers said. A

device’s backlight can consume 80 to 90 percent of the

device’s power. But as much as 75 percent of the light

generated is lost through the polarizers. A polarizing

organic photovoltaic LCD could recover much of that

unused energy.

UCLA post-doctoral scholar Rui Zhu was the lead

author. Ankit Kumar, a graduate student at UCLA

Engineering, was the paper’s second author.

Yang, who holds UCLA’s Carol and Lawrence

E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, is also

faculty director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center

at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.

The research was supported by Intel through a gift

to UCLA, and by the Office of Naval Research.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/lcd-energy

By Matthew Chin

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Phone losing charge? Technology allows lcDs To recycle energy

new statistical method


The UCLA Henry Samueli School of

Engineering and Applied Science,

established in 1945, consistently ranks

among the top 10 engineering schools

in public universities. In the last decade,

the school’s teaching and research enterprise has

grown and expanded greatly with a 30 percent net

increase in the number of full-time faculty and a 70

percent increase in the undergraduate and graduate

student population. Most significantly the research

revenue of the school has grown more than 100

percent from approximately $50 million in 1997

to $110 million in 2011.

While these statistics are exciting and reflect

impressive progress within UCLA Engineering, the

school has also lost nearly 45,000 square feet,

or about ten percent of assignable space in the

current engineering complex. Further, advances

in technology and enriched training of the next

generation of society’s leaders require UCLA

Engineering to continuously refine and expand its

facilities. At the same time, emerging disciplines

and research place new demands on the school

to supply flexible working spaces and seamless

technological integration.

To address these critical needs, the school is

proposing a bold and ambitious new addition to

the UCLA Engineering complex – Engineering

VI, to replace Engineering IA. Located at the

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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of

Engineering and Applied Science,

established in 1945, consistently ranks

among the top 10 engineering schools

in public universities. In the last decade,

the school’s teaching and research enterprise has

grown and expanded greatly with a 30 percent net

increase in the number of full-time faculty and a 70

percent increase in the undergraduate and graduate

student population. Most significantly the research

revenue of the school has grown more than 100

percent from approximately $50 million in 1997

to $110 million in 2011.

While these statistics are exciting and reflect

impressive progress within UCLA Engineering, the

school has also lost nearly 45,000 square feet,

or about ten percent of assignable space in the

current engineering complex. Further, advances

in technology and enriched training of the next

generation of society’s leaders require UCLA

Engineering to continuously refine and expand its

facilities. At the same time, emerging disciplines

and research place new demands on the school

to supply flexible working spaces and seamless

technological integration.

To address these critical needs, the school is

proposing a bold and ambitious new addition to

the UCLA Engineering complex – Engineering

VI, to replace Engineering IA. Located at the

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EnginEEring Vi: New ANchor

Multi-disciplinary centers like UcLA are replacing industry-sponsored research labs. That’s where the biggest changes in applied research are taking place. That’s where the lion’s share of all research is migrating. That’s the future.”– henry samueli ’75, ms ’76, phd ‘80, cto and co-founder, broadcom corporation

CoVEr FEaTurE


intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Strathmore Avenue,

Engineering VI will be just steps from Ackerman Student

Union, the James West Alumni Center and Pauley Pavilion.

Engineering VI will be constructed in two phases and

funding has been secured from the National Institute of Stan-

dards and Technology, the school and the campus, allowing

the school to move forward with phase 1. The school is cur-

rently working to raise additional funding for phase 2.

“Engineering VI is going to be a truly unique building, and

not just for the school,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA

Engineering. “The building will offer collaborative spaces

for researchers throughout the Southern California region

to help in the development of technology with broad social

implications. We expect its powerful impact to reach beyond

the City of Los Angeles and we look forward to raising the

necessary funds for phase 2 soon.”

Given the grand challenges engineers face in the 21st

century, common research themes in green energy, personal-

ized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and

clean water have emerged within the school. The impact of

Engineering VI will be multi-fold and will enable opportuni-

ties to catalyze new scientific discoveries, new technologies

and new areas of education especially in the realm of these

critical research areas.

Engineering VI will provide easy access and special interac-

tive space uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, scientists and

engineers from UCLA, institutions in Los Angeles, other

government labs and industry partners. This will allow for

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intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Strathmore Avenue,

Engineering VI will be just steps from Ackerman Student

Union, the James West Alumni Center and Pauley Pavilion.

Engineering VI will be constructed in two phases and

funding has been secured from the National Institute of Stan-

dards and Technology, the school and the campus, allowing

the school to move forward with phase 1. The school is cur-

rently working to raise additional funding for phase 2.

“Engineering VI is going to be a truly unique building, and

not just for the school,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA

Engineering. “The building will offer collaborative spaces

for researchers throughout the Southern California region

to help in the development of technology with broad social

implications. We expect its powerful impact to reach beyond

the City of Los Angeles and we look forward to raising the

necessary funds for phase 2 soon.”

Given the grand challenges engineers face in the 21st

century, common research themes in green energy, personal-

ized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and

clean water have emerged within the school. The impact of

Engineering VI will be multi-fold and will enable opportuni-

ties to catalyze new scientific discoveries, new technologies

and new areas of education especially in the realm of these

critical research areas.

Engineering VI will provide easy access and special interac-

tive space uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, scientists and

engineers from UCLA, institutions in Los Angeles, other

government labs and industry partners. This will allow for

EnginEEring Vi: New aNchor

Multi-disciplinary centers like ucla are replacing industry-sponsored research labs. That’s where the biggest changes in applied research are taking place. That’s where the lion’s share of all research is migrating. That’s the future.”– henry samueli ’75, ms ’76, phd ‘80, cto and co-founder, broadcom corporation


for INNovaTIoN


Matthew Chin

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Cover Feature

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the incubation of creativity and accelerate inventions

and ideas, research and development, and technology

transfer to the marketplace.

Specifically phase 1 will be a six story building. It

will house the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics

on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM).

About 35,000 square feet of laboratory space on four

levels will support research on low-power, nonvolatile

nanoelectronics; carbon nanoelectronics and topologi-

cal insulator; green manufacturing of novel nanomate-

rial-based energy technologies; and new materials for

energy generation, storage and management; and

a test-bed facility for technology advancement and

commercialization. The roof of the building will

include a solar-cell array for energy supply and

power-management experimentation.

In addition, specialized space and infrastructure will

be developed where students can be trained, postdoc-

toral scholars can conduct state-of-the-art experiments

and faculty across disciplines can also interact to enable

maximum collaboration.

Furthermore, Engineering VI will be built to LEED-

Gold standards, the second-highest national environ-

mental ranking for green buildings.

“We’re excited for a number of reasons,” said Jane

Chang, associate dean of research and physical resourc-

es at UCLA Engineering. “The basement features one

of the most technologically advanced laboratories in

the world, where vibrational isolation and electromag-

netic interference shielding would enable the operation of

highly sensitive instrumentation that probes materials and

devices at the atomic/quantum scale. The first through

fourth floors of phase 1 will have wet and dry research

labs, supporting three Centers of Excellence at the

school, and the top floor will be a space for technology

advancement, a space we don’t currently have, to

allow faculty, students and outside researchers to

work together.”

The fifth floor will be an on-campus technology incuba-

tion resource with a mission to help accelerate the growth

of entrepreneurial start-up companies and early stage

technology research projects that originate from UCLA or

from universities associated with the Centers of Excellence.

The three Centers of Excellence include the Western

Institute of Nanoelectronics, Functional Engineered

Nano Architectronics, and Molecularly Engineered

Energy Materials, which presently occupy outdated labs

in three separate buildings.

Phase 2, with six levels and 89,000 square feet, will

also include a 250-seat distance learning center. Tenta-

tive plans are for construction of phase 1 to begin in the

summer of 2012, with completion in fall of 2014 and for

phase 2 to begin construction in winter of 2013.

For those who wish to learn more about funding and

naming opportunities, please contact the Office of the

Dean ([email protected]) or the Office of External

Affairs ([email protected]).


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netic interference shielding would enable the operation of

highly sensitive instrumentation that probes materials and

devices at the atomic/quantum scale. The first through

fourth floors of phase 1 will have wet and dry research

labs, supporting three Centers of Excellence at the

school, and the top floor will be a space for technology

advancement, a space we don’t currently have, to

allow faculty, students and outside researchers to

work together.”

The fifth floor will be an on-campus technology incuba-

tion resource with a mission to help accelerate the growth

of entrepreneurial start-up companies and early stage

technology research projects that originate from UCLA or

from universities associated with the Centers of Excellence.

The three Centers of Excellence include the Western

Institute of Nanoelectronics, Functional Engineered

Nano Architectronics, and Molecularly Engineered

Energy Materials, which presently occupy outdated labs

in three separate buildings.

Phase 2, with six levels and 89,000 square feet, will

also include a 250-seat distance learning center. Tenta-

tive plans are for construction of phase 1 to begin in the

summer of 2012, with completion in fall of 2014 and for

phase 2 to begin construction in winter of 2013.

For those who wish to learn more about funding and

naming opportunities, please contact the Office of the

Dean ([email protected]) or the Office of External

Affairs ([email protected]).

accelerate inventions and ideas, research and development

enable new technology and new education

catalyze new scientific discoveries

easy access and special interactive space

incubation of creativity

In Southern california, ucla is the largest source of academic invention and it will therefore be the example of ucla that will begin the process that will eventuate in a new definition of the Southern california region as the crucible of new inventions, new jobs, and new solutions that will lift the spirits and the prospects of tens of millions of californians and of those beyond.”– professor will iam ouchi, ucl a anderson school of management


Matthew Chin

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Microbes to the rescue

New chemicals and technologies in energy, electronics, medicine, security and other areas have revolutionized society. But could these very materials pose public health dangers and long-term damage to the environment?

Now, as new threats of environmental contaminants

are being identified, UCLA civil and environmental

engineering assistant professor Shaily Mahendra is

investigating their environmental implications, and

designing methods to transform them with tiny but

powerful microorganisms.

Conventional clean-up technologies are expensive,

consume resources and energy, and mostly move the

hazard from one place to another. Mahendra advances

a green, low-cost, permanent solution called in-situ

bioremediation. That is, using microbes to clean up

polluted environments on site, without transporting the

contaminants away.

“We need to study new classes of emerging contami-

nants and proactively find solutions to mitigate their

ecological and health risks,” Mahendra said.

Mahendra considers 1,4-dioxane, perfluorinated com-

pounds, and engineered nanomaterials as three of the

top emerging contaminants. She has projects underway

in her laboratory to biologically detoxify them. Combin-

ing her training in engineering and microbiology, she

designs novel biomarkers and isotopic markers to prove

that bacteria can successfully break down 1,4-diox-

ane, which causes cancer, and is frequently detected

in groundwater and drinking water. Mahendra is also

investigating bacteria and fungi that could biodegrade

potentially toxic perfluoroalkyl compounds. These

compounds, widely used in fire fighting foam and stain

repellents, have been found in critical ecosystems. And

she is studying how metallic nanoparticles affect mi-

crobial communities. This research will help us under-

stand environmental implications of nanotechnology,

and lead to design of safer nanomaterials.

“To accurately assess the impacts of ever-increasing

inputs of chemicals and nanomaterials into the en-

vironment, we must explore their interactions with

microbes,” she said. “Microbes serve as sensitive

indicators of the toxic effects on higher organisms, but

they can also be our allies in mitigating environmental

degradation.”

Matthew Chin

EmErgiNg CoNtamiNaNts iN WatEr?

“ We need to study new classes of emerging contaminants and proactively find solutions to mitigate their ecological and health risks.”

Shaily Mahendra in her laboratory photo: todd cheney


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Microbes to the rescueing her training in engineering and microbiology, she

designs novel biomarkers and isotopic markers to prove

that bacteria can successfully break down 1,4-diox-

ane, which causes cancer, and is frequently detected

in groundwater and drinking water. Mahendra is also

investigating bacteria and fungi that could biodegrade

potentially toxic perfluoroalkyl compounds. These

compounds, widely used in fire fighting foam and stain

repellents, have been found in critical ecosystems. And

she is studying how metallic nanoparticles affect mi-

crobial communities. This research will help us under-

stand environmental implications of nanotechnology,

and lead to design of safer nanomaterials.

“To accurately assess the impacts of ever-increasing

inputs of chemicals and nanomaterials into the en-

vironment, we must explore their interactions with

microbes,” she said. “Microbes serve as sensitive

indicators of the toxic effects on higher organisms, but

they can also be our allies in mitigating environmental

degradation.”

Mahendra’s research efforts have earned her several

notable recognitions over the past few months, including

being named a 2011 Pop Tech Science and Public Leader-

ship Fellow; a 2011 University of California Hellman

Fellow; and being awarded the Excellence in Review

Award by Environmental Science & Technology.

In the larger picture, Mahendra’s research, teaching

and service efforts fall right into the department’s mission

— engineering sustainable infrastructure for the future.

She teaches undergraduate courses in environmental

microbiology and environmental nanotechnology. She has

introduced a graduate environmental biotechnology class,

covering how molecular biology and process engineering

helps address contemporary environmental issues, such

as managing global nutrient cycles, hazardous waste

remediation and production of biofuels.

Mahendra recently received $1.5 million in grants from

the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation to

continue her study of microbes in the environment.

“In addition to challenging coursework and exciting projects,

I provide an open atmosphere in the classroom where students

are able to ask questions, share original ideas and critically

evaluate their work and the work of others,” she said.

To find out more about Professor Mahendra’s research,

go to: http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/mahendra/profile

EmErging contaminants in WatEr?

We need to study new classes of emerging contaminants and proactively find solutions to mitigate their ecological and health risks.”


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Redefining e-CommeRCe

Venky Harinarayan’s career has been on an upward trajectory since 1996, when he and four other engineers co-founded a company that became a pioneer in comparison shopping on the internet. in just two short years, Junglee Corp. was acquired by Amazon.com for $250 million.

Becoming a general manager at Amazon.com after the

acquisition, Harinarayan began working closely with Jeff

Bezos to create the company’s marketplace business. Today,

marketplace is the company’s most profitable and fastest

growing business, accounting for almost 30 percent of all

U.S. transactions.

In 2000, adding to his already replete resume, Harina-

rayan became an angel investor. The web and technology

entrepreneur created Cambrian Ventures with his business

partner, Anand Rajaraman. The firm has been actively

investing in the growth of early-stage technology companies

for more than a decade.

“We invest in seed-stage companies,” remarked Harinar-

ayan on the firm’s Web site. “We still love two entrepreneurs

with a great idea. We invest in technologists, working with

them even before they have their great ideas.”

So far, Cambrian Ventures has invested in companies like

Aster Data (Teradata), Neoteris (Juniper Networks), Kaltix

(Google), and Tranformic (Google). Harinarayan and

Rajaraman were also among a handful of preferred angel

investors in Facebook.

“When I look at start-ups, I first consider the team,” said

Harinarayan. “The team has to have chemistry and has

to be of high caliber. Coming together in a start-up is like

getting married. Compromises have to be made and if there

is high caliber leadership, the team will eventually be able to

navigate their way through some potentially difficult times.”

Having a similar team of his own, Harinarayan and

Rajaraman re-entered the start-up arena, this time with

Kosmix. Based in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was

created in 2005 with a vision of connecting people to infor-

mation that makes a difference in their lives. Kosmix raised

$55 million in funding from investors like Accel Partners,

Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner Investments and

Bezos Expeditions.

At Kosmix, Harinarayan’s team designed a platform that

acts as a social media filter aggregating information by topic

from Web sites, Twitter messages and other sources in real

time to give users the information they wanted at any time.

The various Kosmix sites drew approximately 17.5 million

unique visitors just before being acquired earlier this year

for a reported $300 million by Walmart, who saw Kosmix’s

enormous potential.

Kosmix is now @WalmartLabs and will operate as part of

Walmart’s Global eCommerce group. Increasingly, referrals

to e-commerce sites are coming from social networks and

@WalmartLabs was formed to create and develop new tech-

nologies and strategies to enhance the shopping experience

of the company’s online sites and retail stores. Harinarayan

serves as Senior Vice President Walmart Global eCommerce

and head of @WalmartLabs.

“Clearly we want to grow @WalmartLabs to be much

bigger than what Kosmix was,” said Harinarayan. “There’s

an opportunity to redefine shopping at this point and we want

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Venky Harinarayan MS ’90 LeadS tHe Way WitH @WaLMart LabS


ucla EnginEEr 13

Venky Harinarayan’s career has been on an upward trajectory since 1996, when he and four other engineers co-founded a company that became a pioneer in comparison shopping on the Internet. In just two short years, Junglee corp. was acquired by amazon.com for $250 million.

Having a similar team of his own, Harinarayan and

Rajaraman re-entered the start-up arena, this time with

Kosmix. Based in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was

created in 2005 with a vision of connecting people to infor-

mation that makes a difference in their lives. Kosmix raised

$55 million in funding from investors like Accel Partners,

Lightspeed Venture Partners, Time Warner Investments and

Bezos Expeditions.

At Kosmix, Harinarayan’s team designed a platform that

acts as a social media filter aggregating information by topic

from Web sites, Twitter messages and other sources in real

time to give users the information they wanted at any time.

The various Kosmix sites drew approximately 17.5 million

unique visitors just before being acquired earlier this year

for a reported $300 million by Walmart, who saw Kosmix’s

enormous potential.

Kosmix is now @WalmartLabs and will operate as part of

Walmart’s Global eCommerce group. Increasingly, referrals

to e-commerce sites are coming from social networks and

@WalmartLabs was formed to create and develop new tech-

nologies and strategies to enhance the shopping experience

of the company’s online sites and retail stores. Harinarayan

serves as Senior Vice President Walmart Global eCommerce

and head of @WalmartLabs.

“Clearly we want to grow @WalmartLabs to be much

bigger than what Kosmix was,” said Harinarayan. “There’s

an opportunity to redefine shopping at this point and we want

to really understand how social networks and mobile platforms

change what happens in shopping. So the charter of the lab is

really to innovate technology, products, and business models

around shopping and the social/mobile black box.”

Harinarayan and his business partner started Kosmix with

the premise that the Web is like the library of Alexandria.

They saw it as a warehouse for all human knowledge but the

only window into this warehouse was the “search” function.

Kosmix’s vision was to create programs that would access

this web intelligence and mine it to create new applications.

“Fundamental to building such a Web intelligence platform

is the need to structure the Web into categories,” said Hari-

narayan in a previous online interview. “These categories

become the handles on which programs operate that humans

can use in their day-to-day interactions. Much of this came

from the search and domain experience we had cultivated

during our tenure at Junglee and Amazon.”

Computer science was a fairly new field, and the Internet

even newer, when Harinarayan decided to devote his stud-

ies to it at IIT Madras in India. He was born into a family

of doctors and entrepreneurs in Bombay and grew up in

Madras. Harinarayan’s family valued education, and also the

Indian national pastime of cricket. He was the captain of his

high school cricket team and also played tennis in college.

According to Harinarayan, the rigorous education system

of India, combined with his interest in sports, helped him to

learn a great deal about people.

“As Plato said, ‘You can discover more about a person in an

hour of play than a year of conversation,’” remarked

Harinarayan.

Harinarayan moved to the United States in 1988 and stud-

ied for his master’s in computer science under the advisement

of Professor Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA Engineering.

“I absolutely loved working with Professor Kleinrock. He

was 100 percent supportive of my work and helped me a great

deal,” remembered Harinarayan. “Under Professor Kleinrock’s

direction, I focused on the area of networking, and the Inter-

net is part of that, of course. I really enjoyed my time there and

met some great people, like Ben Horowitz.” (Horowitz was

profiled in the spring 2011 issue of UCLA Engineer.)

When asked what his secret to success is, Harinarayan said

he doesn’t have one. At no time in his life did he imagine being

where he is today and added that he is a terrible planner.

“If you want to be successful, you can’t think about being

successful. If I start to think I’m successful, then I cease to be

successful,” said Harinarayan. “You always want to be at a

point where you feel you’ve got to figure it out, or you feel you

need to solve something that would make people’s lives better.

You’ve got to have a focus, a passion in life.”

Venky Harinararyan

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William Yeh named to RichaRd G. newman aecom

endowed chaiR in civil enGineeRinG

facultY neWs

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assistant Professor Yvonne Y. chen

Ph.D. — California Institute of Technology

Yvonne Chen’s research interests center on the

engineering of synthetic biological systems with

modular, programmable functions for a wide

range of applications, particularly in health and

medicine. Her current research focuses on engi-

neering immune cells for targeted cancer therapy.

Prior to joining UCLA Engineering, Chen was

a research scientist at the Center for Immunity

and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children’s

Research Institute. She received her Ph.D. in

chemical engineering from the California In-

stitute of Technology. Chen will spend the next

two years as a Junior Fellow with the Harvard

University Society of Fellows before arriving at

the UCLA campus in the fall of 2013.

assistant Professor alexander a. sherstov

Ph.D. — The University of Texas at Austin

Alexander Sherstov’s research is in theoretical

computer science, with broad interests that include

complexity theory, computational learning, and

quantum computing.

Prior to joining UCLA Engineering, Sherstov was

a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research.

While he was a graduate student at the University of

Texas at Austin, Sherstov received four best student

paper awards at major international conferences on

theoretical computer science.

Sherstov was born and raised in the former Soviet

Union, in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. He

came to the United States in 2000 to attend Hope

College in Holland, Michigan, where he graduated

summa cum laude.

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photo: briana ticehurst, caltech eas communications office photo: courtesy a. sherstov.


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William Yeh named to RichaRd G. newman aecom

endowed chaiR in civil enGineeRinG

W illiam W-G. Yeh, UCLA distinguished professor

of civil and environmental engineering, has been

named the inaugural holder of the Richard G.

Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering.

The chair was made possible by a $1.5 million gift from

members of the executive team of AECOM, a global provider

of professional technical and management-support services.

“Bill is an outstanding scholar, teacher and a leader in his

field. I am pleased he will be the first holder of this chair,”

said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering. “I am also

tremendously grateful to AECOM for their generous sup-

port. This endowment will help Bill to continue his important

work as an educator and researcher in the important areas of

hydrology and water resources.”

Yeh pioneered the development of large-scale optimization

models that utilize systems analysis techniques to plan,

manage and operate several of the nation’s large water

resources systems.

Additionally, Yeh developed nonlinear inverse algorithms

for parameter identification in groundwater hydrology, and

his methodologies and algorithms for parameter estimation

have been widely adopted in groundwater modeling.

Yeh’s work has garnered many national and international

distinctions including election to the National Academy

of Engineering.

“I am deeply honored and humbled to be appointed as the

inaugural Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in

Civil Engineering,” Yeh said. “It is a distinct honor for me

to associate my name with such a distinguished individual

as Richard G. Newman. It is my intent to apply the endow-

ment effectively to enhance teaching, research and service

to UCLA, as well as to the greater community.”

The endowed chair was established in recognition of

Newman’s leadership and service to AECOM, where he

served as chairman for more than two decades, and CEO

until 2005. AECOM is one of the largest and most respected

firms of its kind. Since its launch as an independent company

in 1990, Newman led the firm’s worldwide expansion and

oversaw its transformation into a multifaceted corporation

that offers services ranging from financing, strategizing and

planning to procurement, design, construction management

and operations.


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YangYangBahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering,

has been named to UCLA’s Northrop Grumman

Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical

Engineering.

The chair highlights the school’s excellence in the area of

opto-electronics and photonics, including devices, circuits

and systems research. The application areas of opto-elec-

tronics and photonics include biotechnology, high-speed

optical networks, data communication and conversion,

and radar.

“Bahram is a leader in the field of photonic devices and

opto-electronic systems and is an exceptional educator and

scholar,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering.

“This chair will help Bahram to continue to make signifi-

cant contributions to an important area. I could think of no

one better suited to hold this chair.”

Jalali’s research focuses on silicon photonics, fiber optic

networks and biophotonics. In recent years, he has devel-

oped an ultrafast, light-sensitive video camera that captures

images at some 6 million frames per second and a bar code

reader that is a thousand times faster than any device cur-

rently in use. Jalali has published 300 scientific papers and

holds eight U.S. patents.

“I am sincerely humbled to have the privilege of being

named the Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair,”

Jalali said. “Northrop Grumman Corporation’s generosity

and support will boost our ability to better serve UCLA

students and local industry.”

Jalali is a fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America

and the American Physical Society. He was the recipient

of the 2007 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of

America for the invention and demonstration of the first

silicon laser. He serves on the board of the California

Science Center and the board of visitors of Columbia

University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and

Applied Science.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security

company providing innovative systems, products and

solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems

and technical services to government and commercial

customers worldwide.

This endowed chair was established through a $1.16

million gift.


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Bahram Jalali


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YangYang

Y ang Yang, professor of materials science and engi-

neering, has been named the holder of the Carol and

Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineer-

ing. This chair is the first in the world dedicated to the area

of electronic information displays.

The chair was established with a gift from Lawrence

E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61, an executive in the electronic

information display industry, and his wife, Carol.

Yang’s research focuses on conjugated polymers and

organics, polymer LEDs (light-emitting diodes), and related

polymer electronic, photonic and bio-devices. His work

with polymer solar cells has led to the creation of higher

quality, more affordable and energy-efficient materials for

use in consumer electronic devices such as flat-panel televi-

sions, plasma displays and cell phones, as well as electronic

information displays.

“In the last decade, Yang has made significant advance-

ments in the application of organic LEDs (OLEDs) to elec-

tronic displays. Further, his groundbreaking work in the

area of polymer solar cells has also achieved considerable

attention,” said Vijay K. Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering.

Last year, Yang was featured as one of 2010’s “hot”

scientists by Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch, and the

publication’s “Hot Papers” database categorized eight of

his recent reports as highly cited.

silicon laser. He serves on the board of the California

Science Center and the board of visitors of Columbia

University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and

Applied Science.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security

company providing innovative systems, products and

solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems

and technical services to government and commercial

customers worldwide.

This endowed chair was established through a $1.16

million gift.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/prof-jalali

“It is a tremendous honor to become the Carol and

Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair,” Yang said.

“I am particularly impressed by Mr. Tannas’ vision

and contributions to the area of electronic display

technology. I look forward to using this endowment

to enrich education here at UCLA Engineering, as

well as enhance research that will help create more

energy-efficient display technology.”

“It is gratifying to know that our gift will help

UCLA Engineering for many generations to come by

supporting the teaching and research activities of a

distinguished faculty member like Professor Yang,”

Lawrence Tannas said.

Tannas, who earned his bachelor’s degree in 1959

and master’s in 1961 from UCLA, is president of

Tannas Electronic Displays Inc., a company special-

izing in research, development and licensing of intellec-

tual property for preparing liquid crystal displays used

in avionics. As president of Tannas Electronics, he also

devotes his time to consulting, lecturing and research.

Tannas is considered one of the foremost experts on

electronic displays.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/prof-yyang


named to tannas endowed chair in engineering

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named to northrop grumman endowed opto-electronic chair in electrical engineering

Yang Yang


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school news IDEAS. DISCOVERIES. SOLUTIONS. LEGACY.

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Marjorie ’46 and Ralph ’50 Crump

Professor Emeritus William Van Vorst

T he UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering

and Applied Science has established the William D.

Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering, made

possible by a $2 million gift from UCLA alumni Ralph and

Marjorie Crump.

he taught here, and we could not be more pleased with the

significance of this chair.”

Van Vorst, now a professor emeritus, began teaching

at UCLA Engineering in 1946 and earned his Ph.D. from

the school in 1953. He spent much of his academic career

exploring the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel, and

his work resulted in the development of two vehicles fueled

by hydrogen.

“The establishment of a chair in my name was a won-

derful surprise,” Van Vorst said. “Clare [Van Vorst’s wife]

and I have been friends with the Crumps for 60 years, and

I remember being very fond of him as a student. Ralph has

donated to some great causes, and I am honored by this

recognition.”

Ralph Crump received his bachelor’s degree in engineer-

ing from UCLA in 1950, and Marjorie earned a bachelor’s

at UCLA in 1946. The couple was the driving force behind

the establishment of UCLA Engineering’s Crump Institute

of Medical Engineering in 1980, which has become the

Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging. A former San

Fernando Valley engineer, Ralph Crump is president of the

Crump Industrial Group. He has been granted numerous

patents and, with Marjorie, founded eight companies.

“I have maintained a relationship with Professor Van

Vorst since graduating in 1950,” Ralph Crump said. “It

is our hope that for generations to come, accomplished

scholars who regard teaching and student mentorship as

highly as Professor Van Vorst does will feel privileged by

this prestigious appointment.”

This is the fourth endowed chair funded by the Crumps

— three at UCLA and one at Dartmouth College.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/vanvorst-chair

By Matthew Chin

new endowed chair in ChemiCal engineering

The endowed chair, which the Crumps named in honor

of Van Vorst, a longtime professor at UCLA Engineering,

will support a highly accomplished scholar in chemical

engineering who has a proven track record of excellence in

teaching and student mentorship.

“Ralph and Marjorie Crump have been friends and

supporters of the school for many years, and we are

tremendously grateful for their generosity,” said Vijay K.

Dhir, dean of UCLA Engineering. “Professor Van Vorst

touched the lives of many of our students in the time that

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he taught here, and we could not be more pleased with the

significance of this chair.”

Van Vorst, now a professor emeritus, began teaching

at UCLA Engineering in 1946 and earned his Ph.D. from

the school in 1953. He spent much of his academic career

exploring the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel, and

his work resulted in the development of two vehicles fueled

by hydrogen.

“The establishment of a chair in my name was a won-

derful surprise,” Van Vorst said. “Clare [Van Vorst’s wife]

and I have been friends with the Crumps for 60 years, and

I remember being very fond of him as a student. Ralph has

donated to some great causes, and I am honored by this

recognition.”

Ralph Crump received his bachelor’s degree in engineer-

ing from UCLA in 1950, and Marjorie earned a bachelor’s

at UCLA in 1946. The couple was the driving force behind

the establishment of UCLA Engineering’s Crump Institute

of Medical Engineering in 1980, which has become the

Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging. A former San

Fernando Valley engineer, Ralph Crump is president of the

Crump Industrial Group. He has been granted numerous

patents and, with Marjorie, founded eight companies.

“I have maintained a relationship with Professor Van

Vorst since graduating in 1950,” Ralph Crump said. “It

is our hope that for generations to come, accomplished

scholars who regard teaching and student mentorship as

highly as Professor Van Vorst does will feel privileged by

this prestigious appointment.”

This is the fourth endowed chair funded by the Crumps

— three at UCLA and one at Dartmouth College.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/vanvorst-chair

New eNdowed Chair in ChemiCal engineering





1 Students graduating with school honors gather before commencement.

2 Students gathered on the IM field before heading into Drake Stadium. With UCLA Engineering’s traditional commencement location of Pauley Pavilion undergoing a massive improvement project, Drake was this year’s location.

3 and 4 New UCLA Engineering graduates celebrate with their friends.

5 Ph.D. graduates Foad Mashayekhi and Soojung Claire Hur with their advisors, bioengineering professors Daniel T. Kamei (L) and Dino Di Carlo (R).

6 The 2011 Commencement Speaker was Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chair-man of the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, Chairman and CEO of both the Institute for Advanced Health, and the Healthcare Transfor-mation Institute.

7 Associate Dean Rick Wesel with bioengineering graduate Shivani Dharmaraja, the 2010-11 Outstanding Bachelor of Science.

8 Chemical engineering graduate Helen Durand was the student speaker.

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6 The 2011 Commencement Speaker was Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chair-man of the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, Chairman and CEO of both the Institute for Advanced Health, and the Healthcare Transfor-mation Institute.

7 Associate Dean Rick Wesel with bioengineering graduate Shivani Dharmaraja, the 2010-11 Outstanding Bachelor of Science.

8 Chemical engineering graduate Helen Durand was the student speaker.

1 All Senior Dinner attendees gather for a large group photo on the Patio of Covel Commons.

2 Carlos Ramirez, Juan Hernandez and Romulo Magallanes

3 Ho Tung, Matthew Pinchak and Monica Kracy

4 Dana Plutchak, Anisha Keshavan, Anna Hoang, Jillian Cross, Breanna Marcink and Christina Wong

5 On behalf of the school, Dean Vijay K. Dhir accepted the 2011 Senior Gift from campaign committee members Isaac Abayahoudaeian, Marie Gonzalez, Attic Weng, Brandon Buccowich and James Shieh.

6 ESUC officer Jennifer Wang presented the Student Group of the Year to IEEE, whose president, Jeannie Chen, accepted the award for the club.

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UCLA Engineering scholarships and graduate fellowships play a vital role in removing financial barriers to an engineering degree, while at the same time rewarding the best and brightest students. This past academic year, 157 undergraduates were awarded scholarships, and 45 graduate students were awarded fellowships. These could not be possible without the generosity and vision of the school’s supporters. At annual brunches, students and supporters get a chance to meet each other.

1 Dean Vijay K. Dhir (center) with seven graduate students who received a Dean’s Fellowship.

2 Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80 (fourth from left) with eight graduate students who received a Samueli Graduate Fellowship.

3 Chih-Ming Ho, Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Professor, with a few undergraduate scholarship recipients.

4 Raj and Sumermal Vardhan (center) with four students who received scholarships that they endowed, Thomas Marcil, Brandon Lanthier, Jack Megorden and Christina Fries.

5 Betty Knesel (center), along with six student recipients of the scholarship she endowed, Brett Beekley, Jeffery Hick, Joseph Schlies, Erica Chen, Sherry Hanson and Nicholas Wane, along with Professor and Materials Science and Engineering Department Chair Jenn-Ming Yang (L) and Professor King-Ning Tu (R).

6 Dean Dhir with seven undergraduates who received Boeing scholarships, Melissa Erickson, Tanuj Thapliyal, Wesley Tamanaha, Ashley Jin, Angela Gutierrez, Michael Wagner and Adita Chandramohan.

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scholarship and Fellowship BRUNCHES


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1 The high school students presented their posters in the lobby of the california NanoSystems Institute building.

2 Students Joshua cho and Justine Figuerres present their research on microfluidic systems.

3 Students applaud during the awards ceremony.

4 The entire group gathers for a photo.

5 Students Jimmy Vo and Elena Stroud presented their research project which used the Xbox Kinect to control a robot arm.

SummEr ReseaRch Program

2011 U CLA Engineering’s 2011 High School Summer Research Program brought a new

record of 54 students to campus.

The program is geared towards introducing high school students to the vast field of

engineering. They conduct their research in UCLA Engi-

neering labs under the guidance of faculty and graduate

student mentors. At the end of the eight-week program, the

students present their work at a poster session, with family,

friends, fellow students, faculty and staff in attendance.

The program is supported by the Nicholas Endowment,

the Samueli Foundation and Lockheed Martin.

More information is available online at:

http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/high-school/high-

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UndergradUates present research on

a lumni of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engi-

neering and Applied Science have been leaders and

contributors to the aerospace industry for many

years, and part of the reason for this success are classes that

challenge students to apply their knowledge and imagina-

tion in comprehensive projects.

One example is Introduction to Space Technology, a

course students know as MAE (Mechanical and Aerospace

Engineering) 161B. The course introduces key elements

of successful space missions, covering space systems and

space system technology.

“I always thought space travel was cool, and it was fun

to learn how to plan trajectories to other planets,” said

Anisha Keshavan, a graduating senior majoring in aero-

space engineering and applied mathematics who took the

class in winter quarter. “I mean, who doesn’t wish we

could travel to the Mars one day?”

The Winter Quarter 2011 class was taught by Profes-

sor Richard Wirz whose research includes advanced space

propulsion systems. The final exam required students to

design a spacecraft for a mission of their own choosing.

This included providing details for the necessary technolo-

gies for seven spacecraft systems. Also, they needed to

select the appropriate rocket to launch their spacecraft,

calculate the time to the target and the duration of the mis-

sion, supply potential supplementary objectives, take into

account the specific atmospheres and gravitational effects

of different planets and moons, as well as a whole host of

variables specific to the mission they chose.

“I was impressed with their curiosity and ability to as-

similate several seemingly unrelated topics and make sense

of how they are related and work together to make the

mission a success,” Wirz said.

Mission ideas for the students’ final projects in-

cluded planet and moon landing vehicles; intra-solar

system communication satellites; earth-orbiting satel-

lites that would clean up space junk; and spacecraft

targeted for the outermost reaches of the Solar System,

just to name a few.

Matthew Chin

stUdent news

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all systems go: space technology course launches students into space careers

Keshavan designed a spacecraft to observe the

sun directly opposite the Earth at what’s known

as Lagrange point L3. Her design, similar to the

European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,

included a Doppler-sensitive photometer, a photo-

metric imager and an ultraviolet spectrograph.

The complete story is available online at:

www.engineer.ucla.edu/space-tech-class

A student explained his project during final presentations.


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UndergradUates present research on

a duo of UCLA electrical engineering seniors were

one of only 60 student groups nationwide to

participate in the prestigious Posters on the Hill

program, held by the Council on Undergraduate Research.

The organization promotes high-quality undergraduate

student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship

and counts more than 900 college and universities as

its members.

For the past two years, Carlo Paredes and Neal Shah

have been conducting microfluidic research under the

guidance of electrical engineering assistant professor

Robert N. Candler. The group has developed customizable

components to make the transfer of fluids to lab-on-a-

chip devices much easier, more consistent, as well as

less expensive.

The two students and Candler were given an opportu-

nity to travel to Washington, D.C. to present their poster.

Their tour included stops at a few offices of the California

congressional delegation.

“It was great speaking to people who were genuinely

interested in our research,” Paredes said. “To be more

specific, my favorite part was fielding questions about the

device and subsequently hearing an, ‘Oh, that’s cool,’ fol-

lowed by a look of interest.”

Shah and Paredes were also the only engineering stu-

dents from the University of California system to attend

the program. They first became interested in undergradu-

ate research opportunities in their sophomore year through

Candler’s regular coffee hours for students. Candler

wanted to develop an inexpensive, yet durable and custom-

Mission ideas for the students’ final projects in-

cluded planet and moon landing vehicles; intra-solar

system communication satellites; earth-orbiting satel-

lites that would clean up space junk; and spacecraft

targeted for the outermost reaches of the Solar System,

just to name a few.

izable fluid interface for lab-on-a-chip devices, which

can conduct lab tests on thumbnail-sized platforms.

However getting the sample fluids onto the devices can

be difficult and expensive. Their new type of device

solved this by acting as a very precise intermediary

between a syringe carrying the fluid and the lab-on-a-

chip device that will analyze the sample.

“We envision these microfluidic interconnects being

used in resource-limited settings, such as developing

nations and military outposts, where access to medical

equipment and even trained medical professionals may

be severely limited,” Candler said.

Paredes performed the design and fabrication of the

prototypes, Shah designed and executed testing.

Eventually, these devices could be produced on site

as needed at medical facilities, as 3-D printing technol-

ogy becomes more ubiquitous, Candler said.


http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/capitol-hill-students

Matthew Chin

capitol Hill

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space tecHnology course launcHes students into space careers

Keshavan designed a spacecraft to observe the

sun directly opposite the Earth at what’s known

as Lagrange point L3. Her design, similar to the

European Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,

included a Doppler-sensitive photometer, a photo-

metric imager and an ultraviolet spectrograph.


www.engineer.ucla.edu/space-tech-class

A student explained his project during final presentations.

Neil Shah, Professor Robert Candler and Carlos Paredes on Captiol Hill.


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A new capstone design sequence for all graduating

mechanical engineering (ME) seniors was unveiled

last winter quarter by the Mechanical and Aerospace

Engineering Department. The two-term sequence was created

to provide students with a better design experience.

In the first quarter, students are given the tools they need

to perform the design project (software and hardware)

and in the second quarter, they focus on finalizing their

design, then building and testing it. The class of 100

worked together in smaller teams.

Professor Adrienne Lavine, then chair of the depart-

ment, challenged a group of faculty to revise the capstone

sequence while at the same time reduce costs.

Leading the charge for this new sequence (162 D/E)

was Professor Daniel Yang, who also teaches the course

with two other faculty, Professors T-C. Tsao and Robert

Shahram Shaefer. Instruction for the first term focused on

conceptual design including mechanical component design

and mechatronics to thermo design and mechanical system

design. Lab work included CAD (computer-aided design),

CAD analysis, mechatronics and conceptual design for

individual projects.

“Industry today is very interested in students who’ve

taken hands-on design courses like this one,” said Yang.

“For four years, students at the school learn a great deal

about theory. They need to use what they’ve learned and

apply it to this design sequence. These two courses are

very practical and provide the necessary hands-on learn-

ing experience. The sequence also encourages teamwork

in design, in presentations as well as in competition.”

“We definitely learned the value and importance of

time management and teamwork in all conditions, espe-

cially under stress,” said student Jessica Chu. “Working

with a group and developing an understanding of how

to attack a given task were definitely two skills we honed

that will be required for industry success.”

The project for this year was to design and build an

autonomous vehicle for the transportation of bulk mate-

rial: a robot rice rover. There were a few requirements

too. The rover not only needed to follow a pre-designed

pathway but it had to be able to dump a payload of rice

into a collection bin at the end of the path.

“What I enjoyed most about this sequence,” stated

senior Seok-Joon Hong, “was the interaction between

team members. This type of project let me communicate

ideas and improve concepts that would have been impos-

sible by myself. The team experience was invaluable to

me as someone looking to go into industry.”


www.engineer.ucla.edu/ME162


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builds cAmArAderie And competition

MecHanical engineering sequence

Mechanical engineering seniors showing off their robot rice rover.

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Southern California imports between 80 to 90 percent

of its water from outside the metropolitan region.

And much of it comes from the Sierra Nevada.

So to learn right at the source, UCLA students in the

Civil and Environmental Engineering 157M hydrology

of mountain watersheds class took a five-day field trip to

Sagehen Creek Field Research Station, eight miles north

of Truckee, California.

“We depend heavily on the yearly snowpack in the

Sierra Mountains which melts and flows into California

reservoirs in the spring,” said Terri S. Hogue, a UCLA

associate professor of civil and environmental engineering

who teaches the class. “Understanding the amount and

distribution of the snowpack, as well as the water content

in the snow, or snow water equivalent, is critical for ac-

curate spring forecasts of water supply for the state. Urban,

agricultural and recreational users depend on these water

supply forecasts for planning and management of this criti-

cal resource.”

The advanced class focuses on the study of catchment

processes in snow-dominated and mountainous regions.

Students measure and quantify snowpack properties,

watershed fluxes, investigate geochemical properties of sur-

face and groundwater systems, classify mountain streams

and evaluate flooding potential.

The field trip to Sagehen has been a part of the class

since Hogue started teaching it in 2006. The trip’s goals

are to understand snow-dominated watershed processes,

familiarize students with the observational data and uncer-

tainties in hydrologic design, and utilize a range of equip-

ment to gather that data. Students also connect to where

much of Southern California’s water comes from.

This year, California had a big year for snow, with the

statewide snowpack at 144 percent above average. The class

of 32 students faced tough late winter conditions, despite the

late April stay at the mountain research station.

apply it to this design sequence. These two courses are

very practical and provide the necessary hands-on learn-

ing experience. The sequence also encourages teamwork

in design, in presentations as well as in competition.”

“We definitely learned the value and importance of

time management and teamwork in all conditions, espe-

cially under stress,” said student Jessica Chu. “Working

with a group and developing an understanding of how

to attack a given task were definitely two skills we honed

that will be required for industry success.”

The project for this year was to design and build an

autonomous vehicle for the transportation of bulk mate-

rial: a robot rice rover. There were a few requirements

too. The rover not only needed to follow a pre-designed

pathway but it had to be able to dump a payload of rice

into a collection bin at the end of the path.

“What I enjoyed most about this sequence,” stated

senior Seok-Joon Hong, “was the interaction between

team members. This type of project let me communicate

ideas and improve concepts that would have been impos-

sible by myself. The team experience was invaluable to

me as someone looking to go into industry.”


www.engineer.ucla.edu/ME162

“It was gorgeous, but it definitely made the process

more difficult,” said Carolyn Chou, who graduated in

June and is now studying hydrology at Princeton Univer-

sity. “Hiking in fresh snow every day was slower than

Matthew Chin

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buildS camaraderie and competition

MecHanical engineering sequence

Snow dayS:

if we were hiking on hard pack, and taking measure-

ments in freezing conditions was definitely more

difficult than if temperatures had been warmer.”

Hogue and the graduate teaching assistants made

adjustments to the planned measurements depend-

ing on the conditions. For these UCLA students, this

course could be the first step in a career in water

resources engineering, a field where there is a large

variety of opportunities.

The complete story, with video, is available online

at: http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/hydrology-class

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alumni news

uCLA recently honored Vinton Cerf, vice president

and chief Internet evangelist for Google Inc., as its

Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year.

The Dickson Alumnus of the Year award, UCLA’s oldest

and highest alumni tribute, is given to someone who has

rendered a special and outstanding service to UCLA or

who, by personal achievement, has brought great honor

and distinction to the university.

Cerf, widely known as one of the “fathers of the Inter-

net,” co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architec-

ture of the Internet. In addition, as vice president of MCI

Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986, he led the

engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email ser-

vice to be connected to the Internet. In 1994, he rejoined

MCI as senior vice president of technology strategy. He is

currently working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

on the interplanetary Internet to communicate from planet

to planet.

As chief Internet evangelist of Google, Cerf is respon-

sible for identifying enabling technologies and applications

to support the development of advanced Internet-based

products and services.

Cerf was chairman of the board of the Internet Cor-

poration for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN);

founding president and a member of the Internet Society;

a member of the board of advisors of Scientists and Engi-

neers for America; and member of the board of trustees

of Gallaudet University, serving the deaf and hard of

hearing.

Among his many awards, Cerf received the Presidential

Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed

in the U.S., for work that has “transformed global com-

merce, communication and entertainment.” Cerf earned

his bachelor’s degree at Stanford.

Vinton Cerf ms ’70, PhD ’72UCLA EdwArd A. diCkson ALUmnUs of thE YEAr:

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founding president and a member of the Internet Society;

a member of the board of advisors of Scientists and Engi-

neers for America; and member of the board of trustees

of Gallaudet University, serving the deaf and hard of

hearing.

Among his many awards, Cerf received the Presidential

Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed

in the U.S., for work that has “transformed global com-

merce, communication and entertainment.” Cerf earned

his bachelor’s degree at Stanford.

Vinton Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72

You’ve had some great experience with starting your own company. i imagine it’s very hard work to get established. For students just starting off and hoping to take the start-up route, what are some things they should keep in mind?It’s very important to keep an open mind about your

business and not to get too attached to any single idea.

Good ideas will come at you a couple times a week, but

executing on any idea well takes an enormous amount of

discipline. At Applied Semantics, we pivoted about four

times in one year before we finally reached a business idea

that could generate any significant revenue. Be nimble and

act quickly and decisively in your pursuit of the customer.

Though starting a company presents a lot of risks and unknowns, what makes the challenge exciting to you?We live in a very exciting time because the capital required

to start a business is much less than it was just ten years

ago, and significantly less than it required twenty years

ago (inflation adjusted, of course). All you really need is

an idea, some code, a shared server, and some bandwidth,

and your can start distributing your application or Web site to

millions of users. This great opportunity is what also increases

the risks associated with what many intuitively view is stable.

For example, Netflix destroyed Blockbuster in a matter of a

few years because this economy allows for more disruption.

Corporate jobs at Blockbuster felt stable at one point, but in

reality, the new opportunities made these jobs much more

risky. Challenging the norm, and disrupting industries is fun

and has the potential to bring you more stability.

What was the hardest part about starting your own company? The hardest part for me was the emotional toll the roller

coaster ride took. Your own company is not just a job; it con-

sumes your whole life. We were less than a month away from

running out of money three separate times. We had to lay off

a few of my friends, including a close classmate from UCLA.

We had to deal with lawsuits. When I was 23, and working for

a 10,000 person company, I didn’t lose sleep when we had sev-

eral unprofitable quarters. That all changes when everything

and everybody is depending on you and your partners.

Eytan Elbaz ’95: CarVing one’S own PathEytan Elbaz is a founding member of applied Semantics, the company that created adSense. In 2003, the startup

was sold to Google for $102 million and contributed technology towards Google adSense. For the next five years,

Elbaz stayed on at Google as head of Domain channel, increasing its revenues to more than $600 million annually.

Recently, Elbaz returned to the startup world, raising angel funding from companies like Windsor Media, lerer

Ventures, and techStars, to put towards a his latest endeavor, a new company called Scopely. In parallel with

his technical career, Elbaz also enjoys producing short films and comedy sketches. Elbaz lives in los angeles and

graduated from ucla with a bachelor’s in computer Science and Engineering in 1995.

CarEEr Column

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1950sZalman Philip Saperstein ’54, MS ’62 is the author of A

Drinkers Guide to Pure Water—Is Your Water Safe?,

published in 2006, which explores water safety and

recent scientific findings. Saperstein is also the author

of When Intelligence and Love Ruled the World—The

Transformation, published in 2010.

1960sJack K. Holmes ’60, MS ’63, PhD ’67 is the recipient of the

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Aerospace Communications award for 2011. The award

for outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace

communications will be presented to Holmes in Nara,

Japan in December 2011.

William Vietinghoff MS ’62 has been hired by the Boeing

Company as a visitor consultant to lead bus tours

conducted monthly at the Boeing Santa Susana Field

Laboratory in coordination with NASA and the DOE.

The facility was originally established by North Ameri-

can Aviation in the 1950s. Until its closure in 2006, the

Field Laboratory was the primary location in America

for rocket engine development. At one of the bus stops,

Vietinghoff provides a description of the challenges,

problems and successes encountered during rocket en-

gine test firing in the early days with only slide rules and

limited technical predictability.

Ken Bondy ’63, MS ’64 was elected to honorary member-

ship in the Structural Engineers Association of Southern

California (SEAOSC) in June 2011.

Wayne Stone ’65, MS ’67, MPH ’74, DEnv ’78 has been work-

ing for Grontmij | Carl Bro Vietnam in their Hanoi

office for the last 10 years. Grontmij | Carl Bro is an

international engineering consulting firm based in both

the Netherlands and Denmark. Stone’s responsibilities

have included working with Vietnamese government

officials to improve environmental protection measures

in both industrial and urban development plans. More

recently, he has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of

Construction and Ministry of Health to develop response

plans to climate change and sea level rise.

Don Brown ’66 is continuing his post-retirement high-

school teaching career. He has accepted a mathematics

teaching position for the 2011-2012 school year at Trin-

ity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida. He and his

wife, Cathy, will be relocating from Virginia to Florida.

Garen Staglin ’66 has teamed up with former U.S. Rep-

resentative Patrick Kennedy to co-chair the One Mind

Campaign. The Campaign unites all brain disorders from

autism to Alzheimer’s in terms of advocacy and has de-

veloped a 10-year neuroscience roadmap to develop cures

for all of these disorders. The plan has been endorsed by

the National Institutes of Health, the Society for Neuro-

science, and the ANCP, as well many other institutions.

The campaign was launched on May 25 at the JFK Li-

brary with an endorsement speech by Vice President Joe

Biden. UCLA will be the host of the first annual report

on the progress of the campaign on May 24 – 25, 2012.

See the story by CNN at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/

HEALTH/05/20/staglin.kennedy.brain.moonshot.

More news and updates can be found at

www.1mind4research.org

Robert Barker ’68, MBA ’70 retired in January 2010 after 16

years at Micrel Semiconductor having served as both

Vice President of Finance & CFO and Vice President

of Corporate Business Development. He was appointed

to the board of directors and audit committee at GCT

Semiconductor in April 2011. GCT provides RF products

for the 4G, LTE and WiMAX markets.

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the Netherlands and Denmark. Stone’s responsibilities

have included working with Vietnamese government

officials to improve environmental protection measures

in both industrial and urban development plans. More

recently, he has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of

Construction and Ministry of Health to develop response

plans to climate change and sea level rise.

Don Brown ’66 is continuing his post-retirement high-

school teaching career. He has accepted a mathematics

teaching position for the 2011-2012 school year at Trin-

ity Catholic High School in Ocala, Florida. He and his

wife, Cathy, will be relocating from Virginia to Florida.

Garen Staglin ’66 has teamed up with former U.S. Rep-

resentative Patrick Kennedy to co-chair the One Mind

Campaign. The Campaign unites all brain disorders from

autism to Alzheimer’s in terms of advocacy and has de-

veloped a 10-year neuroscience roadmap to develop cures

for all of these disorders. The plan has been endorsed by

the National Institutes of Health, the Society for Neuro-

science, and the ANCP, as well many other institutions.

The campaign was launched on May 25 at the JFK Li-

brary with an endorsement speech by Vice President Joe

Biden. UCLA will be the host of the first annual report

on the progress of the campaign on May 24 – 25, 2012.

See the story by CNN at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/

HEALTH/05/20/staglin.kennedy.brain.moonshot.

More news and updates can be found at

www.1mind4research.org

Robert Barker ’68, MBa ’70 retired in January 2010 after 16

years at Micrel Semiconductor having served as both

Vice President of Finance & CFO and Vice President

of Corporate Business Development. He was appointed

to the board of directors and audit committee at GCT

Semiconductor in April 2011. GCT provides RF products

for the 4G, LTE and WiMAX markets.

Tom Holtom P.E. (Harold Thomas Holtom) ’68 recently joined GSF

Enterprises, Inc., as senior project manager. In this role,

Holtom oversees all private and public projects from San

Diego to Central California. Previously, Holtom was

principal construction manager of Themed Specialty

Construction for Walt Disney Imagineering on the $1.4

billion Disneyland Resort expansion, the project director

of the THEA Award winning Caesar’s Magical Empire

at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, and Project Executive for

the Architectural Interiors of the Forum Shops at Caesar’s.

Holtom is married and lives in Newport Beach, Calif.

Tom corbett ’69, and co-founding partner Thom Butler,

recently unveiled plans for their Sonoma County-based

startup, Barrier Free Adventures. The start up company

is focused on social media and smartphone services for

travelers with disabilities and looks to partner with both

local and international businesses in order to provide

significant information and assistance for travelers with

disabilities worldwide. Corbett, who serves as CEO of the

new venture, has previously served on the boards of two

companies developing Braille keyboards and mouse prod-

ucts for the blind. More recently, Corbett was a partner

in a non-profit production company (cfct.org), producing

and hosting Internet TV programs, and educational and

informational videos.

Michael V. Frank ’69, PhD ’78 is currently director of engineer-

ing at Washington Closure Hanford (a URS LLC). He will

take the position of risk manager for Nuclear Management

Partners (also a URS LLC) at the Sellafield Sites in the

United Kingdom. Sellafield Ltd is the company respon-

sible for safely delivering, decommissioning, reprocessing,

nuclear waste management, and fuel manufacturing activi-

ties on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Now under the ownership of Nuclear Management Part-

ners, Sellafield Ltd has the largest concentration of nuclear

expertise in Europe, with over 50 years of experience. The

Sellafield site is home to over one thousand nuclear facili-

ties including the Magnox and Thorp reprocessing plants,

the Sellafield Mixed Oxide plant and a range of nuclear

waste treatment facilities.

1970sWilliam R. Goodin MS ‘71 PhD ‘75, MEngr ‘82, director of UCLA

Extension’s Technical Management Program, has received

the 2010 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award from the

Society of Women Engineers (SWE). The award celebrates

the work of a man or company who has made a signifi-

cant contribution to the acceptance and advancement of

women in engineering. Goodin also received Tau Beta

Pi’s McDonald Mentor award. The award was created to

celebrate excellence in mentoring and advising among the

engineering honor society’s educators and engineers who

have consistently supported the personal and professional

development of their students and colleagues.

Sadegh Radjai ’72, MS ’75 is vice president of advertising

and marketing, at Hamshahri, a daily newspaper, in

Tehran, Iran.

Nik Djordjevic ’75, MS ’78 is the manager of Aerodynamics,

Fluid Mechanics and Performance Group at Lockheed

Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif. He

is also an adjunct faculty member in the Mechanical and

Aerospace Engineering Department’s graduate program at

the San Jose State University College of Engineering, and

an associate faculty member in the Engineering Depart-

ment at West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif.

armando Benavides MS ’77 is currently employed by Boeing

Satellite Systems and recently received two patents – “Sys-

tem and Method for Compensating for Temperature Effects

on GPS Transponders System” and “Method for Determin-

ing the Beam Center Location of an Antenna.”

1980sJane (Gienger) Kucera ’84 is working as editor on a second

book titled, Desalination: Water from Water, which

discusses twelve desalination techniques/technologies and

future prospects with authors from around the globe. This

book is to be published through Scrivener Publishing and

John Wiley in late 2012. Kucera was also invited to address

the annual American Electric Power (AEP) convention on

the topic of normalization of reverse osmosis data, and is

also conducting a workshop at the 2011 International

Water Conference titled, “Reverse Osmosis: Back to Basics.”


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James P. Blanchard ’83, MS ’84, PhD ’88 has recently been

appointed as the chair of the Department of Nuclear

Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His

research interests include radiation damage in fission and

fusion environments, fusion reactor design, laser-induced

stresses, and nuclear microbatteries. Blanchard is a for-

mer student of UCLA mechanical and aerospace engineer-

ing professor Nasr Ghoniem.

Stephen D. Heister PhD ’88 has been appointed as the Rais-

beck Engineering Distinguished Professor for Engineer-

ing and Technology Integration at Purdue University.

Heister, a former student of UCLA mechanical and

aerospace engineering professor Ann Karagozian,

has been at Purdue’s School of Aeronautics and

Astronautics since 1990. He is currently the director

of the Maurice Zucrow Laboratories.

1990sMarshall Davert MS ’92, PhD ’93 was announced as AECOM’s

executive vice president, responsible for the Water in

Americas business line. In this role, Davert oversees the

performance, strategic direction and growth of AECOM’s

water business in all areas, including water, wastewater,

water resources and community infrastructure in

the Americas.

Robert Hulvey MS ’93 was recently elected a Distinguished

Engineer at Broadcom Corporation. Hulvey holds the po-

sition of Associate Technical Director and has been with

the company for 11 years in the Bluetooth business group.

Jennifer (Eyre) White ’94, MS ’97 recently leveraged her exten-

sive background in napping (much of which was accrued

during her engineering studies) to publish a humorous gift

book, The Practical Napper: Tips, Facts, and Quotes for

the Avidly Recumbent, published by Andrews McMeel

in June 2011. She works as a freelance engineering writer

and lives in Northern California with her husband, Ken-

nard White, and three kids.

David Crawford ’95 was recently presented

with the prestigious Walt Disney Legacy

Award meant to acknowledge individuals

that consistently support the goals of the

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Segment.

Crawford is the Director of Creative

Development at Walt Disney Imagineering

R&D and is responsible for developing the next genera-

tion of ride systems for Disney theme parks. He has more

than 40 utility patents or pending applications.

Michael Allen Jensen PhD ’94 commenced his tenure as the

editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on An-

tennas and Propagation in August 2010. This peer-re-

viewed journal ranks 2nd among IEEE journals in terms

of number of downloads. Jensen is currently professor

and department chair of the Electrical and Computer

Engineering Department at Brigham Young University.

He has founded/co-founded three companies and actively

serves on IEEE editorial boards and conference commit-

tees. In 2008, Jensen was elevated to IEEE Fellow for con-

tributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices

and multi-antenna wireless communications systems.

Rob Sherwood MS ’95 joined the executive

team as program manager of a new

start-up company called Moon Express.

Sherwood will be leading the technical

team of Moon Express as they build

the first privately funded robotic lunar

lander. The team is competing for the

$30 million Google Lunar X Prize and has already won

a $10 million NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations

Data (ILDD) award. The long term goal of Moon Express

is mining of platinum group metals on the Moon for use

in fuel cells on Earth.

Jeffrey A. Goldman MS ’97, PhD ’98

is founder and president of

GoldBot Consulting, Inc. which

recently celebrated their 3rd year

in business with a sponsored tent

at the Virginia Gold Cup.

Together with two other consulting companies, they

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David crawford ’95 was recently presented

with the prestigious Walt Disney Legacy

Award meant to acknowledge individuals

that consistently support the goals of the

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Segment.

Crawford is the Director of Creative

Development at Walt Disney Imagineering

R&D and is responsible for developing the next genera-

tion of ride systems for Disney theme parks. He has more

than 40 utility patents or pending applications.

Michael allen Jensen PhD ’94 commenced his tenure as the

editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on An-

tennas and Propagation in August 2010. This peer-re-

viewed journal ranks 2nd among IEEE journals in terms

of number of downloads. Jensen is currently professor

and department chair of the Electrical and Computer

Engineering Department at Brigham Young University.

He has founded/co-founded three companies and actively

serves on IEEE editorial boards and conference commit-

tees. In 2008, Jensen was elevated to IEEE Fellow for con-

tributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices

and multi-antenna wireless communications systems.

Rob Sherwood MS ’95 joined the executive

team as program manager of a new

start-up company called Moon Express.

Sherwood will be leading the technical

team of Moon Express as they build

the first privately funded robotic lunar

lander. The team is competing for the

$30 million Google Lunar X Prize and has already won

a $10 million NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations

Data (ILDD) award. The long term goal of Moon Express

is mining of platinum group metals on the Moon for use

in fuel cells on Earth.

Jeffrey a. Goldman MS ’97, PhD ’98

is founder and president of

GoldBot Consulting, Inc. which

recently celebrated their 3rd year

in business with a sponsored tent

at the Virginia Gold Cup.

Together with two other consulting companies, they

i understand you have a new start-up called Scopely… what qualities do you look for in your work force? Beyond technical skills, what characteristics are important?The two most important characteristics I look for are moti-

vation and intelligence. I actually don’t consider experience

to be too important. A hardworking, smart person can

figure out any non-specialized job in any industry in just a

few months. Team building is fun. You are putting together

your family for the next three or four years.

i have read that you have a passion for film making… For those thinking of making a transition outside of engineer-ing, what advice would you give them? Does the engineer-ing degree or do engineering skills translate well to other types of careers?Film making is a fun hobby for me. Actually, making films

taught me something important about being an engineer,

and that is, I actually like being a technical person working

on technical problems. As I ventured into the films,

it reminded me why I went into technology in the

first place. From my point of view, it’s the most

fascinating field, where all the most exciting innovation

is happening.

Considering your education and experience at UCLA Engineering, how do you think it’s contributed to your success? What about the things you’ve learned here has stayed with you in your career?At college, I learned that you need to carve your own

path, recognize your unique opportunities, and take

advantage of whatever tools and resources you can find.

The degree is the minimum requirement; everything else

that you figure out along the way is what will get you

far. Learn to work well with others. As far as course-

work, databases and statistics are things I still use today.

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raised over $600 for the Paralyzed Veterans of America

charity. GoldBot builds innovative custom geospatial

data mining software and other analytic solutions for

their customers.

Julian Hsu ’97 (Japanese), MS ’00, MBA ’08 joined Google in

Irvine in April 2011. He and his wife Vanessa (UCLA) ’97

are expecting their fourth child, a son, in November 2011.

Brett Poirier ’97 received an MS in Astronautical Engineer-

ing from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,

Calif., in September 2011, and was one of a handful of

graduating civilian students.

Mikhail Tsirlin ’98, MS ’00 is now a senior staff systems

engineer/scientist at Northrop Grumman Corpora-

tion. His daughter Rosalie Tsirlin, future Bruin

Class of 2030, was born in September 2008.

2000sLourdes V. Abellera MS ’01, PhD ’05 recently joined the edito-

rial board of the journal Environmental Monitoring

and Assessment. The journal, published by Springer, is

circulated internationally and provides articles in the ap-

plication of monitoring data to evaluate risks to humans

and the environment.

Ryan Shier ’02 is the founder of Bubble Imagineering

Inc., an engineering consultation/contracting

company that strives for inspiration, innovation,

invention and imagination.

Aviva Presser Aiden ’03 and her family celebrated the first

birthday of their son Gabriel Galileo Aiden in June.

Damien Stolarz ‘03 recently passed the Patent Bar and is

now registered to practice in patent cases before the

United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Andreas Savvides PhD ’03, the Barton L. Weller Associated

Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer

Science departments at Yale, and his wife, Alycia, are

glad to announce a new family addition, Katerina-Anna

Savvides, who was born on May 27, 2011. Savvides also

started a company, Seldera LLC, to develop intelligent

sensing solutions for a sustainable future. This company

will commercialize research from Yale in behavior interpre-

tation and energy efficiency using wireless sensors.

Joseph Hsiung ’05, MS ’06 and his wife Fiona ’05

welcomed the birth of their son, Daniel J.

Hsiung in February.

Joseph Vardner ’06 graduated from Harvard Law School cum

laude and begins work in the fall for the Department of

Justice’s Antitrust Division in Washington, DC.

Tim Canan ’07 received an M.D. from the David Geffen

School of Medicine at UCLA in June and started his

internal medicine residency at the Ronald Reagan UCLA

Medical Center. He is proud to be in his 10th consecutive

year as a Bruin!

Carin (Siegerman) Folman PhD ’07 and her husband, Bill, wel-

comed the birth of their son Noah on April 8, 2011.

Philip Kao ’07 recently volunteered to work

with water treatment systems in rural

villages of Taiwan, China and Ecuador

for nine months. He implemented the first

water treatment system in the rural village

of Estero de Platano, Ecuador. This water

system facility now provides the safest and

most affordable water to the village when compared with

all the vendors available. Prior to this, Kao worked for

Accenture, a global IT consulting firm for three years. He

is now married to a fellow Bruin, Ruth Chiang ’05 (Psychology),

who is a first year resident for a pediatrician hospital.

They are happily living in the historic district of Orange

in Southern California. Kao’s blog can be found here:

http://hydrophilicmission.blogspot.com/

Jammie Peng ’09 recently graduated from Stanford University

with an MS in materials science and engineering. She

is currently working as a Software QA Engineer at

Lab126, creator of the Amazon Kindle, and part of the

Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies.


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In MeMorIaM:

Paul Baran MS ’59 laid the foundation for the internet

Paul Baran MS ’59, a distinguished engineer,

inventor and entrepreneur whose best-known

invention of packet-switching laid the technologi-

cal foundation for the Internet, died at the age of

84 earlier this year.

Baran received his bachelor’s degree in electri-

cal engineering from Drexel university in 1949, and his master’s de-

gree in engineering from ucla in 1959 while also working at Hughes

aircraft company.

Following his move to the ranD corporation in the early 1960s,

Baran developed the concept of dividing information into “message

blocks” before sending them out across a network. each block would

be sent separately, then rejoined into a whole at their destination.

This concept was first developed during the cold War for keeping u.S.

telecommunications infrastructure intact following a “first strike.”

Baran left ranD in 1968 and co-founded the Institute for the

Future, a not-for-profit research group specializing in long range

forecasting. He was also a prolific inventor, creating several new

technologies. In all, he founded seven start-up companies, five of

which went public.

Baran received much recognition and many honors for his ac-

complishments, including the national Medal of Technology and

Innovation in 2008, election to the national Inventors Hall of Fame in

2007, and election to the national academy of engineering in 1996.

In 2009, the ucla Henry Samueli School of engineering and applied

Science presented Baran with the alumnus of the Year award, the

school’s highest honor.

“Paul was one of ucla engineering’s most accomplished and influ-

ential alumni,” said Dean Vijay K. Dhir. “He was a brilliant engineer,

whose technical vision and detailed concepts on packet switching

left a great legacy. and though he was well-deserving of the many,

many honors he received, Paul was always modest, humble and a role

model for engineering excellence.”

Do you have news to share? If so, please e-mail us: [email protected].

2010sTiffany Tsao ’10 was recently promoted at NET-

GEAR, Inc. Also, Tsao holds a position on

the boards of directors for the Silicon Valley

Engineering Society and in the North American

Taiwanese Engineering & Science Association.

Tsao has also been the secretary for the Society

of Women Engineers in the Santa Clara Valley

section for the past two years.

Savvides, who was born on May 27, 2011. Savvides also

started a company, Seldera LLC, to develop intelligent

sensing solutions for a sustainable future. This company

will commercialize research from Yale in behavior interpre-

tation and energy efficiency using wireless sensors.

Joseph Hsiung ’05, MS ’06 and his wife Fiona ’05

welcomed the birth of their son, Daniel J.

Hsiung in February.

Joseph Vardner ’06 graduated from Harvard Law School cum

laude and begins work in the fall for the Department of

Justice’s Antitrust Division in Washington, DC.

Tim canan ’07 received an M.D. from the David Geffen

School of Medicine at UCLA in June and started his

internal medicine residency at the Ronald Reagan UCLA

Medical Center. He is proud to be in his 10th consecutive

year as a Bruin!

carin (Siegerman) Folman PhD ’07 and her husband, Bill, wel-

comed the birth of their son Noah on April 8, 2011.

Philip Kao ’07, recently volunteered to work

with water treatment systems in rural

villages of Taiwan, China and Ecuador

for nine months. He implemented the first

water treatment system in the rural village

of Estero de Platano, Ecuador. This water

system facility now provides the safest and

most affordable water to the village when compared with

all the vendors available. Prior to this, Kao worked for

Accenture, a global IT consulting firm for three years. He

is now married to a fellow Bruin, ruth chiang ’05 (Psychology),

who is a first year resident for a pediatrician hospital.

They are happily living in the historic district of Orange

in Southern California. Kao’s blog can be found here:

http://hydrophilicmission.blogspot.com/

Jammie Peng ’09 recently graduated from Stanford University

with an MS in materials science and engineering. She

is currently working as a Software QA Engineer at

Lab126, creator of the Amazon Kindle, and part of the

Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies.

LEgaciEs

courtney O. Wong ’11 (civil) and

her parents stephen B. Wong ’71 (Zoology)

and nancy F. Wong

Peter chang ’11 (EE) and his

sister Helen chang Hall ’02

(Physiological science)


36

EnrollmEnt 2010-11Undergraduates 3,301Master’sStudents 858DoctoralStudents 925Total 5,084

DEgrEEs AwArDED (2011 projEctions)B.S. 768M.S. 441Ph.D. 132Total 1,341

Full-time Faculty: 159

patents Awarded: 29

gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose: $21,648,599

publications: UCLA Engineering faculty published four books, 16 chapters, 409 journal articles and 351 conference proceedings.

Editorial postions: UCLA Engineering faculty held 38 editorships and 54 associate editorships.

research Expenditures: $100,479,387

2010-11 ANNUAL REPORT

fAcULTy AwARds 2010-11

DollArs by pUrposE 2010-2011

capital 45%

program research 33%

Faculty 10%

student support 7%

Discretionary 5%

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Albert carnesale, UCLA Chancellor

Emeritus and professor of public policy and

of mechanical and aerospace engineering,

was elected to the National Academy of

Engineering. He was elected for “bringing

engineering excellence and objectivity to

international security and arms control,

and for leadership in higher education.”

Carnesale also received the Harvard Medal

in recognition of his many years of services

at the university.

Electrical engineering professor behzad

razavi has been selected to receive one

of IEEE’s most prestigious technical field

awards, the 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson

Award in Solid-State Circuits. Razavi is be-

ing recognized for his pioneering contribu-

tions to the design of high speed and high

frequency CMOS communication circuits.

yahya rahmat-samii, holder of the Northrop

Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics, has

received the 2011 IEEE Electromagnetics

Award for his “fundamental contributions

to reflector antennas, near-field measure-

ments and diagnostics, antenna and human

interactions, and optimization algorithms in

electromagnetics.” Rahmat-Samii was also

honored with a 2011 UCLA Distinguished

Teaching Award.

Professor tatsuo itoh, the Northrop Grumman

Chair in Electrical Engineering, was honored

with a Microwave Career Award at IEEE

MTT-S International Microwave Symposium.

This is the premier award from the Society.

jin Hyung lee, assistant professor of electrical

engineering, received a Faculty Early Career

Development (CAREER) award from the Na-

tional Science Foundation. It is the NSF’s most

prestigious award of support for junior faculty

who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.

Lee also received a 2010 Okawa Foundation

Research Grant.

jennifer wortman Vaughan, assistant professor of

computer science, received a Faculty Early Career

Development (CAREER) award from the National

Science Foundation. It is the NSF’s most presti-

gious award of support for junior faculty who

exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.

Three UCLA Engineering assistant professors

received a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator

Award: Dino Di carlo, of Bioengineering; yu Huang,

of Materials Science and Engineering; and jin

Hyung lee, of Electrical Engineering. The innova-

tor award supports creative new investigators with

highly innovative research ideas at an early stage

in their career.

Electrical engineering associate professor Aydogan

ozcan was selected as one of the top 10 innovators

by USAID, NASA, the U.S. Department of State

and NIKE, Inc. He also received one of Popular

Mechanics magazine’s 2010 Breakthrough Awards

for the development of his cellphone microscope.

annual report 2010-11


ucla EnginEEr 37

EnrollmEnt 2010-11Undergraduates 3,301Master’sStudents 858DoctoralStudents 925Total 5,084

DEgrEEs AwArDED (2011 projEctions)B.S. 768M.S. 441Ph.D. 132Total 1,341

Full-time Faculty: 159

patents Awarded: 27

gifts to UclA Engineering by purpose: $21,648,599

publications: UCLA Engineering faculty published three books, 13 chapters, 354 journal articles and 321 conference proceedings

Editorial postions: UCLA Engineering faculty held 38 editorships and 54 associate editorships.

research Expenditures: ((to be determined, will give at later date))

196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116093.1415926535 8979 323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038

jennifer wortman Vaughan, assistant professor of

computer science, received a Faculty Early Career

Development (CAREER) award from the National

Science Foundation. It is the NSF’s most presti-

gious award of support for junior faculty who

exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.

Three UCLA Engineering assistant professors

received a 2010 NIH Director’s New Innovator

Award: Dino Di carlo of Bioengineering; Yu Huang,

of Materials Science and Engineering; and jin

Hyung lee, of Electrical Engineering. The innova-

tor award supports creative new investigators with

highly innovative research ideas at an early stage

in their career.

Electrical engineering associate professor Aydogan

ozcan was selected as one of the top 10 innovators

by USAID, NASA, the U.S. Department of State

and NIKE, Inc. He also received one of Popular

Mechanics magazine’s 2010 Breakthrough Awards

for the development of his cellphone microscope.

In addition, he received USC’s Body Comput-

ing Slam Prize, a competition for up-and-

coming networked medicine research teams

at the annual Body Computing Conference

and the 2011 SPIE Early Career Achievement

Award, which recognizes innovative technical

contributions in optics and photonics.

Yi tang, professor of chemical and biomo-

lecular engineering, received the Society for

Industrial Microbiology’s Young Investigator

Award. The Award recognizes researchers

35 years of age or younger who have made a

significant research contribution in industrial

microbiology or biotechnology.

richard wirz, assistant professor of mechani-

cal and aerospace engineering, was awarded

a U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Research

Program grant, to study near-surface cusp

confinement of micro-scale plasma.

Electrical engineering professor Abeer Alwan

was selected a Fellow of the International

Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

for her significant contributions to the field of

speech communication science and technology.

Electrical engineering assistant professor chi

on chui was awarded the Chinese American

Faculty Association (CAFA) Robert T. Poe

Faculty Development Award for research on

cardiovascular disease diagnostic devices.

Also, a research team that included Chui and

graduate student Jorge Kina was awarded the

Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE

International Symposium on Defect and Fault

Tolerance in VLSI Systems.

jason cong, Chancellor’s Professor of Com-

puter Science, received the 2010 Technical

Achievement Award from the IEEE Circuits and

Systems (CAS) Society. The award recognizes

exceptional technical contributions to a field

within the scope of the society over a period

of years. Also, Cong, along with his former

Ph.D. student Eugene Ding (now with Xilinx),

received this year’s ACM/IEEE A. Richard

Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic

Design Automation at the 48th Design Auto-

mation Conference. The award was given for

“pioneering work on technology mapping” by a

paper published at least ten years prior.

UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir has

been appointed to the Aeronautics and

Space Engineering Board (ASEB). The ASEB

provides an independent, authoritative

forum for space engineering and aeronau-

tics research within the National Research

Council, the operating arm of The National

Academies.

Electrical engineering assistant professor

lara Dolecek was a recipient of an award

through the UCLA Hellman Fellows

Program. The program was established

through the kind generosity of the Hellman

Family Foundation to help promising young

professors take their research and creative

endeavors to a higher level. Twelve UCLA

faculty members were selected for this in the

program’s inaugural year.

Computer science professor petros Faloutsos

and his co-authors (Michalis Faloutsos and

Christos Faloutsos) won an ACM SIG-

COMM Test of Time Award 2010 for their

1999 paper “On Power Law Relationships of

the Internet Topology.”

Electrical engineering professors lei He and

mihaela van der schaar, and their students

Zhen Cao and Brian Foo, received the

2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

Darlington Award for their paper titled

“Optimality and Improvement of Dynamic

Voltage Scaling Algorithms for Multimedia

Applications.”

Professor tatsuo itoh, the Northrop Grum-

man Chair in Electrical Engineering, was

honored with a Microwave Career Award

at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave

Symposium last month. This is the premier

award from the Society.

ted iwasaki, professor of mechanical and

aerospace engineering, received the 2010

Steve Hsia Biomedical Paper Award at the

World Congress on Intelligent Control and

Automation. The paper was co-authored

with Z. Chen of the University of Newcastle.

Civil and environmental engineering associ-

ate Professor jennifer jay was named the

2011 Pritzker Fellow. Established through a

gift from UCLA Institute of the Environment

and Sustainability (IoES) Advisory Board

Chair and businessman Tony Pritzker, the

Pritzker Fund supports teaching and cur-

riculum development at IoES.

UCLA mechanical and aerospace engineer-

ing professor Ann Karagozian received the

Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service

from the Department of the Air Force. The

award is the highest granted to civilians by

the United States Air Force.

pirouz Kavehpour, associate professor of me-

chanical and aerospace engineering, received

the 2010 L. E. Scriven Young Investigator

Award from the International Coating Sci-

ence and Technology, which honors innova-

tive work in interfacial fluid mechanics.

christopher lynch, professor of mechanical

and aerospace engineering, received the 2011

Intersociety Adaptive Structures and Materi-

als Systems Prize from the ASME Aerospace

Division. The award recognizes significant

contributions to the sciences and technolo-

gies associated with adaptive structures and/

or materials systems.

shaily mahendra, assistant professor of civil

and environmental engineering, was named

a 2011 PopTech Science and Public Leader-

ship Fellow. Fellows are high-potential early-

and mid-career scientists recognized for their

work in areas of critical importance to the

nation and the planet. Mahendra was also

awarded a UCLA Hellman Fellowship.

Computer sciences professors todd millstein

and rupak majumdar received the ACM

SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI (Program-

ming Language Design and Implementation)

Paper Award for 2011. The award is given

each year for a paper that is ten years old

and has been highly influential in the area of

programming languages.

UCLA computer science professor judea

pearl was selected by the editorial board of

IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of 10 inaugu-

ral members of its Artificial Intelligence Hall

of Fame. Pearl was also nominated to present

an Institute of Mathematical Statistics (ISM)

Medallion Lecture at the Joint Statistical

Meetings (JSM)/ISM 2013 meeting. The

IMS Medallion nomination recognizes a

significant research contribution in statistics

and probability.

Computer science professor majid sar-

rafzadeh was recently honored as a keynote

speaker at the Eighth Annual Healthcare


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Unbound Conference. His speech ad-

dressed concerns over the cost and effec-

tiveness of America’s health care system.

�Ertugrul�Taciroglu and�Eric�Hoek, both

associate professors of civil and environ-

mental engineering, were each awarded

a 2011 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineer-

ing Research Prize. The prize recognizes

members of the American Society of

Civil Engineers who demonstrate notable

achievements in research related to civil

engineering.

�Mechanical and aerospace engineering

professor Tsu-Chin�Tsao and graduate

student Herrick Chang received the

Best Paper Award in the International

Symposium of Flexible Automation held

in Tokyo, Japan, July 2010, for the paper

“Repetitive Control of a Levitated Shaft

– FPGA Implementation based on Powell-

Chau Filters.”

�Electrical engineering professor John�Vil-

lasenor�was appointed as a nonresident

Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institu-

tion. This appointment recognizes Vil-

lasenor’s work addressing the technology

and policy aspects of cybersecurity.

�Two UCLA Engineering faculty members

were named IEEE fellows for its 2011

class. Electrical engineering professor

Chih-Kong�Ken�Yang was recognized for

leadership in enhancement of input-

output efficiency in integrated circuits.

Song-Chun�Zhu, professor of statistics and

computer science, was recognized for con-

tributions to statistical modeling, learning

and inference in computer vision.

Alumni New Academic AppointmentsJaafar El Awady PhD 2008

Mechanical Engineering

Whiting School of Engineering,

Johns Hopkins University

Advisor: Nasr Ghoniem

Vladimir Braverman PhD 2011

Computer Science

Whiting School of Engineering,

Johns Hopkins University

Advisor: Rafail Ostrovsky

Gyungsu Byun PhD 2010

Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

West Virginia University

Advisor: Frank Chang

Pei-Ling Chi PhD 2011

Electrical Engineering

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Advisor: Tatsuo Itoh

Yung-Chia Chiu PhD 2009

College of Ocean Science and Resource

National Taiwan Ocean University

Advisor: William Yeh

Youngjae Chun PhD 2009

Department of Industrial Engineering

Swanson School of Engineering, The University

of Pittsburg,

Advisor: Gregory J. Carman

Tien-Kan “TK” Chung PhD 2009

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Chiao Tung University

Advisor: Gregory J. Carman

Barton Forman PhD 2010

Civil and Environmental Engineering

A. James Clark School of Engineering,

University of Maryland

Advisor: Steve Margulis

Tae-Joon Jeon PhD 2008

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Inha Universty, South Korea

Advisor: Jacob Schmitt

Min Lee PhD 2007

Division of Advanced Prosthodontics,

Biomaterials, and Hospital Dentistry

UCLA School of Dentistry

Advisor: James Dunn

Sung-Hee Lee PhD 2008

Information and Communications

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Advisor: Demetri Terzopoulos

Uichin Lee PhD 2008

Knowledge Service Engineering

Korea Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology

Advisor: Mario Gerla

Anne Lemnitzer PhD 2009

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine

Advisors: Jonathan Stewart and John Wallace

Guojie Luo PhD 2011

Electronics Engineering and Computer Science

Peking University, Beijing, China

Advisor: Jason Cong

Nicholas Mastronarde PhD 2011


The State University of New York at Buffalo

Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar

Nikki Meshkat PhD 2011

Mathematics

Santa Clara University

Advisor: Joe DiStefano

Claudio Palazzi PhD 2007

Computer Science

University of Padova, Italy


Fernando Pereira PhD 2008

Computer Science

Univ. Federal de Minas Gerai, Brazil

Advisor: Jens Palsberg

Bibhudatta Sahoo PhD 2009

Electronics and Electrical Communication

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Advisor: Behzad Razavi

William Skeith III PhD 2011

Computer Science

City College of New York


Lisa Star PhD 2011

Civil Engineering

California State University, Long Beach

Advisor: Jonathan Stewart

Tina T.-C. Tseng PhD 2011

Chemical Engineering

National Taiwan University of

Science and Technology

Advisor: Hal Monbouquette

Hideaki Tsutsui PhD 2009


Bourns College of Engineering, UC Riverside

Advisor: Chih-Ming Ho

Chia-Hsiang Yang PhD 2010



Advisor: Dejan Markovic

George Youssef PhD 2010

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

California State University, Northridge

Advisor: Vijay Gupta


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ucla EnginEEr 39

Guojie luo PhD 2011

Electronics Engineering and Computer Science

Peking University, Beijing, China

Advisor: Jason Cong

Nicholas Mastronarde PhD 2011


The State University of New York at Buffalo

Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar

Nikki Meshkat PhD 2011

Mathematics

Santa Clara University

Advisor: Joe DiStefano

claudio Palazzi PhD 2007

Computer Science

University of Padova, Italy


Fernando Pereira PhD 2008

Computer Science

Univ. Federal de Minas Gerai, Brazil

Advisor: Jens Palsberg

Bibhudatta Sahoo PhD 2009

Electronics and Electrical Communication

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Advisor: Behzad Razavi

William Skeith III PhD 2011

Computer Science

City College of New York


lisa Star PhD 2011

Civil Engineering

California State University, Long Beach

Advisor: Jonathan Stewart

Tina T.-c. Tseng PhD 2011

Chemical Engineering

National Taiwan University of

Science and Technology

Advisor: Hal Monbouquette

Hideaki Tsutsui PhD 2009


Bourns College of Engineering, UC Riverside

Advisor: Chih-Ming Ho

chia-Hsiang Yang PhD 2010



Advisor: Dejan Markovic

George Youssef PhD 2010

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

California State University, Northridge

Advisor: Vijay Gupta

PoST-DocToral ScHolarS Emmanuel Baudrin

Faculté de Pharmacie, Institut de Chimie de

Picardie

Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France

Post-doctoral advisor: Bruce Dunn

Fan Jin

Bio-X

University of Science & Technology, China

Post-doctoral advisor: Gerard Wong

Wonhee lee

Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology

Korea Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology

Post-doctoral advisor: Dino Di Carlo

Noah Malmstadt

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Viterbi School of Engineering,

University of Southern California

Post-doctoral advisor: Jacob Schmitt

abhijit Mishra

Materials Science

India Institute of Technology at Ghandinagar

Post-doctoral and Ph.D. advisor: Gerard Wong

Fanyi ouyang

Industrial Engineering

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Post-doctoral advisor: King-Ning Tu

Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

Engineering and Mathematics

King Abdullah University of Science and

Technology, Saudi Arabia

Post-doctoral advisor: Stefano Soatto

Yongsheng Zhao

Institute of Chemistry

Chinese Academy of Science

Post-doctoral advisor: Qibing Pei

Endowed chair HoldersBen Rich Lockheed Martin

Endowed Chair in Engineering

chih-Ming Ho

Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed

Chair in Engineering

Yang Yang

Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in


alan Willson, Jr

Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Term

Chair in Civil Engineering Materials

Gaurav Sant

Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking

Deborah Estrin

Nippon Sheet Glass Company

Chair Materials Science

Bruce S. Dunn

Norman E. Friedmann Chair in

Knowledge Sciences

carlo Zaniolo

Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical

Engineering/Electromagnetics

Yahya rahmat-Samii

Northrop Gruman Chair in


Tatsuo Itoh

Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic

Chair in Electrical Engineering

Bahram Jalali

Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering

Kang Wang

Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair

in Civil Engineering

William Yeh

Rockwell International Chair in Engineering

J. John Kim

William Frederick Seyer Endowed Chair in

Materials Electrochemistry

Jane P. chang

Wintek Endowed Chair in


M. c. Frank chang

cHaNcEllor’S ProFESSorS asad abidi

Jiun-Shyan (JS) chen

Jason cong

James c. liao

Demetri Terzopoulos

Mihaela van der Schaar

ucla Engineering Dean’s advisory councilDr. William F. Ballhaus, Jr.

CEO (Retired)

The Aerospace Corporation

Mr. charles Bergan

Vice President

Engineering Research & Development

Qualcomm

Mr. aaron S. cohen ’58

Vice Chairman and Founder

National Technical Systems

Mr. lou cornell, P.E.

Vice President

Southern California District Manager

AECOM

Dr. r. Paul crawford

Director of Health Research

Intel Labs

Mr. lucien “al” couvillon, Jr. ’62, MS ’66

Vice President for Corporate R&D (Retired)

Boston Scientific Corporation

Mr. richard a. croxall

Vice President and Chief Engineer (Retired)

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Dr. Siddhartha Dalal

Chief Technology Officer,

RAND Corporation

Dr. Vijay K. Dhir

Dean

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering

and Applied Science

Mr. James l. Easton ’59

Chairman and President

Jas D. Easton, Inc.

Mr. Gary W. Ervin

Corporate Vice President and President

Aerospace Systems

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Dr. B. John Garrick MS ’62, PhD ’68

President and CEO (Retired)

PLG, Inc.

Mr. Sam F. Iacobellis MS ’63

Deputy Chairman (Retired)

Rockwell International Corporation

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Dr. William A. Jeffrey

President and CEO

HRL Laboratories, LLC

Dr. Leslie M. Lackman

Adjunct Professor

Deputy Director, UCLA Engineering

Institute for Technology Advancement

Mr. Jeff Lawrence ’79

President and CEO

Clivia Systems

Dr. Steven D. Liedle

Project Manager

Bechtel Power Corporation

Mr. Rajeev Madhavan

Chairman and CEO

Magma Design Automation, Inc.

Ms. Joanne M. Maguire MS ’78, CERT ’89

Executive Vice President

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Group

Mr. Pankaj Patel

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Dr. Rami R. Razouk ’75, MS ’75, PhD ’80

Senior Vice President

Engineering and Technology

The Aerospace Corporation

Mr. Edward K. Rice

Chairman

CTS Cement Manufacturing Company

Dr. Kevin Riley

President

Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC

Dr. Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80

Co-founder

Broadcom Corporation

Mr. Gerald Solomon

Executive Director

Samueli Foundation

Dr. Dwight C. Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86

Professor

Director, UCLA Engineering

Institute for Technology Advancement

Mr. Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61

Electronics Consultant

Tannas Electronics

Mr. Murli Tolaney

Chairman

MWH Global, Inc.

Dr. John J. Tracy

CTO & SVP of Engineering,

Operations & Technology

The Boeing Company

Mr. Stephen Trilling CERT ’00

Vice President

Security Technology and Response

Symantec Corporation

Mr. Nicholas M. Uros ME ’84, CERT ’93

Vice President

Advanced Concepts and Technology

Raytheon Systems Company

Dr. David A. Whelan MS ’78, PhD ’83

Vice President, General Manager,

and Deputy to the President

The Boeing Company

Faculty Patents 2010–11Mechanical and aerospace engineering

professor Gregory J. Carman, Dong Gun Lee

and Motoki Ujihara were issued a patent

for energy harvesting by means of thermal-

mechanical device utilizing bistable

ferromagnets.

Electrical engineering professor M.C. Frank

Chang and Daquan Huang were issued a patent

for phase coherent differential structures.

Professor Chang, Huang and William Hant

were issued a patent for tunable artificial

dielectrics.

Chemical and biomolecular engineering

professor Yoram Cohen and Michal Uchymiak

were issued a patent for a method and system

for monitoring reverse osmosis membranes.

Computer science professor Mario Gerla and

M. Yahya Sanadidi were issued a patent for

high-throughput communication systems,

communication terminal, session relay, and

communication protocol.

Electrical engineering professor Lei He was

issued patents for a fast dual-VDD buffer

insertion and buffered tree construction for

power minimization; and for FPGA circuits

and methods considering process variations.

Electrical engineering professor Tatsuo Itoh, Cheng

Jung Lee and Kevin M.K.H. Leong were issued a

patent for compact dual-band resonator using

anisotropic metamaterial.

Professor Itoh, Leong and Anthony Lai were

issued a patent on multi-band radiating elements

with composite right/left-handed metamaterial

transmission line.

Professor Itoh and Ji-Yong Park were issued a

patent for a self-based receiver system using a

multi-fed antenna.

Electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali, Jason

Chou and Daniel Solli were issued a patent for an

apparatus and method for Raman spectroscopy and

microscopy with time domain spectral analysis.

Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor

Vasilios Manousiouthakis was issued a patent for

hydrogen production by a thermochemical water

splitting cycle.

Professor Manousiouthakis and Alberto Posada

were issued a patent for a method for fabricating

a conduction-cooled high-temperature supercon-

ducting cable.

Materials science and engineering professor Qibing

Pei was issued a patent for materials for the forma-

tion of polymer junction diodes.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering associate pro-

fessor Laurent Pilon and Kamal Katika were issued a

patent for a time-resolved non-invasive optometric

device for medical diagnostic.

Materials science and engineering professors King-

Ning Tu and Ya-Hong Xie, along with Chang Ching

Yeh, were awarded a patent for methods of fabricat-

ing highly conductive regions in semiconductor

substrates for radio frequency applications.

Electrical engineering adjunct professor Ingrid

Verbauwhede and Kris J.V. Tiri were issued a

patent for logic systems for DPA and/or side

channel attack resistance.

Electrical engineering professor Richard Wesel,

Wen-Yen Weng and Andres Vila Casado were issued

a patent for variable-rate low-density parity check

codes with constant blocklength.

Bioengineering professor Benjamin Wu was issued

two patents for NELL-1 enhanced bone mineraliza-

tion; a patent for a NELL-1 peptide; and a patent for

pharmaceutical compositions for treating or prevent-

ing bone conditions.


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Electrical engineering professor Tatsuo itoh, Cheng

Jung Lee and Kevin M.K.H. Leong were issued a

patent for compact dual-band resonator using

anisotropic metamaterial.

Professor itoh, Leong and Anthony Lai were

issued a patent on multi-band radiating elements

with composite right/left-handed metamaterial

transmission line.

Professor itoh and Ji-Yong Park were issued a

patent for a self-based receiver system using a

multi-fed antenna.

Electrical engineering professor Bahram Jalali, Jason

Chou and Daniel Solli were issued a patent for an

apparatus and method for Raman spectroscopy and

microscopy with time domain spectral analysis.

Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor

Vasilios Manousiouthakis was issued a patent for

hydrogen production by a thermochemical water

splitting cycle.

Professor Manousiouthakis and Alberto Posada

were issued a patent for a method for fabricating

a conduction-cooled high-temperature supercon-

ducting cable.

Materials science and engineering professor Qibing

Pei was issued a patent for materials for the forma-

tion of polymer junction diodes.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering associate pro-

fessor Laurent Pilon and Kamal Katika were issued a

patent for a time-resolved non-invasive optometric

device for medical diagnostic.

Materials science and engineering professors King-

ning Tu and Ya-Hong Xie, along with Chang Ching

Yeh, were awarded a patent for methods of fabricat-

ing highly conductive regions in semiconductor

substrates for radio frequency applications.

Electrical engineering adjunct professor ingrid

Verbauwhede and Kris J.V. Tiri were issued a

patent for logic systems for DPA and/or side

channel attack resistance.

Electrical engineering professor richard Wesel,

Wen-Yen Weng and Andres Vila Casado were issued

a patent for variable-rate low-density parity check

codes with constant blocklength.

Bioengineering professor Benjamin Wu was issued

two patents for NELL-1 enhanced bone mineraliza-

tion; a patent for a NELL-1 peptide; and a patent for

pharmaceutical compositions for treating or prevent-

ing bone conditions.

Professor Xie was issued patents for Low crosstalk

substrate for mixed-signal integrated circuits; for

a quantum dot based optoelectronic device and

method of making same; and for a system control-

ling nucleation in self-assembled films.

Professor Xie and Jeehwan Kim were issued a

patent for a method of forming dislocation-free

strained thin films.

Materials science and engineering professor

Yang Yang was issued a patent for a transistor

with tunneling dust electrode.

Professor Yang and Jianyong Ouyang were

issued a patent for bistable nanoparticle-poly-

mer composite for use in memory devices.

Professor Yang and Elbert Wu were issued a

patent for a stacked layer electrode for organic

electronic device.

The 2011 Boelter Society Honor RollLifETiME MEMBErsThis honor roll gratefully acknowledges those

who have given $100,000 or more to support

the students and faculty of the UCLA Henry

Samueli School of Engineering and Applied

Science over the course of their lifetime or

through their estate.

Degrees listed include UCLA alumni and

parents of engineering students.

Mr. Robert B. Allen

Dr. Paul Baran MS ’59

Mr. Balu Balakrishnan MS ’76

and Mrs. Mohini Balakrishnan

Mr. Harold S. Becker ME ’59

and Ms. Marilyn L. Becker

Dr. Mark Berman MS ’92, PhD ’95

and Ms. Sharon B. Berman ’91

Mr. Bernard L. Beskind ’62, ME ’66

and Mrs. Lois R. Beskind

Mr. John Burnett

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72

and Ms. Sigrid L. Thorstenberg

Mr. Brian L. Cochran ’54

and Mrs. Nancy A. Cochran ’58

Mr. Aaron S. Cohen ’58

and Mrs. Nancy D. Cohen

Dr. Robert N. Crane MS ’65, PhD ’70

Mr. Ralph E. Crump ’50

and Mrs. Marjorie L. Crump ’46

Mr. Noel J. Deitrich ’67

Professor Roy Doumani

and Mrs. Carol Doumani

Mr. James L. Easton ’59

and Mrs. Phyllis F. Easton

Dr. Gerald Estrin

and Dr. Thelma Estrin

Dr. Christopher P. Ferguson ’86, PhD ’99

Mr. Barry J. Forman ’60, MS ’62

Ms. Dorothea H. Frederking

Dr. Norman E. Friedmann ’50, MS ’52, PhD ’57

and Dr. Irene C. Kassorla ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’68


and Ms. Amelia Garrick

Dr. Richard L. Gay ’73, MS ’73, PhD ’76

Dr. H. P. Gillis

Mr. Bruce E. Gladstone ’57, MS ’62

and Mrs. Beverly J. Gladstone ’59

Ms. Victoria F. Goldberg ’87, MBA ’93

Dr. Hisayo Graham MS ’60, PhD ’69

Dr. Larry B. Gratt ’62, MS ’64, PhD ’69

Dr. Armond Hairapetian ’87, MS ’88, PhD ’93

and Mrs. Elena Hairapetian ’96

Mr. Kevin G. Hall, Parent ’06

Dr. Robert Hawley MS ’91, PhD ’97

Mr. Jerome Hollander ’48

and Mrs. Sonya Hollander

Dr. Jau-Hsiung Huang MS ’85, PhD ’88

and Ms. Hua J. Chang MBA ’88

Mr. Hyley Huang, Parent ’09

Ms. Pearl Illg ’70

Mr. B. V. Jagadeesh

Mrs. Elizabeth Argue Knesel


and Ms. Diane E. Troth MS ’81

Terence Lim ’92

Dr. Robert P. Lin

and Ms. Lily W. Lin

Mr. W. N. Lin, Parent ’11

Dr. Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92

and Ms. Jui-Chuan Yeh MPH ’96

Mr. Daniel C. Lynch MA ’65

Dr. Henry T. Nicholas, III ’82, MS ’85, PhD ’98

Ms. Stacey E. Nicholas ’85, MS ’87

Dr. Tracy Nishikawa MS ’85, PhD ’88

and Dr. Gail K. Masutani MS ’81, PhD ’88

Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan MS ’89, PhD ’92

Mr. Michael W. Phelps ’71, MS ’71

Mr. Richard W. Phillips ’68, MLS ’75

Dr. Simon Ramo

Dr. Charles P. Reames MS ’80, ENG ’82, PhD ’85,

and Mrs. Deborah A. Reames

Mr. Edward K. Rice

and Dr. Linda L. Rice

Dr. Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76 PhD ’80

and Ms. Susan F. Samueli

Dr. Shioupyn Shen PhD ’91

and Ms. Waishan Wu

Dr. Shiva Shivakumar ’94

Dr. Alfred W. Sommer

and Ms. Joyce Sommer

Mrs. Kirsten L. Sommer ’60

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong

and Ms. Michelle C. Soon-Shiong

Professor Oscar M. Stafsudd, Jr. ’59, MS ’61, PhD ’67

and Mrs. Jacqueline Stafsudd ’69

Mr. Eugene P. Stein ’68

and Ms. Marilyn L. Stein

Mr. David E. Storrs ’82, MS ’83

Mr. Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61,

and Mrs. Carol A. Tannas, Parents ’85

Mr. Raymond M. Taylor, Jr. ’62, MS ’66,

MBA ’86

Dr. Spyros I. Tseregounis MS ’82, PhD ’84

and Dr. Linda P. B. Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84

Mr. Sumermal Vardhan

and Mrs. Raj Kumari Vardhan, Parents ’92, ’98

Mr. V. M. Watanabe ’72

Dr. Robert K. Williamson ’62, MS ’64, PhD ’69

and Mrs. Sandra Williamson

Dr. Tien-Tsai Yang PhD ’68

and Dr. Jane J. Yang PhD ’71, Parents ’92

Dr. William W. Yeh

and Dr. Jennie P. Yeh, PhD ’75

Anonymous donors

2010-2011 MEMBErsThis honor roll gratefully acknowledges gifts

made to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of

Engineering and Applied Science from July 1,

2010 to June 30, 2011.

* 10th Anniversary Members

‡ 5th Anniversary Members

Dean’s Visionaries—$1,000,000 or more

Mr. Ralph E. Crump ’50

and Mrs. Marjorie L. Crump ’46

Mr. W. N. Lin, Parent ’11

Dr. Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80

and Ms. Susan F. Samueli

Dean’s Ambassadors—$100,000 to $999,999

Mr. Balu Balakrishnan MS ’76 and

Mrs. Mohini Balakrishnan

Mr. Aaron S. Cohen ’58

and Mrs. Nancy D. Cohen

Mr. James L. Easton ’59

and Mrs. Phyllis F. Easton

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Dr. Fang Lu MS ’88, ENG ’89, PhD ’92

and Ms. Jui-Chuan Yeh MPH ’96

Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan MS ’89, PhD ’92

Dr. Charles P. Reames MS ’80, ENG ’82, PhD ’85

and Mrs. Deborah A. Reames

Mr. Edward K. Rice

and Dr. Linda L. Rice

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong

and Ms. Michele C. Soon-Shiong

Anonymous donor

Dean’s Scholars—$50,000 to $99,999


and Ms. Amelia Garrick

Ms. Peggy L. Johnson

and Mr. Eric S. Johnson, Parents ’12

Mr. Ryo Kokubu

Dr. Simon Ramo

Mr. Eric E. Schmidt

Dr. Shioupyn Shen PhD ’91

and Ms. Waishan Wu

Mr. Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr. ’59, MS ’61

and Mrs. Carol A. Tannas, Parents ’85

Mr. Vijayakumar Tella MS ’88

Dr. King-Ning Tu

Boelter Investors—$25,000 to $49,999

Mr. Mark Cuban

Boelter Fellows—$10,000 to $24,999

Mr. Raymond S. Beggs

Dr. Mark Berman MS ’92, PhD ’95

and Ms. Sharon B. Berman ’91

Dr. Mary E. Bosak ’72, MA ’72, EDD ’77

and Mr. Richard G. Somers

Ms. Yen-Ju Chen ’88

and Mr. Fai-Lon Kuo

Ms. Josephine Cheng ’75, MS ’77

and Mr. Michael Y. Pong

Ms. Jin Hee Choi

and Mr. Young Soo Cha, Parents ’14

Ms. Dorothea H. Frederking

Mrs. Marjorie R. Friedlander

Mr. Che-Yi Lin

Mr. Daniel C. Lynch MA ’65

Mrs. Rosita N. Mal

and Dr. Ajit K. Mal

Mr. Pankaj S. Patel, Parent ’06

Dr. Edwin B. Stear PhD ’61

and Mrs. Jo Ann Stear

Mr. Eugene P. Stein ’68

and Ms. Marilyn L. Stein

Dr. Spyros I. Tseregounis MS ’82, PhD ’84

and Dr. Linda P. B. Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84

Dr. Tien-Tsai Yang PhD ’68

and Dr. Jane J. Yang PhD ’71

Mr. Russell G. Yee

and Ms. Anne C. Wang Yee ’89

Mr. Allen M. Yourman, Jr. ’76, MS ’78

and Mrs. Kimberley E. Yourman ’73

Boelter Sponsors—$5,000 to $9,999

Mr. Andrew D. Africk ’88

and Mrs. Jackie Africk

Dr. Charles R. Baker MS ’63, PhD ’67

Mr. David C. Banks ’80, MS ’81

and Mrs. Judy Banks, Parents ’12

Dr. James D. Barrie ’83, MS ’85, PhD ’88

and Dr. Leslie A. Momoda ’85, MS ’87,

PhD ’90

Mr. Alan P. Cutter ’61, MBA ’64

Mr. Bob English ’82

and Ms. Anna M. Zara

Mr. Steven B. Fink ’74

and Mrs. Catherine Fink ’73

Dr. Kenneth I. Friedman ’61

Dr. William R. Goodin MS ’71, PhD ’75,

ME ’82

and Ms. Caroline Dockrell

Mr. Ernest R. Harris ’49

Mr. Andrew A. Holden, Parent ’12

Mr. Paul J. Jansen

and Ms. Deborah K. Jansen, Parents ’13

Mr. Russell W. Krieger, Jr. ’70

and Ms. Linda M. Krieger

Dr. Leslie M. Lackman

and Ms. Marjorie M. Lackman


and Ms. Diane E. Troth ’80, MS ’81

Mr. Kenneth H. Ma ’83, MS ’84

and Mrs. Linda Ma

Ms. Carol L. Massey, Parent ’13

Mr. Jerry Y. Ogawa ’69

Ms. Rica Orszag ’93

and Mr. Jonathan M. Orszag

Mr. Marvin Rubinstein ’53

Mr. David S. Sabih MS ’62

Mr. Thierry Sanglerat

and Mrs. Rita Y. Sanglerat, Parents ’12

Mr. Tom Shiokari ’50, MS ’60‡

and Mrs. Nobuko Shiokari‡

Dr. George S. Stern ’58, MA ’59, PhD ’64

and Mrs. Adele R. Stern

Mr. David K. Triolo ’80‡

Dr. Yang Yang

and Mrs. Danmei Lee

Anonymous donor

Boelter Associates—$2,500 to $4,999

Dr. William Ballhaus, Jr.

and Mrs. Jane Ballhaus

Mr. Robert J. Barker ’68, MBA ’70

and Ms. Ildiko V. Barker

Mr. Benton Bejach*

and Mrs. Wanlyn Bejach*

Dr. Gary H. Burdorf ’87, MS ’89, PhD ’93

and Mrs. Sherry L. Burdorf ’86, MBA ’90

Mr. Douglas Corbett ’73

and Ms. Lisa L. Corbett

Mrs. Natalie W. Crawford ’61

Dr. Vijay K. Dhir

and Ms. Komal Dhir

Mr. Navin H. Doshi

and Ms. Pratima Doshi

Dr. Dennis J. Drag MS ’69, PhD ’82

and Mrs. Leslie A. Drag



Mr. Robert A. Green ’72, JD ’75

and Ms. Judy A. Green, Parents ’03

Mr. Paul E. Griffin, Jr. ’53

and Mrs. Gloria N. Griffin ’61

Dr. Gene C. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67

and Ms. Gwendolyn O. Gritton

Dr. Carl E. Hess

and Ms. Tracy L. Pirnack, Parents ’11

Mr. Jeffrey A. Houck

and Ms. Monica C. Houck, Parents ’12

Dr. Francis H. Kishi ’53, MS ’58, PhD ’63

Mr. Keith R. Leonard, Jr. ’84, MBA ’95

and Ms. Nanette L. Leonard ’84

Ms. Judy P. Liu

Mr. Gary E. MacDougal ’58

and Ms. Charlene MacDougal

Dr. Asad M. Madni ’69, MS ’72

and Mrs. Gowhartaj A. Madni, Parents ’08

Ms. Roxann M. Marumoto ’85, MS ’87‡

and Mr. David H. Julifs‡

Mr. Brian N. Mc Innis ’95

Mr. Craig R. Moles MS ’89

and Mrs. Nancy L. Moles

Mr. James Murray ’70, MS ’71‡

and Ms. Carol L. Donald‡

Mr. Carey S. Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95‡

Dr. Dodd R. Portman

and Mrs. Lucia Portman, Parents ’12

Mr. Kenneth W. Privitt ’77, MS ’80

and Mrs. Nancy G. Privitt ’78

Mr. Chulanur P. Ramakrishnan

and Ms. Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10


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Boelter Associates—$2,500 to $4,999

Dr. William Ballhaus, Jr.

and Mrs. Jane Ballhaus

Mr. Robert J. Barker ’68, MBA ’70

and Ms. Ildiko V. Barker

Mr. Benton Bejach*

and Mrs. Wanlyn Bejach*

Dr. Gary H. Burdorf ’87, MS ’89, PhD ’93

and Mrs. Sherry L. Burdorf ’86, MBA ’90

Mr. Douglas Corbett ’73

and Ms. Lisa L. Corbett

Mrs. Natalie W. Crawford ’61

Dr. Vijay K. Dhir

and Ms. Komal Dhir

Mr. Navin H. Doshi

and Ms. Pratima Doshi

Dr. Dennis J. Drag MS ’69, PhD ’82

and Mrs. Leslie A. Drag



Mr. Robert A. Green ’72, JD ’75

and Ms. Judy A. Green, Parents ’03

Mr. Paul E. Griffin, Jr. ’53

and Mrs. Gloria N. Griffin ’61

Dr. Gene C. Gritton ’63, MS ’65, PhD ’67

and Ms. Gwendolyn O. Gritton

Dr. Carl E. Hess

and Ms. Tracy L. Pirnack, Parents ’11

Mr. Jeffrey A. Houck

and Ms. Monica C. Houck, Parents ’12

Dr. Francis H. Kishi ’53, MS ’58, PhD ’63

Mr. Keith R. Leonard, Jr. ’84, MBA ’95

and Ms. Nanette L. Leonard ’84

Ms. Judy P. Liu

Mr. Gary E. MacDougal ’58

and Ms. Charlene MacDougal

Dr. Asad M. Madni ’69, MS ’72

and Mrs. Gowhartaj A. Madni, Parents ’08

Ms. Roxann M. Marumoto ’85, MS ’87‡

and Mr. David H. Julifs‡

Mr. Brian N. Mc Innis ’95

Mr. Craig R. Moles MS ’89

and Mrs. Nancy L. Moles

Mr. James Murray ’70, MS ’71‡

and Ms. Carol L. Donald‡

Mr. Carey S. Nachenberg ’95, MS ’95‡

Dr. Dodd R. Portman

and Mrs. Lucia Portman, Parents ’12

Mr. Kenneth W. Privitt ’77, MS ’80

and Mrs. Nancy G. Privitt ’78

Mr. Chulanur P. Ramakrishnan

and Ms. Latha Ramakrishnan, Parents ’10

Dr. Peter B. Sender

and Mrs. Haya S. Sender, Parents ’09

Mr. Akira Shinoda ’67

Mrs. Minda S. Sizto

and Mr. Ning C. Sizto, Parents ’10

Mrs. Judy S. Snow

and Mr. William R. Snow, Parents ’12

Mr. Alex Spataru ’70, MBA ’79

and Ms. Anne-Marie Spataru MBA ’78

Mr. Lee M. Stewart ’67*

and Ms. Sue G. Stewart*

Dr. Dwight C. Streit MS ’83, PhD ’86

and Ms. Deborah Streit

Mr. Robert E. Vitali ’76, MS ’78

Dr. Kin Wah Wong PhD ’77

Dr. Ren Xu PhD ’92

and Ms. Jane Zhang ’05

Boelter Contributors—$1,000 to $2,499

Mr. John S. Adams ’62

and Ms. Arlene G. Adams

Mr. Darren Aghabeg ’89

and Mrs. Angela Aghabeg

Dr. Song-Haur An MS ’81, ENG ’83, PhD ’86

and Mrs. Agnes An

Mrs. Cynthia A. Arnell

and Dr. Richard E. Arnell, Parents ’12

Dr. Ethan Aronoff PhD ’71

and Mrs. Barbara Aronoff

Dr. Pramod P. Bansal PhD ’72

and Ms. Manju Bansal

Mr. Fred J. Barker

and Mrs. Su Barker, Parents ’14

Dr. John R. Barr MS ’70, PhD ’78

and Ms. Mary E. Barr

Dr. Richard S. Baty PhD ’70*

and Mrs. Linda S. Baty*

Dr. Eric P. Bescher MS ’89, PhD ’97

Mr. Stevan A. Birnbaum ’65

Mr. Glen Boe ’60

and Ms. Jean E. Boe

Mr. Henry W. Burgess MS ’75

and Ms. Cindy Burgess

Mr. J. Steven Chaffin

and Mrs. Janice D. Chaffin MBA ’81

Mr. Paul H. Chandler MS ’74

and Mrs. Kathleen R. Chandler

Mr. Benny C. Chang ’70, MS ’72

and Ms. Janet B. Chang ’77

Mr. Leang-Kai Chang

and Ms. Li-Chu Wu, Parents ’13

Mrs. Shelly Chang

and Dr. Frank M. Chang, Parents ’03

Mr. Stanley E. Charles ’56, MS ’68

and Mrs. Mary Louise Charles ’60

Mr. Eddie C. Chau ’89

Mr. Charles C. Chen MS ’91

and Ms. Ping S. Chen

Dr. Chih Chen MS ’98, PhD ’99

Professor In-Gann Chen

Professor Jen-Sue Chen

Mr. Chii-Fa Chiou

and Mrs. Ellia W. Chiou, Parents ’07, ’11

Dr. Wesley W. Chu

and Ms. Julia Chu

Mr. Abraham Chuang ’97

Mr. Stephen R. Clapp ’82

and Mrs. Mari M. Clapp, Parents ’12

Mr. Neal M. Cohen ’87

and Ms. Adrienne D. Cohen ’86

Mrs. Kathleen Y. Coleman JD ’84

and Mr. Joseph L. Coleman, Parents ’14

Mr. Karal D. Cottrell ’60

and Mrs. Ann R. Cottrell

Mr. Casey Crandall MS ’76

Ms. Arlene O. Dabbs ’80

Mr. Curtis L. Dahlberg ’73

Mr. Patrick W. Dennis ’76, MS ’78,

MBA ’82, JD ’82‡

and Ms. Nancy L. Dennis ’79‡

Mr. Michael Deutsch ’78, MS ’80

and Mrs. Elena Deutsch

Mrs. Nirmala Dharmaraja

and Mr. Prithviraj Dharmaraja, Parents ’11

Dr. Bruce S. Dunn MS ’72, PhD ’74

and Ms. Wendy R. Dunn

Dr. Mordecai N. Dunst ’75, MA ’78

and Mrs. Karen R. Dunst, Parents ’13

Dr. Paul R. Eggert MS ’77, PhD ’80

and Mrs. Stacey Byrnes

Mrs. Melissa M. Eldredge

and Mr. Charles H. Eldredge, Parents ’13

Mr. Augustine M. Esogbue ’64

Mr. Mark A. Ethington ’86

and Ms. Lisa M. Ethington

Mr. Gregory A. Fountain

and Dr. Annette C. Fountain, Parents ’13

Mrs. Jean K. Futami MBA ’87

and Mr. Norman A. Futami, Parents ’13

Dr. Terry N. Gardner PhD ’75

and Ms. Shifra Gardner

Mr. Arnold J. Gaunt ’86‡

Dr. Rodney C. Gibson MS ’66, PhD ’69

and Mrs. Nancy P. Gibson, Parents ’92

Dr. Albert J. Glassman PhD ’71

Dr. Thomas P. Goebel PhD ’69

Mrs. Patricia T. Gonzalez

and Mr. Ruben R. Barba, Parents ’08

Mr. Arnold Hackett ’87

Dr. William Hant PhD ’70

and Dr. Myrna A. Hant ’64, PhD ’87, Parents ’96

Mr. Frank J. Hanzel, Jr. ’79, MS ’81

Mr. Adam D. Harmetz ’05

and Ms. Helen A. Seliverstov ’04

Mr. Jan C. Harzan ’76

and Ms. Annette Harzan

Mr. John M. Haworth

Mr. Paul J. Heinrich

and Mrs. Sharron L. Heinrich ’82, Parents ’08

Mr. Wai K. Ho ’78, MS ’79‡

and Mrs. Sou K. Ho‡

Mrs. Hsiou-Ling C. Hsiang, Parent ’13

Mr. Linden Hsu ’91

Dr. Jerry Q. Huang MS ’88, PhD ’93

and Ms. Zhen Fu

Mr. Stephen D. Ishmael MS ’76

Dr. Takashi Iwamoto MS ’92, PhD ’95

Mr. Reginald Jue MS ’80‡

and Ms. Kathryn C. Jue‡

Mr. Henry G. Jung ’87

Dr. Ann Renee Karagozian ’78

and Dr. Theodore Aram Sarafian

Mr. Andrew E. Katz ’69, JD ’72

and Mrs. Denise L. Katz

Dr. Paul Kazimiroff

and Ms. M. Renee Mc Reynolds, Parents ’12

Mr. David W. Kim ’98, MS ’01

Dr. Harqkyun Kim PhD ’96

Dr. Seon Myung Kim PhD ’90

Dr. Sheung K. Kim PhD ’82

and Ms. Chin E. Kim

Dr. Yong U. Kim MS ’83, PhD ’87*

and Ms. Elizabeth Kim*

Mr. JamYuen Ko MS ’92

Ms. Jenny G. Ko JD ’97

and Dr. Loren A. Chow PhD ’99

Mr. Kerry H. Kokubun, Parent ’12

Mrs. Rosalie K. Kuhlmann ’91

Mrs. Lillian H. Kusayanagi

Mr. Shane P. Lansing MS ’98

Mr. Robert C. Leamy ’70

and Mrs. Patricia Watts Leamy ’70

Mr. Robert Gerard Lepore ’76, MS ’78

and Ms. Lori E. Lepore, Parents ’14

Mr. Ralph C. Levin ’51

Mr. Nigel N. Liang MS ’06

and Ms. Wei-Chi Lin MS ’07

Dr. Chien-Neng Liao PhD ’99

Professor Kwang-Lung Lin

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Mr. Shawmo E. Lin

and Mrs. Grace Lin, Parents ’12

Dr. Chengyi Liu

Mr. Yuk C. Lo ’84

Dr. Gordon Lu

Ms. Cindy W. Ma ’99, MS ’02

Dr. Akio Makishima

and Mrs. Yumiko Makishima

Mr. John D. Mc Donnell ’60, MS ’65

and Mrs. Donna M. Mc Donnell

Mr. Roger P. Murry, Sr. ’73, MS ’76

and Mrs. Catherine B. Murry

Mr. Don S. Myers ’64‡

and Mrs. Deborah K. Myers‡

Mr. Mas Nagami ’53

and Ms. Dorothy Nagami

Mr. Kenneth W. Nam

and Ms. Elena Nam, Parents ’12

Mr. Sean F. Nazareth ’92, MS ’94

and Ms. Julie J. Nazareth ’93

Dr. Richard Nesbit ’58, MS ’60, PhD ’63

and Mrs. Rose Marie Nesbit ’57

Dr. Andrew Kenneth Newman MS ’95, PhD ’05

and Ms. Amy Lam ’94

Dr. Howard S. Nussbaum ’71, MS ’72, PhD ’76

and Mrs. Deborah M. Nussbaum

Dr. Bill Overman ’73, PhD ’81

and Mrs. Rita Overman

Mr. Daniel C. Pappone ’77

and Ms. Syndie B. Meyer

Mrs. Asha S. Parikh

and Mr. Sanjay K. Parikh, Parents ’09

Mr. Chan K. Park ’91

and Mrs. Cindy S. Park

Mr. Brian D. Pasion ’98, MS ’00

Mr. Christopher G. Peak

and Mrs. Jacquelyn J. Weber, Parents ’12

Mr. Daniel J. Peterson ’80

and Mrs. Lisa J. Peterson ’81

Dr. Michael Y. Pines MS ’71, PhD ’75

and Ms. Elaine W. Pines

Mr. Steven D. Powell ’00, MBA ’10

Dr. Alfonso F. Ratcliffe ’51, MS ’63, PhD ’70

and Mrs. Dolores C. Ratcliffe

Mrs. Mary Lee Ray

and Mr. James C. Ray, Jr., Parents ’11

Mr. Joseph J. Rice ’88

and Mrs. Monica Rice

Mr. Dennis E. Rosenfeld, Parent ’12

Ms. Rhonda M. Sakaida ’81, MS ’84

Dr. Sumio Sakka

Mr. John P. Schauerman ’79

and Ms. Claudia H. Schauerman

Dr. Eve M. Schooler MS ’88

and Dr. Robert E. Felderman MS ’86, PhD ’91

Mr. Van N. Schultz ’74, MS ’75

and Mrs. Susan R. Schultz ’75, Parents ’04

Mr. Hermann D. Schurr ’82, MS ’85

and Mrs. Juliet N. Schurr ’82, MS ’86,

Parents ’12

Mr. Stephen S. Schwartz, Parent ’13

Ms. Jill Baran Scott

and Mr. William M. Scott, Parents ’12

Mr. William H. Seaman

Dr. Durwin L. Sharp ’70, MBA ’74, PhD ’79

and Ms. Christianne Melanson

Mr. Takashi Shiozaki ’69

and Mrs. Leslie E. Shiozaki

Mr. Steve J. Shire

and Ms. Maria Yang, Parents ’13

Dr. Michael W. Sievers ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’80‡

and Mrs. Charlene M. Sievers‡

Mr. Yet M. Siu ’53

and Mrs. Marion L. Siu, Parents ’75, ’77, ’78

Ms. Cynthia C. Smith

and Mr. Bruce J. Smith ’65

Mr. David P. Smith MS ’68

Mr. Justin M. Sobaje ’99, MS ’00, JD ’04

Dr. Bart B. Sokolow ’70, MS ’73, DENV ’77

and Ms. Harriet J. Scharf

Dr. Craig W. Somerton ’76, MS ’79, PhD ’82

Mrs. Kenlyn Somppi-Emerson ’83, MBA ’90

Mr. Ronald S. Squires

and Ms. Sherri L. Squires, Parents ’12

Mrs. Padmini Srinivasan

and Mr. V. V. Srinivasan, Parents ’12

Dr. Michael K. Stenstrom

Dr. Jongook Suh MS ’05, PhD ’06

Mr. Steve Suryan ’87

and Mrs. Karen Suryan

Mr. John Susnir ’51, CTSE ’62

and Ms. Gloria M. Susnir

Mr. Jeremy L. Switzer ’98, MBA ’07‡

and Ms. Midco Kit-Lui Switzer‡

Ms. Elizabeth Tarbuck

Mr. David Ting ’93, MBA ’01

and Ms. Grace H. Ting ’93

Mr. Yuji Toriyama

and Ms. Teruko Toriyama, Parents ’12

Mr. Ghassan Toubia ’81

Mr. Che M. Tsai ’88

and Ms. Josan C. Chen

Dr. Frank C. Tung PhD ’68

and Ms. Roberta T. Tung

Mr. John K. Vallens ’00

Mr. Jonathan A. Walcott ’02

Dr. Christopher W. Walker

Dr. George R. Wang MS ’85, PhD ’90

and Ms. Sharon S. Wu

Mrs. Shirley C. Wang

and Dr. Raymond Wang, Parents ’10

Mr. Jeffrey S. Way ’76

and Mrs. Linda K. Way

Mr. Leonard Wexler ’64, MS ’68

and Ms. Anita J. Wexler ’62

Mr. Charles E. Wilcoxson ’85, MBA ’94

and Ms. Jeanine W. Wilcoxson

Mr. Kenneth Wolfe

and Ms. Elaine D. Wolfe, Parents ’94

Mr. Kim Fan Wong

and Ms. Christine F. Ng, Parents ’12

Dr. Albert T. Wu PhD ’05

Dr. Ben M. Wu‡

and Mrs. Betty Wu‡

Dr. Yuhuan Xu PhD ’95

Dr. Masayuki Yamane

Dr. Everett Yeh

Dr. William W. Yeh


Dr. Ian Yip

and Dr. Marion K. Ho, Parents ’14

Dr. Shigeru Yoshida

Mr. Farouk Youssef

and Dr. Laila Hanna, Parents ’11

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completeness and accuracy of this Honor

Roll. If you discover an error or omission,

please contact the Office of External

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Mr. Yuji Toriyama

and Ms. Teruko Toriyama, Parents ’12

Mr. Ghassan Toubia ’81

Mr. Che M. Tsai ’88

and Ms. Josan C. Chen

Dr. Frank C. Tung PhD ’68

and Ms. Roberta T. Tung

Mr. John K. Vallens ’00

Mr. Jonathan A. Walcott ’02

Dr. Christopher W. Walker

Dr. George R. Wang MS ’85, PhD ’90

and Ms. Sharon S. Wu

Mrs. Shirley C. Wang

and Dr. Raymond Wang, Parents ’10

Mr. Jeffrey S. Way ’76

and Mrs. Linda K. Way

Mr. Leonard Wexler ’64, MS ’68

and Ms. Anita J. Wexler ’62

Mr. Charles E. Wilcoxson ’85, MBA ’94

and Ms. Jeanine W. Wilcoxson

Mr. Kenneth Wolfe

and Ms. Elaine D. Wolfe, Parents ’94

Mr. Kim Fan Wong

and Ms. Christine F. Ng, Parents ’12

Dr. Albert T. Wu PhD ’05

Dr. Ben M. Wu‡

and Mrs. Betty Wu‡

Dr. Yuhuan Xu PhD ’95

Dr. Masayuki Yamane

Dr. Everett Yeh

Dr. William W. Yeh


Dr. Ian Yip

and Dr. Marion K. Ho, Parents ’14

Dr. Shigeru Yoshida

Mr. Farouk Youssef

and Dr. Laila Hanna, Parents ’11

We have made every effort to ensure the

completeness and accuracy of this Honor

Roll. If you discover an error or omission,

please contact the Office of External

Affairs at (310) 206-0678 or email

[email protected].

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